Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-07-30
A CONSERVATION or eeAuTY.
Tho Power to Throw on the Burdes
of Care.

Tho Power to Throw on the Burdes
of Care.
There is good old saying: "Hand.
some is that handsome does" which ID
more literally true than many people
believe. There is no cosmetic, no mas
sage treatment for smoothing wrinkles
from the brow of care like an ami
able disposition. If there is one thing
above all others that young people
should be taught to cultivate it is q dis
position to look on the bright side.
There are troubles enough in every life.
Man is born to trouble as well as Joy.
All existence shows the ever present
struggle between light and darkness,
evil and good, and alternate success and
failure. 1t takes the strongest faith of
the Christian mother 10 believe in the
final triumph of right over wrong. All
that the best and wisest men and WON
en- can do is patiently to do the duties
around and "trust God" in spite of ap-
parent failure, that all things will final
ly work out for the best.
Nothing is gained, and everything
may be lost, by continual grieving over
the past. Fortunate and happy is that
person who can drop hts past troubles
and work bravely on toward ultimate
success. Brooding over the sorrows
which we cannot turn aside, grieving
over past losses, not only weakens the
will, but stirs the bile, intcrferes with
free circulation of the blood, and clogs
up the complexion and humors. Expao-
sions of sudden anger are found by
chemical research to impart a poisonous
quality to the perspiration. 1t is well
known that anger produces marked
changes in the face, drawing the cor.
ners of the mouth and tracing heavy
lines. It is as certainly true that we
can poison our blood with bad temper
as we can by the use Of improper food or
any other deleterious thing.
We sometimes see faces on which q
qneruious, selfish disposition has left
its mark. The eyebrows are lifted in
stead of gracefully curving, the corners
of the mouth are drawn down, and
heavy lines are written on the brow; in
fact, the entire countenance is so
scanned that it is approaching the ap-
pcarance of the typical bag. There are
other faces, gentle, fair and lovely-the
expression written upon them telling
Of the lovely souls within, as surely as
the gentle accent Of the voice.
Beauty of face like this, the reflection
of the beautiful spirit within, cannot
be gained by life of inaction. There is
no face so surely stamped with the dis
figuring lines of a selfish life as that of
the listless, indolent woman who pos
sesses no interest beyond the gratifica.
ton of her love of ease. The eye be-
comes listless, the features fixed and ex-
pressionless, and the entire aspect
shows a lack of alertness and grace. To
cultivate the mind and keep an interest
in living topics of the day is TO keep the
spirits young and make the blood flow
rapidly and the eyes become sparkling
and beautiful. No intelligent woman
who does not allow herself to become
absorbed in her own selfish interest is
in danger of that mental stagnation
that writes it's story in dull common
place lines on the faces of so many
middle-aged women. The remedy
against the lack luster eye, the dull,
bilious complexion, the heavy lines that
seam so many faces, lies in the power
of every woman who has learned to con-
quer her spirit, though when the evil
marks of temper and selfishness become
fixed by habit they are as ineradicable
as the scars of q saber stroke.-N. Y.
Tribune.