GROW OLD GRACEFULLY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2758, 12 March 1910, Page 4 (Supplement)

GROW OLD GRACEFULLY.

The best type of a woman of forty nowadays -is emphatically herself. 'Seme people can see two periods in lifeyouth and old age. When they reach forty they spoil themselves by either trying to be young—which they can’t do—or putting themselves down as old, which tffey certainly are not. The sensible woman of forty neither attempts to be girlish, nor allows herself to become a dowdy old frump. She is not old maidish —if she be single—or grandmotherly if she happens to be married. She doesn’t consider herself too old to have a good time. She accepts middle age, the ripe, matured, attractive prime of life, with quiet dignity, and in this middle way finds the road to real happiness. The woman of forty is often happier than the girl of twenty, because she has learned the right way to look at life. A French author says somewhere: “In order to enjoy a view, one must know how to sit down.” Weil, at forty one has learned to sit down. One has learned the proper prospective of things, and looks on life with a clear eye and a well-balanced mind. * The woman of forty knows which, are tho real things of life, the things to be fostered and clung -to at all costs, and which arc the ephemeral trifles that don’t count. She has cultivated true friendship, and found that enjoyment that lies in the affection that grows and strengthens with the passing of years.