Fighting Against Gravity There is many a mature woman in' the belligerent countries who is saying ruefully, "Why, the war is only a few weeks old, and already I am tired and my face is lined and weary."
It is only natural, Every woman has done more within the last few weeks than she might do in months of normal life, and it is only after the first excitement has died down that she realizes it. What she has forgotten is the force of gravity, y additional year that force takes a stronger pull on z woman, From the feet up that is in evidence, Mouths which, in youth, turned begin to turn d quite unconsciously, The "jaw muscles tend tw sag, the ichir to droop or to double, the bosom to be less erect, The vital organs in the lower body bear down: even arches fall, But every year greater numbers of mature women have, in ordinary circumstances, fought gravity with increasing success, using their minds as well as their muscles, and it is only the strain. of the last weeks and the inability, to remember themselves while. they are thinking so much of others that has caused these women to cease the fight,
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