Age by the Men

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVII, Issue 13, 27 March 1912, Page 54

Age by the Men

How to tell ladies* ages at dinner parties is taught us by a Parisian dinerout. If the girl you took in begtna dining at dessert, and gets up having made a large meal solely of ices, chocolate ireams, preserved ginger, and sugared fruits, with perhaps one cheese straw thrown in. you know for certain she is still under twenty. If you are not sure whether she is a girl or a young married woman, you watch whether, on the contrary. she starts dinner at the outset, and, having gorged on hors d’oeuvres, shrimps, caviare, pickled salmon, ami anchovies, eats nothing afterwards. If eo, she is undoubtedly between 20 an.l 30, and married. Should she dine off a wing of a fowl or a slice of the breast she lias passed the fateful year of 30. but has not reached the worse date of 35. After 35 she will dine off game, Venison, etc., and like it rather well. Finally, if the lady you Took in to dinner helps herself to choose, and. still more significant. appreciates the well flavoured Camembert or the finely matured Stilton, you know exactly vfhere you are. She Is a woman “without age." as the Fren-h language politely say*.