WHEN IS A WOMAN MOST ATTRACTIVE ?

North Otago Times, 1 November 1906, Page 1 (Supplement)

WHEN IS A WOMAN MOST ATTRACTIVE ?

The question of a Woman's hiost attractive ago was recently discussed by an artist, an author, and a woman of society.

The artist said he did not like to paint the portraits of those between the ages of twenty-five and forty years.

Before twenty-fivo the face has an expectancy which charms. It is looking forward with joyous freshness and hope, and it is full of puzzling promises.

At forty years the character is formed, and the lines of the countenance are stronger in the painter's study ; but in intervening years tho face has lost its expectancy, is apt to be indifferent, and has no particular interest. The author differed, He liked to study women between the ages of thirty and forty. They had then tho experience of the world and the joyousness of youth. In these years they were brightest and most interesting. The society woman thought it was impossible to give general answers to the question, as individual women differ in regard to the most attractive age, Some are most charming at sixty years, while others have passed their prime at twenty. At thirty or upwards the best nature of a woman will show to every advantage, but probably the balance of opinion turns in favor of eighteen to twenty-five.

Taking everything into consideration, the best answer would be that women are always interesting to the friends who love them.