El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-12
WOman's Happiest Age
When Is Woman Most Attractives
Mary Garden says at IS.
Woman at Other Ages
By Dorothy Dix. ---

RIss MARY GARDEN, who is
N generally conceded to know a
- thing or two, has announced
that IS is a woman's most attractive
age
When is woman most attractive? It
depends upon the woman and the taste
of the judge.
In times past mems fancies seemed to
/ have run TO extreme youth ShakSpere
made Juliet a chit of Il SCOTS hero
ISSaS and ClarlSSaS were all in the
SQUAD class. Sir Charles Surface and
his fellow gsllants toasted the maiden
of bashful 16."
We like them older, now, and regard
II as the first evidence Of senility 70 IA
man to exhibit a marked leaning to-
ward the kindergarten.
Undou btedly, however many women
are at their best in the years between
10 and 20 They have then the beauty
and the grace that all young animals
possess. whether they are kittens or
puppies, or humans.
The Woman at Twenty-Five.
twenty-five IS charming age-- 1t is
the high noon Of youth. The bud is
Just beginning to unfold, yet the dew
is still upon it 1t is the hour in which
woman first discovers she really has
a heart
Thirty is the age at which the fool
woman is impossible, the college Wom-
an at her best and the worldly woman
most fascinating. The silly woman,
Who was charming little goose at IS,
has developed into bore and a bun
die of heaviness by the time she is 80.
The college bred woman, who is a late
bloomer, has just come into her own,
and is sensible, intelligent cOmpan-
ion for men who like women served
up with a garnish of brains Also they
have not yet developed a mission in
life, as they are liable to later on, so
so is their most attractive age.
Worldly Woman at so.
As Tor the worldly woman. at 30 she
IS no longer an amateur at the game of
Ire, but professional who knows
now TO play 1t. She has learned how
TO make the most OF her charms, how to
dress, and. more valuable still, she has
acquired the art of playing upon a harp
with a thousand strings
At %, according to Miss Garden and
others whose experience entitIe their
opinions to respect. a woman is at her
best. Certainly she is midway between
youth and age, and has some of the
charms and advantages of both
It is an age at which a woman is
most dangerous because she knows
with deadly certainty sThat she wants.
and is coldly calculating in her way
Of getting it. 1t is an age at which
woman marries for an establishment
instead Of a husband, and when she
would rather have a string of pearls
than hearts devotion
Forty-five is the age of the survival
of the best fitted among women. All
the others have gone into the discard.
II IS the age at WnlCn the business
woman is at her best, when she is san
est, most cOmradely and most inter
esting. 1t is the golden age also Of
the spinster. who has given up the
struggle to be fascinatOr of men and
absorbed herself in other pursuits
Many women who have been unat-
tractiVe in youth at middle age have
an indian summer of loneliness Of
mind and person that their springtime
never knew.
The joys OF Motherhood.
There are other women who never
come into their own until they hold
baby on their breasts. They may have
been homely, awkward. hard of face.
and blunt of speech, lacking all grace;
but motherhood turns them into ma
donnas that send US to our knees be-
fore them
And there are other. women whose
best hour is almost their last hour.
Ugly in youth, they are beautiful in
age. for life and experience often chisel
rough features into beauty, and love
lights a lamp within the dull soul of
many a woman that irradiates her
whole being
A woman is at her best anywhers
from the cradle to the grave-accords
ing as the woman is herself.