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Show WOMAN AT HER BEST AT FORTY. Many Reasons Why That Is Selected as Golden Age. At what ago Ih woman nt her best? If I may bo allowed to oiler a htimblu opinion, which lias tho advantage ot being shared by so many thousand others, thnt It Is thereby rendered moro trustworthy, I should bo Inclined Inclin-ed to select tho despised ago of forty, nnd say that It is tho time which la most freely endowed with all tho good qualities, graces nnd chnrms of womanhood. wom-anhood. A woman has then grown out of tho narrow-mindedness and one-Hldedncss one-Hldedncss of youth; sho huR loft behind be-hind Its flcklencBs, love of excitement and generally unstable character: her mind Is broadened by experience; her opinions nre worth something; sho 1iub, In nil probability, become for less egotistical. I know ot nn qualities which sho need havo lost except that peculiar freshness and unbounded hopefulness which is nil joiith's own; but sho mny havo easily retained n young vivacity and an optimism which If It has parted with something ot Its attraction In audacity, has gained much by being a llttlo moro practical. "Lady Phyllis" In Tho Uystander. |