The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-10-10
WOMEN OF THIRTY.

They Should Be Young and May Be if
They Will.
| A physician who returned to town the
other day to find an office full of wo-
linen patients, all complaining of head
aches and neuralgia and debility and
NERVES. the blues, and general woe
begoneness, declared himself quite out
of patience with the present-day idea OF
spending the sunmer-a season popu-
larly supposed to be a season of rest
and recreation. mo wonder some wo-
men 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
lof sorts. If she were eighty now, with
a half century of trouble and work and
worry behind her-well then-but at
thirty! 49,
"A woman's age. is largely a matter
of temperament. A woman's age is a
battling thing. There are women of
forty who look barely thirty, and who
keep the, freshness of youth in their
faces, and the elasticity of youth in
their graceful figures. These are not
the women who give themselves up en-
tirely to a life of pleasure, for some
thing of the soul is discerned in this
kind of parental youth.
There are mothers who look as
young and are almost younger-hearted
than their daughters, and one often
notices that the girls grow younger as
they grow older, which sounds like a
paradox, but simply means that at the
ungraceful age when girls come out they
are full Of the faults of youth and bris-
tie 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 nature is
softened, then the touch of sweetness
which is skin to beauty comes into the
face and gives it an expression 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 sum-
mer of comeliness. An ordinary good
skin, nice hair, passable features make
little effect, but when the hair turns
prematurely white, and the complexion
still retains it's freshness and fairness,
and the eyes are still bright, the COM
bination is a very attractive one and
the white hair, instead of agei11g, gives
a youth and beauty to the face that it
never knew before.
How can the average woman remain
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 conflict, outlasts and
outshines the one who either from want
of common care or from a naturally
poor constitution has lost the Jewel Of
health. Late hours in an exhausted or
vitiated atmosphere, the wild pursuit of
pleasure, the racket of society life
with engagements for every hour of the
day and evening-these are some of the
causes of a 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 faded, haggard and
worn, and are peevish in consequence.
What wonder that after so exhausting
a. round the girls and the young mar
ried women look washed out and run
down. and compare very badly in ap-
pearance and attractiveness with some
others a good, deal older than them
selves, who have learned the lesson and
are sensible enough to take their pleas
ures in moderation-New York Com
mercial Advertiser.