Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-22 | Page 6 | Forty the Ideal Age

the knowledge that somewhere, someone some-one is living and breathing who is just a perfect dear; and there is always a chance that his. identity will yet be discovered. '' FORTY THE IDEAL AGE. The tveverest condemnation is merited by the newspaper correspondent in London who cables to this country au interview with a British artist in which the painter says that the idea! age of woman is 40 years. The correspondent cor-respondent fails to give the artist's name, and therein lies undoubted cause for bitter censure. How a correspondent correspon-dent could be so careless is past understanding. under-standing. By this piece of gross negligence neg-ligence he deprives thousands of ladies hitherto classed as "spinsters" of the opportunity of 6howcring blessings upon the artist's head. This artist has come to the conclusion conclu-sion that a girl of 40 should be man 's ideal. He sweeps away all tho time honored rubbish about spinsters at the age of 40 beiug interested only in calB and canaries and the task of maintaining maintain-ing a reasonable degree of separation between them. Here is what he says about the "new old" girl: The Ideal age for a woman from the viewpoint of the man who studies the stex as an artlat Is forty years. The woman of forty la at the perfection of her beauty and has attained a settled mentalltv which she did not possess as a girl In her t" na, or aa a young woman In her twe.n-lei twe.n-lei am) thlrilea Al forty arte Is an Ideal companion, pleanantly matured, tolerant and under 'and in a. Only lh Ignoramuaea In llf find joy In the ao'leiy of young girl or undeveloped woman. Now, If that dundcrlyad of a corrc ipoadtat had only cabled the artist n name and addreae as well us hit word?, be would have don something of real ItmriaVti What profi'eth it a miaa of 40 to know that somebody enshrines her m bis hear- as his ideal when she doesn't know who that, somebody is, or where h Il-s? However, there is to be sitranl-no little comfort from