The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-07-17

might the approach OF some
great disaster. Youth Ices not fear il,
for 1t seemsifar off and courage Is n
of the qualities of young w~omanhood,
| The great secret of retaining
eminine youth, greater by far in its
power than all the lotions and creams
In the world, good as they are, is the
F, maintenance of the unafraid attitude
toward life, the "smile for any fate
that invites and brings to US the things
which are to benefit US.
If a woman can but keep the youth
full spirit by disinissing the worries
over matters that cannot be helped.
she will always see the star breaking
through the storm. the rainbow arch
ing the sky after darkness.
We have learned that It is folly 70
feel old as women used to- ree-a
they had entered the thirties. They
accepted the role OF middle age and
let inaction and lack of interest in out
side affairs attack them. &
Above all they buried romance and
adopted a sombre manner of dress,
talked OF. youth as OF something past.
q lost ~joy-instead OF glorying In the
new pleasures and opportunities that
maturity had brought them.
How glad those OF the present should
be that they live in q different era
when women do not allow the thought
of age TO afiict them. when the young
girl and the bud, although charming,
do not in any way occupy the centre of
the stage. but are themselves kept
young by being dressed and taught
with the good taste of simplicity.
The woman who breads age as a
calamity goes to an extreme that is
patiful in counterfeiting youth by
means of a makeup that. as a rule.
defeats>he object, She goes carefully
TO the h~airdresser's every second day
TO have her hair MARCHED, although
this STACEY style of couture gives to
most heads a stiff and set look that Is
anything but youthful and that none
but a youthful face can stand.
Long earrings are the fashion, and
she adopts them, although earrings
add years to a woman's appearance
and can only be worn effectively by a
%piquantly girlish face. These items
are far more aging in their effect than
simple dressing IN an avoidance Of
too many decorative accessories.
Certainly no one would dare to I'M
dervaiue youth. but to the intelligent
woman the present should be equally
~pleasurab1e In Its inaturer knowledge
of life and the happiness that comes
TO us as a reward for our efforts to-
ward right living.
We play with our youth as a baby
does with a sunbeam on the carpet
and 10. il is gone In the %twinkling OF
an eye, Then. real liberalization of
what life means, begins. Why do we
mourn then for the unconscious girl
hood, when existence was only a play
time. (,
Women age physically more quickly,
tha., men only because their lives are,
perforce. lived differently, n especial
iy because they allow the domestic en-
vironment to become the ir door life.
Nine men out OF ten or more. perhaps,
must go out six days in the week. rain
or shine. travel in cars. feel the fric-
ton of life and breathe outdoors for
a space.
Therefore a man at 80 is not oid-nor
does he for a moment consider himself
so. He can even all in love roman
tically and he gains a confidence in
himself that is positively superb.
Some call il vanity, but whatever
name be gives il, IT is the quality that
enables him to look the world in the
face, to. feel sure Of himself, to meet
overcome difficulties, to fight for
himself and for others.
His mind does not dwell on age as
a disaster, quite the contrary. He
keeps putting his limit ahead as long /.
as his health holds out.
He argues that. while his mind re-
mains keen and active, NE knows more