Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-19
LOVEL|EST At FORTY
Age When Naturally Attractive
Women Are at Their Best.
OPINION OF NOTED BEAUTY
The Famous 0tero and Her Great Ar
ray of Jewels.
TELLS HOW SHE KEEPS YOUNG
Began Life With Only Her Mothers
Silver Engagement Ring-Col-
lection Of Rich Gems
ELLIS HOW SHE KEEPS YOUNG

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
PARIS. May I, 1906
Woman Is loveliest at forty!"
The speaker herself seemed never lovelier
tnan this afternoon when she admitted al
most forty. For fifteen years Paris has
called her the beautiful Otero,' and she Is
now at the height Of her fortune as the
most famous Spanish dancer and most be-
jeweled professional beauty of the gay
French capital. OF course, she explained
herself:
II refer to a naturally attractive woman"
she said When in good health and the
enjoyment Of rational luxuries they need
only two things to triumph in the charm Of
their maturity-will power to keep In con-
dition and self-conf1dence not to be fright
ened by saucy girls!'
She rose and paced the room with cat-like
grace and force. sac snatched a mans hat
from the table, cooked 1t over her eye.
slung the end Of cloak over her shoulder
and struck an attitude, with head thrown
back and face Illuminated
That self-confidence, 1t Is above all pre-
cious! myself have learned 1t from the
Spanish dance" she said THE g-r-r-r-and
dance of the fiamencai What dance 1t Is
monsieur-what a tragedy! 1t is the whole
Of passion in three acts. Never has dra-
matte work expressed feminine love with
the intensity, grace and fury of those three
scenes. Well now, look you, in the south
Of Spain they say 1t takes eight years to
form a flamenco Perfection 10 unattain-
able, because this exhausting dance twelve
minutes-show me danseuse OF the opera
who will accept a variation OF twelve min
utesD contains three roles that are uncon-
nected-the ingenue, the amoureuse and the
tragedienne. One ought to be sixteen years
old to dance the first-and thirty-hve to
dance the end of the drama, In which Rubia
-.,;xl ~ 1.ir1lxf los HV rod hn a
traditioni"
Admitted Thirty Eight Years.
It was human Vesuvius. The words ex-
ploded from her. She was all fire, all en-
thusiasm.
Madame" asked, us 1t possible that
you are old enough to dance the end OF the
drama?'
IT am thirty eight" she laughed. Il had
made two trips to the United States before
I settled In Paris, in 1901. and l was just
Of age when starting out If am not faded
like many of the great famencas. it is
thanks to the life of Paris. Those who re-
main In Spain wear themselves out, mon
sieur It Is a magnificent public, but its
very appreciation uses the artist In Paris
the good people interest themselves as much
in my jewels as in my dances. accepting
what 1 give them. So I have been able to
live normally without abusing. which is
half the secret for. the pretty woman-as for
the automobile!
when 1t is a good make" added.
Otero laughed toyously.
"The parts must be kept bright and free
from dust" she gurgled Luxury Is good
for a woman Of self-control. Those soft
creatures who lie around and overeat, I
have no patience with them! Yet they are
rather to be pitied, because when now ana
then they wake up and go into training the
struggle becomes a cause of anxiety ana
strain-beauty's worst enemies! Now.
have always had unconscious training from