Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1920 — YEARS BUT ADD TO BEAUTY [ARTICLE]

YEARS BUT ADD TO BEAUTY

Particularly Graceful Tribute Paid to the Elderly by Widely Known American Writer. I have carried these bay preferences through life, and I still regard old ladies as angelic, Insomuch that I have never seen one that I did not revere. I do not know when they begin to look old to other eyes, but to mine they never look old, as old men look. Very likely some of them may once have been silly, and some naughty, but they do not show it, while all aie goodness and wisdom of their youth has grown upon them. I should like to touch here, but barely touch, the thought of the dear and lovely lady which has all this time been in the back of my mind, as a supreme proof of the highest praise that could be given to aging woman, writes W, D. Howells in Harper’s Magazine. She was of the finest modernity in her love of the best things in literature and life, and could no more err in taste than In truth or the beauty which is one with It She is gone now, who was so lately here in such perfection of mind and soul, that it seems as if she could never have left us who were privileged to share the' bounty of her wisdom and grace.