The conservator., 1883-09-08
HOW BEAUTY IS LOST.
The Effect Of Laughing aud Crying in
Pretty 1V0nsen.

The Effect Of Laughing aud Crying in
Pretty Women.
from a London Letterl
The approach of age shows itself
first about the eyes. Lines come,
family at first, then deeper and deeper,
until the incipient crows feet are indi-
Gated, developed, revealed. The
woman who, looking in her glass, per-
ceiyes these fatal lines diverging from
the outer corners of her eyes, knows
that she has reached an era in her life.
She recognizes it with sigh, if she be
vain, lovely, or a worldly woman;
with smile, perhaps, if she has chill
dren in whom she can live her own youth
over again. But it can never be gay
smile. None of US, men or women,
like to feel youth-that precious pos
session-slipping away from us. But
we should never be on the lookout for
crows feet or gray hairs. Looking for
them is sure to bring them. Tears
form part of the language of the eye,
which is eloquent enough when spar
ingly used, and which should be spar
ingly used for other reasons than that
Of adding to their mute eloquence.
Tears are a disfguring expression of
emotion, and those who get into the
habit Of weeping over every small
vexation do much toward acquiring a
care-worn, miserable expression, and
are sure to look old before their time
Excessive weeping has been known not
only to injure, but actually to destroy
the sight. Few women look pretty, or
even interesting, in tears, though it has
long been pleasant fiction in poetry
and romance to suppose that they do
Mary women, some men, aud most
children make most disfiguring and
distorting grimaces while crying, and a
lady who thinks she can work upon a
mans feeling by liberal display of
tears should carefully study becom-
ing mode Of producing them before her
looking glass. Grimaces soften no
hearts, and tears accompanied by the
usual distortion have a hardening eff
feet, if not a visible one. In prettily-
written book, now probably out OF
print, purporting to be the story OF
the life Of one Of Millions wives, the
author makes that poet say of his wifes
eyes after crying that they resembled
"the suns clear shining after rain"-a
very pretty natural object indeed, but
during the rain itself the observer is
not inclined to lie conpl mentary.
Grimaces Of a somewhat at-similar
order are frequently made during the
action ot laughter, tare should al
ways be taken with the children to pre-
vent their falling into thi; habit It
freqn, nt.y reaciiei such pitch as to
render the iaug .lter post vely- unsight-
~. The face IS disorderpd and out oT
drawing. The eyes disappear and the
lips are drawn mp, revealing half an
inch Of palc p nk gum This peculiar
ity sometime; run5 in f.m lies partly
from unronsv.Qus limitation. | know
one family whose grinal es during
laughter are most ludicrously alike.
When they are all assembled at the
dinner-table, and joke goes around,
there is not single eye left in the fam
lily. Much, if not all, Of this could be
prevented by due care in childhood.
The laugh can be cultivated quite as
much as the voice Actresses take
lessons III laughing with occasionally
very charming results. | do not, how
ever, advise that such teaching should
begin in early childhood. lest it might
destroy spontAne.ty ard produce an eff
feet of art.tit iallty; Lut | very strongly
recommend mothers to check a dis
position to make grimaces during their
childrcn's Indulgence OF mirth.