The evening world., 1912-04-01
REAL SECRET OF YOUTH - IN
THE HEART.

NE neAHTs
THE mere effort and worry Of trying
to keep young makes . woman DID,"
Miss Pearson declared. re I had thirty
lives 10 live instead Of only M I would
exercises. massage. r. ;uction treatments
or any of the other :o-called methods OF
preserving youth which make so many
women old before their time. Tho real
secret OF youth II In the heart. I know
young persons who have always been
old and old persons who will always be
young. I would say to any woman
worrying about her first gray hair or
the coming of a double chin: Take care
Of your illusions and you beauty will
take care OF ITSELF"
Incidentally. Miss Pearson. when she
stands In the wings of the Comedy
Theatre waiting for her cue. Is Just as
w!nsome as when she Is On the stage as
Bunty, managing everybody in sight for
his own good. She wears her laurels IS
lightly and casually as she does her
hoopskirts. and no one who has seen
Bunty's hooprkirts can be much sur
prised that our d~ressmakers are trying
to make MS all copy ner. Now. don't
say you never. never will wear. them.
at least not until you have seen their
possibilities of charm on Miss Molly
Pearson. who believes. by the way. that
the threatened revival may help women
to solve the secret OF perpetual youth
II only because II will stop them from
worrying about attaining the hipless
figure.
'"The motto Of my life Is this" Miss
Pearson ,>ondded. Nothing lasts-not
wen bad luck. I believe that the secret
Of youth lies IN those words Or In any
similar formula which expresses the
same thought"
do you believe that a woman may
keep young by managing every one
| about her as Bunty does?" inquired.
mo. indeed" replied Miss Pearson.
candidly. women grow old by man.
aging or trying to manage. For the
Is much better to be managed than to
manage. Managing Is interesting. but
you can see that It takes thought az
we'll as a good deal OF worry to pull so
many strings at once. No. I'm afraid
Bunty doesn't know the secret OF pre-
serving youth. but I do.
'It's believing IN things, no mat
ter whether they ere illusions or
not; its loving not only In the ro-
mantle sense, hut In the larger
meaning Of humanity. No sordia
or blass person can possibly be Or
look young. Perhaps n might
say; 90 tell my lady In her cham
Der, though she paint an inoh thick
and roll ON the loo TO preserve
her nguro ana massage to fright
en- away q double chin, her heart,
her manner her attitude toward
life Will give away her We to the
least sophisticated person."
Now. I did not agree with Miss Pear.
son at all. Beauty. we are told. Is In
the eye of the beholder and this eye Il
usually so superficial in It's observation
and its admiration that II a woman
takes care of the surface through a
sage. beauty lotions or what not, few
persons are going to worry about the
age OF her soul. And this Is why mos
Of US would rather resemble the homeli.
est wonan OF our acquaintance than
the so-called 'pretty girl of the period
with Pomeranian pompadour. pert eyes
snub nose, self-satisfied mouth and an
x-Ray figure.
/ To me the girls Of from sixteen
A 70 twenty-five that furnish the In
spiyatioA for the covers Of 1s-csat
nagasanss aAA tAst seem - oeasH.
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