Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-14
WOMEN OF THIRTY.
They Should Be Young and May Be
 if They Will,

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 A physician who returned to town the other day to find an office full Of women patients, all complaining of headaches and neuralgia and debil- ity and nerves, the blues, and general woe-begoneness, declared himself out of patience with the present-day idea of spending the summer-a sea- son popularly supposed to be a sea- son of rest and recreation. 'sNo won- der 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 a 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 womans age is q battling thing. There are women of forty who look barely thirty, and who keep the freshness If youth in their hearts and on their faces and tho el;ts- ticity 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 which sounds like q paradox but simply means that Ut the ungraceful age when girls come out they are full of the faults of youth and bristle with angles while later on as they learn tolerance and sympathy and knowledge from the experiences of life the angles are smoothed and some Of the hardness of the young nfa- ture is softened and then the touch Of sweetness which is akin to beauty comes into the face and gives it an ex- pression and an air of youth that were absent from it before. Some women who have never been pretty in their first youth acquire with their white hairs an Indian summer of comeliness. An ordinary good skin. nice hair passable features make lit tie effect, but when the hair turns pre- maturely white, and the complexion still retains it's freshness and fairness and the eyes are still bright, the com bination is very attractive one, and the white hair instead of ageing, gives a youth and beauty to the face that ir never knew before.
 How can the average woman re main young? Oh. it's very simple-it requires some self-denial. and a little common sense. that's all. The healthy woman who lives the simple natural life, who neither forces nor strains her strength into an abnormal con ffict, outlasts and outshines the one who either from want of common care or from a naturally poor constitu- ton has lost the jewel of health. Late hours in an exhausted or vitiated at mosphere, the wild pursuit of pleas. ure. the racket of society life with engagements for every hour of the day and evening g-these are some of the causes of breakdown in the health of some young women, whose nerves are all wrong and who at once lose the beautiful glow of health from their faces, and look fad ed, haggard and worn and are peevish in consequence. What wonder that after so exhausting round the girls and the young married women look washed out and run down and compare very badly in appearance and attractiveness with some others a good deal older than themselves, who have learned the lesson and are sensible enough to take their pleas ures in moderation."- ."-New York Con- mercial Advertiser.