Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-04

difference. She wasn't yielding. That
was obvious. Indeed. there appeared 10
be no valid reason why she should yield.
am far from even suggesting that she
should have.
The bromidiom about growing old
gracefully apparently has different
and perhaps better meaning in New York
than it has in some other places. The
idea among New York women appears to
be that they're going TO look well as long
as they can-and then keep right oil look
ing bette: ." best Why not? Why
should there ever be any slump in a
Wonan's appearance? This is their phi
losophy. And they certainly live W TO
and exemplify ii. Dark or neutral tints
in raiment may satisfy them in their
youth or middle life. Tne rainbow has not
enough colors for them when they be
come elderly Thri: plausible idea is to
neut-Ilize the effect Of age with bright
ness. They keep up IL the moment Of
fashion. if. indeed. they don't remain i'll
t!Ie van OF Il. True. they SoineN hat over
do the Use of cosmetics: but. when It
comes 10 that, so do the younger women:
even the women who don't need cosmetics
at all. for cosmetics now are distinctly
the thinS. even for the peachiest cheeks
fai'hioll has 50 proclaimed. and there is
no efauilS such proclamationS.
Anyhow. the mature maturing woman
now HAS What noveliStS call the pas
1 ne noNeiists themselves are ma king their
i-eIo.ieS women OF forty or even we'll be-
Soiiu IT, he woman OF Twenty-Five
thlrtX now Is Il .bread-and-b youn.
person. lacking in experience and mellow
ness. But in no city OF the world do the
quite mature women more confidently
snap their fingers ut Father Time than
they Go III New York At the matinees
you will find quite as many elderly ar old
women as young misses or Inatrons: and
they are no less bediked up 10 within an
men or less of their lives than the quite
young women. Walk behind them as they
siI
them 10 be spunky young matrons
thoroughly enjoying themselves and their
clothes. Get in front OF them and YOU see
that instead. they elderly or old
iacieS thoroughly enjoying themselves and
their clothes.
l am acquainted with one great-srard-
mother mere who attends two bridge par
ties and one poker party every week: and
on the remaining nights she goes To the
theater. / suppose she is quite seventy
nFe' hut she practices caiisthenics and
deep breathing in her room for nearly an
nOur before breakfast every morning,
lis the new idea of an old thing. the old
th1ng being age. of course. II mean to
Ole in harness, says this CHEEKY old lady,
after spending the morning visiting her
granddaughter's baby; and then she gets
herself up regardless and trots off to a
grand opera matinee. For, to the view
of the New York woman of ripe wears.
Lime Is no reaper until he reaps, 1t is
not pad view. Maybe. after a while,
the Old boys Will adopt the same outlook
and system 1t would not hurt them.
THE growing supremacy OF the elderly
has reached such stage in fact
that now there seems to be a likelihood
that it will he initiated. Yesterday |
asked a famous wigmaker if there hap
pened to be any truth in the rumor that
ia h1e
the eighteenth century custom of now
dering their hair
Why not?' was his reply. Its be-
coming"