The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-11-30
A rOSMET

When people are looking out for appli-
ances to create and preserve beauty-for
this powder, that stain, this cffacer of
wrinkles, that maker of dimples-they
miss a great factor in the business that
they have on hand by not looking within,
and learning that our emotions are, after
all, either our best beautifiers or exactly
the reverse.
There are no lives without trouble. Man
is born to it, we have been told. But the
trouble can be made twice what it is by
constant worrying and brooding over IL,
In every nature, too, are depths into whose
pool many troubles can be dropped. Not
the great griefs which are often as if sent
divinely, so fine is the work they do upon
us, so lofty are the spaces they unlock for
us. so strong is the hand they offer us to
climb on skyward. But the multitude of
veXations, notifications. hinderances, un-
gratitied wishes, disappointments, sights,
hurts. angers, and all the herd of wrongs,
little or great, that belongs to life even
under happy conditions. A wise person
drops these troubles into the depths, and
left them stay there. An unwise person
is perpetually reaching down and bringing
them up, and clouding all the waters of
eNistance while doing so. And the state
ment hardly involves metaphor, for who
does not remember the actual physical dis
turbance felt from brooding over a wrong
cherishing a grudge, or indulging in
burst of rage-the burning at the heart and
the hard the trembling of the nerves, the
loss of appetite and sleep? In fact, this
brooding arouses a nervous action which
the old domestic nurse tells you stirs the
bile, and the natural result Of it is that the
whole countenance will look, after such
experience, sallow and yellow and bilious;
there will be no lustre in the eye; the cir
culation has been interfered with; there
will be an unpleasant hectic flush on the
cheek, and even red and angry patches on
the forehead and throat; while it is well
to know now that chemical researches have
found that the perspiration in anger is of
ii virulent poisonous quality.
Whatever form the disturbance takes
there is serious interference, with the kind
ly and healthy processes of life, and the
complexion suffers from it. For it is abso-
lutcly sure that bad temper breeds bad hui
mOrs, and that we can as readily poison
our blood with them as external applica-
ton or internal absorption. And even if
one does not cherish state of feeling to
interfere with the functions SO seriously,
dwelling on the pin-pricks instead of coy
ering them out of sight, will make fine lines
in the smoothness of the forehead, lift eye
brows querulously, drop the corners of
the mouth downheartedly, and not only
spoil present beauty, but hasten future
ugliness. And it does not require veXa-
tions, dark brooding, or worry alone to in
jure the good looks. The person who al
lows herself to be bored where she is not
interested in what goes on about her, gains
a lack-lustre of eye and skin and feature
that is akin to Disagreement, for the eve
grows dull and heavy, the feature fined
and immobile, the whole air and aspect
without alertness or grace
To cultivate interest is to cultivate vi
vacity, expression, intelligence-things
that are beautifying, that quicken the blood
and send it freely to the surface. And if
one cannot cultivate an interest, but must
needs be bored, then to cultivate the pow
er of abstraction, so that one may be busy
with pleasant thoughts while stupidity
droneS on, is to cultivate cheerful lines
upon the face, and so keep the blood as
well as the intellect from stagnation, that
it is no advantage to say that sweet temper
and good-humor are among the best cos
meticS known.-Harper's Bazaar.