The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-21
WOMEN WHO KEEP YOUNG
MODERN LIFE Is GIVING Turv
SECRET OF ETERNAL YOrru
Many Interests and Much Actiyi,x
ter Than h Quiet Life for
"ardins on Age.
Robert Hichens. in London Queen.

Robert Hichens. in London Queen.
An acute observer said 10 me rec.-,-.
Women have given up growing old
suppose they are tired OF H." Nos,
soon tire OF growing old. Il is A fatlyo,a-
process. and one that humanity IN eeos.r
would be glad to dispense with. Acco-s,n-
10 my observer. our women OF to-asv
dispense with 1t. but or men do MOI ~.
went on to remark: a modern nan !.
forty. as a rule. looks his age. A mo5s-.
woman OF forty looks. say. thirty 10 thjrtv.
two" / was ungallant enough 10 hin, >.
little feminine methods and mysteriss -
which most males are strangers. bur b.
took me for a walk in the park. and $40,
forced me to acknowledge that a grss,
many women who do not make np" do "a,
look anything like their age. Why Is 10 I
myself am acquainted with women of forty
five. fifty. hfty-fvs, who make up very it,
tie, or not at all. and who yet seem 10 ne
and 1 believe to all the world. by no means
middle-aged. and In some cases positively
young. What is the secret OF this eternal
youth?
People who i've exceedingly quiet lives in
the country. whose greatest dissipation is
rare garden party, whose hour for bed-or
as dldS, they sometimes term IL. helt0rf-
shire. why Pts ten, and whose hardest a.
Dor is a game Of tennis or the sentle weed.
ing OF a border. declare that in the rar.
garden party. in bed. tennis and the weed.
ing OF borders. is eternal youth 10 be found.
Others say that a quiet mind is the RS,
makeup in the world. and that the mind
cannot he quiet in a great city. Certainly
one of the Youngest looking women Tor her
o. Uhop7 I have ever Seap does live .n.
those peaceful lives, far away from tie
roar of traffic and the gayeties so many ~
us cling to. She is famous. and she saws
she is forty-one. yet In bright daylight she
looks more often than not like a radiant
young girl. The whole world has rung with
her name. yet she cares nothing for he
world. She adores peace. fresh air. sim
plicity. early hours. and. as ] have said. At
forty-one she is like a beautiful young grill.
And so rest is the recipe for this beloved
eternal youth we all of us long for
TWO FAMOUS EXAMPLES.
One can hardly affirm this. Think OF two
great women, Nine. Patti and Nine. Sarah
Bernhard. They are both amazing in
many ways. most amazing in their preser-
walton OF their youth. For some years. Of
course. the former has led a rather retired
life in Wales. But how she has toiled in
the past. singing perpetually in opera and
concerts, making enormous tours all over
the world, surrounded and interrupted in
cessantly by worshippers who came 10 pay
that homage which is doubtless grateful
but which is certainly exhausting 20 its
recipient. She has found the receipt Tor
eternal youth in work rather than In re-
pose. for she has not always lived among
the mountains of Craig-y-Nos. Nine. Bern
hardt, however, Is a much more striking
instance of one who finds in unremitting
work the secret of perpetual youth. She
is never at rest. Hers is the most extraor-
binary life of which L know anything. She
thinks nothing OF playing a gigantic part
eight or nine times a week. This would
be more than enough for most people. But.
besides doing this, she accomplishes a thou
sand other things. In Paris she en;ertains
incessantly. When she is on tour she IS
simply bombarded by visitors. Invitations
pour in upon her. Between the acts ~
the play there is a procession of callers
follow her from Paris TO London and be-
siege her with offerings of flowers. Authors
flock to her hotel with plays. Being good
natured. she often goes to parties got up
recites for charities; she appears ar ha-
Ears. At midnight anxious hosts await her
a great theater is on her shoulders. When
does she learn her parts? When does she
study Hamlet, commit "LAiglon'' 10 MEM
ory? Nobody knows. Perhaps between l
o'clock at night and dawn. Only in her
chateau by the sea does she occasionally
rest. Yet even there she often rises at s.
She shoots, she fishes, she sails. she plays
tennis. she entertains a swarm OF friends.
Not in rest. but in labors great as the
labors of Hercules. in everlasting excite
ment. does she find eternal youh.
THEY ARE GREAT WORKERS.
AS a rule the women by whose youthful
ness nave been most struck have been
famous workers. Mrs. Kendall is in every
respect far younger than most women Of
her age. Nine. Albani has just returned
from Canada. looking amazingly fresh and
well and young. To someone remsrking On
this. she said: DO I look well? That's
because I've Travelled between sixteen and
seventeen thousand miles in three months
She did not mention that during those three
months she had also sung at an enormous
number Of concerts. Successful work GER
tainly seems TO foster youthfulness IN
women. Men who work lard and success
fully. on the other hand. often appear care
worn and elderly before their time. 1 could
mention a number Of very well-knoHn men
who look considerably older than their
ages. but comparatively few who lo9A
younger. Women are becoming cleyerer
than we are in this way, as N so many
other ways.
In comparing the women who live quiet
country lives with those who drain life 70
the dregs, / must say that my theories-and
those Of many do~ctors-have been upset
Age. in the heart OF the country seems
generally 10 make its appearance just when
one would expect il TO do so country
women of fifty usually look nifty. AT least
that is my experience. | believe mat q
perpetual calm is decisively aging. and thFt
too much repose, even in fine air. induces
n6aNlneSS, a pnleSm, WHICH SADM ."~'
very quickly TO the door. The human Nege-
tation is seldom or never young. II always
seems what we discreetly call "a good age
But the surest way of keeping Nouft >
to preserve your interest in people ana n
things. Are modern women more ketniy
interested in their lives than moderl men
are in theirs. and is this the secret % me-.
remarkable. youthfulness? Certainly nc
Englishwoman's life is perpetually becom-
ing more varied, more full. She does :
thousand things now that she used - leave
undone. Both IN work and in play she has
a far better time. Perhaps that is Why SO
IS getting to look so preposterously young
She is gazing toward the horizon or I'm
! and watching the far-off figures OF coming
joys against a sky I'm which there are h'
so many clouds as there used 10 be
Her youth should put man on his meltr.
With her beside him he ought % %
, ASHAMED to look to become -
or bald. or fretful. Let him initiate NoaIe-'
and soon we shall have found the rAhes2-
piers stone. We shall be what we 49,
and we shall feel a~lways-say. tWentH-t"'
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