The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-16
Bernhardt Gives Formula for
Polling Father Time.
Love People, Life and Work,
Advice to Women.

New York. Oct. 16.-'I look well ?
am young for my years That is be-
cause 1 love and am loved. They who
love much and are much beloved re-
main young. The reason is plain. Love
creates in human chemistry happiness.
Happiness is the greatest of tonics. 1t
is the true elixir of youth
So Sarah Bernhardt, who arrived on
the Espange, explained the vitality
that flashed from her eyes and rang
in her voice.
Women would all feel and keep
young if they loved life and loved hui
mainly as I do she said. Every
morning when 1 awake 1 think shall
meet many persons who admire and
love me and / shall admire and love
them.
There is much interesting work to
be done. love that, too. I have done
much work, hard work, in my life, the
work of nine women. Yet never for a
| moment has work seemed drudgery.
1t has been an expression of the zest
of life, the love of life and of people
have always had. Work is drudgery
Drudges always look old, altho they
are but 20.
THAT, then, is my message to wom-
en-, to all women: Love people, love
life, love work, and you will never
really grow Old"
/
Madame Bernhardt made a strange
entrance into the Hotel Majestic 1t
seemed pathetic until one had a
/ glimpse of her laughing faced framed
| in vivid titan hair. All those who ac-
| companied her in her limousine got
| out of the automobile before her. Then
a legless chair, suggesting a sedan
| was slipped into the door of the car
and with little aid from those stand
ing near the door her sinuous body,
thinner now, bestowed itself in the
chair. She was borne into the car
riage entrance and taken to the Louis
XVI suite in an elevator reserved for
her.
AS soon as she had taken a seat in
the drawing room she received the
delegation from the press. Flowers
surrounded her. A smart slate col
ored hat with saucy wings topped heI
hair. In the lace of her bodice ap-
peared a bow of velvet ribbon. Lace
enveloped her throat and fell over hel
hands
IT am glad to be here. 1 had ex-
pected not to be here she said, oc-
casionally injecting an English wore
in a French sentence. I'VE would not
have been had not the Espagne had 6
wonderful captain. An extraordinary
man! He steered the boat this way
then, pouf!-he is off again in an
other. His course was zigzag like
the lightning or a rabbit dodgint
hounds. Non, I was not afraid.
am never afraid. 1 am French and
the world has learned that the French
do not fear.
But an intelligent person, tho fear
less, realizes danger. I knew our dan
ger. 1 knew what was possible to u
at any moment. I thought of Maurice
my dear boy I thought of him as
little boy. sailed in an atmospher
, of Maurice into safety. But was no
afraid. I have never feared death. Al
, old woman once told me I should liv
to be 90. Often 1 believe her."
DO you think the war will max
, any change in the character of tn
, French ?"
Yes. AS look into the faces o
! the soldiers for whom I recited in tn
+ trenches, I saw 1t would. Yes, facin
death makes a change in an individ
uals character. After looking into tn
/ face of death, he is never again tn
same. France has looked into the fac
of death and her women have becom
more serious. Her men have becom
, more virile. The change will be fel
r in economic and industrial conditions
Women will go on with the work tina
= has been called mans and which the
/ had to learn because of the war. Gu
S elevator men in Paris are womer
n Oh, yes. And the conductors on GU
/ | railway trans They will remain