The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-11-10
APRIL GRANDMOTHERS
HoW WOMEN PAST FORTY MAT
 STILL KEEP YOUNG.

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 Dress-Care of the Face, Hands, Hair
 and Teeth-CuItiyatiOn of the Voice.
 A woman need not be old as soon as she is a grandmother. Yet there is something in the term certain aging, and too often this feeling of age begins to manifest itself in the appearance. 4 woman grows neglectful of her looks. She does not carry herself with the same smart air. She grows slouchy in her looks and careless in her manner.
 A certain woman told the writer that, after her first grandchild came she stopped curling her hair It was gray upon the temples and she let it gradu- ally whiten instead of keeping it re- stores to its old pretty black luster. She said that her. complexion, which was once very pink and pretty, soon grew yellow; and, as for her dress, it became shamefully slack. In five years everybody spoke of her as ,"old Mrs. Smith,"
 A woman who is prominent in society declares that the day she became a grandmother that same day she started in to make herself younger.
 T realized" said she, that be- longed to the third generation, and I resolved to look as pretty as could.
 So went to aha ir dresser and had my hair done up new way. I had it's color restored. It was little streaked and had 1t massaged and made all of one color, which was glossy brown. TrbaY1 r had d1accaa ;Y1f ftaas 4aauy Y1nt,1 padour, which rolls back from the face in the most fetching manner.
 Two days later, after my family had duly admired me, sought out a wrin- kle specialist, and had him smooth out my wrinkles. had him work on my forehead until my frown was gone. I found had been scowling Wickedly and as soon as he touched the wrinkles saw that they could be removed that they were not necessary wrinkles, Three days of massage took them out. But, of course. realized that they would return unless I kept them mas saged away.
 But the greatest improvement was wrought in my teeth. They were full of gold and I saw, every time I looked in the glass, how ugly they looked. By gaslight they had the appearance of being decayed, So visited a dentist and had the gold taken out. The den-. tist was what is known as a cosmetic dentnst. He bleached my teeth and re- stored them so that they looked like new.
 Then, continued this woman, II went still further in my work of i'm provement. had read that there were such things as April grandmothers and determined to be one.
 T made critical study Of my daughter-in-law and myself, Even from a back view-not showing my. face-I lookbed olqder than she And I realized that the difference lay in our weights. My shoulders were wide and fat, and my neck was heavy, and my waist large, while her figure was slight. She looked twenty and I looked fifty, seen from any view.
 tsSo l began, to diet. You may talk about exercise. It is all right. But you must diet also. I limited my coffee to one cup for breakfast and my tea to one cup drank nothing between meals Yhen I felt thirsty I took a mouthful of fruit. I kept a peach, a pear or an orange near at hand, and when my mouth felt parehed I took a bite of fruit. You see I had been a great waater thinker before my refor nation
 "Then, as I did not decrease in weight fast enough, asked the advice of a friend. She was popular actress and she gained considerable fame by reducinog her weight nearly sixty pounds in a season. I walked instead of riding said she, and, of course, dieted.'
 ..Yell, I followed her advice.,,I left the horses in the stable and I walked. Each morning, at the first tinkle of my s alarm clock, arose and dressed hasti- ! ly. I then went out for walk. I would walk an hour come back and make leisurely toilet and be ready for the day.
 ! "Of candy, nuts and pastry I ate very little. Just mouthful, now and 8 then, as the old craving for sweets $ came over me. I took no after-dinner coffee, and I ate nothing distinctly fat < tening, such as macaroni cheese and I ice cream. But did eat corn, potatoes { and other vegetables of this nature.
 But found that was still long s way behind when it came to a compar- ison with my daughter-in-law, so I consulted her as to the cause, T want to be young said, making i clean breast of it. And I want to be q attractive. Can you tell me the secret ] oi youth?'
 Dress more youthfully, said she. And then, being a good-hearted girl, a she advised me. And her advise was good. I followed her hints Within week was wearing the dip belt, the semi-high heel, the neat little shirt waist with linen collar and a pretty skirt of sweep length. I wore a natty Eton and I wore my hair low. The metamorphosis was complete. I had grown ten years younger.
 But was still far from being an April grandmother. My hands were old. The veins had come up on the backs of them and my nails were brit tie and my skin was yellow. So I treated my hands.
 T had good nail emollient and rubbed 1t into my nails every night un- \ til they were no longer brittle I bleached the backs of my hands, talk < ing all the yelloWness out of my skin.