Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-07-07


There is time coming when women
win be fair at forty without being fat-at
leas. without being covered with that man
ner-of fat which destroys the taper of an
ankle and reduces it all to Uniform size
set into the middle of the foot.
You have ii in youi power if homely,
to make your feet pleasing and attractive.
IF handsome, you have it in your power to
keep your beauty up to forty and beyond
1T, and to keep growing more attractive.
Your face is not shaped by chance
There Is Il cause for the expression usually
found on it. If you are on the pout much
of the time; if you are grumbling and
growing inside about yourself or some
body else, and you have been so doing for
years, your face will wear grumble and
growl on it, because what you think most
of the time shapes yeur face. If you are
disconted, or envious, or jealous much of
the time, discomfort, envy and jealousy
will carve disagreeabIs lines on your face
If you are handsome at II, and growing
thought takes Ep a good deal of your
time, your beauty will be more than half
SOIC Nv IT VI ~. II you Va tllC
time discouraged or respondent; if you
fight them of, you will in few years more
find the corners Of your mouth turning
downward, as YOU see to-day on the faces
of so many SOUL and ancient maidens, mar
ried and single.
Because there are almost as many mar
ried old maids as single ones | mean
married woHen who are just as cross, peev-
ish, grouty, cosby, tale-bearing and scan
DIAL hunting as those antiques, the Misses
| Vinegar, who haven't changed their names.
| If there is no real, life-lastiug love in
marriage, the wife will remain an old maid
| Just the sane.
This fact that the state of mind you
mostly keep in shapes not only the face,
but the whole body, is nothing new. 1t is
at work all about us. A man or woman
who is always growing, looks growl all
the time, ard it is not a pleasing
look. Their very expression is a
breach of the public peace. A man who
thinks he knows it all and can't be told
anything new, looks it all the time, and
when he speaks you can tell his ignorance
and concei: in the tone Of his voice.
Thoughts make faces pleasing or repuls-
i've. They carve lines, put in wrinkles,
keep the mouth open as it should not be,
or keep it shut as il should be, and dye the
skin sallow, or death color, or the pink
and white of health They govern the
walk and the way the body is carried.
A "sloGch or a tramp without pride,
ambition or self-respect will have slouchy
walk, his knees bent and the lower jaws
have dropped or dropping. When you are
firm and decided about anything there is a
natural tendency for the mouth to close
| firmly and the lips to be pressed together.
Then the mouth and whole lower part of
| the face grow into that expression of firm
ness.
If you are in mind bright and cheerful
making the best of everything, willing to
please Others but not to toady them; if
you want to do the "square thing" by
everybody, and want also and insist on
| having the square thing" done by your
self, your face will take on an expression
| in accordance with that kind of perma-
nent thought, and it will not be an I'M
pleasant one. Aud expression is four
fifth of beauty. There are handsome faces
the same all the year round. That's the
trouble
They never change. Be they on man or
woman, there is not enough brains inside
to make them change. Many a girl at first
| sight thought to be quite plain featured
rules the roost," captivates the boys and
takes her pick of them because she's got
snap in her In company she's a bunch of
lighted firecrackers, while the live pretty
wax doll is only a popgun. 1t is mind
that rules and sways and pleases and fas-
cinates, and does so to last. The mere
face will hold but short time if it has no
change of expression. 1t is as natural to
like change of expression in the face as it
is TO like changes of fashion in dress And
as it Is natural, it is right in both cases.
| am not talking goody-goody talk and
telling you that handsome is as handsome
does" or that you must be good girl and
everything that's nice and proper. Doubt
less you have been told all this many
times. Did they ever give you reason in
telling this except that if you were not
good" you would at last 90 to u
bad place ? l am telling you that
your daily thoughts are not fog nor
air nor myths. They are forces. They are
things as real as things you see and as you
think them. They increase your good
looks or decrease them. They can make
| you fortunate or unfortunate in life or
business. They can make you sick or well.
No." say you. If | were to tell you at 10
O'Clock tomorrow morning that the build
ing you are working in was to be blown up
| by dynamite in an hour, and that you must
stay there and be blown up with it, would
your face in that hour have on the express
sion 1t would wear at your wedding If
you found out that the girl next you had
caught the smallpox, would not that
knowledge and the fear coming of l.
change the expression of your face? If
you should be kept in that fear and anx-
iety whole year would not your face
grow prematurely into such expression
Now, when you are worrying over any
thing for hours or weeks, you are setting
to work similar power to make your face
| look worried.
don't care much whether YOU are
very good girl or not, as goodness is some
times rated. If you've got temper and
it boils over sometimes, / don't suppose
you can help it any more than | can. You
may not have the bad mans privilege of
swearing openly at times, although you
may do SO inwardly and confdentially to
yourself, as ] have no doubt you do. Tenn
| BNi VI ANSSiA 10 a SStoN II the
steam in your boiler. Properly used, it is
the stuff that gives you snap, crackle
and sparkle. But when we let it run
away with us, as all OF us miserable sim
ners, in church and out, do at times, why
then the 1'boiler busts" and any one sin a
temper" much of the time will never have
good health, for you can Use up vitality
! enough in ten minutes rage to do half a
i-day's good, careful work i'll; and you know
you've got cnly for each day certain
amount of that vitality or strength to
spare, and if IL is so suddenly wasted there
is little chance Of filling up again for that
day. That Use, of temper very soon spoils
good looks.
l see sometimes in the street really
pretty girl, or enc who would be we're not
her face spoiled aad being spoiled more
and more by the peevish or disoontented
state Of mind she Is iIl-a girl who looks
as if size had just got off some "hard
words" with her mother or sister, or some
body else, and is still going through with
ii all, and giving them all piece of her
mind. But keeping this up does her