FOR LEISURE HOURS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 80, 5 April 1933, Page 11

FOR LEISURE HOURS

CULTIVATION OF CHARM

"A business woman, shall wo say, is one of those lucky people who earn their own living and have fixed hours for work and leisure, unliko tho married woman who is 'at it' all day long," said Miss Elizabeth Blake, speaking last evening at tho "International Banquet" given by the Business and Professional Women's Bound Table Club.

"The question, arises: What is she to :do with that leisure?" said Miss Blake. Such mechanical amusements as bridge, golf, or pictures were good sometimes, she continued, but only up to a point. They were like an anodyne. They made one less original, less vital— the real part of one did not go into them. In any art, music, painting, drama, or literature there burned the divine fire which was needed to make life worth living. "Business women and all women have one point in common," said Miss Blake. "They all want to be happy, and they have different ways of achieving happiness. Those who have it have discovered that tho only way is to make it oneself. Art can do tlig. It can help us to find relief from ourselves, and will inspire us to ,do finer and greater things. "Sir James Barrie,'' she continued, "said it was no credit to any girl to be pretty or beautiful. That was a gift of the good God. When she became an old woman her beauty would depend upon herself. If her thoughts had been beautiful she would have grown so, but if she had been 'a selfish little pig,' it would show itself all over her face. So do not let business worries got, the better of you, and make lines!" she counselled, v "Every woman loves power, and almost every woman has charm which is power. Don't bother wanting beauty which dies. Rather want the charm of Cleopatra so that even in her unattractive, trying old age, an enemy was able to say of her, 'Ago cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. "No woman who loves and practises art need fear old age or loneliness, she concluded.