WOMEN LOOK FOR WORRY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 437, 17 September 1908, Page 4

WOMEN LOOK FOR WORRY.

Women grow older sooner than men because they are better hands at borrowing misfortune than men are. Men duck worry, and women seek it. Men try to lorget their sorrows ; women nurse and gloat over them. Women wear themselves to skin and bone fretting about a thousand unnecessary anxieties —such as growing old, for instance —and thereby bring upon themselves the calamity they fear. Men seldom trouble trouble until trouble troubles them ; and that is one reason why they keep their youth longer than women do. Perhaps men will always have an advantage in this respect, but women are learning much on the subject, and it is to the credit of this generation that we have moved the old age mark up 20 years for women. A woman is still a girl at an age when she was formerly an old maid. She is in her prime at a period of life when women used to be laid on the shelf, and she is playing golf and gadding about the world now at a time when, in the past, the only decent thing a woman could do was to sit in a corner and knit pink baby socks for her grandchildren. Women take better care of their health than they did. They keep their minds alive by study, and clubs, and society, and philanthropies, for they have discovered that the real spring of eternal youth is in each person’s own heart. As long as that bubbles up with perennial interests and sympathies, no one can ever grow old.