A woman's best years : the art of staying young / by W. Béran Wolfe.

  • W. Béran Wolfe
Date:
1935
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: A woman's best years : the art of staying young / by W. Béran Wolfe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE MODERN WOMAN’S STRUGGLE WITH TIME You have been looking in the mirror again! Yes, a few more grey hairs about the temples, and just the barest suggestion of fullness beneath the chin. You cannot run up the stairs without your heart thumping harder than it used to do after two sets of tennis. Perhaps you just feel like spending more evenings at home. Night clubs and dances have somehow lost their glamour. You find yourself looking wistfully at the women ten or fifteen years younger than yourself, wishing perhaps, that you, too, could become as excited about engagements and parties. You do not bounce out of bed in the morning as gaily as you did ten years ago. Per¬ haps you have found yourself getting a little irri¬ table at times, and you hate yourself for it. You begin to wonder what life holds for you now. Your thoughts turn inward. Something like a reli¬ gious renaissance is going on in you. You want to cling to something certain and solid. You catch i