Show PUSH PUSHING BACK OF OLD AGE less than a century ago a man was considered old et forty 1 there la is no fact more striking than the way modern life is pushing back the period scrod of old eld age s says ays a writer in the september strand magazine less than a century ago a man nods was old at fa forty r ty you havo I 1 avo only to pick up jane au akstens novels to find gent gentlemen lemeli of thirty five described as middle aged at sixty they were gabbling babbling gab bling in their dotage and there is mr air pickwick that dead delightful benevolent old gentleman Seit leman of forty fivel five fifty years ago when a man reached tho the age of forty five lie grow grew a beard under his chin bought himself a pair of drab gaiters and a white Deck eloth and spoke with anxious concern of the rising generation whose manners were so different from those be had known as a young man nowadays tho the popular notion of irresponsible irrepressible youth Is illustrated by colonel roosevelt who is fifty two in our generation thirty two is outwardly indistinguishable from fifty two save in that the former has a slightly more youthful tint in its cheek and its waistcoat As tor for the fair sox sex the ae aunus mus old woman Is all but extinct the pretty vivacious matron you admire at a garden party may have seen twenty five or seventy summers As queen alex andra not long since said to alme adelina patti we two are arc two ol of the youngest women la in england the illustrious royal example has been so sedulously followed that the women always young always active always in the height of fashion may be said to laugh in the face of fath father r time |