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Show LOVE STAYS YOUNG WOMEN NEVER BECOME TOO OLD TO MARRY. Hsatthy Exerclst and Activity of Mind ! Combine to Keep Woman Still ' Young When She Might Bo J Grandmother. Time was when, If a sirl was not married at 21. she waa supposed to resign herself to the single life for the rest of her daya. A little later on In the world's history Indeed, within the mot those Urlng It wsw He xwaa the ut-moi ut-moi Tynan's de-i spak matrl- mon l Tbil )on I now. I h1 wondel the m fe would at a wo In J mar rled Jej marry at .11 yeven m-irh later. No doy reason Ilea In the fact that woayii longer glre up their jrouth as- prematurely as they used to do. -'t flve-and twenty a woman once laid aside all feminine yanltr, betook herself In hideous styles of dressing, and $ avo up all her activity and ber Interest In the out . aide world. Of coarse,, she grew old at once. Nowdays. healthy exercise, activity activ-ity of mind, and manifold Interests combine to keep a woman still young at an age when aho might be a grandmother. People tr. trlv4 ts- suppose that mercenary nottvea alone can account or the marriage of a woman advanced In life; but thla la a great mistake In many cases it Is an old loer, long parted by time and circumstances, who makea hla appearance again, and wins her at last, though ho has wait ed so long to do It To him she never seems old the old love casts over her a glaiuur still that makes her retsln the charm and fascination of the days when ho first courWd her; and v he to as proud of ber '4s' If she were "sUll the girl be wooed lo the long past daya every one else has forgotten. Sometimes thy have only met In later daya. No lea. on. on that account, ac-count, for young people to fancy all aentlment and romance must needs be dead within them. There la much romance, aometlmoa, lingering under a faded exterior aa under one in Ita first bloom, and there la absolutely do putting put-ting a date to the time when love must needs ceue to have any power over Uo human heart To the woman whose character If her cbtefeit charm, and who foaseeees that strange, mysterious gift we call fascination, there Is really no putting any limit to the time when ber chances of marriage are at an end. Men find ber as delightful a companion, compan-ion, as resdy In her sympathy, as charming In her talk as when she was a girl; In fact, aho la often far more so, because the experiences of life have mellowed her Judgment and made ber more Interet.t4 In othera than In her self. Such a woman may be loved and wooed long after the woman whose only attraction waa her pretty face lias been neglected. How wise, then, tor girls to cultivate the gracea of mind and manner that really charm, no matter what nature has bestowed upon them In the way of outside attraction. |