Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-08-21


lead pencil" In the bag, wrapped
separately In blue tissue, were a snow
white transformation, softly and nat
urally waved, coronet braid to go
all around the head over the trans
formation. figure eight coil for the
crown Of the head. within the beau
tful braid, and three captivating lit
tie white curls to be pinned at one
SIDE When that handsome old lady
or seventy stands up TO preside over
club meeting, CARRIED IN a perfectly
made gown Of black satin or rich
plum color, and with her wonderful
and eXquisitely arranged couture maxi
Ing a frame for her Intelligent face,
she is a very impressive figure indeed
and vastly more attractive figure,
almost everyone will admit, than was
her Sreat-grandmother at the same
age, CARRIED in a shapeless gown with
a knitted shawl over her shoulders,
cap covering her depleted tresses,
and stout cane in her hands to aid
her rheumatic limbs. rheumatism IS
no longer allowed to settle about the
joints at forty to cripple them at
sixty, and the woman of seventy is
Just as carefully corseted as her
grand daughter, Exercises keep her
figure shapely; and wide interests out
side the narrow routine Of home keep
her mind active and alert. Massage
and proper emoluments ward off
wrinkles, and the hand Of many
bridge player of three-score Is as
smooth and white as that of her lust
married daughter.
Bridge Has Helped To Keep Women
Young.
Mental activity will do more to keen
a woman younR-after the first fresh
ness OF youthful charm has faded
imam all the creams and lotions IN
the drue-shops, club life and the
bridge table giving women interests
on their own account, apart from the
secondary interest IN their orfsprinE's
afalrs, have done much to make them
seem Younger at sixty than they used
to seem at forty. 1t is really much
moro enlivcning to have host of So
cial engagements Of ones own. with
the necessity for pretty clothes In
which one may shine on ones own
account instead of merely with the
reflected glory Of tho daughter one
is chaperoninG, than It is TO sit out a
dull evening against the wall while
young people dance, or to sit out
equally dull evenings crocheting In the
back parlor while daughter entertains
her callers in lively youthful manner
in the drawinE-room.
The automobile IS another factor In
the continued YOuthfulness Of the
middle nged woman. Motoring Is n
sport which sixty may enjoy quite
as nuch--and even more than
twenty. Ever. woman. old or young,
delights In smart clothes-and auto
mobile toys for sixty differ little from
those suitable for twenty 1t is-al-
most as much fun at sixty as at
twenty, to start out for a long. invig-
Grating drive in which hosts Of inter
esting things will be seen; and to stop
en- route Mt II cosy inn where tea and
gossip may be enjoyed with other
'torng acquaintance. At all the
large country affairs like horse shows,
polo games, country club tournaments.
and the like, one sees many we'll
dressed women Of sixty and over; and
they seem to be having a right good
time as the Southerner says Fifty
years ago these women would have |
been waiting at home for the "young
people" to return for dinner. A hun |
dred years ago they would have been
sitting by the fire-side in the a-fore- |
mentioned shawl and cap. with tho