Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-27
Through a
Wonan's Eyes
BY JEAN NEWTON
Youth Serl,ms and Monkey
Glands

Now comes news from Paris that
serum has been discovered which will
iestorc to women their fading youth and
beauty. DR.. George Voronoff. brother
of the man Of monkey gland fame. is
experimenting with the preparation
which he may introduce in the United
States. II has been tried, is the whis-
per. on no less n person than Nine.
Sarah Bcrnhardt. and, wc hear. has
had much 10 do with her remarkable
hold on youth.
The divine Sarah may have tried it.
she is the kind of sportswoman who
would try anything once-5ut as to the
reason for her retaining so cxtraordi-
narily the powers of youth she would
probably tell to those who would emu
late her very different story.
Nine. Eernhardt owes her remark
ably preserved youth 10 the will power
and unccnquerable energy to which is
credited also her success. In 1906.
when she was sixty-one years old
Sarah. as she is affcctionatcly called.
appeared in .iostOn. wh"rc in the
twenty-six hours between $ so on Fri
day evening and 10 80 on saturday She
acted three difficult. cxacting and ox-
J.
strength and her artistry were As fresh
az at the beginning. And neither
monkey glands nor youth sCrums had
ever been heard Of.
The woman whom the Queen of Eng
land called the greatest artist IN thc
world has had phenomenal success
IN chosen calling. not in work TO
which she felt herself drawn. but in an
art into which she was forced by her
family against her own inclinatious.
She was not considered good looking
and she wanted TO be nun. Yet when
|, it was decided that she should be- an
actress the young Sarah determined to
succeed. 'quand meme I'm spite OF
, all. This was the motto she chose to be
engraved upon her letter paper whcr
she was still child. I'm spite Of all
obstacles or disadvantages she woulC
succeed.
And these she had aplentr. But will
indomitablc persistence she kept on auC
won her way tn great achievement. Al
! this was th. spirit Of youth And. re.
tanning il. the other aspects of youth
stayed with her.
. An incident of which she tolls in hcr
/ 'McmOrs' explains better than any,
G thing else Bcrnhardt $ perennial youth
MY surprise was great she says
when the curtain fell at the end o
! tn" piece and ! got UP quickly to an
Q swcr to the call and salute the pubI
without ianguor. without faintIng
ready 10 recommcncc the piece. / ha
, commenced the performance in such
q state of weakness that it was easy t
:. predict that | should not finish th
II first act without faintng. And
marked this performance with a lttl
" white stone-for that day I learned tha
~ my vital force was at the service {
; my intellect
i II is so. that al seventy seven an
W physically handicapped, she still charm
:. cd her audiences for many wears afri
>. she was a grandmother and long hetor
:. youth SCrUnS Wer" dreamed of ST
Vi played with appropriateness and sue
rCSS roles of classic youth and beauty.
,r "MIy vital force land what iS yout
" but vital fcrcc'D was at the service
ne my intellect.
10 And so is every wCmans. Mcnt
in and ply sical activity. supported ar
>. spurred by her will, do not sap h,
energy and vitality; rather they pcrpct
Is uatc her youth.
i'd That is the divine Snrah's recipe f
ed holding on to youth-and never mir
A. serums or monkey glands.