The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-23
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 Then, instead of having one Chin, certainly had one and half. sup pose the latter was created from the flesh that had dropped from the cor ners of my mouth. There were cer- tainIy two deep furrows there that I had never seen before, and my hair. which had always been; luxuria.nt-- though I was aware it had become thinner noW-looked to be- just tstringy wisps to my critical eye. It was very much grayer, too. than I had l ina gined.
 .sThen I found my eyebrows were scant and much lighter than they used | to be- Next, the hand glass revealed | to me the lump of fat accommodating lat the back of the neck evidently quite fast the double chin in front Where had my pretty neck dis appeared all of a sudden
 tsOh, deari Oh, dearf What should discover next? My figure, knew, had grown stouter, but I looked sholt- CT thansI thought was. and I seemed to be chunky around the bust, so T took a tape measure to see if I had grown very much stouter. But I had not, so I concluded the flesh must have travelled from the bust to tue shoulders and stopped there, accord ing to the evidence of the mirror ahd my former reco1lections.'
 This is the way the revelations came to one woman; just an express sion upon strangers face opened the gate of Knowledge.
 But, fortunately, the days have van ished when the fact that a woman has reached middle age also 1 implies that she must forego all the lattractions of pretty toilets and be quite content to delegate all those dainty fripperies so dear to her heart to the adornment of her growing ldaughters. In fact, this is the day of the naidd1e-aged woman.
 Many a woman of fifty will pre- sent more attractive appearance than her daughter half her years, and, as styles are today, her clothes will worn by her daughter. but there is a difference, as the wise woman knows. even though it may be only in the manner of wearing them Take the ssdebutante s1ouch-' A girl strfk- ing this attitude loses none of her youth, but should her mother so let herself go she looks like a ssslouch' indeed, adding ten years to her age. Yetsso simple are the frocks that both mother and daughter may be wearing almost or quite the same style. This will be a skfTnpy skirt, probably a blouse belted in and a. neck, a model quite suitable for either age. The mother, however will see that her neck is cut only comfortably low, and that thes friII trimming it charitably.
 
 will be a little wider at the bottom than her daughters, and If the waist is unduly large her belt will be quite narrow, or, better still. not meet in Ithe front by a few inches. There will, too, be less blousiness about the waist A youthful figure can stand plenty of fullness there. Not so the elder woman, if she would look thin and smart. Extremely youthful models will be really more fatal to her than dowdy ones. So they should be religiously avoided. and while types of elderly women vary exactly as do those in youth, and so require differ ent styles, this rule will apply to all women no matter how c1assed In fact, the thin, scrawny woman aping juvenile styles is perhaps a more gro- stesque sight than her sister of gener- . ous charms
 The middIe-aged woman should aim for style rather than prettiness, and the first means to this end is care full grooming Next in importance is the 5coiffure. Her hair must not look as though it were painted to the head, no matter how charming such a coif- fure may be on her daughter No woman of middle age can be "a suc-' a smart coiffure. As I said before, her aim should be for style from the tip of the jaunty quill in her hat to the lacings of her well-fittfng, dainty shoes, paying most scrupulous atfen- ton to each detail of the toilet throughout
 Any question suggested by this ar tic1e will be answered by Mrs Lee personally if a stamped and self-ad- dressed envelope be inclosed in the inquirerss letter z
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