The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-02
WOMEN OF SIXTY RESENT WORD fAGED'
They Say They Do<Not Feel
 Old at All Until 80.
Woman Especially Should Not X Be Called Old Until
 She Is Dead.
Especial to Hartford Courant.) )

Especial to Hartford Courant.
 BeIton,S March 30.-There is one point on which newspapers are very tactIess, and that is the matter of peoples ages. They handel ages as if they were parts of something with out any feelings. like an automobile Nearly everyone except a newspaper has learned long ago not to call q person old until he is dead Imagine anyone calling woman of 60 an happening in newspaper headlines every little while. One such headline was t.Aged Couple Hurt in an Auto Accident On reading the account to find our how old the aged cou- pIe' were it developed that they were in the 60'ss Not even TO, nor so, nor 90, nor 100. The reader who was herself SO, was indignant enough. ssAged couple, indeed! What would they have been called if they had been really old
 The listener, who had not reach ed the age of 60 and so had not. looked at the world from that stage of life. could not help laughing, for it would be so ridiculous to call this woman of 60 aged, who was running four incu- bators, raising 100 chickens, making butter, running a house, doing the latest filet crochet and embroidering dresses for her granddaughter; in fact setting. a pace hard for much younger people to keep up with.
 Yet it made her look at the head fatefu1 word aged and sure enough it cropped out a number of times and most of these times the aged people happened to be 60-something, wheth- CT they. dropped dead or got married or ran an auto Or had an accident. l Whatever the news item was, the headline writer had not failed to dwell on the fact that each one was 1 ssaged." And then one Sunday morn I ling fthe Sunday 'tCourant" called one ! of it's women correspondents a, vet cram right out in headline. Could l anything sound more like a man?
 Now, what have the newspaper got in for the woman of so, or the man either for that matter, that she should be labelIed Jagged ?' One reaches the age of so quite soon in \ life as compared to so and 90. It is no wonder that people who do as big a days work and many times bigger 1 than some young things just out of college, resent being called aged. 9 ] It must be rather repr essing to think 1 of being classified as "aged" from 50 years on, especially if human life Is
 perts predict
 A woman of 75, who is a very busy woman, was provoked because an | invitation was sent to her to attend | an "'Old Folks Service at her church that she stayed at home At 75, she did not feel herself old enough to l go to a special service for old folks. l Another woman said that she had l had a hard time between 60 and TO, but she meant to have a good time between TO and 80. Now, that does not seem as if that woman felt very | "aged." Amelia Barr; who now at B is still writing five or six hours a day in an article printed lately, writes
 this sentence in speaking of her diet
 "As long as I was young-say until
 I was 65-I enjoyed food.' Looking
 back from nearing Pier 90, the early
 sixties are included in her young life
 No, the women of 60 of today are