Evening journal., 1909-07-19
OLD-TIME GRANDMOTHER
Relatives Once Honored in Music and
SONG NoW-kept Behind Curtains.


There are evidences of progression in the
keep young act everywhere The Sunday
papers briste with warnings how not to
get old. Beauty doctors advise how to
stave off wrinkles, how to avoid fat. how
TO keep supple how to blonde brown hair,
blacken gray hair. or wig the bald head
with the curled alien tresses. Complexion
improvers cover pages in magazines. and
how to shade the female figure into an
hour-glass via corsets and pads makes life
one round Of pleasure.
High heels to shorten the foot, stripes to
make tho short one tall. and checks to
make the tall one short are advised in the
hints to the wise" This is the time when
the faker gets his work in, and many are
called but few get up. With all these
warnings, helps, hints and advices all wo-
men look young, and there isn't grand
mother to be had for love or money in
most large cities In some way-on village.
or in some country home one may run
across grandmother, but the species is
almost extinct In days of yore one re-
members a wrinlIed old darling, whose
hardened hands felt as soft as silk on a
fevered brow. A bonnet was tied with
wide ribbon strings under a double chin.
A dress gathered full enough to keep
secret the size of the waist line was never
too smart for chubby little fingers to
clutch A waist. cut surplice. bore no
high starched collar to scratch the tender
little face Of the sleeping grandchild.
Grandmothers apron pocket always con-
tained everything needful. string. cookies.
plaster for a cut, or candy for a cold.
When baby had the Group. the first call
was for grandmother She did not stuUble
/ in laced too tight to breathe. fearing for
an enameled nose, and blessed Ike a
French doll to hide nature ravages. Not
she. She came in haste with unbounded
! love. The starched trained nurse might do
for the grown-ups. but 1t was only on
grandmother's ample bosom that curly
/ locks found relief. II was to such a grand.
mother that boys came for advice wher
their girls got off wrong, or that girls told
their little love spats to. Imagine a young
fellow getting confidential with furbe-
lowed Aounced, made-over, up-to-datC
grandmother Of to-day She would snar
up the youth and have his scalp-dangllng
al her belt before his l6-year-old girl coulc
get him away from the mature siren.
charms
The old-time grandmother was differ
ent proposition. In her clear eyes truth
spoke First in the house of rejoicing cam,
the old-time grandmother and always frs
in the house Of sorrow. Freed in mea
sure from the daily grind of the house
keeper there was ample time for grand
mothers interest in hman kind. Her dal
for fashions tyranny was over. There wa
p enty of time to devote to those who need
ed the help Of those dear, work -blesse,
hands She dear heart. was not curlini
her wig, rougeing her lips, massaging he
neck, peroxiding her pompadour. lacinl
her waist and belladonaing her eyes. witt
sometimes cap on her neatly parte'
scanty hair. she was the rock OF Glib
raltar on which the. family leaned. To-da.
all the world is young. or wants TO be out
side young, anyway. Perhaps some day
good fairy will start the rage for grand
mothers. grandmother whose hear
bears no wrinkle. whose soul is as full o
gold as her hair is of gray; a grandmothe
unashamed Of her age, telling her bead
OF good deeds her sosary, years Of WORTH
Seattle Post-Intelligencer