Show women at fifty it ia is ab absolutely untrue that under tolerably fair condit condition ioni ti it woman is ig it ni we a may re repeat pea that crade played out when she bai seen for ty five if cfall sill goes well ur even not very ill a woman more inore frequently than not takes it new liew departure at about fifty it P preposterous to assi assume lule t that lat a woman of mature ame age ii likely tn to be behind lier her growing P daug daughters liters or her growing growson ings sons son in of intellect in aptitude for subjects new or old in general brightness ss and susceptibility in what mi might ht be called quality lit in the P french rench sense of the word alic she is upon the suppo supposition sid velt just made so much the superior being ng that if the daughter daughten and the sous sons too do not feel it there is something wrong with them thern it enst indeed indeed be granted as a preliminary that there is love between the husband and the tile wife and that the young people are good in harness and above all ill in chellise th themselves ellise but bli t with these conclusions little more inore is needed and the battle is to be won you along the whole line A gray hair bair is a gray hair a crows fot i ot is a crows foot and these rarely come to the young but certainly as its lord bacon says sats it is no marvel though persons in in years seem many wany time moro aini amiable able pu leher f fr r no youth can call be comely but by pardon and considering the youth has to makeup the comeliness it is the ini mistake stake of giddy adole adolescence cence or sand blind conceit to suppose that a it woman of fifty cannot suppose be c exquisitely beautiful cannot command a a man throughout the whole range of ochia his nature cannot take up all tho the gladness of life and beautifully full hilly radiate it again for f or him and for ot others aers in IR all this we are of course leav leaving out with a ead sad heart the miserable life of the very poor but even with the poor the general rule bolds and am among og aten them in some of the est bright brightest mt handsomest women are women of advanced maturity but released from the pressure of tile cares and toils which young children bring such women may even be observed to take a fresh start in mental growth they read horev more and inix mixing more with men pick up general knowledge and become becom more emore agreeable companions than ever these remarks become more strikingly true as we carry conr eyes eye lip upward ward in the scale scalo of money and culture rahel who was always ill wrote at fit fifty years of ag ago that she felt in most particulars just as at she odid did at fourteen or fifteen that she had on the whole tit the came same opinions and inclinations as at thirty only that the background of her life was ric berwith richer with gathered experience and well connected thought she laid stress upon the connectedness meaning no doubt that she could take birds birdseye C eye re views views better than in earlier carlie r life life and she adds that at her ripe ago a joyful yearning or tendency to look forward had sprung lip in her liar which was a kind of echo of the feeling of early youth of course every woman is is not rahel but it was certainly no fault of hers to expect too much of the young why she aks asks should they believe the old wrinkles are not testimony no but one may add that they can believe for the works sake and in spite of prejudice r c u d ice or narrowness apprehend a little of what rahel meant and what is exemplified ifield in the lives and letters of ii numbers ers of women of ripe age not to quote luote other ladies of ability fill and culture take a very I ignorant borant old country daniel dame william Villiam ewins godkins God wins mother sit she c puts ts sue suc cages for sausages and lid ell had ad on the whole a hidebound hide bound sort of intellect but what wise hearty lively penetrating letters ehe she writes I the cold godwin himself forty five says at her lier death that he felt as if he had now no one to counsel him arid take care of him but to go to a type common enough something between dame burden durden and rahel take the mother mothe of frederick in in mr coventry Pat moren inores faithful j for ever yon you may meet her ter any day in ordinary society nothing oelling can be more beautifully wise wise than that i her letters and though it is true that a poet writes the felicitous thier things for her yet the poet has so thing of richardsons Richard sons truthfulness ful ness such a indy had no need so ask for toleration from clever young people london spectator |