A WOMAN'S AGE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 269, 6 August 1908, Page 5

A WOMAN'S AGE.

Suppose it were customary for ■■ every woman to tell her ago (says an ( 'Australian papor). Imagine, if you oan, tho pandemonium that, would, prevail if Parliament decreed that! every woman of. forty, for instance,- should garb herself' in brown, and every woman of fifty' in-'black. . A woman's age' 13 a sacred subject—at least in some countries. No man would dare to ask a fair how 'many summers she had -seen; "That is, no man would dare to do it outside . Morocco.--' yet there is . a country where' women ha.ve no compunction about telling'a stranger how old they are.' In fact, they indicate their age by the colours and modes •of their dress. • Virtually, • they shout their.'years from-the-housetops. -In Japan it. is the social' lawthat every woman shall dress according to her age. As;a young girl sho disports herself clad in the colours of the rainbow, and then she is very charming, by tho way. As- 'sho-advances in years tho colours fade, and, strange to tell, it is her ambition to reach this condition. She rejoices in her youth only because youth insists in. rejoicing; secretly she pines for the time when she can wear-plain .black, and cut off her hair. This she docs when she is apE reaching threo scoro, which, and not her air, is considered her crown of glory.