WOMAN’S ATTRACTIVE AGE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2389, 2 January 1909, Page 10 (Supplement)

WOMAN’S ATTRACTIVE AGE.

“When we speak of the attractive ness of women, ,we ireatlly mean thi attractiveness of woman to man. j “With men the question of whet a woman is most attractive is dou bly compliaated, because it depend not only on the woman, but on thti t-aste of" the man himself. Not man? years ago, if this- question had beei asked, the answer would have beej unhesitatingly made that a. woman is most attractive between the ages o 16 and 20. .Most of the heroines o classical fiction aTe mere children. 1 “It must be confessed that, wit| rare exceptions, the modern man pre fers something more sophisticates than sweet 16, though it is undenia ble that the unintelligent woman i at her. best when she ds in her teens This is' easily understood. [ “Almost all young cront-ures ara beautiful, -and (heaven -gives to ever the homeliest women a day of grace between 16 and 18, when she is prettj with the prettiness of fresh cheek; and dewy eyes and glossy hair. | , “Twenty-three is an ideal time o’ the dock for the woman of average intelligence, unless she happens to be college bred. If she has had the misfortune of -acquiring the higheff education she is still top-heavy -with learning, and it requires' ten years more for her to find out that, for ia woman to he thoroughly charming she should hpve had a good' cducajtion and (forgotten -it. 1 “For the woman, however, who is meant to he human nature's daily food, no age is more attractive than 23. She is in the first flush of having just arrived. The slim promises of girlhood have been realised in the full beauty of womanhood. (She still hai illusions, hut they are not delusions! She still is innocent, hut no Qongeil ignorant. | “Her intercourse with the opposite sex has a certain frankness and' com-! radoship that is not the least of her charms. She seems so safe that she is deadly dangerous. Statistics show that more women marry at 23 than at any other age. “Tlio bachelor woman is at her best at 30, because she is consciously charming. (She has all tho advantages with which nature originally equipped her and she has added to them the frills and furbelows- of art. She .has learned to enhance her 'good looks iby -better dressing, (and to -put a red "shade on the Tamp and sit with (her hack to t-lie light. She has also learned how to tallk,- and, better still, how to be a- (fascinating dis-, toner.