The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-10-17
o go LOOK UGLY.

as SIN. In iact, SIN Is ugllneSS. Lay awake
nights and review the old grudge, the ole
grievance, the old quarrel over and over
again. Call it up so often that at last it
comes without calling. Remember or
don't remember, as you choose, that every
mood of mind imprints itself on the face
Also, that the longer the mood continues
ued week after week, month after month,
year after year, at frequent intervals, this
imprint fastens itself on your features,
comes to stay and hangs out its sign there.
Cosmetics can't wash it off. Cosmetics
reach only skin deep. Your ugliness lies
under the skin. It's in part an affection oil
the heart. Not the ponderable palpable
palpitating heart, but the heart of your
character and disposition.
Doesn'tyou face take on the aspect aad
character of the mood you're in? Isn't ii
a very different face when lit up with hope,
confidence and cheerfulness thar when
darkened and dulled by encouragement
and hopelessness? What, then, is the in
ference? If the mood be made permanent,
won't the look it brings to the face also be
permanent?
Stick a pin in this idea: Every ugly,
mean, peevish, irritable, vicious, gloomy,
hopeless thought does it's little toward
shaping your whole body in accordance
with its character. Thought must have
expression in other ways besides speech.
Thoughts model flesh, bone and muscle to
look like themselves. The aggregation OF
ugly thoughts forms an aggregation OF
ugliness.
There's a melancholy man, a gloomy wo-
man. Isn't the sign hung out on their
faces? OF course. It grew there. 1t is
still growing. The manufacturer works
from the inside.
There's a man and woman who want all
they can get, and more, if possible. Has not
the unrest and misery Of greed and selfish
ness placed its marks very plain in sundry
curves and lines? Am [ preaching here? 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 obed-
lent servant. She does as she's hidden
regardless Of consequences to those who
bid. Sets match to the powder magazine
and gou have a blow-up. Fire, air and
element working il obedience to Natures
laws. If You stand over the powder as
yoa touch the match to it you go up in
obedience to law and order. It's no affair
of Natures that you put yourself where
you do.
Pretty world this would be We're fel
laws to vary and powder sometimes refuse
to burn when fire was applied 10 it. Or
that trees should grow sometimes root up
in the air, or Uice eerSa; or that Your nose
should suddenly aud without warning
become as long as your arm, or that your
face should be ugly or pleasing without
someinevitable and unvarying law to make
it SO. What most you think makes most
the expression. Good thing to think of
What o you think when alone models
the face. Ifyoa're disconnected, peevish
and irritable by yourself, discomfort,
peevishness aud irritability will hang their
sign out on your faco, and there's no get
ting behind it, 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 to
-orry nvar triHaS R,Jfl paf=nrv nTE of
mole hills of little obstacles. Result
fretful expression. Talk about your
neighbors behind their backs. Find faul
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 aad your tongue
going alb them. This also will pat its
peculiar expression of ugliness on your
face. There are many shades of ugliness.
Industry and perseverance can unite then
all. Nature is an industrious architect on
whatever you set her to building, and
works as hard on a temple of sin as on one
of holiness.
Courses come home to roost?' Yes
they return to roost permanently on the
face. A lifelong hard swearer carries
broods of these 70 wi in every lineament.
ooh, but he was never heard to swear!''
That made no difference. The swearing
went on inside just the same, and the re
suit is written Oh the outside.
Be cynicil likewise. Believe in nothing
and nobody. Sheer at the idea of any
thing approaching absolute honesty or un
selfshness. Result-cynical expression.
Live IN a barren room. Look out G
the window on a barren yard. Let thu
eye rest only on ash piles, broken barrows
old barrels, and boxes, old tomato cans ant
rubbish. Sling in a dead cat at intervals,
Extirpate any green thing which has there
the tmerity to attempt growing. Guilt
vate only the dismal, the squalid, the
f~orlorn. Have everything about hard,
sharp. ragged, pointed. Regard all or
namentation as "aunmery." Have soms
dismal and discouraged things always
about you, SO that they keep in your mind
eve and become fixtures there. The ideas
and thoughts to which they give birth vii
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