THE SENTIMENTAL SEX.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 July 1925, Page 3

THE SENTIMENTAL SEX.

( By a Romantic Woman in the "Daily At ail.’’) " I count think how she could he so foolish as to marry him.” One often hears that remark when a woman marries a man many years her ljunior. But I call understand tin* motive. No matter how greatly a woman may risk her ultimate happiness hv marrying a man younger than hersell sh • does it because she finds in him a romance. an idealism, that few middleaged men possess. Every woman knows that the lover who would see the world in Haines for her sweet sake is always under thirty. And women are iiiriirablv ronialitic. especially those ol thir-ty-live or upwards. In every play, in every novel. Women see themselves as the heroine. When the light goes mi in theatre or kinema there is a furtive wiping of tear-dim-nied eyes, not lor the sorrow ol an imaginary person, hut for their very own griefs and blighted hopes.

Or perhaps, a picture, an old-fash-ioned song, the scent of a Mower, a crushed aromatic leal "ill touch some tender chord of memory and set bygone music thrumming. Visions ol a lost ronia nee. an unfulfilled idyll, rise before her eyes. For a while the world is wrapped in *’ the light that never was on sea or lain! ” ami the dreamer loses herself in the golden glow of unreality. No woman is ever too old to wander in this secret garden. Do middle-aged iivu sit so, dreaming over tnoir old romances !-* I doubt it.