Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1881 — Why Woman Remain Young [ARTICLE]

Why Woman Remain Young

This is the charming theory of woman’sage advanced by Samuel Coleridge: “Eve, it is well known, Was sixteen years of age when she wsk awakened at the side of her husband. BixteeD years old, say ancient vriters, and that so old that they must haye seen Eve s register written upon the lilies of Paradise. , Now, women, who have niue times out of ten more curious rabinical learning than the mean envy of our own sex will allow them; women, inheriting the privilege from their firet parent, believe that, after a @efUin time, they have a just right to let their first sixteen years go fornothing; and so they sink the preliminary sixteen with asmiie, counting with Mother Eve their seventeenth m their first real birthday. Andjhev are right. 'For it deducts from your “nX of five-and-forty all that *e cares to lose, giving her » with Eve, and putting her hack-p* full bloom nine-and-twenty. Andindeed It is impossible that any really oharrr ; ug woman should be a day older.* ~ ■ I*As threshing separates wheat fron* the chaff, so does aflUattoa J our virtue*