Evening Star Newspaper, September 11, 1927, Page 107

. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.—GRAVURE SECTION—SEPTEMBER 11. 1927 The Gay Forties By W. E. Hill (Copyright, 1927, by the Chicago Tribune Syndicate.) e y The short bachelor is still called “Babe"” and has a reputation as a gay bird with the ladies. He is trying to look cavemanish, which is very hard to do when the embonpoint begins to show, as it will in the roaring forties. The tall bachelor at 42, provided the light is behind him, is still considered poetic in some circles. He is trying to look dreamy just now, a very difficult feat to accomplish with cyeglasses and thinning hair Married at 40. Gustav and Shirley entered into the bonds of holy matrimony when he was 40 and she was 39, and their marriage has been simply ideal. Here they are, out walking of a Sunday with Junior, the little pledge of their love. This is one of Junior’s few quiet moments. Neither Gustav nor Shirley ever thwart Junior's little whims in thought, word or deed, and when Junior howls for anything, which is pretty often, he gets it. “Junior,” they will tell you, “is all boy!” Cute and 40. In her twenties and cven through her thirties, Almiretta was sober and industrious, almost prim you would have said. But in her carly forties she suddenly turned cute on the werld. Now she wiggles her finger at the wicked men and s: “Dive A'miretta dus one miore " cocktail,” with the worst of them! ‘Peter Pan. Tad is one of those roguish fellows who just won’t grow up. At 40 and a day his boyish charm is still carrying on, a little staccato, perhaps, but going strong all The same little girl at 20 and at the same. 40. Ruthie is one of those girls who manage to look younger at 40 than they did at 20. The extra weight. Just a worried man in his early forties with an elec- tric vibrator (purchased ostensibly for the hair), trying it out for reducing. The added charm. Girls who have passed the 40-year mark ought to cultivate hobbies in social circles. Take Grayce, the henna blonde, for instance. She has become fearfully psychic and re- The little joker. Roger 2t 20 was a perfect little members all her previous incarnations from the reign of King Tut on up. She can tell you whether The life of the party. Edna is sure to be found where the fun is tease. and he is still at 45. He loves puns on people’s or no vou have a coal-black aura or a khaki-colored one and all that sort of thing. It's the hit of loudest and longest. At 20 or thereabouts she would scream and take names. “So this is Miss Bugg.” Roger will exclaim, “Thanks the evening at weck end parties when Grayce does her 'stuff. “Sometimes,” Grayce is telling her on terribly if a man so much as said “Damn!” in her presence. But at for the Bugg-ie ride!” Whercupon he will make believe hostess, “I leave my body, at night, and float ‘round and ‘round the house.” Grayce's hostess is 40 she will say, “T don't know whether I ought to tell this one before ward off a blow, while Miss Bugg is supposed to just about going to lock her door tonight. a gray-haired man. Are you married?” -3 -y ) oy