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Show Active Women Keep Good Looks Longest Feminists Take Lesson From Sarah Bernhardt and Conclude That "Doing Things" Is Best Way of Retaining Youth and Beauty Dy CAIIOIA V ( I, spooinl 0osreapop4esi1 .f The stan.i-anl- lAaniiner. Copyright. I Ml, by Tho Standard-Examiner. Standard-Examiner. ) WASHINGTON. Dec. 30. The feminists fem-inists of Washington this week havo been preaching the gospel of Harah I Bernhardt, Toda thy annonncd tholr I conclusions. Resolve." they said, "like Sarah Bernhardt, to "die in hainese' and you I will retain both youth and beauty." The feminists are out with a warning, warn-ing, too. to th- butterfly and the para- , site. Those types fade earlier than an others, say the wise womon of Washington. Discontent soon etl h s j ugly lines in their faces. Work ts the one marvelous cosmetic. Ji la perspiration pers-piration that is a putcnt producer of pulchritude, the kind that Is labelled "sweat of the brow." Like Mme. Hcrnhardt, the womon who "do things" retain thel: looks and fascination the longest. feminist maintain. To prove tho point. It Is claimed that the women of achlcve- inont In America are the ones who not only look younger than their years. j but have a beauty that go s with :i keen Interest in nr. "The Life of Sarah Bernhardt," said Mrs. Cernellua Gardner of Ihu League ;of Women Voters, "should He Inspirational Inspira-tional to tho womon who dread the shi Ivlng proees:, which thov feel Is Inevitable In-evitable at middle age. An abldlrm interest in-terest in some kind of work will keep .i woman looking young and feeling young. "The fluctuating state of Mme. Bernhardt'! health has been of t'r(,ot conclusion to women 0 cry where the I has been particularly beloved of her sex perhaps because she was not beautiful. beau-tiful. Without her dramatic gifts she might have been called a homely woman wo-man Her nose, her eyes, her mouth, v. i re not of the BCeoptod standards of beauty. but ahe had tho power to1 i rente tli" illusion of beauty which put hope Into every woman's breast. And she has shown the women of this latter lat-ter day that they can bo of some viae In tho world, ever of gn at u&e. after 0, even after 70 " "The Chinese are more advanced than wo are In that respect." chimed I r Vnmel Kim, a young Chinese woman. wo-man. They do not pay mueh attention to the Intellectual endowments of the Chinese woman until she has ra hed the age of 45. and then suddenly she blossoms out as a sage. Her voice raised In council Is equal to that of an Amerban. The Chines believe and not without some reason, that after a woman has raised a family she has become wise, for she has had the opportunity op-portunity to observe life and to mediate, medi-ate, upon It. Instead of helng shelved at middle age In China, a woman Is considered in her prime But vhlle clothes play a part in maintaining a woman's youthful spirits. spir-its. It Is ust ful work that keeps their mind resllbnt that Is most imporant emphasise the feminists. one of the first women to come to mind in this connection Is Miss Julia Lalhrop. who was world fkmoUfl for her Welfare work for children Miss Lathrop does not look a day over 45 or at the most 60, and yet she Is down In the Who's Who for all the world to see at 0 4 vears of age. There arc many other women of note who have kept marvelously young through years once thought sere and yellow. Ida Tarbell admits to Co. Edith Wharton proudly proclaims tho fact that she was born In 1862. Anna Garland Gar-land Spencer over 70. still I: lecturing at Columbia university. Nt w York, Alice Stono Blackwell. In the eighties. Is active as an editor. Miss Alice Robertson, Rob-ertson, campaigned for congress last fall at 67. Ex-Senator Rebecca Folton looked winsome in the senate for n day and at 87. she has just accepted chairmanship chair-manship of tho political committee of the National Women's Party. |