The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-24
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
wonan's Most Attractive Age.
BY DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.


Just as IL pretty girl is more at
tractive from Is to %, the clever girl
has her innings from 25 to IS.
The clever girl may not have been
particularly good looking in her teens.
and may ave played second fiddle to
all the pink and white-and-gold little
flappers in her circle, but by the time
she is 25 she has pulled herself togeth-
er, and she begins to bloom just rs
the others begin to fade. She is bet
ter loo'-ing than she ever was, be
cause she has found out what. she
needed to enter the beauty class
If she was too thin, she has fattened
herself up. If she was chubby, she
has dieted. exer Used and reduced
down to fighting weight Also. she
has learned how to dress so as to
make the most of her good points, and
camouflage the bad ones.
Above all, SIC has discovered the
mo momentous fact in the world to
women, and that is that a womans
attractiveness depends a hundred
times more on her manner and per-
sonality than it does on her looks.
She has learned how to be gracious.
how to be tactful. how to play up TO
other peoples interests and vanities.
and in this is the whole secret of
charm.
The clever woman can talk inter-
estingly. and she can listen with an
talk She can play a good game of
cards. she can dance. she is good at
golf and tennis. and all sorts Of ath-
letics. She is alive. alert. keen as mus
stard about everything that is hap
pening in this old world. She is I'M
derstanding and sympa thetic. tolerant
and broad. the kind of arwoman that
you like to have around on rainy days
and long Sundays
Statistics show that more women
marry between Is and % than marry
b-tween 25 and So. but the ones who
marry later stay married twice as
often. Which goes to prove that the
man who finds a mature women the
most attractive shows the best judg-
ment.
There are other women who are
most attractive around the forties.
These are the women of the Madonna
type. who never look so well as when
| they have a baby's head pillowed on
their breasts. Generally they are wo-
men who were rather big. heavy. ever
grown girls. and who had partic-
ular sparkle or brilliancy of mind.
They needed the background OF an
establishment against which tn SILL
houette themselves. They needed the
dignity of the assured place of a ma
iron to give them poise They needed
wifehood and motherhood 20 give
scope to their solid virtues, and their
,unspectacular good hard horse sense
Thus it happens that many a wo-
man who is unattract ive in her early
youth is a charming and gracious fig
ure presiding at the head of her owr
dinner table, and it not infrequentIy
happer1 that a homely girl becomes Q
NOTABLY handsome matron.
Then there are other women who
reach the height of their attractive.
ness in the very shadow of the grave.
These are the serene old women IN
whose faces beautiful spirit shines
IKE the light thru an alabaster vase.
Life is great artist. Sometimes n
remakes wom1n's face refining n
thru suffering ard sorrow. chis%lIins
rough features thru pain into fine
ones. Sometimes it makes the wrin-
Killed.. faded face of an old woman
beautiful thru the sheer goodness that
is stamped upon it.
These are the old women whom
lie has taught only wisdom. to whom
experience has brought only synna-
thy, and whom differing has onIv
filied with pity. and to whom we an
turn with a passion of admiration that
we give to no young woman
So each age has its own attractfvs-
ness. and the woman with a heart and
soul has all times and seasons for her
own. irrespective of how her beauty
blooms fades