"Health and content are tke real secret of beauty, after 30, when ail's said and done" says Kathleen Norris, the Noveli firm, glowing skin, an energetic, well-kept, body, comfort able, becoming clothes, as smart as you like, shade hats that shade, bathing suits thet aren't ruined by, water, smiles that come naturall id eyes that shine with affection and concern—these are all as fine at 50 and 70 as are peachy. blushes at 17,. and the magazine-cover [loveliness of new furs andthe new Jwinter hat at 30. _t'When_a: man begins to obi from, his' Wife-it, means made herse}f-loying enough tq him, not that pretty enough. wed "He could go blind to-morrow, and he would feel exactly the same. Hor hair-dresser and her women friends and her milliner may notice every wrinkle, praise every curly discover the new shingle cut to be the most deliciously becoming thing she ever tried—
But ker husband never even sees these things, much less gauges his feeling for her by them.
"If you are losing your man, artificial beauty won't hold him. 'And on the other hand, in the chase for untimely beauty, finer things are often sacrificed, character and personality, conversation and mental development, accomplishments, languages, interests of all sorts' must be put aside for the obviously artificial, obviously vain, strangely childish ' satisfaction of smearing upon the cheeks of the middle-age matron the bloom of long ago 18.
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