Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-07-20

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the recipe for this beloved eternal
youth we all Of us long for.
one can hardly affirm this. Think
of two great women. Mime. Patti ana
Nine. Sarah Bernhard. They are both
amazing in many ways, most amazing
in their preservation of their youth.
For some years of course, the former
has led rather retired life in Wales.
Eut how she has toilcd in the past,
singing perIetually in opera and con-
ccrts. making enormous tours All over
the world. surrounded and interrupted
necessarily 10y worshiprcrs who came
to pay that homage which il doubtless
grateful but which is certainly ex-
hausting to it's recipient. She mas
found the recipe for eternal youth IN
work rather than in reposc, for she mas
not always lived among the mountains
OF Craig-y- Nos. Nine. Bcrnhardt,
however, is q much more striking IN
stance OF one who finds in unrcmitting
work the secret of perpetual youth.
She Is never at rest. Hers IL the
most extraordinary life Oh when
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 thousand other things. In Paris she
cntertains necessarily. When she Is on
tour she is simply bombarded ~
visitors Invitations pour in upon her.
Between the acts Of the play there II a
procession OF callers to her dressing
room Frantic admirers follow her
from Paris to London and besicge her
dock to her hotel with plays. Being
good -natured, she often goes to parties
got up in her honor. She gives away
Irizes: she recites for charities; she
appears at bazaars. At midnight
anxious hosts await her at supper. The
whole OF the business Of great
theatre is on her shoulders. When
does she learn her parts? Whcn. does
she study Hamlet commit 'L'Aiglon"
I, memory? Nobody knows Perhaps
between one o'clock ut night and dawn.
only in her chateau by the sea does
she occasionally rest Yet even there
she often rises at six. She shoots. she
fishes. she sails. she plays tennis. she
cntrrtains swarm ~ friends Not ia
rest. hut IN lahors great as the labors
lof Hercules. in everlasting excitement.
aces she find eternal youth.
AS 4 rule the women by whose
youthfulness have been most struck
have been famous workers. Mrs
Kendall Is III every respect far younger
than most women of her ag. Mime
Alhani has just returned from canada.
looking amazingly fresh and We'll and
young r" someone rcmarking on
this she said DO | look we'll That's
because I've Travelled between sixteen
and seventeen thousand milcs IN three
months" she did not mention that
during those three months she had also
sung tancnnrmous number Of concerts
Successful work certainly seems 10 fus-
ter youtnfulness III women Men who
work hard and successfully. on the
other hand. often appear carcwurn and
elderly before their time. | could
mention number of very well-known
men who look considerable older than
their ages but comparatively few who
look younger. Women are becoming
Clevcrer than wc are in this way, as
in 50 many other ways.
In comparing the women who live
quiet country lives with those who
drain life to h" dreGs, must say that
my th"orirS-and ihnS" uf many doc
tors-havc been upset. AGc. in the
heart Of the country. seems generally
to make its appearance just when one
would expect il to dp -. Country wo-
mon If nifty usually look fifty. At
least that is my experience. ! believe
that a perpetual calm is deCisveIy
aging. and that too much repose, even
| in fin" air. induces hcaVincss. a
phlcGm which show youth very quick
~ Ia the door. The human vegetable
Is seldom, or never young. II always
seems what discrc,tly call "a
good age.
Eut the surcst way Of keeping young
il 10 preserve your interest in people
and in things. Are modern women
more keenIy Interested in their lives
than modern men are in theirs. and is
this the secret Of their remarkable
youthfulness? Certainly the English
Woman's life is perpetually becoming
more varied, more full. she does a
Thousand things now that she used to
leave und"ne. Both in work and in
play she has far better time Perhaps
that is why she is getting to look 50
preposterously young. She is gazing
towards the horizon of time. and
, watching the far-off figures of coming
joys against a sky in which there are
not so many clouds as there used to be-
| Her youth should put man on his
mettle. With her beside him he ought
to he ashamed to look careworn. to be-
come fat. or bald. or fretful. Let him
initiate woman. and soon we shall have
found the philosophers stone. We
shall be what we feel. and we shat:
feel always-say. neutrality-suspicious.
Hinchens in London Queen.
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