Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-10
old ACE AND MEN AND WOMEN
Queer Changes that Have Gene In with
New Century.
pOsIIIONs Of Sax ARL NOW RLvLRsIO
uen Fear and women No Longer
Care About the March of Time,
Owing to Altered Con-
dftions Of life.
ut 10 vaiueless to a woman to Be pretty

1T 10 vaiueless to a woman to be pretty
unless young" La Rochefoucauld said.
He ala not live in the twentieth century.
The twentieth century 80 turning the
tables. It is no longer the maids but the
men who refuse to count birthdays. II Il
not the bellies but the beaux vino are
sighted with the passing OF the years. II
n not the women Of the world, but the
serious business men who dye gray hairs
out Of sight and try a score Of frantic
briberies upon Father Time to nave him
proceed a trine more leisurely, says the
Chicago Tribune.
shes over 70 II ever she was born"
recently cried q sprightly young matFon
Of Chicago when abiding to one Of her
friends, but she leads our whole set, and
the rest Of US younger ones are only too
dad when We can keep up with her. Why.
she dresses better than any Of us, and
She's always on the 90. and jolly, and
always has something to talk about, end
you should see her complexion and her
hair-not a wrinkle and not a white
thread"
Possibly the Chicago belle Of three-score
years and ten may be unique; her frol-
icsome ways are none the less typical
Of the twentieth century woman Of middle
or advanced age who finds that the world
and all tina .is in II not only a~iiures, but
invites and welcomes her to be one Of the
gayest and siddiest in its gay and giddy
throng.
ornndmns in FIos~er Eats.
The trandmas who bury their feminine
crown Of glory beneath lace caps aud
1dorn their chilly. aged shoulders with
breakfast shawls are obsolete characters
OF times remote. The twentieth century
grandma athieticaIly promenades In tailor
suits and flower hats. Her wrinkles-for-
give an ailusion TO the nonentities-ars
submerged out Of existence in cold cream.
her skin is massaged into debutante vigor-
business. She does not knit and twitter
OF childhood "Reminiscences and hold the
baby. She manages clubs. reads new
thought books and worships mantinee
heroes.
The men, the youngest Of them, rise W
and call her charming. and WOO and wed
her, over and over again. the same lovely
woman OUTLYING two and three men, and
upon each marriage day presenting hand
and heart to q more youthful mate.
But the men, alas, the poor meni From
the president at the tip-top Of the nation
10 the managers Of every other concern,
whether Of religion or Of law, a depart
ment store OF a college. 3 newspaper OF a
club, are younger men than ever before.
An the men know It and all the men
dread It. They dream the coming Of old
age. They feel that life Is now or never
for them. A little older, q few more years
o. toll and ambition and they will be laid
npon the ahelf-that namelessly horrible
shelf. where the spinsters and grandmas
used to lie. where one can only see what
other people are doing and cannot Go ones
self.
ola Wonnen with Young Husbands.
The spinsters and the grandmas would
not stay there. They are up and about
and doing. The Baroness Burdett- Coutss at
all but 70 blithely takes unto herself a
epouBe OF not quite 80. But she, being a
much Travelled woman Of the world. might
be supposed to act out Of the ordinary. In
William PENIS fair greene .countrye
towne" lives a woman who in her youth
became an old mans darling. BY the time
that her old ago arrived fashions had
changed. She has now allowed a STRIPPING.
handsome, the pet Of many maidens. to
become her darling. Nine. Patti. At 60
and over. is the bride Of a man scarcely
half her years. The celebrated American
Of London. Lady Randolph Churchill. WEEDS
the scion of a British house who. SO TAR
as age is concerned. might be taken for her
son.
Celebrated matches such a. these are nu-
merous enough and much talked about; their
cou%nterparts in private life are quite be-
yond count. A sweet and beautiful widow
Of 80, with three daughters. had more mas
ouline attention than any Of her nlssl trio
from the very mel who would naturally
have been expected to seek the more youth
ful society.
Mature Women sopght as wives.
II Is said that men and the young gym
nastic maids OF today entertaining like toys
for the pastime Of a half hour or an even
Ing, but that when they are looking after
the stern realities Of eoniugal life bonds
they see more promising chances In the