The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-27
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the English girl is pretty in a way
wholly different from that of the
daughters of Brother Jonathan, and
happily for her, her looks, less snowy
to start with, wear far better than
those of American girls. Like trans
Atlantic clocks and bicycles this
writer says, the blooming complexions
and graceful contours of the NAMES
and Sadies of the other side only last
for a brief spell. By thirty the Amer
Il lean girl has become an irredeemable
anticipates this age with no dread,
and indeed often comes into the full
bloom of her beauty after her thirtieth
birthday"
1t may be something of a surprise
to Americans to know that the women
OF this country who are past thirty
are tdrredeemable wrecks" according
| to a British critic, and there is SuS-
picion that the author of the article
quoted didn't know much more about
his subject than the average author
of the average magazine article. One
of the most famous beauties of Eng
| lish society is that American woman
past fifty who a year or SO ago cap
| tured one of the best catches among
| the,young men of the British nobility.
This woman, Mrs. George CORVALLIS
West, once Miss Jerome of New York,
and afterwards Lady Randolph
Churchill, has of course lived in Eng
is distinctly an American type, and no
one can deny that it has lasted won
derfully.
1t is true, however, that American
women do often fade rapidly after
their twenty-fifth year, and it is rather
pathetic to mark the ravages of SO
short a time as a few years on the
beauties of their set. Almost every
teen and twenty. AS Schopenhauer
explains it, in her case Nature has in
mind striking effect and after her
purposes have been accomplished and
f1,@
mother her beauty of face and form
fades and disappears to a great ex-
tent, and her future charm depends
more upon the beauty of mind and
spirit. This is doubtless the reason
why a girl who does not marry before
she is twenty-SeVen or twenty-eight,
which is the average age at which
girls are married nowadays, retains
ness, beauty, charm and style, al
though a married woman of the same
age will look ten years older.
The woman whose falling off in
looks is noted by all her friends along
toward. her thirtieth birthday often
owes the fact, be she married or single,
but oftener in the former case, to her
greater disregard for details of dress.
question of woman's looks, and it is
perfectly possible for any woman to
retain this advantage as long as she
likes. A good figure is a matter of
standing, sitting and walking we'll, be- |
ing decently corseted and clothed, and !
although the complexion, hair and |
eyes will fade in spite of all the arts
of the masSeuSe, the beauty doctor |
and the hair dresser, the skill of the |
corsetiere and modiste remains potent |
until a woman is far vast middle age. |
1t is probably true that Kansas wo- /
men fade earlier than their sisters of !
other states on account of the ex-
IRENE dryness of the atmosphere here |
and the almost continual winds. hot
in summer and cold in winter, which
are so hard on the complexion, dark
ening, toughening and wrinkling the
skin of most women before they are
thirty. A beautiful complexion in this
climate is indeed a rarity. especially
on a woman past twenty-five. Rosy
cheeks are the exception here, and if
Kansas girls are counted not unat-
tractive in appearance, it is because
good skin. But if the Englishman
who said that the American woman
past thirty is an irredeemable wreck
could look upon some Topeka ma
irons, mothers Of sons and daughters
grown, he would learn of something
to his advantage. There seems to be
something in the atmosphere of To-
peka conducive to good looks after
women here in the neighborhood of
that age.
Three of the most beautiful women
in Topeka, regardless of years, are the
club set. Tall, dark, distinguished while
they do not exactly resemble one an
other they belong to the same type of
beauty and charm of manner and ex-
cellent taste in dress are added to their
other advantages. Although their
daughters are very attractive girls they
are all used to being told, to offset COM
when they are looking partic- ,
llarly well, that they will never be as
pretty as their mothers. But any girl
S proud of such comparison, which is ;
'eally an indirect compliment since it is
L well known rule that to see the
daughters finish one must look at the ,
mother. 6
Another handsome Topeka matron, !
he wife of of the richest men in /
Kansas is the mother of a large family ,
ind has a daughter in college. Still {
mother is a grandmother, the best {
ooking member of an uncommonly f
rood looking family. The husband and z
ather is a Kansas oil magnate and is
perhaps the youngest looking man of
lis age in town. There are two mar .
led daughters, one of whom lives out 4
d among the beauties and are quite ac-
ustomed to being taken for their
Mothers sisters.
Two sisters, one the wife of a Kan
as avenue business man and the other
|. widow who makes her home with the
or1ner, are among the local beauties
Who though probably past 30, might
asily pass for much less than that age
)ne is the mother of a big boy who
overs way above her. Another Tope-
"a mother who can rival her young
women friends in good looks is the wife
f railway attorney, whose oldest son
as been married for several years.
When this woman goes about with hera
aughter-in-law, on her frequent visits
ere or with the very lovely Chicago
irl who is spending the summer with
err, no one would think she was old
nough to be her companions mother.
A Western avenue widow whose son
nd daughter are both out of school and
I society is one of the prettiest women
l Topeka. Another mother of men-or :
ather man. If big high school boy
an be called a man = and who