Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-03-09


face Of the statue, pretending heWas
using his chisel to maks'the improve
ment suggested blythe critic. What
do you think of itnow?" said the art
ist- '.Wonderfnlly improved" said the
critic. /: "Welk' said-the artist, ~
have not changed it atall Ny friends,
the grace OF God comes Ia the heart
Of man or woman and then attemph
to change forbidding and prejndicfaI
face into attractiveness. Perhaps the
face is most unpromisfng for the
Divine Sculptor. But having changed
the heart it begins to work on the
countenance with celestial chisel. and
into all the lineameuts of the faceputs
q gladness and an expectation that
changes it, from glory 70 glory, and
though earthly criticism may disap-
prove of this or that in the appearance
of the face. Christ says Of the newly
I created countenance that which Plate
said of Him: ''Behold the man"'
Here is another mighty chisel for
the countenance, and you may call it
revenge, or hate, or malevolence. This
spirit having taken possession of the
the eyebrows. 1t puts cruelty into the
compression of the lips. You can tell
from the mans look that he is pursu-
ing some one and trying to get even
with him. There are suggestions Of
Nero, and Robespierre, and Diccletian,
and thum bscrews, and racks all up
and down the features. Internal ar
fists with murderers' daggers have
been cutting away at that visage. The
revengeful heart has built its perdition
in the revengeful countenance. Dis
fguration of diabolic passion!
But here comes another chisel to
shape the countenance, and it is kind
ness. There came a moving day, and
into her soul moved the whole family
of Christian graces, with all che chill
dren and grandchildren, and the COM
mand comes from the heavens that
that woman's face shall be made to cor
respond with her superb soul. Her en-
tire face from ear to ear becomes the
canvas on which all the best artists in
Heaven begin TO put their finest
strokes, and on the small compass of
that face are put pictures of sunrise
over the sea, and angels of mercy
going up and down ladders all
a-fash, and mountains of trans
fguration and MONDAY in Heaven.
Kindness! 1t is the most magnifi-
cent sculptor that ever touched human
countenance. No one could wonder at
the unusual geniality in the face of
William Window, secretary of the
treasury of the United States after
seeing him at the New York banquet
just before he dropped dead, turning
his wine-glass upside down, saying:
81 may by doing this offend some, but
by not do it, | might damage many"
BE kind to your friends. Be kind to
your enemies. Be kind to the young.
Be kind to the old. Be kind to your
rulers. Be kind to your servants. Be
kind to your superiors Be kind to
your interiors. Be kind to your horse.
Be kind to your cat. Morning, noon
and night be kind, and the effects of
it will be written in the language Of
your face. That is the Gospel of phys
| iognomy.
A Bayonne merchant was in the
south of Europe for his health, and
sitting on the terrace one morning in
his invalidism, he saw a rider flung
from a horse into the river, and with
out thinking of his own weakness, the
merchant flung off his invalid's gown
and leaped into the stream and SWAN
to the drowning man, and clutching
him as he was about to go down the
last time, bore him in safely to the
bank, when CHANGING into the face of
the rescued man, he cried: 'My God!
have saved my own SOM" All kind
ness comes back to us in one way or
another if not in any other way
then in your own face. Kindness!
Show it to others, for the time
may come when you will need it your
self. People laughed at the lion be-
cause he spared the mouse that ran
over him, when by one motion of his
paw the monster could have crushed
the insignificant disturber But it
was we'll that the lion had mercy on
the mouse, for one day the lion was
caught in trap and roared fearfully
because he was held fast by ropes.
Then the mouse gnawed off the ropes
and let the lion GO free. You may con-
slider yourself a lion, bnt you can
not afford to despise mouse.
When Abraham Lincoln pardoned
young soldier at the re-
quest of his mother the mother
went down the stairs of the White
House saying: '"They have lied about
the presidents being homely; he is the
handsomest man | ever saw" All over
that presidents rugged face was writ
ten the kindness which he so well IL
Illustrated when he said: ''Somy of our
generals complain that impair disci-
pline and subordination in the army
by pardons and respites, but it
makes me rested after hard DAVIS
work If | can find some good ex-
cuse for saving a mans life, and / 90
to bed happier as | think how joyous
the signing of my name will make him
and his family" Kindness. 1t makes
the face to shine while life lasts, and
after death puts summer sunset be-
tween the still lips and the smoothed
hair that makes me say sometimes at
obsequies: She seems too beautiful to
bury"
Here comes another chisel, and that
belongs to the oId-fashioned religion
1t hrst takes possession of the whole
soul, washing out sins by the blood of
the Lamb and starting Heaven right
there and then. This done deep
down in the heart, religion says:
Now let me go up to the win
dows and front gate of the face
and set up some SIGNAL that I have