Smyrna times., 1879-01-01
SMYRNA DEL WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON JANUARY l. 1878.

a young mans face expresses as general
thing, anyhow? Did you ever notice the
photographs of young men? Go into any
gallery and look at them, and all the con-
ceit there is in young mans nature and
being, shines forth in his photograph. He
cant help it. He may not be very con-
ceited, naturally, but when he sits for his
photograph, to save his never dying soul he
can't help thinking about himself, and how
he is going to look, and so modest and re-
tiring as he may be in his actual life, he sits
there and thinks about himself all the
time, and then, the picture is completed
self, self, self, Is the only character stamped
on the face. | don't make this depression
for the purpose of being hard on the boys.
Bless their manly hearts, no. But |
just happened to think of it. That is the
reason an old mans portrait is always more
natural than young mans. The old fell
low is out of the market and he doesn't
care how he looks. His hair is tossed
about, and that has finer artistic effect
than Il youthful scalp that is plastered down
| until it shines like a billiard ball. If the old
man is worried he looks worried; if he is
mad as hornet he looks cross if he is
| pleased the lurking smile around the
corners of his mouth shows it. And then
| too, the rounded fulness of the young
mans face is gone, and lines and angles
give play to the light and shadows on his
face, and the marks of character make a
mans portrait at fifty look manly and dig
nifed and noble, when at twenty.tbree it
looked "pretty." But kind of digress.
| One thing else about Boston people
before | close. The old people have all the
good eyes. All the older musicians, schol-
ars, authors, composers, whose names have
made Boston famous in the world of letters
and art, whose fame is as broad as the con-
tinent, appear to have excellent eyes, and
get along on the street and in the library
without the use Of glasses. That is, so far
as | have been able to observe. On the
other hand, the younger class of literateurs
and students are unanimously short-sighted
Young men here wear eyeglasses as young
men in Montana wear revolvers, and young
men in Chicago carry samples of cordwood
for canes. | have seen boys eleven years
old. come along the street glaring at the
timid stranger through huge eye glasses that
beamed III the distance like gig lamps
Once in a while, when you are lust growing
accustomed to the white glasses, tai
slender youth will suddenly loom up be-
side you and glover down upon yol
through pair of blue ones, and the effec
is very startling. Do you know. believe
there are babies born in Boston Will
spectacles on? do not positively know o
such case but when you see chile
eighteen months old, riding along in its cal
with a pair of horn eye glasses straddlin,
its nose, you can't resist the impression
that the baby was born that way, an,
would bleed to death if the spectacles wer
cut off. But | have got acquainted Will
! two or three pairs Of these spectacles, an,
r ! find they are just a part of the rounde,
, face and the unsatisfactory photograph.
: find the most delightful young fellow
behind them, warm hearted, generou;
manly young fellows, impulsive and earnes
under all their well.bred reserve. | hav
. found a thousand things to make me thin
better of Boston than ever | did befor,
and haven't found a thing that will cast
= shadow on the pleasant impressions hav
! formed Of it; ] don't wonder that BostO
= people are proud of their city, and thi
: Boston people who move away into distar
= states, believe that if they are good, the
:, will go to Boston common when they di
;, And that reminds me of another thing.
! BOstonian who has emigrated to some otht
: state, will talk more about Boston in Fl,
y minutes, than a resident Bostonese wi
:, talk in six weeks. | haven't heard ma
= speak about Boston since have been her
% except in answer to my questions.