Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 278, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1911 — When is a Woman Old? [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

When is a Woman Old?

If a man feels like wearing pink -W.. - a.-A 4 I ner character. She, poor dear, has to always M guarding against dressing too young, stone, except those benevolent souls who are laying up works of Supererogation* ’ Of course alb seffldble people recogShnuSlS’rS the calendar. Age is a matter of spirit and, temperament and body, not of years. There are people who are superannuated in the cradle, and others who are still mere beys and girls at eighty. t _ Yet to most of us, and especially to women, there comes some fine dividing line, on one side of which we are toung, and on the other side of it we are old, and thia ilne te’n’t k blrihday mark. ■- j Wften dees a woman cross the Rubicon ? I-think:- : - r —- -■ -t”™ •' A woman is no longer young when her husband begins to call her •Mother." ■ A woman Is no longer young when she has to raise a car window for herself. A woman ie no longer young When men begin to confide their love affairs with other women to her.

A woman io no longer young when she begins to let out her corset stays and to lower the heels of her shoe A womaiula.no longer young when boys begin to bore her, and casual men callers' pall upon her. A woman 'is no longer young when she begins’to pi<more stress upon a man’s Income than she does upon the way he makes love. A woman is no longer young when she ceases to thrill and fiutter at every approaching man, and to wonder if he is her fate. A woman is no longer young when she begin? to write discreet love letters, . ■s<" . ■ • ■ A woman is no longer young when she comes to prefer sensible presents. A woman is no longer young when she begin? to rit with her back to the light, and to put red silk shades over the electric light bulbs. A woman is no longer young when she begins ordering roast beef and potatoes for dinner Instead of chocolate eclairs and pink Ice cream. A woman Is no longer young when a man ties her shoe, when they are out walking, in'A knot so that it stays A woman is no longer young when men begin to talk sense instead of sentiment to her. - A woman is no longer young when her husband or sweetheart introduces her to a handsomer man that he is. A woman is no longer young when her husband or sweetheart dees nol look upon every other man who crosses her pathway with suspicion. Jr.A.- woman , is no longer young when, a'mkn ask?, for one kiss, instead of taking a hundred. • A woman is no longer young when her husband's kiss becomes a peck oh the cheek that smacks of duty’lnstead of burning with passion. . . A woman is no longer young when her friends begin to talk of her beautiful character- instead -of her lovely face. • A woman is no longer young, he is old, very, very old, when she ceases to lie about how many birthdays she has had, and joyously takes advantage of all the perquisites of age. But perhaps no woman ever gets so old as that

‘How’s you son gittin’ erlong down ■ In dat Western school F’ "Why, he done wrote er letter all the Way home and see pretty soon lit can write er letter ’s fur es Noo "Yawk."

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