The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-11-18
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rb. mania among literary women for
carrying men younger than themselves
81. st arst was thought TO be merely
..ot. says Dorothy DIX in ths New
Journal. appears 20 be becoming
.r-mcd habit Lady Randolph Church
vra Frances Hodgson Burnett and
-i-e rangtry have done It. Miss wilkins
..I .t-s c-uger threaten TO DO g. Strict
.r..k.ng g IS. Or course. a personal
..fIty A woman OF forty and over
...v .be presumed to know her own mind.
Dr. Fad. elects 20 marry boy and raise up
aand IN the way she wants him 10
.... is her own affair.
Granting the rlght or every one 20 In
her own taste In matrmony-nn
,.-tar how bizarrc-still. woman we'd
5.. d man much her junior is always
.rr-tacle Of such rash and reckless
4..rs. IL s. bound 20 challenge the at
,.rson OF the thoughtful.
81, begin WITH Il IS much easier. as
,.ry woman knows. 20 catch husband
,.p Il BE- TO hold him after YOU get him.
are ANlNAlAAa gNA N+AAA A+NfNA
,.. have thoroughly domosucatcd until
..s- they are dead. Men belong TO this
a.aus.
les. there are few two-handcd
,.m.e that are continuously exciting.
Iv.s the woman who holds The trump
,,.l. OF youth ana beauty does not al
,....e win out. What then, must be the
s.r lilies OF tho situation when. with
t.. clear second sight that comes afte.
marriage. the youthful bridegroom per
..v.. that be has let himself IN for an
...t.rre with no more thrills 10 Il than
ta..r. cribbage with bis mother
rt.. There D. the burden OF perpetual
,. which the woman must assure.
TH. privilege 81 grow ng old. with All Us
p.r.t.sItes. Is one We DO not suhicieniA
su. late From this blessing the ma
-ure woman with a young husband Is for
ever drharred she must always Zoe en-
rlrsd ln a frantic effort TO Doe YOUNG. or
If ale can't hc Young 10 be as young as
s.o -an Every new wrinkle IS "a ealam-
iIr. every gray hair catastrophe. every
oaIHInell inch Of belt measure j
tnlely
-ae c,n mover hope 10 enjoy that luxu-
raus Indian summer ~ ice when ~om-
on le.a out her stays. smashes her per-
,o.d. bottles. pitches her rouge pot IN the
fr. and atandons herself % being frank
ly middle aged. and no better looking
chan God made her
For her romance the elderly bride IS
condemned 20 be feminine Ponce dc
Loon. forever searching for the fountain
OF eternal youth Her Path leads by way
az the corset maker the dio'ist. the com
pipxion specialist aud che mdssageur.
What she erdules an their hands viii ney-
az pc talI Mcn have been mar5yred AMI
clrouizrd as saints for less suuerings less
icr.ieIly endured
Tho Young husband must also be anus
a. There ls the awful alternative or
tarrinr him over TO the tender mercy
of % pretty FIH of hts own age or Or the
elderly wife trc1ding the measure 81 his
amussmert- with him. Alas, after forty
re are DO Longer so young a. We were
We don't take the same interest IN views
from high roufs that we did wnen We
lsl less avo.rdupois ana more breath.
CSC see more rheumatism than romance
l forgy nights on the water We begin
90 realize that the Orlentals know what
f.lv are about when they hire other peo-
I.. 10 DO tncir dancing for them.
Dare she give in TO her natural ycarn-
.r for "a comfortable rocking chair, and
-ts forty winks TO which her age entities
Hr3 Never sho must trip the two
tcp. despite twingos q .ncipent govt
She must bc.eay. gtidy and girltsh az
alatcver cost she must keep him in-
i.rcsted ard amused. and entertaining
.outh s. the hardest und least RUNNER
.flve work ever undertaken by a sober
aIult OF "a sound mind
None OF us are iuecnsibe 20 the charms
~ youth 70 s. perhaps only natural tha,
ladv novelist who mas spent many years
t.picung heroes VINO were young. hand
me and gallant. should az last desiFe TO
POSSESS real live specimen herself, hnt
lille We admire the intrepid spirits u
sows. We can bat dsplore the judgment
hat prompts her 20 marry him a yohnS
..sbsrt isntt really worth the trouble he
-lsts.
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