Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-03-03

''what do you think of it now2" said
the artist. Wonderfully improved,
said the critic. WELL" said the artist,
81 have not changed it at ALL" My
friends, the grace of God comes to the
heart of man or woman and then at
tenpts to change forbidding and pre-
judicial face into attractiveness. Per
haps the face is most unpromising for
the Divine Sculptor. But having
changed the heart it begins to work on
the countenance with celestial chisel,
and into all the lineaments of the face
puts gladness and an expectation that
changes it from glory to glory, and
though earthly criticism may disap-
prove of this or that in the appearance
of the face Christ says of the newly Gre
ated countenance that which PLATE said
of him, Behold the mani"
Here is another mighty chisel for the
countenance, and you may call it re-
venge or hate or malevolence. This
spirit having taken possession of the
heart, it encamps seven devils under the
eyebrows. 1t puts cruelty into the COM
preston of the lips. You can tell from
the mans looks that he is pursuing
some one and trying to get even with
him. There are suggestions of Nero and
Robespierre and Diocletian and thumb
screws and racks all up and down the
features. Internal artists with murder
ers' daggers have been cutting away at
that visage. The revengetul heart has
! built it's perdition in the revengeful
countenance. Designation of diabolic
| passion!
But here comes another chisel to shape
the countenance, and it is kindness.
There came moving day, and into her
soul moved the whole family Of Chris
tian graces, with all their children and
grandchildren, and the command has
come forth from the heavens that that
woman's face shall be made to CORE
spond with her superb soil. Her entire
| face from ear to ear becomes the canvas
on which all the best artists of 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 lad
ders all afash, and mountains OF trans
fguration and MONDAY in heaven. Kind
nessl 1t is the most magnificent sculp-
tor that ever touched human counte-
nance.
No one could wonder at the unusual
geniality in the face of William Win
dom, secretary Of the treasury of the
| United States, after seeing him at the
New York banquet just before he drop
ped dead, turning his wineglass upside
down, saying, 81 may by doing this Of
fend some, but by not doing it l 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 dog. 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 physiognomy.
THE LION AND THE MOUSE.
A Bayonne merchant was in the south
of Europe for b s health. and sitting on
the terrace on morning in his invalid
ism he saw a der flung from horse
into the river. and without thinking Of
his own weakness the merchant flung
off his invalid's gown and leaped into
L. ~. 70 tho 6rnuni
man, and clutching him as he was
about to go down the last time bore him
In safety to the bank, when glancing
into the face of the rescued man he
cried, My God, l have saved my own
son!" All kindness comes back to us
in one way or another; if not in any
other way, then in your own face. Kind
ness! Show it to others, for the time
may come when you will need it your
self. People laughed at the lion because
he spared the mouse that ran over him
when by one motion of his paw the mon
ster could have crushed the insignifi-
cant disturber. But it was we'll that
the lion had mercy on the mouse, for
one day the lion was caught in trap
and reared fearfully because he was
held fast by ropes. Then the mouse
gnawed off the ropes and let the lion go
free. You may consider yourself lion,
but you cannot afford to despise mouse.
When Abraham Lincoln pardoned
young soldier at the request of his moth
er, the mother went down the stairs OF
the White House saying: They have
lied about the presidents being home
~. He is the handsomest man | ever
saw" All over that presidents rugged
face was written the kindness which
he SO well illustrated when he said,
"Some of our generals complain that ]
impair discipline and subordination IN
the army by my pardons and respltes,
but it makes me rested after a hard
days work if can find some good ez-
cuse for saving mans life. and l go
to bed happier as l 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 aft
er death puts summer sunset between
the still lips and the smoothed hair that
makes me say sometimes at obsequ1es,
"She seems too beautiful to bury.
But here comes another chisel, and
its name is hypocrisy. Christ with one
terrific stroke in his sermon on the
mount described this character, "When
ye fast, be not as the hypocrites, of a
sad countenance, for they disfigure their
faces that they may appear unto men to
fast" Hypocrisy having taken posses
sion of the soul, it Immediately appears
in the countenance. Hypocrites are al
ways solemn. They carry several coun-
try graveyards in their faces. They are
fearful when there is nothing to cry
about, and in their prayers they catch