The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-02-10
Crime to Be Ugly or Old"
Says Mrs. Daven-
port.
WIFE SHOULD BE
OLDER THAN HUBBY
Marriage Only Beginning,
Not the End of Life
or Living.

She is ninety-tnree. and as gay, as
spirituelle, as young as a girl Of
nineteenl
1t sounds like CHASTITY irony, but
no one can talk five minutes with
Madam Charlotte de Goliere Daven-
port, without realizing the amazing
miracle of youth
Ninon de L'Enclos, who at seventy
had more lovers than a debutante,
was not so wonderful as Madame
Davenport with husband forty
years her junior-twenty years
younger, in fact, than her oldest son.
Above medium height, Madame
Davenport Is as straight as an ar
row; smooth cheeks; no double chin;
no wrinkles; faint crows feet, if you
look close; superb shoulders, high
firm bust; head poised as lightly as
a girls; voice with the subtle tinbre
of youth; eyes flashing with ANNA
ton; every gesture ore of enthusiasm
4 and vitality.
"One hundred years from now It
win be a crime to be either ugly Or
old" she said. when viii women
learn that true beauty is largely that
curious power which we vaguely de
scribe as charm? I have no magic
salve, | have nothing to rub on the
cheek. Beauty is perfect health; but
beauty is more than that: personal
magnetism and charm"
Marry men younger than your
Selves is her advice to women. at
is for young husbands to follow the
pace set by older wives, and not for
older wives to worry about keeping
attractive to younger husbands"
Madame Davenport said that she
started life with an old husband and
knew nothing but cruelty and slavery.
Twenty-one years ago she married
Davenport. He was in the last stages
Of consumption then, he was bald
headed, and his cheeks were
shrunken. Today, he has a heavy
head of glossy black hair, with one
white thread visible his countenance
is ruddy, cheeks filled, and on the
whole he looks like man barely
forty, when as a matter of fact he is
well along in his fifties. Another
example of Madame Davenport's
youth-giving, the average person
thinks, but Madame Davenport thinks
he is positively decrepit, and prom
Uses that if he gives up smoking, he
/ viii soon be as young as She
Never was such a perfect friend
ship as exists between my young hus-
band and myself" she said. "Ours is
a marriage Of spirit, soul, and mind,
as well as flesh.
81 am beautiful to him and always
shall be because long ago | discov-
cred that beauty is perfect health.
personal magnetism, and charm.
/ Health with youth and happiness
come from proper observance of the
laws. And charm? Health with a
lively interest in the world with
tasks to do, with many, many things
to learn,-this means charm"
1.-THE average modern woman" she
/ continued, regards marriage as a
1 prison and herself as the jailer and the
chase ended when the ring is slipped
on her finger She forgets that from
that moment she must learn what life
means and how TO live it if she is
going to get anything out of the
years"
How does Madame Davenport do
IL? What is the fountain Of youth
which Ponce de Leon sought in vain
| Diet occupies the greater part in
the answer, because incorrest eat
ing is at the bottom of nearly every
ailment- But she looks after the en-
tire body as well--the BODY Is an
orchestra, she said, each part must
be in perfect tune, or the whole win
be thrown out Of harmony. Proper
food, exercise, fresh airl "And be-
sides" she said, her cheeks glowing
with animation, ct keep anger and
fear and trouble from my thoughts;
/ build wall about myself through
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