Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-08
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- ly as though the earth had opened and
swallowed them?
And what do they find on their silent and mvs-
terious voyages? Something which brightens
Their eyes, freshens their color and gives them
the snap and vigor of healthy youth. Surely they
have located the waters for which Ponce De
Leon sought eagerly, sailing past the sunny
Bahamas and by the shady Azores ever strain
ing his eyes to catch the simmer of the tabled
fountain wherein he might plunge and straight
way lose the burden of years; that little stream
valued above rlbies and gold, which has lured so
many on to foreign lands and which, like all
treasures hotly pursued ever eudes the seeker
Aes, the Fountain of Youth has been located
at last and it has been discovered that its wa
ters gush for all; there will be enough and to
spare to drive away the prints of care as long
as the world shall stand. But this spring with
its magic waters is not stumbled upon bv the
victim of Wanderlust, who goes tearing over land
and across seas ever restless, always minglipg
with the crowds. Not at any of the famous
springs of America or the baths of Europe can
this mystic elixir be foundry some-and vet if
exists there or in the wilds of Africa-for Others
1t can be found in little attic chamber in
crowded city. or beside pine tree in the quiet
woods. Gushing forth from the very peal of
Mt. Solitude is this golden stream, and Solitude
is mountain to be found where the earnest seek
er wills it; it is also mount which will 60 to
Mohammed at given signal.
BEAUTY AND RETIRING
When your friends suddenly vanish from ont
your ken, leaving address behind them do
not scan hotel registers steamer lists neither
call out the police offer big rewards for their
bodies. The chances are that they have neither
gone abroad or to the seaside nor have they wan
dercd afield and become lost in the mazes of a
strange city or dropped quietly into the waters of
lonely stream. They merely have climbed TO
the peak of Mt. Solitude in the wide wilderness
of aloneness and are there drinking of the blessed
waters of rejuvenation while you stand in the
very shadow of the mountain, unconscious of its
existence, strenuously searching for the golden
stream.
To drop from metaphor to plain statement, the
world of certainty is growing wiser and is seek
ing solitude instead of beauty doctors--wth much
better resuts-when the tired lines appear and
the nerves begin to quiver.
Many prominent woman who has caused a
stir by vanishing from her world for time has
merely retired to her own room with a trained
nurse in tow leaving orders below stairs that |
she is to be disturbed for nothing less important
than fire on the premises. There the secret Is |
out! Those orders given, she follows her plan |
of restoration, which is to read no newspapers
give order and to receive none, to deny herself
to her most intimate friends, not to mention
chance acquaintances. and to her family. This
law made emphatic, she puts on the worry break
full force and gives herself up to delicious fancies
bed until her pleasure says rise, and she is rub
bed and stretched and soothed by the nurse, who
understands that her business is to be on hand