The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-02-09

to wear strips Of adhesive plaster t.
help him overcome the defect. 4
/, very prominent pulpit orator has ;
custom Of smacking his lips at th'
close Of near Y every sentence, so a:
to be heard distinctly across the larg
est church; his admirers say that hi:
habit is proof that he loves the truth
When writing, multltudes of per-
sons have the absurd habit Of follow.
ing the pen with their lips; at tall
letter the lips are pushed out and up
ward, and at one dropping below the
line they are drawn in and downward
while at wide or running letters the
mouth is heightened by drawing the
corners toward the ears
Perhaps the most laughable is what
may be called the wonder mouth, or,
as John B. Cough terms it, the
''yawp" mouth This habit has pro-
voked host of puns: "A hy-trap,
''an open countenance, ''estranged
lips"
Facial habits, acquired in childhood,
are often irrepressible, cropping out
all through life and causing great
chagrin In his boyhood, the COVER
nor of one of the States was much ac-
customed to making believe" smoke
a cigar, putting around like a minia-
ture engine, and although he did not
actually become smoker, he never
outgrew this habit. When he filled,
most honorably, the first office in the
Commonwealth, it was so noticeable
that he was called ''old puffer" But
his good sense frequently turned the
fault to advantage. He was Sun
day-school speaker, and thousands Of
youth have been indehbly impressed
by his warnings against evil acquire
emphasis to his words. But the
mouth is no monopolist of facial hab-
its. They climb to the summit Of
that more aspiring feature, the nose;
cluster around the windows Of the
soul" plant their feet along the brow,
and, in fact, weave their incantations
across the whole physiognomy. 1t is
literally true that they deface the face
of many a mortal.
The eyes are, perhaps, more subject
to habitual defects than the mouth.
While they are susceptible Of the mer-
ry twinkle, the tender ray Of inno-
cence, the glow Of love, and the fash
Of genius, yet how often do they
.squint. and scowl, and glare, seeming
less like windows of the SOUL" than
the grated outlook Of maniac.
Take, for instance, the well-known
sidewise leer Of full-fedged tramp;
how vice and incidence have effected
their mission by stamping the class
mark Of vagrancy upon the visual Or
gans.
But lamentable and ridiculous hab-
its Of the eyes are not always vaga-
bond. One Of the ablest lawyers of
the Western bar, noted especially for
power of exhaustive thought on diff
cult topics, sometimes throws the
court into convulsions of laughter by
his optical peculiarity. IL the subject
IS unusually profound, he turns cross
eyed as he wades into its depths, the
source of his mental acumen seeming
to be the bridge OF his nose. The
gravity of judge and jury is utterly
overturned, If, at some blunder of the
opposing counsel, he exclaims, Hold!
let us look into this point; and then,
rolling his eyes i'll toward his nasal
organ, begins logical exposure of
the mistake. ,t
Said legal punster, III such scene
as this, Does Mr.. Wright carry his
books Of reference where he turns his
eyes?" To which Mr. Wright replied,
Il might, If | had read and owned as
few volumes as my inquiring friend.
It would be hard to tell why the
name ''crows' feet" is given to the
mirth wrinkles diverging from the
outer corners Of the Jolly mans eyes;
bobolinks' feet would be more apt.
But, mounting to the "beetling
bro,cS," we find a wrinkled arch, or
pair of arches, erected as if with the
fond but often futile hope that some
procession of triumphal thoughts
might enter Or emerge. The noble
brow Of certain learned college pro-
fessor was sadly marred by an exces-
sive habit Of this kind, and irreverent
tyros in the classics called it the arch
Of Augustus" " When, however, both
brows arch regularly in equal curves,
and not in excess, it is benignant rath-
er than otherwise. But if the habit is
one-sided and jerky, it completely
spoils the architecture Of the forehead.
A physician Of note had an ungov-
ernable fault, acquired, as he ayerred,
by trying to sleep with one eye open.
His brows seemed balanced Oh teeter,
and when he was nervous, churned
up and down at tremendous rate.
The only effectual preventive was two
pairs Of spectacles worn at the same
tune, one for his eyes, the other for
his brows. and for years he visited his
patients and lectured his students in
this plight.
The wrinkles Of the forehead are
termed burrows, and what other field
has been so prolific Of mighty har-
vests as this, furrowed by the plow-
share of thought, and narrowed by
the teeth of stern resolve.
A few years ago there lived in an
inland town two persons, affording a
vivid contrast of the effect Of good and
evil III rendering the countenance di-
vine or satanic. One was a Scotch
woman, whose coarse natural features
had been pitted by smallpox, tortured
by neuralgia, and wrung by bitter trr-
ais. During the last years Of her life
she was a nurse to the sick, especially
i'll contagious cases feared by other
people, and her face, iilumined by
unselfish love, mellowed by pity,
strengthened by the sense Of duty, had
become one of the loveliest and no.
blest | ever beheld. Il seemed like a