Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-11
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BE Your Age
Slogan for
Women
Search for Youth
Brings Ridicule
And Sorrows
~ DOROTHY DIX.

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The best advice ever given To the
woman who desires to be admired =
contained In the slang phrase: "9e
your age" OF course, this Is not the
popular view Of the subject. Keep
young" is the modern slogan which
inspires millions Of women to spend
their money, their thoughts, their
energy and their health in . frantic
effort to retain . perpetual girlhood.
For they have been taught that
youth is not only woman's heyday Of
enjoyment and happiness In life, but
that it is her one and only allure,
and that when that is gone, all is
lost. Hence these fryings and boil
ings and poundings and skinning
and scraping and tortures beyond
anything the inquisition ever knew.
Now no one will dispute the charm
Of youth, and if these poor victims
Of the youth culture who are ad-
jured not only to 60 through re-
juvenating treatments, but also to
think young thoughts, and act young
and associate only with young peo-
pie, really attained their objective
and remained lissom and light
hearted girls and boys, We would say
it was well worth whatever it cost.
But, alas, 1t is loves labor lost. No
human ingenuity or determination
can stay the march Of time. Age
comes to every one of us, and when
we try to substitute synthetic
youth for the real thing w only
make ourselves ridiculous and in
stitute q horrible comparison be.
tween ourselves and the lads and
lassies we are grotesquely trying to
initiate.
The old woman who has her face
lifted and her hair dyed and her
face painted like barn door doesn't
look like sweet Is. She looks as old
as the witch Of Endor. The old
woman who dresses as young as her
granddaughter doesn't look like .
debutante In her knee-lenyth skirts
and her saucy little hats. She looks
senile. And in all the world there
is no more repulsive spectacle than
the old woman who 10 coy and hirta.
tious and who us always talking
about her boy friends.
Life ID dead As sea fruit to the
women who try to befool themselves
and deceive the public into thinking
they are still IS when they are 10,
but 1t is full Of flavor and peace and
Joy for the woman who is wise
enough to accept the years as they
come and be her age. And, from
ically enough, she retains her youth
longer than the woman who grows
old before her time struggling to
keep young.
The woman who accepts her age
Is not only far happier than the
woman who fights against 1t, but
she is generally happier than she
was when she was q girl. For she
is no longer torn by the hopes and
fears and uncertainties Of youth.
She knows what cards Fate has
dealt her and she philosophically
sets herself to play them the best
she can.
Furthermore. the woman who &C
cepts her age Is often beautiful. as
the nhade-up, imitation-youth wom-
an never Is. For the one has char
acter In her face. She has sincerity
and intelligence and philosophy.
So, ladies. II you want to be ad-
mired. Do your age. There is the
charm and beauty Of youth, and
there Is also the charm and beauty
Of age. but you can't substitute
youth for age and get away with II.