KEEPING YOUNG

Evening Star, Issue 22881, 12 February 1938, Page 26

KEEPING YOUNG

ELINOR GLYNN TELLS THE SECRET Elinor Glyn, the woman who once shocked the world, is going to" give the world a still greater shock, says Andrew Kidd. The woman who created a sensation with her book ‘ Three Weeks,’ who gave sex appeal the name of “ It,” is writing a new book which will be, in her own phrase, a sensation.' IF will be a treatise on youth by a woman who refuses to grow old.. As we talked in her London‘flat, he says, she stood before her portrait painted by Philip do Laszlo 25 years ago, and challenged comparison. “ It might be a picture of you today,” I said. “ There were no wrinkles on my face then. Try and find one now,” she replied as she stood under a strong fight which revealed the full beauty of her greenish eyes and red hair. I gazed on the face of a grandmother who is 73. There, are still no wrinkles, not even a trace of one. Elinor Glyn claims to have discovered the elixir of youth. ■ “ I know how to keep young,” she said. “In my book, which is the last thing I will write, I will tell others how they can keep young, too. “There are so many unhappy people in the world. They are those who have grown prematurely old and have no further interest in fife. “ What I want to do is to bring happiness into the lives of such people.”. How?” I asked her,* “ There are strong outside forces which can be tapped to bring youth, health, and light to us all,” she said. “ They are waves in the ether. “ From my own experience I can say they are powerful sources of youth and vitality.” It is not exercise that keeps Elinor Glyn youthful. “ The only exercise I believe in,” she remarked, “is dancing—dancing with my two cats. “ Diet is not important for preserving youth. “ The only things to remember about food are—don’t eat the things .which disagree with you, and don’t bo piggish. “ And to keep young it is essential to think only of goodness.”