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Show . : f " ' f : ; Is Thirty I ; : the Lovepj! Mabel Herbert Urner, creatci oi "The Married Mar-ried Life of Helen and Warren," has maintained main-tained an ever-increasing popularity throughout the country for over fifteen years. She was born in Cincinnati and educated at home. to at her stories she baa developed an inimitable technique of condensation; schools of journalism journal-ism are using these stories as models of tha short short-story. The realism and bumor oi her work have Insured the unflagging enthusiasm enthusi-asm of an enthusiastic public. In private Ufa Mabel Herbert Uraer la Mrs. Lathrop Colgate Harper. By MABEL HER3ER1 UR:;ER If u man can't love uftcr tinny lie can certainly give an excellent imitation im-itation I Documentary evidence on request. His amorous aiie-li mi l V ts there any ? Not so tuny as tie can roll out of bed, stretch tiis rheumatic legs, tisli his bridgewoil; from the bedside glass, camoutl.-ige his baldness with surviving surviv-ing hairs, adjust his bifocals and hobble hob-ble out with a swagger of li is sportive sport-ive malacca ! And why not? Must the heart harden Willi the arteries? Doctor Durum idealistic-ally defines love as "unselfish devotion." Few men at any uge are capable of that. Urn I lie masculine self-centeredness is less aggressive at forty titan at thirty. The years tend to moderate his egoism. He is more considerate, or rather, less inconsiderate. As His girth increases, his ego diminishes. And oh, how much more comfortable to live with! At tifiy he is even more amenable. It begins to dawn on him that his manly charms no longer register A-plus. A-plus. His sheik-complex waning, he strives to compensate with a little thought fulness and unselfed generositynegligible gener-ositynegligible in his before-thirty ardor. All this may not be love, but common com-mon usage passes il for that commodity. com-modity. The feminine falling-ln love limit 1 Now quite as elastic. Certainly the middle-aged dapper who prolongs her youth by calory counting, floor rolling, and facial plastics, plas-tics, also prolongs Iter ability to love, tier emotions vitalized by her physical physi-cal rejuvenation. 1 Unow a woman whose rear view registers In the teens, side-view twenty, twen-ty, full face, thirty. Actually she Is forty-five. Doubtless if she persists In her spartan diet, exercises-, Slid face-tucking surgery, at sixty she will look forty. And still be chronically in love ! Her grandmother at fifty, black-gowned black-gowned and face-bonneted, was relegated rele-gated to the fireside chair and the exciting, role of kuitting the family socks. Her falling-in-love Instinct dead as ftameses II extinguished by mid-Victorian clothes and conventions. Now our bobbed and buoyant "milady" "mi-lady" of fifty buys her gowns In the misses' department size 101 With tier permanent wave and stabilized physiognomy, she can confidently cross Iter citiffoued knees, conscious that her chic cloche Is still in the ring. Still attractive enough to enamor and be enamored. Haven't all age limits been advanced? ad-vanced? If a womau in her late forties for-ties can skip the rope, stand on her head, chin the bar, work all day and dance all night can anywne challenge her ability to thrill and flutter? The con firnia rive growth of the beauty parlor with Its preponderance of middle-aged patrons I Ileal youth doesn't mean having been born less than thirty years ago. When you retain an agile body and alert mind why not emotional Intensity? Inten-sity? The boundaries of youth, middle, and old age are no longer arbitrary. The age clock has been definitely and triumphantly set back. The capacity of love ends only with senility. And with the accommodating accommodat-ing st i in til us of the monkey gland, that pepless. past-philandcrlng period can be pushed forward to a cheering remoteness 1 Ccl 1928. hv the noil 8vnr!lcn(e. Inc.) |
