Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-12-26

so that your eyes no longer give you
yardstick by which to measure wo-
mans days"
AS For Clothes.
| "And as for Clothes" walled the
woman in the red hat, there's no diff
ference between the things that l6 and
go wear unless it is that l6 is a little
more dignified and conservative in its
taste Why, the only thing that makes
me suspect that | IN getting old myself
is that | find myself passing up good
substantial dark colors in favor of baby
blues and pinks and that | sort Of lean
toward hats with Queen Of May effects
and when woman Of my age begins
to yeam for millinery with wreaths of
flowers it S a sure sign of the approach
I of senie dementia."
"Well," said the woman in taupe,
''my test for approaching age in wo-
man is to notice whether in her conver-
sation she SHES away from dates as
u nervous horse does from an automo-
bile. When q woman avoids locating
anything in any particular year it IS be-
cause she doesn't want you to get a
line ON her,
"Another test that never fail is when
she always says I'VE girls did so and
So and when he always prefaces rem
iniscence by remarking / was very
young at that time, If you will notice
you will observe that all the little
Youngsters in college call each other
,"women," while ladies who are 40, or
half passed, alweays speak Of them
selves and each other as girls. y
"Right, oh, - exclaimed the woman in
the black hat, "all Of those signs of
age are signs that never fail in dry
weather But what we think Of a wo-
mans age doesn 7 matter,
'1t's what she thinks that counts,
and tho most amusing and pathetic
thing on earth is the sight of woman
who has had It dawn suddenly upon
her consciousness that she is growing
old, and who is getting busy to stop
the clock.
"'You know how it is. She's gone
along, like the balance Of us, thinking
that she's drunk at the fountain Of per
petual youth, and then, one day, she
takes look in tho glass, and sees that
she has got fat, and settlcd'looking, and
that her hair is turning gray around
tho temples, and lines coming about hel
mouth,
"'Talk about your panics She's il
blue funk, and she beats it down tC
1.-The nearest beauty parlor, and boil
and bakes herself, and has her poo
body pounded into pulp, and begins
to DO without everything she wants e
oat. And she tries to youthify he
: conversation by gigglng and acting kit
a tcnish, and talking girly'girly stuff tina
= sounds as II sho had softening Of th,
o brain.
4 "I pray God on my knees to saw,
n me from acting the fool when eros
y ltho age line, "
j ''G think, " said the woman with th,
long feather in her hat, that the rea
test Of age is not physical, but mental
}, It depends upon the supplcncss Of you
/ soul, and not your body,
}. wo Arc Mentally Young,
"wc'rc young physically just as loul
. as every muscle is flexible and plabl
and quick to change and movement
\ and we are young mentally--rcall,
yomg-just as long as our minds ar
alert TO new ideas, new thoughts an,
\ capable Of taking new points Of view
"The first sign of physical age /
when we begin to stiffcn up at tn
I joints and TO prefer TO sit aud watcl
others play to playing ourselves, an
We have begun to grow old mental,
I when we begin to think that all mod
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