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Show ('..:', i b ! LU", : WHAT AGE IS THE BEST AGE? Personality knows no age limits, and a developed personality can go on with undimmed lustre as long as life endures. Indeed, the full fruition of a personality seldom comes much before middle-age or older, because it is a long time in building and each successive day adds a bit of charm. Women famed for their beauty are seldom the very young. Quite often as not they have passed middle-age. Frequently they will be what the world calls old. Consider Ninon L'Enclos, perhaps the most beautiful and charming woman of history. She was unheard of until she was fifty, yet at eighty she was still sought after by rich and fashionable gentlemen, who could have taken their pick of the court beauties. It wasn't her youth that gave L'Enclos charm. It was her ageless personality. But perhaps the crowning achievement achieve-ment of personality in a woman is the career of Elizabeth Browning, wife of the English poet. Elizabeth was an invalid from childhood, bed-ridden, but illness couldn't quench her spirit nor rob her of her beauty, and the long hours she spent in solitude had enabled en-abled her to develop something into her personality that made her irresistibly ir-resistibly beautiful. Then came young Robert Browning, Brown-ing, six years her junior, to fall madly in love with her, and she with him. She was bed-ridden, mind you, but she arose from her sick bed and they eloped into the night and were married. For sixteen years they passed a life of unbelievable happiness together. And when she died, at the age of 56, -with her head on her husband's arm, he wrote the next day that her face was the face of a young girl. Step by step through the quiet years personality develops. And it is never too late to start or to create cre-ate one out of what you have, out of what you are. That is the fascinating fascinat-ing thing. |