WHY SOME WOMEN GROW OLD.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 18, 21 January 1903, Page 11 (Supplement)

WHY SOME WOMEN GROW OLD.

One reason why the average woman wears out, grows old and plain before her husband, is that, through a mistaken idea of duty, she lays out for herself at the beginning of her married life a scheme or plan of duty and employment for her time, every hour filled with work, with rare' and shout periods of relaxation.

This she follows religiously for years, feeling that she has done her. duty, because every household event occurs regularly and on time, while she soon becomes merely a machine, a thing without life of itself or volition. She settles into her rut and goes round and round on the same track everlastingly.

Can any woman keep brightness, originality of thought or speech, or even mere prettiness with such,a life, and without those things how can she keep her husband and growing children full of loving admiration, which is the strongest chain by which she can bind them to her? How bright and jolly the neighbour's wife seems when she calls. In nine cases out of ten it is because the surroundings and talk of your home are variety to her and rouse her to originality and brightness of speech. In her own rut she may be as dull as dishwater.