The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-07-08
YOUTH AND TEMPERAMENT.
MODERN WOMEN VINO REFUSE
TO GROW OLD.

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EnJo,ing Life % The Best Means Of IAY.
ing II ignoring All Responsibilities
-Causo and Excuse for Social E,Strava.
gances -Frank Toilet Aid TO beauty.
We live In an age when women are to the
fore in everything after n long period OF
suppression. As u natural reaction from
such suppression they have become the
gay, giddy. brilliant things We see who
refuse to grow older than a mild thirty-ive
until they suddenly drop %upon-four score;
who are 90 frisky. 90 smart, 70 up to date
that they keep tho world spinning to q
hundred varying fads and fancies and who
insist that enjoying life is the best means
OF living 1t.
It Is this class who are responsible for my
phrase, sthe youth OF temperament
writes Rita" In the London Chronicle. For
temperament has q great deal to do with
the way we live and the absurdities We
commit. Some people are born young
and some are born old. The one class never
seem to achieve anything save q gay ir-
responsibility In all matters concerning
existence. The other arc staid and gloomy
and respondent from childhood onward.
What one lacks the other ~emphasizes and
by rule OF contrast the light and Joyous
temperament lays a higher claim to popu-
larity. Smiles are always moro pleasing
than frowns and to be approved even by
insinoerity is far moro agreeable than the
b unit and wholesome truths whose ultimate
results we know but refuse to anticipate.
The temperament OF youth excuses even
the folies Of a grandmother and permits
respectable fifty" to garb itself as romantic
sixteen would scarcely dream OF doing.
From tight lacing to henna dyeing the
frisky matron Is a study in successful arti-
foe. She defes time and defes social
opinion and turns herself out season after
season with a brand new p-icturesqueness
that astonishes her friends and infuriates
her enemies. That she should be ~tireless,
gay, good humored is an affront to staid
years and appropriated responsibilities;
but Temperament" ignores responsibilities,
and hence It's perennial youth. A pima
learns from the beauty doctors and the
that to frown or to worry orto bother ones
head about bills and families and house
keeping Ia ruinous to q youthful complexion
and brings lines, wrinkles and gray hairs.
Twenty-Five years ago It, was almost
impossible to find such a thing as an ee.
ia DIS n m6nt lot mAEhCuI Ing. NOW tuCi0 10
not a fashiona BILE street or a country town
without a professor Of that useful business.
It is to America we owe its introduction.
as we'll as that Of it's expensive fellow artist,
the toilet specialist Such artists andtheir
trade have added greatly to the Joy Of emil
accept and frankly acknowledge their
services, and no one thinks m the worse
Of them for doing so. Time was when
to breathe Of make up was to be pro.
nounced declas se, when only One class OF
womanhood used it as ar adjunct or adver-
tisement. We have changed all that.
A modern beauty makes no secret OF
toilet aids" and has herself colored, dyed,
chin strapped. figure cultured, massa ged.
pedicured, manicured, corseted and dressed
by special artists In each line. Is it any
wonder that she refuses to let Time play
self-preservation and adapts her mind,