_ SOME of us -- Our Little Group of Advanced
Thinkers, you know -- are going in for Bulgarian
buttermilk.
It came in about the time the Bulgarian blouses
did -- there was a war over there somewhere, you
know, before this big war, that made it fashionable.
But the blouses went out, and the buttermilk
stayed in.
It seems there's a Bulgarian by the name of
Metchnikoff in Paris who sits down and designs
these things -- the buttermilk, you know, not the
blouses.
Isn't science wonderful -- simply WONDERFUL!
We're going to take up Metchnikoff in a serious way.
You know what he aims to do is to lengthen life.
The question is: "Should life be lengthened?
Or should it not?
The Leaders of Thought will have to thresh that
out soon.
The question of old age is a subtle one, isn't it?
And it's very typical of our times, don't you think,
that we should discuss the problems of old age?
Other epochs have done it, of course, but not
optimistically.
The question enters into everything -- even millinery.
I'm having the loveliest hat adapted from a
French model -- to wear with my lingerie costumes,
you know -- a wide-brimmed black lace with a black
velvet crown.
It's only recently that young women could afford
to wear black, even when it was becoming. When
Mamma was young it was a sign that youth was
past.
And nowadays, age doesn't matter so much one
way or another. A person is the age one FEELS,
you know.
Have you thought deeply on Hypnagogic
Illusions? We're planning to take them up. _