Show J t Tr Tragedy gedy of Age 1 I g women om think of r old d age ge las as their h ir W worst f i n riy r r- Some ome face it open eyed knowing that thai the only b beauty ty whIch which can b be ret retained is spiritual r f 1 Others d deceiving only t themselves s refuse s tO to r recognize c. c times time's cruel inroads and its ifs inevitable lev victory tory over overl that beauty of youth which is physical t L' L princess Pauline Metternich is is sQ open ene eyed ed as she she shows show i in in 4 her r memoirs recently published in Berlin Her er boo book contains these paragraphs a about a of the theother theother of other her sort a a once nc famous beauty She h had ci forgotten that she h was was growing g. g old i i and still pic pictured t Y d herself as the admired beauty a ty of f a 1 past st generation All her herb beauty b aut t had vanished The marvelous s curls h had d taper tapered d down to to o five or seven yellow hairs Herskin Her skin kin resembled the rind of a lemon Her body for one could see e a great great deal f of it it was a a. a doddering skeleton The poor princess ss lad had scantily clothed he herself elf elfin in a kind of shirt of white batist held together by two flimsy colored scarves That was a allOn all l. l On IOn the poor old weather-beaten weather head was perched perched a a. a hat 1 which h a youthful shepherdess would have have hesitated to o wear Thus Thus attired if one could call her attired she came to visit my grand grand- father lather father The p poor ox thing sidled up to him hini and nd g gave e hi him sid sidelong long languishing glances Poor tragic mummy beside the stately old diplomat looking diplomat looking at him eagerly with faded bl blue e eyes 1 I None but but an inte intelligent woman who understands rs the the trag tragedy y I I of age j ld have av written n fe so o caustic an indictment ent of of a vanity t that al ls is is as as stupid as it is pitiable 1 IS I 7 |