Evening Star Newspaper, May 24, 1925, Page 93

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.—GRAVURE SECTION—MAY 24, 1925. THE EARLY FORTIES BY W. E. HILL. (Copyright. 1925, by the Chicago Tribune ) Matrons of 40, or a hittle beyvond love to show vou right out m pub lic how they keep their slim, girl ish contours intact. They will try and get you to do their exercises Roguishness 1s the besetting sin of the gay bachelor who has passed the 40-year mark All the more so if he has kept most of his hair. He likes to sit out a dance (right out where every one can see, so she won't vamp him) and say with a naughty twinkle in his eye: “Gracie, you've been trifling with my young heart. Now what are you going to do about it>" # “My dear! The young girls of today! What will become of them!” Estimable ladies over 40 are wont to brood despairingly over the younger generation. They will tell you terrible things that they know hap- pened, for a fact. All about how a girl of 11 shot her entire family so she could go to a dance, and how two little boys, aged 5 and 7, cut their aunt and uncle into bits with a cleaver so that they could be sure of inheriting $84 After 40, the people with the feeling for grandeur begin to The non-visiting bachelor 1s a product of his fortieth 1 3 birthday. When cornered he will admit brazenly tone down a bit. They are just as grand, but it doesn't stick that he won't go to places where they let the children out quite so much. The grandeur is just as expensive, but more subdued. High-powered cars and diamond bracelets give place out of the cellar during day hours, and where they have only one bathroom to the household. to committees and palitical aspirations. along with them. if you don't watch out . Erma has what the psychologists would call “a baby blue complex.” She simply can't get over sweet, little taffeta baby blue’ruffies and baby blue roscbuds, now that she’s over 40, (NN 4.y, Married couples of the middle forties love to keep up with the mod- ern dance steps. Not content, however, with simple things like the fox trot, they learn all sorts of frills. Steps “the evil-mind- ed momma d “the racketty, packetty pounce,” or “the water- melon bound.” Though past 40, Joe is one of those great, big, jolly “Day by day, I am getting slimmer and slimmer. Soon boys, always ready for a lark. Joe thinks he looks I will .be wearing misses’ sixteens.” New thought stuff 25, and won't play if you mention middle age. Joe's is a great help to those over forty. is a continual state of adolescence. Y o . . - e