Show INTO SERE AND YELLOW LEAF eighteenth century women seem to have willingly settled down in an english novel of the elgh century the author thus refers to a certain woman she had reached the age of 35 an age beyond which no woman can hope either to feel or in aspre deep affection in one of george meredith a early novels he re to a character as a woman on the criminal side of 30 A boston atoman in the last century after reach ing the age of 30 put on over her abundant natural hair a false from and a cap these were the outward and visible signs of the matronly ma durity she had reached she gave up at the same time all the gayer forma of social intercourse she confined herself thereafter to the mild and elderly variety she bad come out into boston society at 15 Atter two years of social she had mar at 30 she was the mother of eight children she had lived the ac alve part of her life in accordance with the conventions of her time she settled down to a life of vegetating domesticity she was not an uon she was the normal woman of her day registering its custom juat as a good thermometer registers the temperature oa a magazine A 9 i i t |