St. Paul daily globe., 1889-03-24
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Well, can't make it clear or explain it to
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could do?
st LouiS Globe ID emocrat

Mrs. Cleveland has been noted in
Washington as woman who rarely
kisses her friends. Mrs. Whitney was
the only lady in Washington with whom
she was on kissing terms. This marked
abstinence was not assumed in order to
preserve the dignity of her exalted
position, for Frances Folsom was
a conservative kisSer as school girl
Mrs. Whitney, on the contrary, is liber-
al in the distribution of such favo1s
among her lady friends. and fortunately
her lips are very pretty.
IL judge man by his eyes, but a
woman always by her lips" said Ben
Jamin Franklin, who undoubtedly was
a good judge of human nature.
Abdallah, the shiek of the Persians,
who was noted for his wisdom in many
things, once gave some advice to his
courtierS about choosing wife: LET
her be woman whose eyes turn not
away when you speak to her, and whose
nose hath no tendency upward, for the
tlrst i is an owner of deceit, the second of
bad temper; but, above all, look you
to her lips. Choose no woman whose
lips droop at the corners, for your life
will be perpetual mourning time, nor
yet should they curve too much upward,
for that denotes frivOlity. Beware of
the under lip that rolleth outward, for
that woman hath more desire than con-
science. Select for wife one whose
lips are straight-not thin, for she is
Shrew, but with just the fullness neces-
sary to perfect symmetry"
L have read number of these wise
sayings about lips, and unconsciously [
found myself studying the lips of
women, and the result of my study has
shown that the mouth has more to do
with making or marring the beauty of
the face than any other feature, and the
wonderful part of it is that it is not
the pretty mouths that make the pretty
faces, nor vice versa; everything de-
pendS on the expression. / can not
choose clearer way of explaining how
this is than by referring to the lips of
some well-known ladies In New York.
There is Mrs. Alice j. Shaw, the whist
ler; she has mouth "like a flower un-
blown" straight and sweet, curving
upward very little at the corners, full
in the center, red as rose, and alto
lips all puekered, all ready to whistle,
oh, yum, yum, is it any wonder that
every masculine heart in the audience
goes pit-a-pat?
/ There is Ella Wheeler Wilcox, the
pOeteSS. You would know her soul was
full of music if you looked only once at
her mouth. Her lips are ripe and red,
but so sensitive; every emotion is shown
in their quick, responsive quiver. Here
is as expressive mouth as one often
sees.
Marion Foster, the artist, has mouth
that tells her history without a sound.
Those sweet, closed lips speak more
elOquently than many more noisy ones.
ness that goes home to every heart.
From her invalld's chair she
watches all that is best and lowell
est in the world, and with the purity of
thought that comes only from clean
souls like hers, she WeaveS upon the
canvas picture so true that you would
wonder where she gets her inspiration.
Ii you are so fortunate as to know her
and will allow your heart to listen,
those silent lips of hers will tell you.
Mrs. Croly (Jennie june has a wide,
straight, laughing mouth. She has a
ready smile for every one, and ready
bright side of things always, and how
much better it is. Ii only we all could
do SO; but we have not all mouth like
Jennie june.
Nelly Bly, has little mouth; her lips
are slightly compressed. which gives
her an expression of shrewdness and
worldly wisdom, which says: "You
may be able to take Inc in, but you
want to very careful that you don't get
taken in yourself"
Mrs. Bradley A. Fiske, daughter of
Joseph Harper and wife of Lieut.. Fiske.
of the United States navy, has lips like
red peach, full, soft and red. With
her turluois eyes and red gold hair, she
is striking picture.
Mrs. DIR. Pryor. of Park avenue,
familiarly known as "Young Mrs.
Pryor." has mouth that always makes
me think of 81 oung Mrs. Jardine.'' not
because her name was "Silence," but
because there is SO much of that sweet,
womanly nature in them, that without
the least trace of strong-mindedness in
it, can tide man over misfortunes
mountain high. and yethe hardly knows
what helped him; he only knows that
there was something that would not let
him sink.
Mrs. Gen.Pryor has pleasant mouth,
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