The Washington herald., 1918-07-19

feet digestion and an untmpatred liver,
for an indication Of intelligence. Her
naive prattie, her baby stare, her art
less ignorance do not shock us. They
fascinate Us. They are a. amusing
as rolling q ball for q kitten. Sec
retly We regard them as cunning little
tricks that she will abandon when
she grows up.
Many a man marries q very young
girl on this platform. only 70 find out
that the ignorance that was enchant-
ing at eighteen Is downright imbecil-
ity at thirty-eight. that the babble
that amused him when uttered by Q
child bores him stiff when It issues
from the mouth OF a mature woman,
and to realize that of all fugitive
charms none is 80 evanescent as the
charm OF youth.
Just as the pretty girl Is more at
tractive from eighteen to twenty-five.
the clever girl has her innings from
twenty-five 10 thirty-five.
The clever girl may not have been
J particularly good looking in her teens.
and may have played second fiddle to
all the pink-and-white-and little
nappers in her circle. but by the time
she is twenty-five she has pulled her
self together. and she begins to bloom
Just as the others begin to fade. She
is better looking than she ever was,
because she has found out what she
needed to enter the beauty class.
II she was too thin, she has fat
tened herself up. II she was chubby,
she has dieted, exercised and reduc-
ed down to fighting weight. Also.
! she has learned how TO dress so as
TO make the most of her good points.
and camoufage the bad ones.
Above all, she has discovered the
most momentous fact In the world to
women, and that is that a woman's
attractiveness depends a hundred
times more on her manner and per-
sonality than Il does on her looks
She has learned how to be gracious,
how to be tactful, how to play up
to other peoples interests and vanI-
ties, and in this is the whole secret
OF charm.
The clever woman can talk inter-
estingly. and she can listen with an
absorbed attention while other peo-
pie talk. She can play q good game
Of cards, she can dance. she is good
at golf and tennis, and all sorts of
athletics. She is alive. alert, keen
as mustard about everything that is
happening in this old world. She is
understanding and sympathetic, toll
Grant and broad. the kind of a wo-
man that you like to have around
on rainy days and long Sundays.
Statistics show that more women
marry between eighteen and TWEEN
ty-two than marry between twenty
five and thirty-five, but the ones
who marry later stay married twice
as often. Which goes to prove that
the man who finds a mature woman
the most attractive shows the best
Judgment.
There are other women who are
most attractive around the forties
These are women Of the Madonna
type. who never look. so well as
when they have a baby's head pill
lowed on their breasts. Generally
they are women who were rather
big. heavy. overgrown girls, and who
had no particular sparkle or brill
liancy Of mind.
They needed the background Of an
establishment against which TO sill
houtte themselves. They needed the
dignity OF the assured place OF q
matron to give them poise. They
needed wifehood and motherhood to
give scope to their solid virtues, and
their unspectacular good hard horse
sense.
Thus ii happens that many q wo-
man who is unattractive in her early
youth is a charming and grscious
figure presiding at the head of her
own dinner table. and it not in
frequently happens that a homely
girl becomes a notably handsome
matron.
Then there are other women who