Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-11
Married Women.s Looks.

Ask ten people If married women
lose their good looks and you will In
vartably find that nine of them will
answer In the affirmative. Further
more, they will tell you that marriage
ages woman, in addition to detract-
ing from her good looks. And glancing
around ones circle of married friends
and acquaintance, it would seem that
there Is a great amount of truth in this
assertion.
Girls who before their marriage
were considered extremely pretty,
bright and vivacious. seem to have de-
veloped, in the short space of three or
four years, into unattractive and unin-
teresting women. How she has
changed" Is the remark one frequently
hears applied to the young wife. No
longer Is she the neat, winsome little
woman we knew during her single
Gays. That charm which made her
the center of 30 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
change.
OF course, one cannot expect a wife
to retain always that beauty which
made her so attractive as an unmar-
ried girl of nineteen or twenty. me
duties and responsibilities of married
life are bound to bring about some
change. But does it necessarily follow
that 1t should be for the worse and
not for the better7
It>may not be possible for wife to
exhibit that freshness which charac-
terized her girlhood, owing to the cares
of wifehood and motherhood. But II
you see a wife who seems to have lost
all her attractiveness and personal
charm since marriage, you will proba-
bly, find, in the majority of cases, that
she herself is responsible for the def
cheney
There are hundreds of bright, bloom
ing young matrons in this country
whose charms are direct denial to the
assertion that marriage makes women
ugly. These are women who have
not allowed matrimony to take away
their good looks. In word, they have
never ceased to take a pride in them
selves. That is the secret of their per-
petual youth. They take as much in
aerest in their appearance and good
looks five and ten years after marriage
as they did before meeting the man
they ultimately welded. Vanity, you
say. Maybe, but such vanity is 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
rage was an aid to beauty. What a
number of women there are who i'm
mediately 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 it
is not necessary TO make any special
efforts to retain the love and admira-
ton of their husband. Consequently
they drift into state of Indifference
regarding themselves. No greater mis-
take could be made, and many a 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 unhappiness. The essential thing to
a woman's beauty is happiness. A
weeks fretting will age her to an as
tonishing degree, while a real unhap-
piness robs cheek and lip Of color, eyes
of light and life, and destroys all the
soft rounded curves of winsome femi-
Ainity. Joy, comfort and rep9se are
the three true aids to feminine beauty.
But the happily married woman only
becomes ugly through her own fault.
There are anxieties and griefs, of
course, which must come to every mar
ried woman, and which may possibly
leave traces In her good looks. But
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.-Mon
Herald and Star.