Growing Old

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19124, 19 September 1936, Page 10

Growing Old

THE hardest thing for any woman to learn is to grow old gracefully. Science tells us that it; is a perfectly natural thing to become.uglier as you grow older. A story in the London Sunday Express says:— .

A casual glance into the mirror in the early thirties makes most people wonder what has happened to their faces.

There may be no grey hairs of wrinkles, but that schoolboy and schoolgirl complexion ihas gone. The bright, innocent look of youth has vanished.

Science has discovered why. Your face looks different, because the different parts of it change their rates of growth with advancing years, and so alter the balance of the features.

Though the lines of the face may look firm and hard, the change is nor always for the worse. The human face is at its best round the age of 21. After that the varying growth of nose, moulh and ears slowly cause a change. The cars especially never stop growing. Ear growth lias been measured on people up to !>(> years old. It often happens that a young man or woman afflicted with a misfit set of features slowly mellows with age into the calm, saintly type. That explains why R,p many grandmothers are beautiful.