WHEN ARE WOMEN MOST LOVELY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 449, 27 April 1880, Page 2

WHEN ARE WOMEN MOST LOVELY.

(From the Young Ladies Journal.) Loveliness "in women, .though it may vary in its character and manifestations at different periods of life, is;not the property of youth only. There ii a great and undeniable charm in the fresh beauty of eighteen, to which- inexperience and early romance lend, perhaps, additional fascination. A pretty, girl; at that age, who has been untouched by. care, and who knows of the world through .imagination only is a very delightful object: and many men njay wish they might take captive : her first. affections, between eighteen and twenty-four the chaises of a girl, so far as the charms of her person go, are not likely to be great j.but in that time by longer intercom se with society',' and by natural development, she may grow more companionable for men of maturity, and her carriage, and Self-control "'.become better and greater. These are' important years.in a woman'slife, the. years during which, in our climate, the majority of the sex are, married. And yet from twenty* two to twentyrfive or maiden taay, and.generally does, still further advance imd< add'-Vio' the storeof chirps. She it still young, but she has:outlived many-youthful fain-' cies, and feels some of the dignity of «gei>tm S: tboMi

in a maiden's life, and never is she lovelier. But why at twenty-six! What fairer women are to be fotmd than many of those between-'twenty-six and thirty, and even olde?!;. GirU of; eighteen may •look'on • yet they-are iniheir womanly prime, and may capture' hearts which have been steeled againatgirliah fascinations. Often* times they-. make the best of wives, find men find a solace and their society :.-, which immaturity. Cannot" give. They have the'advantage of expe- k rience and they have learned' the lessons taught by the world,-while'still they may ), not be averse-to falling iiti love. '• :: '- J ' A Beusvee; 1 .