Life — January 25, 1912 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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ae) a oa Talks With Great People Lillian Russell HE most remarkable woman of the present day and gencration—if not of any day or any generation—was waiting for us as we walked upsta' “No,” we replied, “we haven't come to marry you. We've just come to find out the secret of your marvelous youth. How do you preserve yourself?” Lillian smiled. ; “Long ago I adopted as my guide—‘ Eternal vigilance: is the price of beauty.’ I have never deviated from that rule since.” “You must spend most of your time in taking care of yourself. What a delightful occupation!” “Yes, Ido, It isn't necessary, you know, to be a great actress, as long as you are beautiful and have a stage pres- And your marriages?” “Have all helped in a way.” She led us into her library, and sat us down on an old- gold couch. “I'm going to tell you,” she said, “the secret of success on the stage. Very few women have succeeded in rising beyond the consciousness of their own personality. I have done this. I have the usual craze for admiration; but with it all I have succeeded in becoming more or less of a philosophe “We understand very well what you mean,” “Simply this; no matter where you are you are alv thing known as a ‘good sport.” “Well, I suppose that expresses it about as well as any- thing,” said Lillian. “ Now you must run along, as I have “What a delightful occupation !” a hair-dresser, a masseuse, a manicure, an electric vibrator, a dermatologist and a prize-fighter coming to put me in shape for this evening.” So saying, we departed, with the consciousness more firmly than ever implanted in our mind, that there is no royal road to beauty, The Spectrum of Civilization White Slaves. Black Belt. Pink Sheet. Brown Stone Fronts. Red Lights. Blue Laws. Yellow Peril. ART 1S LONG Philadelphia HILADELPHIA, so far as we have been able to ascertain from careful scientific research, was founded about the year 1890 by Edward Bok, who started a home for indigent intellects, this idea being so much respected that it has since spread over the principal reli- gious areas of the United States, 3efore Bok, the history of Philadelphia is somewha scattered and unreliable. One time the place was peopled by roving bands of Indians, who had a very annoying habit of dissecting visitors whom they had not met social- ly. The great trouble seems to have been that those people who came across the water were not equipped with letters of introduction from reliable parties on the other side; and the Indians, not being able to establish proper identification, refused to open any account with them. There was, however, a man named Franklin, who, by hard work and industry and a certain crude ability, paved the way for Bok. It is to the undying credit of Benjamin Franklin that he made the Ladies’ Home Journal pos- sible. His inventions—for example, the printing press, the comicbooks.com