Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-06-08
"SILENT SCOLDING.n
That Is What the Rev. ps. TsImage
Calls Sowing.

That Is What the Rev. ns. Tsimage
Calls Scowing.
This is dark world to many PEG
pie; a world of chills, world of<fog,
world of wet blankets. Nine-tenths
of the men we meet need encourage
ment. Your work is so urgent that
you have no time to stop and speak
to the people; but every day you meet
scores, perhaps hundreds and thou
sands of persons upon whom you
might have direct and immediate in
fluence.
"How? How" you cry out. an
swer, By the grace of physiognomy.
There is nothing more catching
than a face with a lantern behind 1t,
shining Gear through. l have no ad-
miration for a face with a dry smile,
meaning no more than the grin Of a
false face. But smile written by
the hand OF God, as an index or table
Of contents TO whole volumes OF good
feeling within, is a benediction. You
say:
MY face is hard and lacking in
mobility, and my benignant feelings
are not observable ia the facial pro
portions.
do not believe you. Freshness
and geniality of soul are so subtle and
pervading that they will, at some eye
Or mouth corner, leak out. Set be-
hind your face a feeling of gratitude
to God and kindness toward man, and
you will every day preach a sermon
long as the streets you walk, a sermon
with as many heads as the number OF
people of meet, and differing from
other sermons in the fact that the
longer it is the better.
The reason that there are so many
sour faces, so many frowning faces, SO
many dull faces, is because men and
women consent to be acrid and petu-
| liant and stupid. The way to improve
your face is to improve your dispoSi-
ton. Attractiveness of physiOgnony
does not depend on regularity Of
| feature.
l know persons whose brows are
shaggy and whose eyes are oblique and
whose noses are ominously longitude
nal, and mouth struggles along in un-
usual and unexpected directions; and
yet they are men and women Of so
much soul that we love to look upon
them, and their presence is an evan
gelism, writes Rev. DR.. Talmage in
the Ladies Home Journal They get
married sooner than the painted doll
| babies that call themselves young
ladies, and make home happy long
after the curls have turned gray and
the foot of the dance has turned into
a rheumatic shuttle.
have a special message for women
one dOn't-small as word, but
mighty in influence. 1t Is this:
Don't scowl. Scowling spoils faces.
Before you know it, my sister, your
forehead will resemble a small rail
road map.
There is a grand trunk line from
your cowlick to the bridge Of your
nose, intersected by parallel lines
running east and west, with curves
arching your eyebrows; and oh, how
much older you look for nCl
| Scowling is a bad habit that steals
upon US unawares. We frown when
this light is too strong and when it is
too weak. We tie our brows into a
knot when we are thinking, and knit
them even more tightly when we can.
not think. There is no denying
there are plenty of things to scowl
about
The baby in the cradle frowns when
something fails to suit. ''COnstitu
toddler who likes sugar on hi:
bread and butter tells his trouble il
the same way when you leave the
sugar off.
Gross" we say about the chill
dren, and worried to death, about
the grown folks and as for ourselves,
we can't help it. But we must. 1t:
reflex influence makes others unhappy
for face answereth unto face in life a:
well as in water. 1t bellies our re
Iiglon. We should possess our soul:
in such peace that it will reflect it
self in placid countenances-
If your forehead is rigid with wrin
kles before forty, what will it be al
seventy? There is one consoline
thought about those marks of time
and trouble-the death angel must
always erase them. Even the eX.
tremely aged in death often wear Z
smooth and peaceful brow, thus leav
ing our last memories of them calm
and tranquil But our business i:
with life.
Scowling is a kind of silent scold
ing, 1t shows that our souls nee(
sweetening. For PHYS sake, let u
take sad-iron, or a glad iron, o.
smoothing tool of some sort, anC
straighten these creases out of ou
faces before they become indelibly en-
graved upon our visage.