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BY DOROTHY BROOKS
CAN you, whether your age is twenty or thirty or forty, sit down now, today, and honestly say to yourself: "I am young, I have kept pace with the world, I have not lost the enthusiasm which makes me attractive to my friends, my sweetheart, my husband, my children ?"
If you can, this is not for you. But if you fail in any way to meet this challenge, here is your message of hope, of faith, from a woman whose life is a model of inspiration to all who struggle to keep their youthful outlook.
Elaine Sterne Carrington gave me such a message to bring to you. As the creator of NBC's show, Pepper Young's Family, formerly called Forever Young, she is well qualified to lead you on the path to eternal youth. If you've listened to the principal character in this daily serial, Mrs. Young, who seemingly has discovered the magic secret, you'll know what I mean.
But besides creating the Pepper Young program, Elaine Sterne Carrington is one of the country's outstanding woman writers for the biggest national magazines. For years she has been giving inspirational talks. But not until now has she set down a way for you to take inventory of yourself, a first step towards keeping young which nearly everyone misses.
"Take stock," she urges. "Look at yourself and find out what you have become with the passing of years. Examine yourself as a wife, a mother, an individual. Not when you have leisure. Do it now."
I wish you could have been with me the afternoon I sat with Mrs. Carrington in her beautiful home and wrote down the questions every woman should ask herself in order to take this inventory. She herself, with her graying hair and sparkling blue eyes, has all the vitality and alive-ness of true youth. On her animated features lies the questing, eager spirit of a child.
As we talked, from upstairs floated fragments of laughter from eleven-yearold Patricia Carrington and her brother Bob. With a group of friends they
Elaine Sterne Carrington poses in her Brooklyn home. This noted writer who is famous for her articles on women, gives to RADIO MIRROR questions women of every age should answer.
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were about to begin a rehearsal in the children's theater which occupies an entire floor of their house in Brooklyn.
Mrs. Carrington smiled at the rising chorus of voices.
"My children are very nice people, really," she said. "They're the nicest guests I've ever had. I want them to have a good time here so that they can look back some day and say that 'this was a very pleasant visit, the best I ever had.' Honestly, that's the way I feel about them.
"Children are an eternal object lesson. If women would learn more from them, it wouldn't be necessary for them to spend hours in beauty parlors, torture themselves with diets to become slim, ruin their husbands' bank accounts to dress well. Such things are all so unimportant if inside they remain withered and old. Then they wonder why their children drift away from them and why their husbands turn to younger companions!
"Women will spend fruitless hours looking into a mir