Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1899 — Affectations. [ARTICLE]

Affectations.

Among the saddest of affectations is that of youthful beauty when it has fled. When will people learn that every age has its own form of beauty, and that the woman of sixty may be just as attractive as she was at five-and-twenty, provided that she studies the styles that are natural to sixty, and does not vainly cling to the styles suitable for five-and-twenty? The affectation of youth, when youth is gone for ever, is a weakness that all can read. More concealed at first, but generally making itself seen in its true bearings, at last, is the affectation of riches. No affectation can bring a more terrible reckoning than this, for one day the struggle must end and the pitiable reality be revealed.