The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-01

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 Among actresses whose living depends upon their keeping young and 1.-the there are at present several women certainly past 60 who appear to be no more than 30 Some of the society women of England and America seem perennially young, so that feebleness and wrinkles pass them by. The Queen of England herself is a conspicuous example The fashionable so- ciety life of today is, moreover. the most exhausting. aging and trying one that a woman can lead, still these ladies who determine that they will do so are able to keep young looking. How do they do 1t?
 If you investigate you will find that every one of these perennially youthful women spends considerable part of her time outdoors and has done so for years. She has had no noble ambition to trans init thereby physical perfection to the hu- man race; neither does she care greatly for the exaltation and inspiration that acquaintance with nature alone can give She only pursues an active outdoor life because thereby she can remain young and beautiful and thus keep in the swim socially.
 So thoroughly has fashionable society become aware of the nacesSitv of outdoor air and exercise that recently some ladies and gentlemen of Vienna, next to Paris the gayest city in civilization, turning their backs on all luxury and merry dis sipation, formed winter colony on the banks of Lake Lugano. They were wrec1s' broken down in the whirl of fash lonanie society. and they went to Lake Lugano to get back their nerve tone One can always do this by living outdoors.
 The noble VieDnese society wrecks spsnd nearly all their waking hours in the air and light. no matter how cold it Is, and they wear no head coverings, no cIoaks. no oVercoats. Stop minute and take In the situation mentally.-in the open air nearly all day in winter with neither hat nor warm wrap. What Is more. these highborn. highbred Viennese ladies and gentlemen use no flesh food; that is part or the cure They keep to themselves strictly and are under an obligation while the cure Is working to enter no house except those they live in for the time. If only to recover health and nerve power to waste again in fashionable dissip pa ton Is worth such price as this temporary life of austerity, how much more will a life of reasonable outdoor exercise be worth to the average woman. not for wasting. but Tor conserving, perpetuating and con stantiy increasing all that is best, high. est and strongest in her?
 One of the most expert guides of the Maine forest is Mrs. Freese, A vounr woman who has never been subject to the atrophying life of a city. Outdoor life, winter and summer, has become passion with her. All her time not re- quired for domestic duties, which she ney- CT neglects, Is spent in the woods or along the Maine rivers. She is one of the 1900 regularly licensed forest guides of Maine. SlnCo she 0 ha able to ply canoe oar. She is a noted shot and hunter and an expert fisher, In the heart of the snow draped forests she has her winter camp, and here she jour neys on snowshoes when the wildwood longing comes over her. Her home Is full ot treasures she has gathered with her own hands. Somo of these are valuable furs from skins which she herself tanned She has grand, unerring eye, like an eagle g. a n ear trained to catch the slight est sound, like that of a bird or squirrel Her health is perfect her life a perpetual joy. What has city life to offer in ex- change for this?
 Then there is Bertha Grant. fl years old, one of the boldest most skillfuI horse breakers and riders in Arizona. Fullv hah her life has been spent outdoors. much of 1t on horseback Her father placed her upon horses back when she was years old and told her to ride Nou, he would trust her to cross the continent alone on horseback. The cowboy horse tricks that astonish town bred folk in wild west" shows are childs play to this girl child of nature. She says;
 T am very healthy. I can take care of myself"
 What these two physically splendid specimens of American womanhood havo done other women through outdoor eyer else can do for themselves in other lines If the exercise can be had through usefuI work. so much the better: 1t will be less irksome. If not, let us have the due pro- portion of open air activities in some other way. Cycling Is a noble exercise. For that reason probably-because it gives a lung and muscle development equaled per- haps by nothing else-lt went out among those dwarfed and shrunken souls who care only for fashion Among the wo- men who cherish their own health and beauty it will never go out
 The American woman needs to deyelon up to her opportunities, first of all to de- velop physical health and comeliness. Meantime there are already among us fl few women so noble physically as to give us faith that the mothers of the coming race are almost here. walking toward the future, strong. beautiful. glorious.
 Alice W. Mortimer.