Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-13
THE DIMPLED DARLINGS.
CURIOUS FANclEs' 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 Imitation
Dimples.
Around those little indentations that are the
delight of woman as she gazes on babyhood
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
sanctifed 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
linger as the tiny flower of maternity, petal
by petal, peeps forth to greet the morn.
Old time nurses used to say that fairy fin
gers touched the face of the child as the lat
ter was waited from heaven to earth, and as
the visitor grew tho. 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 will
have dimples"
Perhaps baby likes the new world he dis
covered on his venturesome voyage. II he
does, why he will smile and one dimple at
least is the result. If he cmiles twice, why
you may count on two But he always cries,
you will say. Granted; but his is no cry Of
pain. His is birds salutation to the morn
-shriller, perhaps, because his vocal chords
are as yet undeveloped, but nevertheless
pecan of joy. Many nurses offer a simpler
explanation and more plausible one than
this, that dimples are the smiles Of the soul.
sALUTING THE BABY.
Have you noticed a man or woman salute
a baby3 If you have-and the chances are
that you have--you will agree that one Of the
first salutations is 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
pies. 1t would be task, indeed, to calculate
the number of such greetings bestowed on the
darling's 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.
If the darling be girl she probably gets
more caresses than her brother. Hence she
is more likely to have dimples. And if they
are ofthe genuine slow growth, not compul-
sorry kind, she has rare prize. But she must
get them before she is 16--yes, years before
that
Certain beautihers declare that even in the
adult they can produce dimples by semi
surgical process This may be, but, after all,
the secret spring of she dimple is the soul.
AS the latter overhows with smiles the face
assumes a radiance that art cannot initiate.
Blue eyes or black sparkle as the light rushes
upward from its hidden caves, cheeks glow
and dimples appear.
For a girl, two dimples, 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 furrowa There
fore, it is a woman's privilege to smile, if she
has dimples This is no news to the fair sex. A
woman with dimples would not lose one for the
world. She is very careful of them, and rsgu-
lates her smiles to the capacity of her dimples
IMITATION D1MPLEs.
Moreover, by smiling, woman may pro-
duce pretty good imitation of dimple-a
dimpleoid the dermatologists would call it.
have known young girls to practice this
before mirror, and with remarkable sue
cess A half an hour 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 a
darling dimple, by the latter error, is lost
irretrievably. And above all, practice the
same smile without deviation.
Perhaps 1t is unnecessary to add that these
rules will work only in the cases Of young
people. For it is only when the soul is ebul-
lent and the heart has that girlish creative |
ness, which can make a belted knight out Of
young man with intellectually round
shoulders, that dimples come to stay After
a certain age there is no 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 will suffice Therefore old
maids should not try to raise dimples-
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