THE AGE OF BEAUTY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20290, 24 December 1927, Page 17

THE AGE OF BEAUTY.

The refusal of this generation to grow old has been the subject of much discussion by moralists and men of science, i'he professions arc crowded with _ sprightly youths of three score and ten. The age of a woman has become impossible to guess, and indeed a matter of mere statistical interest Grandmothers dazzle us with the shape and the complexion of ingenues, and if try compensation, the ingenue knows a= much as her grandmother, no doubt that also is evidence of the progress of humanity Once upon a time our elders used to sigh, “Si la jeunesso savait, si la vioilesse penvail!” Now there is nothing which youth does not know, and hardly anything which age does not think it can do. But, as usual, they have gone further than this 'n America (i*ay s the London Daily iclegrapn,. Their last exponent of the theory and practice of being beautiful is a Venus *-f 105. Madame Marie Charlotte Davenport came to the United Sj:»a£os from Russia 50 years ago. Ever since, or for the greater part of the time, for she began by rearing her 11 children, she has been lecturing on tile pursuit of Vet. we are assured, silo remains a shining example of her precepts, and might betaken for a woman several score yeais vmmger.” A certain vagueness as to how many score may be in such a case per mitted to the dazzled eyes of the reporter. We arc to confess that this seems likely to be another American record. \\ chard,y know which to admire the more, the endurance of •.Madame Davenport or Americas appetite for lectures. Where shall she find her rival! Poets have dreamed that Helen ot frov was every young .and very beautiful. Ruler 'Haggard's' heroine enchanted eoneralinn a tier Generation. But that was art magic. The books snv that Ninon de I'Enelos was as beautiful at it) as at id and had at her foci the sons of those whose fathers had been her lovers But Ninon died when she was a more clnt of 90 We must give the apple to Madame Davenport. Happy is America in being taun-ht hv such a professor how to keep voung and now to grow old beautifully.

The Eskimos of Northern Canada. instead of huddling at night in their Moos, congregate at the Government posts to hear wireless concerts.