The critical age of woman / by Walter M. Gallichan.

  • Walter M. Gallichan
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[1920]
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Credit: The critical age of woman / by Walter M. Gallichan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cease of yearning. In our declining years our ambitions and longings are rarely insistent. We have entered the haven. We cease to dread old age when we have reached it. Stendhal said truly that “ spiritual pains are softened by time.” As we grow older the capacity for suffering emotional throes associated with the vital impulses necessarily diminishes. We are not assailed by perplexing wishes. We have outlived the storms. There is no more silent, eager waiting for adventure. We become resigned to a brief and uncertain future, and live in memories of the past. The passionate love of the thirties merges into the broad sympathy and the benevolence of the aged parent. We find our chief pleasure in aiding the young who are at the outset of their life's journey. The boredom of old age is not an inexorable penalty. Many elderly women are less bored at seventy than they were at twenty-five. Much depends upon physical health, but more upon the con¬ stitution and development of the mind. If the principal concerns of life have been simply eating, sleeping, and dressing, senility is bereft of its greatest consola¬ tions. The unused or indolent mind
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