APRIL GRANDMOTHERS.
"I may be a grandmother, but I am going to be an April grandmother," said the beautiful Mrs Cornwallis West when her daughter Sheila married the Duke of Westminster. And when someone -smilingly asked Mrs Langtry what kind of grandmother she would be to the children of her daughter Jean, she said : "I shall be a young grandmother. You may be .sure of that."
Mrs James Brown-Potter, slender as a girl, charmingly chic, beautiful in colouring and delightful in manner, is a grandmother. Her daughter married Mr Stillman, the New York backer. And Bernhardt — the wonderful and incomparable — is also a grandmother, and has been one these many years. The world has many April grandmothers, but not so many as it should have. In these days of youthful marriages the third generation puts in an appearance early, and the woman who but a few years before was a young woman now finds herself in the background — hopelessly shelved as a grandmother !
A woman need not be old as scon as she is a grandmother. Yet there is something in the term, a certain ageing, a certain passing into history, which makes a woman feel as though it were time to lay herself back upon the shelf, time for her to creep into the background of retirement.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2660, 8 March 1905, Page 75
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218APRIL GRANDMOTHERS. Otago Witness, Issue 2660, 8 March 1905, Page 75
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