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Show Astonishing Old Ladin of Knghnd. France is greatly aroused over a description of "The Old Dames of London," given by Oeraldine Bonner. These, this lady declares, in their endeavor to appear youthful, are the mqst astonishing creatures crea-tures in the world, and there is nothing like them even in France. "They appear," says Madame Bonner, Bon-ner, "to attain their greatest glory about their seventieth sev-entieth year. Their face is covered with flesh tints which hide the network of wrinkles and the flabbi-ness flabbi-ness of their aged jaws. They have the head incased in a wig of undulating curls, a hat light as a cloud crowns this work of 4art. A 'white veil shelters like a cloud the roses of their cheeks and the carmine of their lips. They cover with virginar muslin, with vaporous laces, forms that the best corset-maker has not been able to diminish. They tuck themselves up aggressively to offer for admiration their high-heeled high-heeled shoes and their silk stockings. Oh! these unmanageable old ladies! Sometimes they have themselves escorted by gentlemen of middle mid-dle age, full of chic and dignity, that one might readily take for their sons. But how terrible a thing it would be to have a mother resembling a badly-restored badly-restored Italian fresco!" Yes, that would be a terrible thing, but not as terrible as the manner in which .some women describe de-scribe some other women. |