Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-02-13
ONLY ONE AGE OF
WOMEN THIS SEASON
Grandma, Mother and Child all Dress
Alike and Its Hard to Tell Them
Apart Nowadays.
NOT LONG AGO WOMAN OF
80 TOOK TO BLACK BONNET
She Doesn't Do 1t Now and Instead
Takes to Styles Which Are
Coquettish and Young.
B MARGARET MASON.
written fOr the united Press.l

written for the United Press.)
Three little maids at a tango tea,
Slender and swagger and fair to see,
Three little frocks of dainty hue,
Three little heads of hair in the new
est blue,
Three little skirts slit up to the knee,
Three little bellies are these graces
three;
Grandma and mother and child are they
But which is which it were hard to say.
New York, Feb 13.-There may be
seven ages Of man according to Shakes
peare but according to Fashion there s
only one age of woman and that S de-
butante age. Madame La Mode has
donned her gardening gloves, taken her
pruning shears in hand and stepped
into the garden of femininity She has
patted and pulled and coaxed and re-
sorted to artificial aids until there
isn't a hardy perennial, wall flower,
century plant, or full blown bios
som in the whole place-nothing but
buds, It's true many won t bear close
inspection but most Of 'em are triumphs
of art over nature just the same.
Time was, and not so long ago either,
when a woman in her fifties took to
tiny black bonnets with strings tied
under her chin in demure grandmother
ly fashion. Now she still takes to bon
nets, but they are of frivolous gold lace
wired out over the ears in the cutest
Dutch effect, and the strings that tie
under her chin are coquettish brides Of
black velvet or pearls Or tulle ties that
fasten with a smashing big bow under
one pink tipped ear
Keeps Them Youthful.
With misses of eighteen and twenty
apeing the snowy locks of age in their
white wigs or grey tinged powder, the
dowagers, whose hodry tresses are ma
tures dover, no longer need resort to
dye as the first step toward rejuvena-
tion. As white hair is particularly
trying, however, the complexion still
retains some of the coloring and texture
of youth, the present fashion of tint
ing the hair blue, purple and cerise to
suit your fancy is great aid to the
perpetuation of youth.
Grandmother best gown is no long
err of stiffly brocaded satin or silk with
a touch Of old lace about the sleeves
and throat. No indeedy, not for the
1914 grandma. Her best frock, which
by the way is tango one, is of mauve
chiffon over rose with band Of black
velvet about her throat and no sleeves
at ALL
Mother s dress of baby blue tulle il
as diaphanous and scant of skirts al
Daughters pink chiffon and if thi
keeps on, no doubt great tgreat-grand
mamma will be ordering a yellow crep'
de chine for her next coming out party
There is much to be said for thi
fashion of perpetual youth. When
woman's heart is young even thougl
her years number three score and tel
there is no need for her to deck her
self in the rusty garments of senility
On the other hand the great danger o
the present mode is tendency to 60 ia
to the other extreme and nothing
.sadder than when she refuses to &C
cept her years gracefully and artistic
ally. If she is wise, however, the youn
middle.aged woman selects her raimer
iudiciously in tones of soft grey, la'
endar, purple golden brown, taup
sapphire blue, old rose and cream
white and remembers that black is fC
the young woman alone.
Moleskin is becoming fud for a
ages and silver tipped fox as attractiN
for fifty as fifteen. Let her pay a
tention to her figure and always
well corseted.
Can Beat Father Time.
One may easily keep ahead of FAITH
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