Wichita eagle., 1888-07-01
SHAPING THE FACE.
THE UGLY LINES CARVED BY ENVY
AND Discomfort.

| Prentice Mulford's Advice to Girls. Both
Young and OId-Thoughts Make Faces
/ Pleasing or RepaIsise-How Usliness L
| Brought On-Tnink.
You have It in your power, il homely, to
make yosr face pleasing and attractive. II
handsome. you have it in your power to keep
| your beauty up to 90 and beyond 1t, and 20
keep growing more attractive Your face is
] not shaped by chance There is a cause for
the expression usually found on it. Il you
are on the pout much OF the time; if you are
| gru1nbfng and growing inside about your
| self or somebody else, and you have been so
/ doing fer years, YOU face will wear grumble
and growl on it, because what you think most
or the time shapes your faca II you are dis
! co2tented- or enviCus, o: jealous much Of the
time, discomfort, envy and jealousy vii,
carve disagreeable lines ON your face. II you
ore handsome at II, and growing thought
takes up good deal Of your time, your
beauty viii be moro than half gone by q or
80. Ii you are much OF the time discouraged
or respondent; IL you give way to the blues
and viii not try to fight them off, you win in
few years more find the corners Of your
mouth turning downward, as you see today
On the faces OF so many sour and ancient
maidens married and single
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 al the time, and it is
not 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 any
thing new looks it all the time, and when be
speaks you can feel his ignorance and conceit
in the tones of h;I voice
Thoughts make faces pleasing or repulsive
They carve lines, put in wrinkles, keep the
mouth open as it should not be or keep it
shut IS it should be, and dye the skin saIlow
or death color or the pink and white Of
health. They govern the walk and the way
the body is carried A "slouch" or q tramp
without pride, ambition or self respect will
have slouchy walk, bis knees bent and the
lower jaws have dropped or irooping When
you are firm and decided about anything
there Is natural tendency for the mouth to
close firmly and the lips to be pressed to-
gether. Then the mouth and whole lower
part Of the face grow into that expression Of
frmness.
II you are in mind bright and cheerful.
making the best Of everything, willing to
please others, but not to ''toady" to them; il
you want to do the square thing" by every
body, and want also and insist Oh having the
square thing" done By yourself, your face
VIII take on an expression in accordance with
that kind of permanent thought, auy it will
not be an unpleasant one. And EXP ession Is
four-tifths of beauty
There are handsome faces the same all the
year round. That's the trouble They never
change Be they on man OF woman, there ia
rot enough brains inside to make them
change.
1t is mind that rules and sways and pIeases
and fascinates, and does so to last. The
mere face will hold but short time if it has
no change Of expression It 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 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 can in.
crease 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 l were to tell
you at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning that the
building 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 during that hour have on it
the expression it would wear at your weddings
If you found out that the girl next you had
caught the smallpox would not that knowl-
edge and the fear coming Of it change the
nvprpsSioO ~ vour facas 1,o,, eno,,11 -
kept in that fear and anxiety q whole year
would not your face grow permanently into
such expressionl Now, when you are worry.
ing over anything for hours or weeks you are
setting to work a similar power to make
your face look worry.
see sometimes in the streeta really pretty
girl, or one who would be, were not her face
spoiled and being spoiled more and more BY
the peevish and discontinued state Of mind
she is ina girl who looks as IL she had lust
got Off some 'shard words" with her mother
or sister, or somebody else and is stin going
through with it all. and giving them all
piece of her mind. But keeping this up does
her great deal Of harm. 1t is bringing on
u2liness. 1t weakens the stomach. 1t poisons
the blood 1t drives the best people from
her. It attracts and brings the worst 1t
ruins the complexion.
You may not take much stock in these
ideas just now. but you will in time. You
will think more of them three months hence.
You viii think Of them still more year
henca You can't help thinking of them, be-
cause these are live truths, and anything
that's alive grown And as You think of
them you viii almost unconsciously act them
and be all the better and healthier and the
handsorler for IT. You needn't mind what
the older FOLKS may say about this Some Of
them are past their time for learning any.
thing new. You are not and never should
be.-Prentice Milford in New York Star.