The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-21
BLUES AND BEAUTY
Rest and Avoidance OF
Worry the Recipes for
Perpetual Youth.
BERNHARDT .DEFIEs TIME
Incongruities in Dress and Manners
and How to Avoid Them-Tea
Curtains and Belts.

One of the best preserved women on
the stage is Sarah Bernhard. Yet, since
the age of sixteen this great actress has
been playing roles of the most emotional
character. Her son is now over thirty
years of age. and, although she is a
grandmother. Sarah seems to be gifted
with perpetual youth. Her shoulders and
back are as dimpled. pearly white and
smooth as those of a girl of twenty. ARD
her wonderful almond ayes yelled by
long. curling lashes. have all their youth
full fire and brightness,
In a recent interview, Nine. Bernhardt
declared h a she does not go in for
gymnastics. physical culture Or any
specified diet, n her dislike for the
bicycle as a form of exercise for women
is we'll known. s eats when and what
she likes. and Is capable of working UNI
til three of four o'clock in the morning
for eight or ten days at a time, when
putting on a new play at her theatre.
DON'T WORRY.
Nine. Bernhardt considers that proper
rest and avoidance of worry or blues
are the very best recipes for perpetual
youth thai she knows of. Relaxation Of
the muscles of the face n figure, she
considers fatal to beauty. When the
lines of the face relax and the eyes droop
n the corners of the mouth go down
they Immediately assume new lines.
Nine. Bernhard declares that If she
gave away to this practice in two weeks
her looks would be gone forever. "Wo-
men are melancholy creatures" says the
divine Sarah. They fret over tribes. and
are easily discouraged. They are not
philosophers, and let their cares and con-
science follow them. Nowadays 1t IS
only the young girl, who by nature is
intended to be sunshiny. who is free
from worrying. To have emotions is to
be in fashion, but while it may be anus
ing enough, 1t ruins ones good looks.
at is the cheerful woman who lives
the longest and looks the best. SADNESS
brings the early white hairs, deep
wrinkles, bad figures and ugly voice. II
In my work I feel my spirits droppln
down, I leave it and go to bed. TWO Gays
in bed screws my courage up to the
point of audacity. 1t rests and sootnes
me. and after many experiments l ma
that I can sleep off my blues"
SOME FAMOUS BEAUTIES.
Such famous beauties as Nina de ZEN
clos and Diane de Poictters DISCOVERIES
that to be beautiful they must always be
serene, and when the famous Diane
awakened in the morning with no spirit
for the day before her. she always
mounted her horse and rode out to a ut
tie lake in the heart of ~taineo
forest. and. like the Diana of the Greeks.
plunged and swan until the cold water
braeed her nerves again.
The Duchess of Teck. mother OF the
Duchess of York. is one of the best pre-
served of English women. and doses her-
self for an attack of the blues. as she
would for a headache: her remedy Is a
turkish bath. After taking 1t she mas
life has another aspect re-
There is in Paris a physician VINO pre-
scribes for women verging on nenraSo
thenia or nervous prostration the simpie
instruction to keep their. eyes on some
object ten feet or more above the range
OF vision, when they walk or drive: Fos
women artists and writer's ne oTders
when work is over. that. they shal1 re.
move their corsets and ne nat on t me
the feet for the space of an hour.