Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1893 — The Old Lady. [ARTICLE]

The Old Lady.

One to seldom sees a genuine old lady nowadays. The devices of the perruquier, the complexion specialties of the beauty doctor, the dress aids and skill of the modern modiste, all tend to keep the sweet, motherly creature with snowy hair and oldworld courtliness of manner in the background. Frequently one wonders what sort of memories the little folks of to-day will have of the grandmother who looks as young and dresses as gay as her daughter, and insists on the children calling her auntie. In comparison with this extremely frivolous elderly person we think of our own grandmother, who long years ago was laid to rest in the country burying ground. How sweet and aristocratic were the silvery locks surmounted by the cap of real lace. No French twists and false front pieces at variance with thecoloi of her hair for this dear old lady, who wore gowns becoming to her years, and whose face, with its wrinkle* unhidden or filled in by some timedestroyer of modern invention, looked out upon the world from eyes long used to spectacles which she was not ashamed to wear. There was morO of dignified beauty in the growing old of such a woman than in the vain strivings after a vanished youth which lead so many women to dress like their own young daughters; to accept every device toward the artificial reproduction of faded charms, and wiiich leaves in the world to-day so few of those lovely, womanly women who have no desire to ape the manners and dress of the young, and who possess a dignity and lovableness that the pitiful straggler after de« parted days will never possess.— Philadelphia Times.