The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-03-20
THE DIAPLED DARLINGS.
CURIOUS FANcIES ABOUT AN INTER
ESTING SUBJECT.
Old Time Misses Ideas About 1.-THE First
Smile and the First Cry as Signs of What
Is to Be-Rules for Producing limitation
DimpIes.


Smile and the First Cry as Signs of What
Is to Be-Rules for Producing Imitation
DimpIes.
Around those little indentatiens that are the
delight of woman as she gazes on babyhcoG
and are the enchantment OF lovers as they
yearn at blossoming girlhood, nature has
wrapped vestment OF mystery beneath which
no mortal can penetrate. Dimples are the
smiles OF the infant soul as it catches gleam
of the infinite or inhales for the first time the
Sanctified odor OF mothers love. There are
stars that cling to the horizon as the dawn
appears and nights veil is slowly shifted. So
there are impressions on baby cheeks which
inger as the tiny flower of maternity, petal
by petal, peeps forth 10 greet the morn.
Old time nurses used to say that fhiry fin
gers touched the face of the child as the lat
ter was waited from heaven 10 earth, and as
the visitor grew the minute hollows became
more distinct. Others, less poetic, said:
''See the first smile, hear the first cry, and
you can tell whether or no the baby viii
have dimplesn
Perhaps baby likes the new world he dis
covered on his venturesome voyage. If he
does, why he will smile and one dimple at
least is the result If he smiles twice, why
you may count on two. But he always cries,
you will say. Granted; but his is no cry OF
pain. bis is birds saIutation TO the morn
-shriller, perhaps, because his vocal chords
are as yet undeveloped, but nevertheless
pecan of joy. Many nurses offer q simpler
explanation and more plausible one than
this, that dimples ara the smiles Of the soul.
sALUTING THE BABY.
Have you noticed man or woman salute
baby? If you have-and the chances are
that you have-you will agree that one Of the
first salutations is q gentle caress with thumb
and forefinger placed near the corners of the,
mouth. Some instinct impels us thus to greet
the cherub. We would hug him, but we fear
that the fragile lump might break.
Therefore we salute him with kiss, it may
be, if sentiment, friendship or ties of blood
warrant it; at any rate we careSs him with
thumb and index finger, as if we would inn
part to him the impression of the heart and
soul Thus, say some nurses, he gets his dim
piles. 1t would be a task, indeed, to calculate
the number of such greetings bestowed on the
darlings face from infancy till that period
when, if boy, he resents fondling, and true
TO natures course, he becomes more and more
the individual and less of his kind For the
baby belongs TO humanity, the boy to his
chumS and the man TO himself.
Ii the darling be girl she probably gets
more caresses than her brother. Hence she
is more likely to have dimpIes. And if they
are of the genuine slow growth, not compul-
sorry kind, she has a rare prize. But she must
get them before she is 16-yes, years before
that.
Certain beautifiers declare that even in the
adult they can produce dimples by a semi
surgical process This may be, but, after all,
the secret spring of the dimple is the soul.
As the latter overfows with smiles the face
assumes a radiance that art cannot initiate
Blue eyes or black sparkle as the light rushes
upward from It's hidden caves, cheeks glow
and dimples appear.
For girl, two dlmples, one at each corner
of the mouth, or near those points, are
lavish gift. The daintiest smile will bring
them out well defined and ravishing, broad
grin will expand them into burrows There
fore, it is a woman's privilege to smile, if she
has dimples. This is no news to the fairsex. A
woman with dimples would not lose onefor the
world. She is very careful of them, and regu-
lates her smiles to the capacity of her dimples.
IMITATION DIMPLES.
Moreover, by smiling, a woman may pro-
duce pretty good imitation of dimple-a
dimpleoid the dermatologists would call it.
1 have known young girls to practice this
before mirror, and with remarkable sue
cess A half an hour a day for about two
years is generally sufficient to produce good
results. The operation is simple First,
carefully ascertain the effect of an ordinary
smile. Note the expansion of the mouth.
Next place a thumb and forefnger on the
burrows made by the smile; then alternately
relax and contract the smile, at the same
time pressing heavily on the burrows
One thing must be avoided in order TO give
the operation fair trial In eating be care
full to move only the jaws during mastica- |.
tion. Do not move the whole face. Many /
darling dimple, by the latter error, is lost /
And above all, practice the /
same smile without deviation.
Perhaps it is unnecessary to add that timss /
rules viii work only in the cases of young 1
people For it is only when the soul is ebul- (
lient and the heart has that girlish creative /
ness, which can make belted knight out Of /
a young man with Intellectually round f.
that dimples come TO stay. After |
a certain age there is 70 fertilizer that can
force their growth out of antique soil Roses
DO not bloom, in this cline at least, during
January, except in greenhouses. May and
June are the months of dimples and no green
house warmth viii suffice. Therefore old
maids should not try to raise dimples.-
Boston Globe.