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

  • W. Béran Wolfe
Date:
1935
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Credit: A woman's best years : the art of staying young / by W. Béran Wolfe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    making more money, taking more foolish trips round the world with foolish people all running away from their own problems? Success or no success you must face the problem, before it is too late. Neither fame nor money will carry you through alone. 6. BRIDGE, BAZAARS, AND BOREDOM The society woman is confronted with the sixth problem. Must you admit that endless bridge parties are beginning to pall? That the parties and the entertainments and the long hours of drinking are upsetting you? Are there no more good plays? No more fun in the same golf foursomes, the same tiresome gossip, the same silly matinees? What now?—Alcohol? Morphine? Gigolos? Travel?— What is left? Move to another community and begin all over again with the same bridge parties, the same matinees, the same gossip, the same superficial novels, the same silly comedies? More balls, more debutante teas, more charity bazaars? Fed up, jaded, depressed? Now you must put some¬ thing more into life than being a good hostess and a fair bridge player. Around the corner the demon Ennui is waiting to get you. Social position and the joys of social functions may punctuate the first four decades and make them interesting, but the
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