Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1885-09-10
HOW TO LOOK UGLY.
HOW THOUGHT SHAPES THE BODY
ACCORDING TO IT'S CHARACTER.
The Figure the Expression sf the Mind.
Cause and Effect In Human Ugli-
ness Nature Working
from Within.
Original


Think uzsiness and You can be as ugly as
sin. In laet sin is ugineis. Lay awake
nights ana review the old ggudge, the old
grievance the oil quarrel over AM over
aga.n. Call il up SO often that at last it
comes without calling. Remember or don't
remember, as YOU choose, that every mood of
mind imprinti itself on the face. Also,
that the longer the mood continues, 80 does
the imprint And that, if continued week
after week. mo1th after month, year after
year, at frequent intervals, this imprint
fastens itself ON your features, comes 10
stay ami hangs out its sign there.
Cosmetics can't wash it off. Cosmetics
reach only skin deep. Your ugliness lies far
under the skin. It's in part an affection OF
the heart. Not tine ponderable, paipable,
palpitating heart, but the heart of your
character and disposition
Doesn't your face take on ths aspect and
character o. the mood you're inl Isn't 1t
very diff rent face when lit up with hope,
confidence and cheerfulness than when dark
ened and dulled by discouragement and
hopelessnessl What, then, is the inferencei
II the mood be made permanent, won't the
look il brings to the face also be permanent.
Stick a pin i'm this idea: Every ugly,
mean, peevish, irritable, vicious, gloomy,
hopeless thought does its little toward shap-
ing your whole body in accordance with its
character Thought must have expression
in other ways besides speech. Thoughts
mo Il flesh, bone and muscle to look like
themselves. The aggregation Of ugly
thoughts forms an aggregation Of ugliness.
There's melancholy man, gloomy wo-
man. Isn't the sign hung out on their facesi
OF course. IL grew there IL is still grow
ing. The manufacturer works from the in
side.
There's man and woman who want all
they can get. and more, if possible. Hasn't
the unrest and misery OF greed and selfish-
ness placed Its marks very plain in sundry
curves and linesi Am / preaching heref
No. Only telling Of cause and effect Of Ma
ture doing her work ON the face as its owner
bids her do Natures a most obedient
servant. She does as she's hidden, regard
less of consequences to those who bid. Set
a match to the powder magazine and you
have a blow-up. Fire, air and element
working in obedience TO Natures laws II
you stand over the powder as YOU touch the
match TO il you go up In small pieces in
obedience to law and order. It's no affair
Of Natures that you put yourself where
you do.
Pretty world this would be were her laws
to vary and powder sometimes refuse TO
burn when fire was applied to il. Or that
trees should grow sometimes root up in the
air, or rice ucrSd; or that your nose should
suddenly and without warning become as
long as your arm, or that your face should
be ugly or pleasing without some newt
able and unvarying law to make it
so. What most you think makes most
the expression. Good thing. 10 think
of. WHAT mos. you think thes alone
models the face. If you're disconteuted,
peev.sh and irritable by yourself, discomfort,
peevishness and irritability will hang their
sign out ON your face, and there's no getting
behind il, no matter how much of simulated
humor you ''put ON in company. Keep in
a constant fret. Worry, worry, worry from
morning till night Learn t. worry over
trif,s Build mountains Of misery out of
mole hills of little obstacles. Result-fret-
ful expression. Talk about your neighbors
behind thsir backs. End fault with them
Find all the evil possible in them. Hope to
find more Keep this up Close your eyes
TO the good in them. Keep their evil side
uppermost. Pry into their business Gossip.
Slander. Keep your eyes and ears open and
your tongue going about them This also
win put its peculiar expression Of ugl:ness
on your face. There are many shades
of uglinsss. Industry and persever-
ance can unite them all Nature is
an industrious architect ON whatever you st
her TO building, and works as hard on tenn
pie of sin as on one OF holiness.
Courses come home 10 roostf Yes, they
return TO roost permanently on the face. a
life long hard swearer carries broods Of these
fowl in every lineament. 'Oh. but lie was
never heard to sweari' That made no diff
ference. The swearing went ON inside jast
the same, and the result is written on the
outside.
Be cynical likewise. Believe in nothing
and nobody. Sheer at the idea of anything
approaching absolute honesty or unse.fisa-
ness. Rssult-cynical expressioa
Live in barren room. Look out Of the
window on a barren yard Let the eye rest
only ON ash piles, broken barrows, old bar
rels and boxes, old tomato cans and rubbish.
Sling in "a dead cat at intervals. Extirpate
any green thing which has there the temerity
to attempt growing. Cultivate only the dis
nal, the squalid, the forlorn. Have every
thing about hard, angular, sharp, ragged,
pointed. Regard all ornamentation as
s'flummery.n Have such dismal and dis
couraged things always about you, 50 that
shey keep in your minds eve and become
fixtures there. The ideas and thoughts to
which they give birth viii become part Of
you and help make you ugly.
Never dress save for company. Look al
ways like a fright when you are by your
self. Show your estimation of yourself by
the shabblness OF your attire. Wear your
Oldest rags when you have none but self to
look at Cultivate thus the habit Of neglect
as to garb. and fondly and falsely imagine
your dres won't betray it when spasmod-
ically you are ''lxed up for company.
Do you not feel shabby attire when you
wear its Do You not feel rags when you
wear ragsl Do you not feel an old thread
bare worn out coat or gown when it is On
your personf Do you not feel something Of