Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-13

then sixty, had no idea of regarding
her memoirs as her swan song. They
were nothing more than a noonday
carol to her. She kept right on look
ing lovely, being fascinating and
| finally made the young diplomat her
third husband.
By this time the group of highly
successful professional women, none
of whom had passed the forties, and
couple of them decade younger,
wore resentful look. 1t was as if
the glorious Lady Randolph, still
having romanceS at Sity-feV, had de-
rfauded them of something's if
perhaps she kept young at their eX-
pense. None of them knew her. so
they didn't mind showing claw or
two.
Someone said she always had
plenty fbrains, but she never used
them except to be attractive. Then
the miniature painter said: "She evil
IDENTIFY preferred running a beauty
parlor to a political salon.
The memoirs were canvassed again
and it wa sdecided if she had not
been a power politically, politicians
had made power of her. And that.
viewed from any angle, her life had
been highly successful, and to all ap-
PSoAohSSo q NOiS baPPy
She had had no money as money is
reckoned these days, something un-
der fifty thousand dollars, yhen Lord
Randolph Churhcill came to New
York forty-four years ago. He was
the younger brother of the Duke of
Marlborough and infinitely cleverer
and more popular than the head of
the family. Lord Randolph and Jen-
ME Jerome met at dinner in New
York, and in those days young ladies
used to have accomplishments.
Never Has Returned Here
1t was said to be the understanding
and breadth witr which she played
a Chopin nocturne that attracted the
brilliant Englishman.
They married after a short en-
gagement and the young American
beauty became completely identified
with the country of her adoption. 1
believe she is one of the few Ameri-
can women married to Europeans
who has never returned to her native
country.
But the professional group, all of
whom showed the tooth of time.
could not make up it's mind what
had kept this remarkable woman so
young looking. Was it because she
had had brains and had employed
them in keeping her beauty, rather
than in any larger sense? She had
never even gone in for fads or hob
bies beyond making the best of every
advantage.
An inuqiry then started if profess
sional women, with the sole excep-
tion of actresses, were ever conspicu-
Gus for their beauty or their ability
TO retain youth? And no one could
remember an example off the stage
where this was the case.
Moral: Did professional women
take enough care of themselves?
And an answer in chorus, mo, they
did not"
The physician remarked If wom-
ans professional duties amounted to
anything she could not spend the
| time in taking facial massage or hav-
ing her hair treated. But the men
take time for beauty conservation"
the miniature painter said "All the
| barber shops now have facial mas
. sage and electric skin treatments and
goodness what else"
The men certainly take more
time to care for themselves than we
do, women of our class, I mean, not
! the sex generally speaking"
We'll, let them" said the doctor;
when I'm through with a lot of
overstrung nervous women who
have nothing especially the matter
with them | want no more feminine
fussing in my day. It's golf for me,
or long motor ride, no rubbing out
of wrinkles or coddling of falling
hair"
We'll. what do you expect?" asked
tre short story writer.
mot a third husband at sixty-five,
certainly, when I've not annexed my
first at forty three" said the doctor.
So they all sat and flayed to tatters
the subject of whether it was better
to take the alents God gave and de-
velop them, or spend them in keep
ing young and pretty.
At midnight they were still dis
cussing it, and at l o'clock they had
got no farther than to agree that
every woman must decide the ques-
ton for herself.