The Washington times., 1914-08-13
Peters
AdUeNtureS
IN
Matrlmony
ByEOaN DAlRYARLE
Author sf shs new n0vsi. -Dtsns -
the orSsu Van" a~srds1 Q pstss
Of 80, 900 by tda n Tasbsi and
O g. Mcclure - 5uAsSs.
GROWING OLD GRACEFULLY.

| GROWING OLD GRACEFULLY.
xiv.
~ oW that my mother-in-law has
nj begun to dye her hair and talk
sweetly of how late in life IL
was before her father and
mother turned gray. and that she must
have the prevailing family trait. I've
begun to think a great deal about that
side OF life.
What marvellous thing 1t Is to grow
old gracefully. to greet white hairs with
stanch philosophy and let the wrinkles
OF smiling cheerfulpess make the be-
holder forget those less lovely wrinkles
of age and care.
Why do men accept age with saner
philosophy than women? To be sure,
we all rebel when Father Time inso-
lently slaps' his paint brush across our
faces and begins to etch the first tell
tale wrinkles with which he writes his
inefaceable tale. but your average man
doesn't resort in a panic to wrinkle
creams and hair dye when he sees
crows feet. He sighs a little and
makes the best of IT,
The Philosophy of 1t.
OF course. there's considerable nkeII-
hood of his fussing over a premature
bald spot. and secretly he may buy lo-
tions and mango cure until some one
hpds him out, but he recoils with
hearty scruples from the dye pot. un-
less he's a musician or a Iady-killer of
pronounced frivolity. Yet the number
OF women who desperately resort to this
age-eliminating hypocrisy is daily at
tested by the prodigious number OF
masseurs and hair doctors who spring
up in our cities like unwholesono mush-
rooms, preying upon the weaknesses OF
womanhood. 1 don't believe a wrinkle
cream factory ever went bankrupt.
And there's new one on the market
every week. One walk through a de-
partment store will reveal new denI-
onstrator with the best ever ready to
impart the bloom Of youth to any cheek
for quarter.
There is a philosophy to it. too.
suppose l reflected, glancing askance
at the unlovely rusty frou-frou of hair
above Mrs. Penfield's brow. There must
be vital reason back of this differ
ent attitude of men and women toward
an age-old problem. Men, of course. are
mad ever the curving loneliness or
youth; the older the man the more he
admires it-and women know 1t Nat
urally. the knowledge forces them into
competition with younger women, and, |
rather than resign her prestige. the
older woman flies to the paint pot and
the cream jar and successfully-some-l
times-imitates, the natural beauty OF
the younger. K
Why, | wonder, dc men insist upon
loveliness in women when women, who ,
are a notorlously color-lovtng sect, ac-
cept untold physical imperfections IN
men? Is 1t because man, the conquer
ing brute. has hser taught to think
he can have what he wants, and Nc-
man must take what she can get It's
likely a surv!vsi of cave men days.
Women Always Kinder.
Watch the men beautiful women
marry. Adon!s would usually come out
laps ahead in a beauty race. But d
handsome man rarely marrieS n home
ly woman unless she's so clever he can't
get away. Even then he'll consider
himself grievously cheated in hfe's
game, and he'll cast furtiTe sleeps
ewes of admiration at every lovely wo-
man lie sees. Yet a beautiful woman
will frequently give a beautiful devo-
ton to an ugly man.
The reason: Men, [ think. are on tho
uhcie n more impeiuous. Illogical crowd |
than women. They delight in super !
fatalities, provided these sup+rficiali- !
ties are slightly. There Isn't the same !
incentive TO selection. man isn't so |
woman. The woman, sees the uSly |
man, and a swift charity makes her !
kind to him. Women are always kind |
or 10 men than men are to women. She !
finds that he's Interesting and decent. |
and Instantly her interest goes beneath .
the shell of his phI sica! imperfecticn5 |
and secs the more beautiful things be- |
meath. II he's likely to be a good E!ate, |
that's enough for her.
Not so the man. He sees first and |
last the sweeping eyeiash. the soft
pretty blush. the bronze mist of hair.
They stir his senses. with a Grand il
logical impetuosity he doesn't care
whether there are beautiful things in
side the beautiful shell or not.
"Beauty," one man once said to an
other. seeking. bromdically enough. to
discourage the others attentions 10 4 II
beautiful. frivolous. brainless doll. n
beauty is only skin deep. my boy"
Well" said the sen of Adam. glanc-
Ing across the street al a girls pref
lv face. that's Dep enough for me,
cid top"'
There you have in a nutshell the mas
cullne attitude.
CoDvricht 1915 Newspaper Feature Service