MARY PICKFORD SAYS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 238, 21 July 1941, Page 3

MARY PICKFORD SAYS.

"UGE YOURSELF." Mary Pick ford, recently interviewed by a. Hollywood visitor from New Zealand, said, “my prescription for keeping young is—use yourself. Use every ounce of,your physical energy, use your mind, and your emotions. Take on a little more than you think you'can cope with—then cope. You will to-morrow, if you don’t get through with it today.” Her perennial youthfulness has passed into a proverb. She goes on working, laughing, and looking at least 15 years younger than her age. And her figure, though she is tiny, has eluded dumpiness—the dumpiness that would have been her lot had she gone “into the suburbs and never come out of them.” It is the suburban dweller, reasonably secure, more engrossed with her home and family than with outside interests, who is most likely to become static, dull. She enlivens the long hours only with little snacks, a flopdown with a book or the radio, a mild dubbing in the. garden. From countless hemes you may see her step out her door, walk a few yards to the tram

stop, and ride off to do her shopping when she might have, walked. The iess you walk, the less you want to walk. The less - you do of anything the smaller .this inclination becomes to make unnecessary effort. And so weight increases, feminine charm departs, life altogether slows down. Few women are older than their husbands, but they seem older. Because men have their work, more contact with their follows, and less chance to slump. Many women realise that they ace missing a Jot and want to recapture lost youth and zest for life. The first move should be to the eorsetiere. A good foundation will do milch to flatter the figure and restore self-interest. When'the lines are trim, new clothes are worth seeking—and clothes have a way of taking.one out.’ An attractive appearance wins friends—opens doors. Take a leaf from a film star’s diary. She never lets up, never loses her figure or her interest in fashion. Her svelte lines are not a gift—they are the result of fully lived days—and as she will candidly admit—of correct corsetr.v.