The Washington times., 1901-07-21
HOW TO KEEP YOUNG
Make Up Your Mind to Calmly Ignore t e
Prospect of Old Age.

An acute observer said recently:
Women have given up growing old.
suppose they are tired of it, Most of
us soon tire of growing old. 1t is a
fatiSuing process, and one that humanity
IN general would be glad to dispense with.
According to my observer, our women
of today do dispense with it, but our
men do not. He went on to remark: "A
| modern man of forty, as rule. looks his
age A modern woman of forty looks,
! say, thirty to thirty-two." / was ungal-
iant enough, says Robert Hichens, in
London Queen to hint at little femi
nine methods and mysteries to which
most males are strangers, but he took
me Tor walk in the park, and soon
forced me to acknowledge that great
many women who do not make up do
not look anything like their age. Why Is
II! myself am acquainted with women
OF forty-ive, fifty fifty-five, who make
up very little. not at all, and who yet
seem to me. and believe to all the world.
by nc means middle-aged, and in some
cases positively young. What is the
secret of this eternal youth?
People who live exceedingly quiet lives
in the country, whose greatest dissipation
is rare garden party, whose hour for
bed-or as, alas. they sometimes term it,
Bedfordshire!-why. is ten, and whose
hardest labor is a game of tennis or the
gentle wedding of border, declare that
in the rare garden party, in bed, tennis.
and the wedding of borders is eternal
youth to be found. Others say that
quiet mind is the best make up" in the
world. and that the mind cannot be quiet
in a great city. Certainly one of the
paSf for har
whom 1 have ever seen does live one of
those peaceful lives. far away from the
roar of traffic and the gayeties so many
of us cling to. She is famous and she
says she is forty-one, yet in bright day
light she looks more often than not like
a radiant young girl The whole world
has rung with her name, yet she cares
nothing for the world. She adores peace,
fresh air, simplicity, early hours, and, as
/ have said, at forty-one she is like a
beautiful young girl. And so rest is the
recipe for this beloved eternal youth we
all of us long for.
One can hardly affirm this. Think of
two great women, Nine. Patti and Nine.
Sarah Bernhardt. They are both amazing
in many ways, most amazing in their
preservation of their youth. For some
rather retired life in Wales. But how she
has toled in the past, singing perpetualiy
in opera and concerts, making enormous
tours all over the world, surrounded and
interrupted incessantly by worshippers
who came to pay that homage which is
doubtless grateful, but which is certainly
exhausting to its recipient. She has found
the recipe for eternal youth in work rath-
er than in repose for she has not always
lived among the mountains of Craig-y-
Nos Nine. Bernhardt. however, is much
more striking instance of one who hnds
in unremitting work the secret of perpet-
ual youth. She is never at rest. Hers Is
the most extraordinary life of which l
know anything. She thinks nothing of
playing gigantic part eight or nine times |
a week. This would be more than CROUCH |
for most people. But, besides doing this, |
she accomplishes a thousand other things. |
In Paris she entertains necessarily. When |
she is on tour she is simply bombarded |
by visitors.
Invitations pour in upon her. Between |
the acts of the play there Is a procession |
of callers to her dressing-room. Frantic |