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Show SARAH BERNHARDT'S TEN COMMANDMENTS OF YOUTH . 1 Have an chief, abaorhine; interest in life. 2 Have other interests, "little interests" of life to keep you from becoming be-coming one eided.- 1 Decide what are the essential of your life a ad concentrate npom them. . 4 Decide whet are the non-essentials and disregard them. 8 Be interested ia everything that happens, for the moment, but do aot let the interest become too deep. A Eat what yoa like and when you like, but aot as much aa yoa Ilk. 7 Drink much water. 8 Sleep whenever, wherever yoa a re aleepy. Stop to rest for a minute, many time a dayi These little rests prolong pro-long life. 10 Find your work; then regard that work aa a pleasure, aot a peaalty. BT 8ASAH BEEHHAEDT. To the woman who would keep young, and that is every woman, I give freely my ten commandment of youth. They are distilled out of, the experience experi-ence of aiity-sevea year The year have been crowded with "work, overflowing over-flowing with abundant life, brimming with et and joy. They are year that have been lived, aot existed aor endured. The greatest of book haa a phrase that remain pleasantly in my mind. It is, "Live more abundantly." That should be th desire of every normal mind, to have life more abundantly. To have aa abundance of life, oae must draw from life on great, absorbing interest. It may be our ambition, our ha not takea my life, but it ba given me life. I hava worked hard, but enjoyingly. Never even when I was physically exhausted ex-hausted did my spirit faint at my work. A woman' youth is ia her soul, and my soul haa always been filled with worship for my work. How to make that work' finer stronger, mors beautiful, beauti-ful, ha been the purpose of my life, the supreme object, the paramount eoa-ideration. eoa-ideration. Bo never eince I became aa aetre have I broken that, my tint commandment: "Have on chief ab orbing interest in life." I have done much work, but I hava enjoyed many pleasures. I hava had many little iatereeta" ia- life to keep me from becoming on aided or warped. Mv life, aside from mv work.- haa beea work, .our ramu.v, wnaiever it ia suusi be absorbing, for so long as yoa are deeply interested ia eomething you will remain young. For myself, my work haa alway been the one grea paaaion of my life. It haa Absorbed me, aot consumed me. Mark the difference. It has not been the frame to the fuel which it licks up and destroy, but as the ocean beat ing reaweleeelv against the shore. Tt a whirling succession of fad. I have painted picture and hava eculptnred images. I hava ascended ia balloon. .1 have, written essays, stones, my moirs, even play. All thia to amuse me, to make m light, to preveat that strained expreasioa of th far that reflect re-flect a corresponding strain 'of th mind, a though a piece of rubber had been drawn too tight and were ready to snap. What if oae fad eueeeed another! an-other! They serve their purpose for th dy or the week or month of making mak-ing one playful o that on may better bet-ter do her work. The butterfly oae hour, the working bee the other eleven, ia the real scheme f life. I waa but 18 when I first recognized the need of my third commandment. I saw women in my home circle and oat-aide oat-aide who were growing old before they were 30, because -they were carrying burden that ware anaeeeasary were wearing out their live ia a battle with or for thing that dida't matter. I decided that there are only a few thing that count for much, and Mat they eouat for so mack that alighter thing should aot enter into th gum. Por inetaae, I decided that it was pre-eminently worth while for m t become a aueeeaaful aetr. That was th great eesential of my life. I decided de-cided that to be happy 1 must not only have my work, but 1 must bar that ia-treat ia-treat ia life which cornea from loving nad being loved. Theee were essentials, aad desiring them much I, af course, seen se-en red them. That ia the law of minds. W get what wa want if we want it enough. . i i i i : j i nereiore, ana tn uwinuii in mv aad adhere to it, casting the aon essentials from your life, for they only absorb time and count tor naofht. Make friends, many friends, take aa interest ia their lives and keep them frequently about yon. assimilating' their joys and sorrows. Be active mentally a a' well as physically; this, with a love of your work, is what keeps th soul ! yoa nR and a youthful soul is tb key not to a youthful fae. |