KEEPING YOUNG

New Zealand Tablet, 30 August 1906, Page 37

KEEPING YOUNG

How to keep young is one of the .questions of perennial interest to the feminine mind. Amelie Rives the noted author, who is said to look like a girl in her teens, recently told of her reply to a physician who wrote her to send him the secret of what toe called her perpetual youth. ' I wrote back that -he must consider the cost,' she said. ' It is a cost that few of his fashionable patients would make, for I rise early, ride or walk in the country roads, live close to my books, see few people, and retire at 10. What fashionable women could endure my life ? I remember thinking about it one winter morning, when I was walking alone, the crisp, ci adding snow under my feet the tairy outline of a gossamer frost revealing every twig of bush and tree, and I was so invigorated and happy I could have whistled like a boy with delight But if I had been a woman of fashion I couldn't have endured the silence, the empty distances, the quiet- why a woman of fashion would die mmy place, and I am quite sure that 1 should in hers '