The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-22
OF INTEREST To WOMEN
A DOCTOR SAYS A wOMAN's AGE is
A NATTER OF TEMPERAMENT.
One Drawback to the Higher Educa.
tiOn of Girls-FaciaI Department
an Important Thing.

A physician who returned to town the
other day to find an office full of women pa
tents, all of whom complained of head
aches and neuralgia ard debility and
nerves, the blues and general woebegone-
ness, declared himself. says the Boston Ad-
vertiser, quite out of patience with the
present-day idea of spending the summer. a
season popularity supposed to be a season
of rest and recreation. mo wonder some
women of thirty years have wrinkles" he
said. "And serves 'em right too. Why, no
woman of thirty should be pale. too thin.
too stout, weary, depressed or out of sorts.
If she were eighty now. with half century
of trouble and work and worry behind her
well then-but at thirty!
"A woman's age is largely a matter of
temperament. A woman's age is battling
thing. There are women of forty who look
barely thirty and who keep the freshness of
youth In their hearts and on their faces and
the elasticity of youth in their graceful fig
ures. These are not the women who give
themselves up entirely to life of pleasure.
for something of the soul is discerned in
this kind of perennial youth.
There are mothers who look as young
and are almost younger-hearted than their
daughters, and one often notices that girls
grow younger as they grow Older, wmch
sounds like paradox, but simply means
that at the ungraceful age when girls come
out they are full of the faults of youth and
bristIe with angles while later on, as they
learn tolerance and sympathy and knoWl-
edge from the experiences of life, the an
giles are smoothed and some of the hardness
of the young nature is softened, and then
the touch of sweetness which Is akin to
beauty comes into the face and gives it an
expression and an air of youth that were
absent from IL before.
Some women who have never been pretty
in their first youth acquire with their
white hairs an Indian summer OF comell-
ness. An ordinary good skin, nice hair.
passable features. make little effect. but
when the hair turns prematurely white,
and the complexion still retains its fresh
ness and fairness and the eyes are still
tive one -" and tbe white hair instead of
ageing, gives youth and beauty to the
face that it never knew before.
How can the average woman remain
some seIf-deniai and a little common
sense. that's ALL The healthy woman who
lives the simple, natural life, who neither
normal conflict, outlasts and outshines the
one who either from want Of common care
or from a naturally poor constitution has
Late hours in an exhausted or vitiated
atmosphere, the wild pursuit Of pleasure,
the racket of a society life with engage
ing-these are some of the causes of a
breakdown in the health of some young
women, whose nerves all wrong and
who at once lose the beautiful glow OF
health from their faces, and look faded,
haggard and worn, and are peevish in con-
sequence. What wonder that after so ex-
hausting a round the girls and the young
married women look washed out and run
down., and compare very badly in appear
ance and attractiveness with some others
a good deal older than themselves. who
hay
enough to take their pleasures in modera-
ton"