South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-08-06
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Woman is Latest
4 AND now the women are going
n 10 be ''roiuvenated DR.. Leon
n RfchasI has found nav So

u 10 be "rsfuvenated. DR.. Leon
n Michael has found new So
cret OF youth.
40. Il isn't medicine or exercise.
Or diet.
eithsr-you have 20 GO % a hospital
20 get Il, and submit 20 a severe op-
GRAFTON AZ that.
And. when 81 - AL done and the
Doctors gone and the surgeon sends
i1 his bill and tho nurse takes you
home and you are we'll enough 20 sit
I'D and take nourishmsnt-what
thsn7
Why then. you arc not sixty any
more-you'rs thirty.
You're full OF nfs and soy and
youth and you gant 20 go out step
ping and you arc never too tired 20
meet strangers.
Ard AL tho nav books are per
fsotly lovely and every new man
You meet IS wonderful"
And the hats IN tho windows are
pets" and you can't get your skirts
short enough and your neck low
enough
fudge and write notes. suppose
and call up the rest or the girls and
some of the boys. TOO. on the tele-
phone and have long and exciting
converse tions-about nothing.
And them
Has She Learned Nothing?
y on, and then. you are Just a poor
old thing trying vour best 20 look
and act and feel Ike a dear young
thing and 7 don't believe you'll fool
a person on earth-but yourself-no
matter how hard you try.
Wouldn't you hate a kitten that
mover grew Up into a cat.
No matter how slim and graceful
and lively she was. wouldn't you de-
test the old. old spirit OF her looking
out OF her Kittenish eyes?
Twenty years old and still IN the
cradle?
Twenty and still playing with a
rattle and still trying 70 learn to
talk?
There arc such things. and miser-
able 81 Is % think about g.
No one takes such a poor little un-
developed stunted creature as that
ont and exhibits Sc as a triumph.
Well then, what's the matter with
woman OF sixty who wants 70 look
and act and be a woman Of thirty?
Has she learned nothing in all
those thirty years?
Doesn't she realize that the last
thirty years have been or should have
been the richest In her life?
Why throw them .or try to throw
them and all that they have brought
her into the discard. like a pair Of
torn old gloves that never fitted any
how?
7 can understand woman Of forty
who wants 20 look thirty and would
like 20 feel thirty.
suppose the caterpillar that turns
into a butterfly has a time when it's
turning when IL would like to stay a
caterpillar forever.
And the woman Of forty Is pust at
y the turn Of the road and il doubt
less natural that she should like to
stand at the corner and look back
"A little while.
But not too lonE-not II she IS a
woman OF sense.
The road behind her was very
lovely -sometimes-but there We're
bumps I'm %. too. everything isn't
smooth sailing even at sixteen. and
poor little TWENTY How tragic
she IS about her poor little griefs!
She hasn't learned how TO face them
vet. or how 20 turn them into Joys
Some day when she gets TO the top
OF the hill OF years she'll look back
and smile wlstfuliv and wish some
body had told her
And nobody ever did tell her
they couldn't no matter how hard
they tried. because she could never
understand what they we're trying TO
say. She had 70 learn herself and
II took time ard experience TO teach
her.
why Turn Around?
A. forty romance Is Just waving
good by and contentment has not
vet arrived. bag and baggage. for a
long visit Yes. fts lonesome to be
forty-but forty-fve hurrah-here
comes peace OF mind and under
standing and cheerful acceptance Of
the facts OF life.
Why turn around in your tracks
and Try 20 go through 10 an again E?
The listening for the telephone. for
instance. the watching for the mail
man. the desperate concern about
trifes that make up the happiness
and the misery OF poor little
TWENTY and dear little THIRTY
Why not drink the full cup 10 the
very bottom and get the fun flavor
OF ufe in all It's splendor and all its
misery and all IT'S hope ard all lts
despair,
why not hold out your hand 90
FIFTY ar last and say.
Here YOU are my dear, I've been
listening FOR YOUR kindly voice for
a long time-cone. LET'S so down
the road together iu peace and com
fort. you and IT,