Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-11-29

AeUERE are those who are prone
to sheer, to gibe, to crltl-
else. the evident tendency or
womankind to ape the young.
This is putting It strongly.
hwy the worst of the shield must De
shown in order that the best may De
exposed.
oftan = good instinct is i'll expressed
or unviselv accented by those who grope
in the dark for the light, or those
whose lack of mental depth causes them
10 applv any strong movement TO an
,,ruartbv end. To paint and powder. to
srrav ones self in ahsurdly ill-chosen
clothes that mock at youth, TO shipper
at new follies. TO cultivate the careless
n,ouapcv of youths dialect. is to make
a fool Of ones self at forty
To watch the new fashions and study
Them So that wise compromise can
he made between those intended FOR
vouth and those for middle age; TO
keen ones features youthful by sayety.
by interest in the big things that the
day brings forth: TO struggle to keep
ones life out of Il rut: to read, to
argue. to digest; TO see for ones self the
movement of the world as it goes from
sadness to folly. from extravaganza 70
penury: to love and imhibe youth
through contact. without imitation; TO
play with a child as diversion from
talking to a serious-minded man: to
never cease being interested. ana 10
bring TO affairs the mellow Judgment
and Softening tolerance OF the years.
NAV be TO strive for the fountain or
youth itself, but few struggles are so
worth while as one reaches the SteppeS
of age that used to be so barren and
that now are made to bloom by woman
herself.
What has all this to do with clothes.
Won ask? Much. 1t is the tremendous
force behind the fashions of the day.
IT determines the outcome OF every
costume worn. 1t digs deep into the
heart and mind and consciousness of
our women and is responsible for the
way we look. There Is no avoiding the
issue. 1t is now at the root OF appear
ance. not only in clothes. but in man
ners. in vices. in character. This wide,
spread tendency to appear young and
to be young-between which there is
great gulf fxed-has swept over the
unquiet sex as springtime spreads
through the forest.
1t is this tendency, bene1cent IN the
end. if we'll balanced, that has caused
much laughter and unpleasant criti-
cism in the world. Women have per-
sisted in it to mans amusement ana
other wOmen'S OutcrS. I ct neltnef Ol
these went far enough into the soul OF
1t to see that such motive would be
productive in good.
:: :.
All they saw was the ridiculous ap-
pearance OF thousands of mtddle-ased
women in the gewgaws of youth.
Grandmothers wearing the plumage OF
debutantes, was the slurring comment.
Women who should be at home wear
ing caps dancing the one-step. Vanity
in it's most absurd form hooking at
age. On every side one heard these
things said. And on the surface of
life these comments had the sting of
truth There was the sadness of it.
The brightness OF il, the ray OF light
that shot upward, telling of an illuni-
nation within, was the fact that women
had discarded caps because they were
no longer 10 be ostracized from the
mighty stir OF life. They intended to
see for themselves TO the end, and by
constant mental friction with an ever
changing Kaleidoscope world to keep
so abreast of il that il sreneTal OF
-outh would be reflected in their faces.
Tae- were snatching al the sub
stance OF youth to inject il into their
inner being as an anti-toxin against