Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-04-13
Married Worueu's Looks.

MHrricN W pHttu
Ask ten people if married women
lose their good looks and You VIII IN
yarlahly find that nine of them VIII
answer in the affirmative. Fur'h"r
uore. they will tell you that marriage
ages IA woman. III addition 10 delract-
Ing from her good looks. Ana ElancihG
around ones circle of married friendS
and acQuaintancrs ii would seem that
there Is "A great amount of truth In TINS
assertion.
Girls who before their marriage
we're considered extremely pretty
bright and yvaciouS, seem 10 haV" tie
veioped, in the short space OF three or
four years, into unattractivc ana 'inih-
teresting women. "llow Shc has
changed" is the remark one frequently
hears applied to the young wire No
longer Is she the neat. winSoine lttle
woman we knew during her single
DAYS That charm which made her
the center of 40 much admiration
seems to have totally disappeared. She
has disappointed us, and we cannot
help regretting that she ever entered
the bonds of matrimony which seem
to have brought about SO great Il
change.
OF course. one cannot expect wife
TO retain always that beauty which
made her so attractive as an unInar-
red girl of nineteen or twenty. The
duties and responsibilities OF married
life are bound to bring about some
change But does it necessarily follow
that it should be for the worse and
not for the better!
Ii may not be possible for wife to
exhibit that freshness which charac-
terizcd her gir!hood. owing to the cares
of wifehood and motherhood. But If
you see a wife who seems to have lost
all her attractlyenesS and personal
charm since marriage. you will proha-
bly, find, in the majority of cases that
she herself is responsible for the def
cheney.
There are hundreds of bright. bloom
lug young matrons in this country
whose charms are IA direct denial to the
assertion that marriage makes women
ugly These are women who have
not allowed matrlmony to take away
their good looks. In IA word, they have
never ceased to take Il pride In them
selves That is the secret Of their per
petual youth. They take rs much in
terest In their appearance and good
looks five and ten years after marriage
as they did before meeting the man
no, al Inl Vanity
say. Maybe. but such vanity il to be
recommended to every wife.
Did every woman follow such exam
pies. matrOns. spinsters. bachelor girls
and even cynical bachelors themselves
would be forced to confess that mar
riage was an aid to beauty. What IL
number OF women there are who i'm
me1iately they are married seem to
think that there is no need to add to
their attractiveness. Maybe it Is the
thought that now they are married 1t
IS not necessary to make any special
efforts to retain the love and admira-
tion Of their husband. Consequently
they drift into a state of indifference
regarding themselves No greater mis-
take could be made. and many wife
has had to deplore the lost affection
and respect of her husband on account
of such personal neglect.
The one reason why some women
lose their beauty after marriage, for
which they are not to blame. Is that
OF unhappincsS. The essential thing to
Woman's beauty is happiness. A
weeks frettng will age her to an as
tonIshng degree. while a real unhap
plness robs cheek and lip of color. eyes
of light and life. and destroys all the
soft rounded curves Of wlnSOlnc femi-
ninity. JOY. comfort and rcpose are
the three true aids to feminine beauty.
But the happily married woman only
becomes ugly through her own fault
There are anxletles and griefs, Of
course, which must come to every mar
ried woman. and which may POSSIBLY
leave traces in her good looks I;ut
even this does not make her less at
tractive in the eyes of her husband
and friends if she still maintains the
greatest interest In herself. and seeks
to make herself attractive by her man
ners. dress and disposition. Montreal
Herald and Star.