Show alfrom prom from the bait Balt linore american ELDERLY LADIES the tho florence correspondent of tile ilia newark Adver advertiser tizer in a letter apart of which we give below I 1 hur hul liw ventured an essay on a subject at once novel and we say sax ventured because the tiie contrast that le he has been iea led to make in treating ills his subject between american and european women Is not cot altogether complimentary to the former and must therefore prove somewhat sonie whitt unpalatable to many on tills this side fide of the tho atlantic lits his fews ko however wever aro arc we confess so just and sensible that not even gallantry will suffer us to question hem ahm but we ought to say this much that iome jome some of the tile notions that characterises characterizes the young americanism of the tile opposite sex are as faulty and ridiculous if not more so ss as those which lymich are aro noticed in the letter elderly gentlemen vulgarly styled old bogies fogies are as necessary sty we presume to give tone and dignity to society as eis elderly ladies who are the pioneers of fashion the first to in lit broad cloth I 1 lie latest idea of Par islon tailors who are those that talk politics most knowingly smoke emoke Ifa havanas vanas most dictate most a authol auchoi utho I 1 natively tat ively the tile laws that should prevail in fit the social relations of life the boys to be sure bachelors at fifteen masters at eighteen and merchants bankers or students learned learnd in law or medicine at nineteen they are then fully qualified d to assume the position once orce occupied by the elderly gentlemen of tile tiie post tile class of v omen women which takes preeminence pre eminence in european society is just the class which american ican call society lacks viz that of elderly ladies never old here there wrinkled ard old and white while with hoary hairs A crown of glory indeed to the tile fireside fire side the revered ex head of the tile household before whom childrens children rise up the dear occupant of the tile antique chair round which little ones twine caressingly as sweet blur brur roses round the trunk of a timeworn time worn tre in short the cast off of society the file cheri cher lied nied of the tiie family tile the hoarded boarded up treasure the prec ou relic of the past but here the ex queen of or fashion more powerful even than slie site who wilo actually reigns sovereign eow Eov reign both of he the rid fid and new regime as type of the one and dictator of the tile other obber once on the throne of society she never abdicates in favor cf of a new claimant her states hild blid titles may change but still she reigns the queen of beauty becomes queen of wit then of intrigue then of rare old times and anecdote if surprised by revolution dethroned dethroner and driven from society she contrives to be felt even from her nominal seclusion has bas her special court cf pi lesis and jesuits mendicants mendi mendl cants for her potently lly iLy ili in almsgiving alms giving her praise in lit all the church her glory is not of this tills world 7 at al no stage however cf ct her tier power is iq woman here more powerful than m when hen ben decidedly beyond when no louger longer the fail fah leader she leads lle ile he fair by her tier knowledge of the tiie way and conducts to tile tiie fair asp rants for beautys favor would a strange gentleman find the entree to the beau monde in any metropolis of europe lie must roust first be presented to the old queen through her alone is lie he admitted to tle tie the presence of or ib tile new lie he must follow in lit the lle ile lie rain train of or lle ile lie the elder to reach reich that of if the younger file tiie lle ile lie lady patroness romiss to the ladylove lady love ime it would ile lie ts us unsuccessful here to pay court to beauty before age as it would bein be in the united states to propose to the ilie daughter before gaining the tin moti pr in ili fact the good grac s of thee these elderly women are worth more for their own sake than the smiles of the he you figr fig r ler lev the tile former never being old save in experience have in lit their convers conversation allon alion all the llie freshness and vivacity of or 3 auth aljie tiie llie u wisdom is and knowledge of years when i timing no longer to 0 o fascinate by their per oal oai charms they tirey grow really charmi charming ig through their bic lic h ments of mind and manner one sees everywhere ili lii in tl ese circles tile the queenly representative of fifty years gone surrounded by men of biuk rink and elg eig elegance aiice alice t oung men too loo who wiio are drawn by a fascination bf stronger ronger than beauty from the court of the g beile beli e that of the reigning intellect I 1 if the young women of italy are al ly frivolous lle ile lie file elderly women hila while no less g n are ore remarkably remar kahly kaLly seh sen sibe sible if one mi ht judge alieni by their conversation nor do feathers and wid flower ers erf and aud jewels and corbige dec dee deco decd filete lete lele und end gay colors prove them to be fools here herb in fit the united stites the inte iule may have hava reason in fit i it thit ili lil it leil when tell nature willi withdraws draus drans lier tier adornments art sh uld supply their place couig folks in ili the dress of old ones would certainly look older if not old a good rule works both caysi wayt ways so they tiley think liere that old folks in lit tile the dae dap daes doffs s of vou you ng ones look younger if not young 14 lt its s a iiii question estion however winther wh ether fresh fresl floers flowers about laded cl cheeks cheeka beeks make them any fi esher flesher the fl w ers are unquestionably gainers aa by the cout coul contrast rast rasi ad na they are arc lose loses 8 1 by 1 the tiie roses of youth feathers are arc certa cerLa certainly hily giner finer 1 1 r oil on old peacocks jewels glisten listen 31 beside dim eyes young women loss iosa nothing by leaving diamonds and brocades brocaded bro cades to 2 esgo g 4 in ln young america youth lias has undisputed pre re ili in so society ciet clet women on marri ge n most cases retire froin from the gay world ai al d themselves wholly with domestic duties until their daughters are old enough to come out mother of course n must introduce her daughter and ili in doing this what la is she herself fied to contribute to society save fare my daughter I 1 hen her heart be her eye eyer her conversation are an a all jab iab absorbed I 1 by this one thing ulas jias has she eier eler ever eyer looker looked be I 1 yond her ler ter ambition for this daughter ha she bhe not cot even forgotten all which her own superficial education taught her resigned whatever accoro accola aliments she site might once boast of in short lost loit sight tight of herself lier iier self seif in fitting filling her ier ter likeness for what not society for besides a pretty face a slender blende r waist a grce graceful ful fui step in lit the dance and a fas fus fashionable hion voice for music sho the call can add nothing to the phere sphere she sho enters eaters tile mother feels lier own insufficiency and retires again after her daug daughter liters entree is well made or remains only fomook out a match for her tier in lit which intrigue she fails for want of tact repulsing when she would witald entice by h still harping oil on my daughter here no one knows that hat women have daughter daughters till invited to their betrothal feast east when married the daughter sets eels dither up ber her own court a the american bride sets up housekeeping and never interferes willi v ith the coul t of her experienced mother indeed for a loll 1011 long iong g time be the mother is i preferred to the daughter who ling having jing never been out before marri marriane mar aes aeo is awkward at first until the stays of etiquette begin to set et easy ton ion on her europeans show no tie taste for greenness save ili in picking their fruits green which is i always done and ripening them art filially fici ally aily in tile the house as they do their women in the tile salon the system of female education is no doubt defective both in lit the tho old world and ard new in I 1 america girls are too much in the world married women too little jn in europe before marriage they are too much restricted after marriage have hava to much touch license A modification of the two sybe gys term tern would produce one cue superior to ither leither fe for favorably developing boh bolli the tha female mind and inart heart oil these elderly women of europe what would society do without them they are lh the life where sill nil else is dead they make old things to become new I 1 they are ere living links between the past and the present like these old palaces pal nees neen full of art and of all sparkling spar spir kling aud aad prec ions lons things what a pity that virtue was not the corner cortier stone on wh ch left they were built that heir their hearts were not educated as well os us their heads as with our dear old queenly omen women of the revolution ol ution ullon hit h it a i ity that they should not be loved as well as admired while living mourned as a well as missed when they die |