Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-07-23
INFLUENCE OF A SMILE.-A bea,

INFLUENCE OF A SMILE beauti-
full smile is to the female countenance
what the sunbeam is to the landscape.
1t embellishes an interior face, and re-
deems an outward one. A smile, how
ever, should not become habitual, or
insipidity is the result nor should the
mouth break into a smile on one side,
the other remaining passive and un-
moved, for this imparts an air Of deceit
and grotesqueness to the face. A dis
agreeable smile distorts the lines of
beauty, and is more repulsive than a
frown. There are many kinds Of
smiles, each having a distinct character
some announce goodness and sweet
ness others betray sarcasm, bitterness,
and pride-some soften the counten-
ance by their languishing tenderness !;
others brighten by their spiritual yivac-
ity. Gazing and po,ing before mir
ror cannot aid in acquiring beautiful
smiles half so we'll as to turn the inward,
to watch that the heart keeps unsullied
from the reflection Of evil, and is illu-
minated and beauti6ed by all sweet
thoughts. - 10 @@5
INDUSTRY AND GENIUs.-There are
many teachers who profess to show the
nearest way to excellence; and many
expedients have been invented by which
the toll of study might be saved. But
let no man be seduced to idleness by
specious promises. Excellence is never
granted to man but as the reward Of la
Dor. It argues, indeed, no small strength
of mind to persevere in habits Of indus ny
without the pleasure Of perceiving those
advances which, like the hand Of a clock,
whilst they make hourly approaches to
their point, yet proceed so slowly as to
escape observation. There is one pre-
cept, however, in which l shall only be
opposed by the vain, the ignorant, and
the idle. I am not afraid that shall
repeat it too often. You must have no
dependence on your own genius. If
you have great talents, industry will
improve them +; if you.have but moder-
ate abilities, industry will supply their
deficiency. Nothing is denied to we'll
directed labor nothing is to be obi ain
ed without it. E9E
DoDGING THE BULLETS AND THE
HALTER IN EGYpr.-Mr. Williams, Of
the Utica On. Y. Herald was floating
up the Nile at last accounts, having
been absent now year in foreign parts,
and writes thence Of the way the old
fogies Of that country dodge the con-
scription and the jail. Every soldier
must have left eye and right fore
finger, and one-third Of the grown up
males of Egypt have put out the one
and cut off the other to escape the SER
vice. Felony and other manner of
crime is freely compounded for money
in the Arab courts--in Cairo, a murder
costs $500, putting out an eye in an
ARRAY $3.50, and knocking out tooth
$25 ; but this isn't so different, either
in substance or sum, from the practice
of American courts, as to be very no.
ticeable.
A THOUGHT OR Two.-This life can
not be lived over again. The moments
that pass, pass for ever. / now behold
the clock-there, that tick is past, and
still another, and yet another. So pass
days, months and years so pass OPP
portunities neglected, and half Of our
time without the proper effort. Young
man, word with you-you cannot rub
out the figures Of life as the boy does
the arithmetical question upon his slate.
The great blackboard Of life it is upon
which you make the mark, in the sight
of God and man, and once made, is,
there forever. IF we make wrong
mark it will not serve us to-sit down
~ repent because we cannot rub it
The true principle Of life is, to
nOt with the mistakes, but with
Htions. The mark you made
Improve to-day. Let every
ness Of some greater good
1pat may cover fool,
IL begin life with