The morning times., 1895-10-19
Curing the Blues
And Cheating Age
HON SARAH BERNHARDT HAS
PRESERVED HER YOUTH.
Simple Prescriptions Which Are
an Eldorado to Those Who
Follow Them.

The best preserved woman on the stag
to-day is Mme Sarah Bernhardt, who's
son is turned into his ihirtielh year, who a
sixteen was playing roles requiring tn,
most exhaustive emotional efforts, and ye
looks ruH fifteensyea yod niger than he
age, when il is most conservau vel y
reckoned.
Women who always notice and enjol
the finest points of beauty in one uf lheil
sex, agree that her back and shoulders ART
for a grandmother little short Of marvellous
Exposed in a decollete bodice they arf
dimpled, satin smooth. aud rosy white as
giri's, and their owner appreciates
their merits. She seldom uses any neck
Jewels, or wears a high gown when she
can appear in low one, and anybody who
makes a searching Investigation throug
his glasses can see they are never veiled by
powder.
BERNHARDT's VIEWS.
So curious did an American become to
know the secret by which Madame Bern,
hardt has escaped the indelible hall marks
age and time set on its feminine victims,
that when in Paris this autumn she pinned
on her hat one morning and walked bold
" in on the actress Madame Bernhardt,
who knows all about American interviews
and possesses in her vocabulary an odd as
sortment of American colloquialisms mis-
took her visitor for newspaper reporter,
laid her queer frizzled red head back
among her dfvan pillows, laughed and re-
marked with pride in her fluent English
that:
Il guess ct ees parceque / have never
the-the-ahl well what we say in Fran
scaise Ia me couchotie. No." falling into
sweet Partisan French, when she found
her visitor both understood and could
speak it, Il do not depend on a mas
seuse and her lotions, any system of tire.
some gymnastics, or prescribed diet to
keep myself in condition. In fact. i rarely
take any precautions or cures whatever.
1 eat all and of what l like, | have not
even mounted a bicycle, and when busy
at putting a new play on at my theater
VIII work until 8 in the morning for ten
days at a time"
AVOIDS THE vALPoRS.
Mind you," continued madame, '.aIl
the while / never permit myself once to
fail into fit of the blues Anything but
that dire enemy of the feminine mind
can endure. melancholy and beauty cannot
exist together
For example" cried the vivacious lady,
springIng erect from her pillows, ''let me
show you a little what it is To be sad.
Observe now my expression aud she let
the lines of her eager face relax, dropped
her lids and mouth and bent her head
until she presented picture of gentle de
my muscles fail, drop the jaw little and
wearing face Ike that, in a week the
lines viii come, the cheeks sag n bit. then
my shoulders go forward, and in a month
/ am changed. At my age a fortnight OF
unbToken megrims would ruin my looks
forever.
WOMEN MELANCHOLY CREATURES.
.'Ah, my friend! do you not know that
the face is always sure index of an indi-
nature melancholy creatures. They fret
over trifles and let little things discourage
them; they are not great philosophers, and
the majority take life rather sadly, lying
awake to worry over something that viii
take care of itself. They let their cares
and conscience follow them wherever they
go, until nowadays both the young girls,
who ought only to see the sunshiuy side
of existence, the well-paced older ones,
who seem to have all they want-why, even
you gay society women. who can buy
shops full OF gowns and jewels, with
never a responsibility ON your shoulders,
suffer from what you cali depression, or
the blues.
BERNHARDT'S REMEDIES
''Itissomething, perhaps SMITHS nineteenth
century air of ours, or the feminine sex has
become absurdly interpretive. To have
emotions is only to be in fashion. which l
ones good looks. 1t is the cheerful woman
who lives the longest and laughs the best
Sadness brings the early white hairs, deep
wrinkles, the bad figures and the ugly voice
Now if in the midst Of my work feel
my spirits dropping down. down. in hard
attack or the dumps, leave my work Just
where it is and go off to bed. Two DAYS
in bed screws my courage up TO the point of
audacity. 1t rests and soothes me, for after
many experiments l find ] tan sleep off
my blues.
Now no less famous beauties than Ninon
de Lunclos and Diane de Poictier tfiscov-
cred that to he beautiful they must always
be serene, and when the famous Diane
woke up of a morning with no spirit for the
day before her she always mounted her
horse and rode out to little lakelet in
the heart of Fontainbieau forest, and like
the Diana of the Greeks, plunged and SWAN
till the cold water braced her nerves again.
A DUCHESS RECIPE.
THE very best preserved woman OF all
the British nobility, the Duchess Of Teck,
whose checks to-day are like damask roses
and her laugh the sweetest in the world
regularly takes herself in hand for the
blues as she would dose herself for a head
ache. If her usually excellent spirits seem
sinking she goes for a long hanson drive
quite alone up and down London's gayest
street. She shops a little, drops into a pict-
ure gallery or two, and it was another Eng
lish woman who told me she always took
Turkish bath when her future seemed
most dreary, and after it found life had an
other aspect.
But madame you must not laugh when
tell you hearty meal will often cure the
severest fit of the blues.
There is great doctor here in Paris
who has cured many of his women patients
on the verge of nervous prostration by the
simple instruction to always keep their ewes
on SOME object ten feet OF more above the
level range of vision when they walk ur
drive, and for others. working women most
particularly who sit at the easels and desks,
or the shop girls. he orders that they on fin
ishing their work. undo their stays and lie
flat out on their backs, the head a little,
lower than the feet for an hour Theugliest
Nightmares OF the mind can be ba nished by
either of these simple means Where the
spirits are kept serene and buoyant the
body IL not only healthiest. but most
beautiful, and promptly one falls into the
way of permitting and encouraging the
the tendency of the mind. which is down.
symmetry and youthfulness.'
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Some Chic Winter Wraps.
Long coats for travelling or bad weather
wear have deep rippling capes attached
and usually pointed hoods in addition.
though these last are matter of personal |
tast e.
The Eton jacket in black velvet and with |
fancy buttons upon it-that is. either richly |
cut steel ones or those glitlering with |
xf.f fe bod araA