New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-12
THE LOVE FOR MATURE WOMEN
More Men Seek Personality and Attain
Happiness than Formerly, It's Said.
To the Editor of The Tribune.

Sir:
1.-THE writer. being a bachelor. feels that
he is wholly unbiased in submitting the
following. and suggests that II there arc
any skeptical readers they look around
them: investigate. and wonder will bank
rupt them OF adequate adjectives.l
Having noted that so many men to-
day seek the companionship of mature
women, ! was led to investigate, and
found that in four instances under my
observation where such friendship re-
suited in matrimony the interesting
fact was developed that the unions
we're relatively happier than that OF the
ordinary marriage. why!
The couples in question are insepars-
BILE: they travel together everywhere
with the exuberance of children; they
love with the loftiness and Wilderness
of their nature. The very air gloVs
with tenderness and is as manifest as
the warmth of the sun. How can the
soul help but gain its peace, the mind
its equilibrium and the spirit its elias
ITCHY, giving one the fullest capacity
for thorough enjoyment? Such existing
appreciative sympathy acts like the
gentle breezes upon trampled grass,
making the blades rise again to eaten
the dew and the sunshine, and which,
like fine weather and climate, is the
most beautiful thing on earth.
More and more are men apparently
seeking and approaching the person
atty in women. Love affairs and mar
riages between young men and women
their seniors are becoming rather nu-
merous, as a result, perhaps, of charm
the women nave preserved and mu-
tual love which the younger women sp-
pear TO lack, and il is no uncommon
thing to see a man entertain an ardent
love for a woman a dozen years his
senior. In looking backward, also, one
finds many remarkable women who
married quite late in life men much
younger than themselves, and who lived
remarkably happy existences, too
Elizabeth Barrett, for example, and
many others too numerous TO mention.
Perhaps il is the completed personal
character, the soul value, refinement
and culture tt at the young men find in
the maturer women and their ability 10
raise them to higher plane. Their,
too, women preserve their youthful
ness. inwsrdly and outwardly, much
better than formerly.
The women mentioned seemed 70 have
sincerity. pure tenderness and gen
uineness which are appealing, together
with developed personalities. They
seem to have that which takes the men
from their loneliness, and they possess
the living comprehension of the
unique and individual in the soul. There
IL that atmosphere of intimate under
standing which all soulful persons
dream of and seek in friendship and
love, but do not always find, but when
found transports them into sort OF
paradise where the air is mild and
dreamlikc and the dusty highway 10
turned into the messy, sun-kissed. per-
fumed woods. Their very influence
seems to penetrate and transform and
bring out all the good in them. And
the world is full Of good. mature
women, with lofty characters, noble,
whole souled, who seem TO live on the
theory that they only live who are
lavish of themselves; they give and
in the giving receive.
Genuine love is force OF the heart
fibre in the soul, a unity Of spirits and
purity of the whole being. A very ca
pable woman recently remarked tina,
her greatest talent was her power OF
loving.
Are not the women inspirers OF men
Was il not Aspasia who inspired me
wisdom OF Socrates' And so on I'D NO.
and ad infn.
The women of the younger set sp'
pear TO be in a state of unrest. Their
personalities seem to be a chaos OF con-
ficting propensities. feelings and DC,
sires they are listless and preoeeuplea
and suffer from arrested personality
and need an inner courage and sen
reliance and penetration.
More and more are men looking TOT
companionship and seeking the spt-
itual and social relationship rather
than the physical, and true love, nap
pincss and brightness will abouno onN
where there is depth of sensibility, sus
ceptibility of the senses, penetration %
thought. delicacy Of instinct. There
very great value in individuality
The inerable sweetness OF TINS
Browning letters. Who can read th.m
without a glow sufusing the hesrts
Every word, every letter seems TO ps
a living human being which moves alons
with beautiful. dear, tender hands An"
little feet and godlike lips-red lips
Purely practical people are iareiy, y
ever, happy. There seems to be no'h'"s
in life for them. Materialism without
blending Of the Imagination Is puis
trash. A happy combination OF eotn 70
untold riches.
EDWARD J. ANTHONY, Jr,
Bar HARDER, Me-. July 2, 1914. i