The evening world., 1911-07-27
the pulsing life OF things.
WHAT DO EVENING WORLD
READERS THINK?

WHAT DO EVENING WORLD
READERS THINK?
How about It? What do the women
readers Of The Evening World think OF
this interesting question? DO they agree
with otero tina beauty. like pearls.
cigars and wine. improves with age
and attains the nne flavor OF perfection
forty years; or do they prefer the a
did loneliness OF eighteen, the ripper
fruit OF twenty-five. the full blown love-
Illness Of thirty?
l would be glad to rear from any one.
man or woman. who has an opinion Oh
this subject.
Incidentally. l have a very strong
opinion OF my own to the effect that the
Belle Otero'' or any other woman Of
forty who thinks her beauty superior 20
that OF THE girl who hasn't gotten
tho and out OF her eyes Is simply
throwing the san she has shed from
her own orbs back again. And this Is
not said in a critical spirit.
Any woman who Is under forty must
certainly prefer to feel that the goal is
still ahead Of her, the race still TO BE-
un. the golden apple OF perfection still
to be attained. But she has sense
enough to look the facts In the ace in
this case-a f~orty-year-old face-and to
render her judgment Of beauty accord
ingly.
The beauty Of forty Is embalmed
beauty. and II the Pure Food laws were
pfn.AaA ~ a~tansta1,v M thAS, ahntttl
be every venerable vampire would have
a special number plainly exhibited on
the an. and underneath 1t would be
the familiar words: preserved with a
little benzoate OF soda. colored with a
little carmine. Bottled under the Food
n Drug Act"
There IL no other beauty. no other
lure equal to that of freshness-fresh-
ness OF body, freshness of mind. fresh
ness OF soul. The French recognize
this when they call the fairness Of a
young girl beauty Of the devil" But
the genuine appreciation OF beauty Is
fairly limited. The woman Of forty.
starved into shape. massaged into
smoothness, hand-colored and with a
yearning for conquest frankly speaking
from her eyes. has a charm that IS
often more potent than beauty. one
must be something OF an artist, some
thing OF an a~estEete. to care whether
q woman's mouth has the cupids bow
curve or looks as II II had been made
with a can opener when that mouth
Is uttering this smooth fattery. the
calculated ardor which is one Of the
weapons age gives to a certain type.
Undoubtedly there are a great many
beautiful women Of forty. but they are
not among the professional beauties
like Otero and Cavalier, the whited
s%epulchres of dead souls. They are
among the mothers of children or tho
unmarried women of brains and char
acter whose lives Of sweetness and help
| fulness have moulded Their faces in an
ennobling mask.
"HoW 70 USE THEM" Is THE
REAL oTERo KEY.
Otero gives away the Whole case Of
| her beauty OF forty when she says she
has beauty and grace nd knows
HOW TO USE THEM" That's the
pathetic part Of 1t. Eyes are much
more beautiful when they are not maxi
ing eyes, and l know OF no spectacle
more pitlful and at the same time more
Iudicrous than that OF a middle-aged
sircn blinking coyly and persistent y
above her rouge with the idea that she
Is completing some mans slbjugation'
The sophisticated gown, the stua!ed
pose o. tao professional man-killer are
not 10 effective as the simple white
dress or the bl .hins nwkN lrdness Of
any pretty girl graduate o. eighteen.
The homage of the youth o. seventeen
proves no more than to love OF q
young and universally friendly puppy,
| suppos that's why they call II PUPPY
iovo. Otero admits thar tho man OF
forty prefers the yyuns girl AMI 10
has reached he age OF discrimination.
! Of Intelligent chOl,e,f
OF course, there Is II great deal to 10
said for tho at,ractlyeness of the
woman Of forty, but that Ii not beauty,
From Helen and Cleopatra to the nota-
bic charmers of our own day, the ma.
ture chavmCr has done the most damage
has broken the host hearts, women,
like p!Heapples, are sweetest Just be-
fore they begin TO decay said the
Autocrat Of the Breakfast Table. And,