New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-28
SARAH GIVES HER SECRET
TO Stay Young, Do What You
Want To. Says Bernhardt.
PONCE DE LEON BEATEN
Let Your Poetry Out in Liner
icks, or It Will Show in Gray
Hairs, Essence of Cult.

Discovered asain--the secret Of youth,
or how to be young when you're old.
Always do what you want to Simple,
| isn't IL?
II you have a secret passion for poetry
let IL out i'm limericks. or II will show
itself in gray hairs. IL YOU want to be
a suffragette be one on soapboX "
You must; let your voice grow hoarse
with oratory rather than cracked with
age BE a tramp. be an actor, be an
/ eater of pie. pickles. sauerkraut and hot
bread-be anything you want. and you
won't be old. II beats old Ponce de
Icons long sought fountain three ways.
This is the lesson Of Sarah Bernhard
as she makes her final appearance before
the American public to-day miracle
of vouthfulness. A friend asked her re-
Gently:
What is II that keeps you so young?
My dear" she answered quickly, lit
! is that always did what wanted to.
The same friend, Mrs. Marie Tusson'
who told the story at a meeting Of the
Womans National Theatre yesterday.
was a friend also Of Julia Ward Howe
the woman for whom Oliver Wendell
Holmes coined the phrase seventy years
young" Yesterday was the ninety
fourth anniversary of Mrs. Howe's birth.
Il asked her" said Mrs. Tusson. how
she kept herself so young with al her
work and responsibility She thought
minute and said. IT is because ! always
did what I wanted TO-
The greatest living American exponent
Of the secret OF perpetual youth is. or
course. Lillian Russell who says she
is going 10 live to be 100 years old
and can tell everybody else how 70 do
likewise She says u is hot water and
dumbbels, but her friend. Miss Mary
shaw. says Bernhardts theory proves
good with the fair Lillian.
Has she always done what she wanted
to-" Miss Shaw was asked
We'll. rather. There have been two or
three men at various times who tried TO
! prevent her from having her own way.
but she always came out ahead
ANARCHY, That's IL" agreed Mrs.
Edith Ellis F'urness. Don't be bound
by stupid conventions. Do what you want
TO- and keep your spirit burning bright
II is when you Try TO smother the fire
OF your soul that YOU wither and shrivel
w. n Is the inner RIGHTEOUSNESS against
other peoples having their own way that
makes age Rebel outwardly and keep
youth and individuality. II is the people
who 30 along the beaten path that all
look alike by the time they are forty
Mrs r. v Martensen. ST, president OF
the Womans National Theatre, who has
complexion an naturel and eight grand
children spoke As one who knew. how
ever.
They don't know what they are talk
ing about" she observed DO what YOU
want to- Why. you can't The only
way 10 keep young Is TO be happy In
doing what YOU don't want 70 do. I'm
the Youngest woman here. even II have
eight grandchildren. and IL is because
learned when / was a girl not 10 be
miserable Keep s-smiling. keep s-going
that's my motto"
That's g." interrupted another. who
stood by. I'm too busy To- grow old"
In addition TO this important CONVEX
sation there was much talk about the
plans and hopes for the Woman's
Theatre