New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-09-25
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JUVENILITY OF MAN
He Acts as if He Had SiiDped
the Fountain of Youth

zone evening T CHANGED TO be c0nversf,,
with a man who was a classmafe az M
uncle's at Yale said the young woman
who isn't a debutante. II don't know how
old my uncle Is. but ne has a son nearly
old enough to vote. And in the case OF thf,
particular man I always had guarded NV
self against saying sir Somehow. TIA
question came up as TO ages. and TIA
gentleman cOmplacent1y observed thar win
the same number Of years a woman Wa
so much older than a man. BY dius ~
judicious prodding was interested to dis
cover that from the point Of view OF age n.
regarded himself and me "a evenly
matched
Since then have found thar the gan.
era1 run Of men share his optimistic ata-
tude of mind; a bald headed old codza-
will shake his head and aIude 10 the Cir,
Of twenty-five as no chicken but Wills
he has tooth or hair he never seems
to feel himself on the retired list
THE chronicalIy Juvenile bachelor ac.s
If he had slipped Of the fountain OF Der.
perpetual youth. To be sure, modern con.
dltions aid and abet the deIusion. Tia
society hostess. ia her mad scramble FOR
dancing men ready. willing and anxious
TO trip the fantastic all night and repor.
for business the next day. must needs can
IN not only the lame. the halt and tina
blind. but likewise the aged. Yet these
elderly beaus fail to fathom the fact thar
they are invited merely that the new IN
fux OF debutantes may not be wall flowers
while the dance goes on The bachelor
Of thirty-five or forty showers his transf.
tory attentions upon Sweet Eighteen with
never a thought that as she listens TO his
time-wOrn compliments. the same her aunt
used to hear, her eyes are straying visit
fully beyond. where her girl friend sIts
rapturously engaged in conversation with
a callow Yale freshman home for his Arsr
vacation The elderly bachelor, conscious
of his SAVIOR faire. his knowledge as a
man Of the world. feels himself qualified To
charm any woman from sixteen 70 sixty.
he blindIy ignores the instructive unrea-
soning call OF youth 10 youth
''AS I look at the men and vvomen. about
me IL seems to me that under equal condf-
lions both women and men age at the same
pace True. an overworked wife and
mother. burdened with duties beyond her
strength, may very well grow old before
her time: but equally so does her help
meet. the man who has shaved in a dingy
office year after year with little relaxation
or vacation. True. too. the man at fifty
who has climbed his way IN business or the
professions is just at the zenith Of his
powers; but are not our wOmen's clubs
and societies for various branches OF civic
improvement headed by attractive. intelh-
gent matrOns of fifty and over? On every
side one sees women who. after the chill
dren are grown and have flown from the
home nest. seem to take on a new Iease.oi
life and enter with vigor into the enjoy
ment Of travel and study which perhaps
was denied them in early womanhood.
Modern conditions favor a woman surviv.
ing her husband Is il to be presumed from
that, as our snug masculine contempo-
raries would have US think. that most os
her years are spent IN senility?'