Show ACCEPT VERDICT OF YEARS and thua thus and thus only can a worn an be said to have the best of life woman has learned to claim 20 years more at least than used to be her portion but always she mut claim it on conditions and it Is for lack of or recognizing these that so many women omen who wish to hold their youth glow old ungracefully timely wise accept the terms this motto was adopted by a charm 1 ing grandmother in her forties she ile had made the truth of emerson s wise saying her own and made no via vis ible effort after yot bolth th there was gray in her hair and her mobile face had its lines but every line had been traced by smiles not worries young in spirit dainty in dress she entered into no competition with sweet six teen she knew better the people who like sweet sixteen do not like 46 however made up to resemble it but it Is equally true that the wl alo 0 like 46 when it is charming 0 in o not care for sweet sixteen to any e ex tent on those terms accepting the frankly 46 can work out its own eal sal but only on those terms that was her wisdom A woman oman indeed who does not node be long among her contemporaries temporaries on so to speak can never have the best of life A child who prefers 0 der people to playfellows has not an idell childhood A girl who Is too serpoui and mature for her age loses the love ly comradeship of yo ith and equal ly so a woman who refuses to enter middle age with her contemporaries loses the pleasures of middle age which are real pleasures and Is very apt to make herself ridiculous into the bargain youth of spirit can be had at 50 at 60 at 70 on the abid ing terms accepting life as it ripens is to ripen with it and to cease to grow old by losing that fear of grow ing old which is the abst unhappy part of the passing of the years montreal herald |