The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-01-27
PRETTY is AS PRETTY DOES.
Some Striking and Original Ideas Sug'
gested by the Old Proverb.

1t is the manner of the day to scoff
at old-fashioned proverbs and sayings.
No phrase of them all has met with
more ridicule from most of us than the
one which serves as my text. Yet,
under it lies hidden truth and those
who care to seek may find it.
Physical beauty in woman is to me
pleasure So keen that l have often
chided myself for my admiration of so
perishable a thing. A plain woman
affects my nerves like a discord in
music.
Beauty and grace soothe me like
harmonious chords.
Analyzingsthese emotions l have come
to the belief that all beauty is an ex-
preston of right thoughts and right
living in former eXistences.
The woman who is born with beau
tiful complexion and fair features has
in some life before this dwelt in har-
mony with truth. Instead of feeling
that her beauty entities her to license
of conduct she should feel the noblesse
oblige of living up to her souls former
record and making that beauty an
heirloom for future lives.
The woman who is born with any
physical blemish is suffering from
broken laws in past existences. 1t be-
hooves her to remedy these defects by
living close to truth. Thoughts are
things and they are hourly forming
our features and working away on our
compilations.
1 have seen beautiful girl become
absolutely plain in two years time
through i'll temper and selfishness,
which utterly changed her features.
l have seen, too, plain girl, with
shapeless features, bad complexion
and lustreless eyes. blossom into posi-
tive beauty by being taken out of her
self-away from her pretty thoughts
and aims and given broad ambitions
and intellectual pleasures for her
mental food.
A lady physician, who has been
regular practitioner for more than
thirty years, told me some interesting
and startling facts which had come
under her notice recently.
81 have discovered" she said, THAT
tumors never attack women who are
frank, ,demonstrative and open-hearted.
In every case which has come under
my notice the woman has been secre-
tive and repressed by nature and giver
to hiding and harboring her sorrows
and angers. have become convinced
that such feelings. which find no ex
preston, reflect upon the body and dc
much toward causing tumors. | have
noticed how blindness and Affections
of the eyes befall people who are in
elined to look upon the dark side o
life. If you will observe for yoursel
you will see that the pessimistic peo
pie, those who believe the world is al
wrong and is going from bad TO worse
are very frequently afflicted with som
disease of the eyes.
followed the physicians advice an
observed for myself, and in almos
every instance [ found my observation
corroborating her theory.
Melancholy, selfishness and lack c
ambition will cause eruptions upon tn
skin l feel confident, and we all kno'
that worry and fretfulness will tax
the life out of the eyes and wear fun
rows in the face.
1t is impossible to be permaneutl
beautiful with an ill-fitting soul. 1t
impossible to be plain or repulsive
the soul is IN harmony with light, hope
\ unselfshness and noble ambitions fo
all these elements work on the face.
In these days no woman can affor
to sit down and depend upon he
beauty to take her through life. Me
are becoming, unconsciously to then
selves more spiritualized, and they d.
mand higher order of woman tha
they demanded 100 years ago.
Not only is the idle, selfish beauty {
to-day sure to mar her charms and d.
: prive her soul of its rightful inheri
ance in future lives. but she is liable
n lose the regard and interest of the me-
n she desires to win in this life; for ma
Il always wants the best that is goin
l. and the world is full of women WI
realize that the only way to be pc
manently beautiful is TO live beautifl
= lives.
There were never so many lovel
and noble women in the world as at tt
present time. There was never tin
: when the idle, ambitionless, seltis
beauty was so out of place. There W;
y never time when the old saying he
> more truth, Handsome is as handson
, does. ."-EHG Wheeler Witc0T IN N.
= World.