AGE OF BEAUTY?

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12042, 21 January 1925, Page 12

AGE OF BEAUTY?

•- '.'A:.FLAPPERS RULED OUT.; ARTISTS’ - OPINIONS; . When is a woman at her most beautiful aao? • 30 to 35,” is the general anmen of note differ consideVa“J'XirJl ' t “ elr options on the question.--Whenever a woman’s life is most harmonious and happy, then she has attuined her full blood,' , and is most beautiful.” says Mr Edmund Dulac, the artist. ■ ■ - ' | - "Life is usually kindest to women between the age of 25 and 35, and then, as they are often' at their .happiest period,’ they are passing- through the greatest stage of their beauty.” M. , Nikita Baiieif.- ot the Ciiauve Souris, said; _"I agree wjth Balzac that woman is at her handsomest at 30. when she still remembers the fragrance of spring and already understands the beauty of the autumn.’ ’ • Mr-Michael Arien.' author of “The Green Hat.” said: “A woman is at her most beautiful at the age which suits her best; and that age is different with every woman.” . Lord Headley, the - Irish peer, Who is -a. .Mohammedan, stated; - “The age at which a woman is most beautiful > varies according to her disDositidn. Some girls of 20 are at their prettiest, and other women are loveliest when their black hair has turned white; - Some girls are pretty when they are young, but environment affects their disposition, and in their unhappiness they lose their beauty early in life (says the London “Evening Standard”). Theje : are'plain girls who grow happier as they grow older, and then become beautiful. “The eyes are tho windows of the soul, and the woman who has a good dispositipnf is likely so grow uiorp beautiful as "sho, grows old. The flapper type, who paint their cheeks and lips, never could be beautjful.”