| Show Look Out for the Man lean an of 40 1 1 k Hes He's the Only t CJ T last the man who Is past AT forty is gettin getting s Justice at tho hands of ot the opposite sox Lox ex It Fair ir ones of or various ages who ho have bave left him lying on all the tho shelf shell for tor forso toro eo so o long ong are ue tak taking ng him down brushIng brush brush- Ing him off olt comparing him with I exuberant arrogant nty you u 1 h of own sex c and declaring him to be be aft after r rall all the only perfect t lover o er This belated discovery stands stands' to the he credit of at York hillier Miller a a popular English She ad ad- colts aits howe however l' l that the truth have been overlooked if 11 the man o of ot f fort forty or there thereabouts bo had bad not DOt fou foud d dr r f himself b by cheering n up and airing ula long long- neg ec neglected d' d powers or of fass fas fas- s It It do doesn't nt matter mailer remarks Sirs Irs l Duller if it 1 bid bis bair hall is tinged with gray and hl his habits are flied fixed lie Ire Is still more charming than the youth j of twenty it 11 tho ir the self sat self self- sat man wan of ot thirty lie Ile has bris few ow conceits is very CLY w lull curl consider consider- ate ale le an and mos most Important c of of oC ull all knows lily lite l proper r value alu in the world Thu be chief a advantages 1 nta of the aged middle wan wana a are arc e catalogued by this tula y writer w as follows I 1 J He tie Is s invariably t a f ti goo l talker He lIe has bas f bi usually lly bad a varied CX experience c IC of ot life arc aud and be knows s what bat t to say qua and pd what will interest his companion 2 The Th young lover Is usually wrapped wL up in in himself He gives a woman woman th the impression that he be is Js s conferring a a. favor favor- favoron on on her by his presence Not EO so the bachelor or forty orty He has has' grown o o. o o t of Qt that t. t He Ire re always makes a 8 woman feel that she else Is con ferring a pleasure u e by 1 seeing m h him himat himat at all aU 3 The io lover er ot of forty does all he ha can to please you rOu He never ne neg- neg lecta any social politeness 33 as do domany runny many young youns men w f 4 4 A o all aU things is he com cont Ho He js ls Js' Js very seldom moody or low low Besides be- be leg a lover ho is somebody upon j whom a woman can depend The most most sJ significant advantage 1 possessed by the lover oC o forty forty- or oT over r lJ lies s in n the impossibility ot of finding him out after i niage be because ls a he Js Is so o obviously hIms himself n during du tug the P period of or courtship When lien uen women women m marry 1 Y young Inexperienced I men t ther I Is s always the danger or of theIr finding out afterward alter after ward when the I edgo edge of love has worn orn off oa that their that their husbands are not good companions and that they really ha have e little in common J such cases S tho the wife a 3 victim of or the phenomena described by r Karin l Michaelis elis in her book of or world wide c celebrity entitled The Dangerous Age Reaching tho iho age are forty of-forty or thereabouts herself and suddenly realizing that she has bas missed lu In In her life lite all that women hold most dear ear sho aha Is lIS liable to ir fr frn z tic tie moments of determination to grasp grasp- a few tew years ears of or happiness at any cost Jut to whom does sho she turn Corthe for Cor forthe forthe the companionship she h craves es To I unformed Mouth o ot of twenty- twenty 11 aye liso Never When she b holds bolds out outher outher t her ber hand In that dangerous ago it Is to the considerate steadfast steadfast tea ra L man of or forty even eten fifty As such a 8 her heroine l e ot of r a tabloid 1 dr dram tn x recently produced at a Now York theatre with lith the significant nt t title of 01 Rainbow Bridges she he sa says s to let the man oC ot forty five In Justification of or herself and ot or e every ery ry other r woman in similar simi lar plight Ob On you men How can can we 0 ex expect poet you to conceive the grief the thc terror with which w we approach the confines ot or youth and beauty still stilt unloved Every wrinkle every Vii ji- hair is another dt dagger planted In our hearts Oh the mounting terror ter ter- for with which we wo realize the wan wan- lag Jag of our pow powers power ere to attract the love we have haY missed A clammy clammy- hand with colder older yet forcer fiercer grip seems seems' to clutch our hearts as we count the years ears that remain Tomain It is the grim Reaper 1 pronouncing our Jf sentence of or doom a thousand more cruel than death Five rear years our four four years years three three years Tho be bei elf i of or our doom tolls ever louder mace mo moI mow I relentlessly Two years years one one U I Then wo are frantic and we sc sef g to cross to the sho shore o of ot loco JOTO iOTo by bi the rainbow bridges we wo have build build- ed cd- cd j 1 All AU this trouble because she sho h plat ed a a. thoughtless youth of or two t re five to marry instead of af tho the settled d 1 and considerate man of f forty are vel In her enthusiasm over her dIS dis discovery diso covery of tho valuable and long long- d zit Dc neglected ual Ues of or the middle middle- aged man man Mrs Miller women TO-r TO women cn of at different ages aeson on the sa sub subject with these results I l 1 do not say that the aged man mau Is the most moot successful Eucce I lover lo But if II women WOlDen only It ft they thoy would often orten do Y well lt b tl accept him in I pre preference ferenee to I younger Sor manI man I J 1 know s 6 lr veral men oa 01 the s sl side e of or thirty live who are arc the molt mod char ing companions and tr There is a melancholy abott abo s tho aged aged lover that ai U woman can resist A a girl of t t tv ent gave save a x opinion u. u M 1 1 like Uke middle aged m meA they thay make inako me feel 1 I am somebody They always say ay nia t things They Thoy notice how bow rou you art ail ri dressed sed and aud compliment YO yon A y J ng nS man ha has haa no cy eyes tJ for ribbons m or la laces lacea ea t i They rhey have amusing views a o oil oa things and a soothing effect upon one Sometimes they quote sweet t little pieces ot of poetry and mak feel teel Jt it is all about you Youn Young men have havo no qualities like Uke that They seem to have T very Tell little lu In thorn them They do o not a tV 1 make you feel happy ha p J Probably much of or the irm o of bach bachelor lor of ot forty de depends upon bl his bringing up if It he e has had a to look after arter him ho he is nice 5 nod i kable A good many young women omen nowadays nowa nowa- days das prefer to talk to lo the aged bachelor in preference to toof men meD of or their own age These thins are to be noticed li h society even where The Tho middle-aged middle even oven tb tt elderly man is no nger on th he hell shelf i t |
