Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1897-03-25
Human Character Signs.

" Never under any circumstance.
marry girl whose mouth turn:
down at the corners" was the advice
gwen by preceptress Of large
school situated within q few miles oi
New York city to q Stm reporter.
have been closely associated
with large army of young mer
and women ior great many years. D
| continued the speaker, "and / have
frequently given this advice. Many
! young men, students at the institu.
tlon with which l am connected,
imagining that they are in love,
come to me for advice. l invaria-
bly, first counsel them as l have spo.
ken.
Why? Because girl whose
mouth turns down at the corners is
invariably of sour, morose disposi-
tlon,. with very jealous makeup,
and is certain to make the man she
marries any amount of trouble
through life. | have verified this
assertion in great many instances,
and | have yet to find one case in
which it failed,
a great many young lady students
whose mouths have that un fortunate
curl downward ask for some advice
1or correcting the fault say fault,
Tor believe any woman who has a
homely mouth it is her own fault
and | always tell them they must
abandon all hope of affecting cure
oy external means, such as pursing
their mouths upward with their fin-
gers, and look after the interior of
their natures, examine and correct
the dispositions which have caused
nature to so mark and distinguish
them that all men who know any,
thlng about character reading NAV
at glance know them for just what
they are.
The fault certainly can be correctd
and a young woman can change the
shape OF her mouth as certainly as
she can the contour of her form, but
OF course it takes persistent and de-
termined work to do it, an exercise
OF Will power that Of itself is last
ing benefit in forming perfect and
lovable character, but l know
whereof 1 speak when / say it can
be accomplished.
have another theory, also, which
L think you will find interesting,n
continued the speaker. "It is that
children very often inherit the de-
slres OF their parents. An instance
or two will hest illustrate what 7
nlean. L know intimately a minis.
ter, one Of the old. fashioned ortho-
doX kind, VINO believe in following
the strict letter of their creed more
than relying on thir own good sense
Oh right and wrong. The man whom
refer always had burning desire
to attend the theater, but the discip.
line he so conscientiOusly followed
would not allow him do do such a
thlng, and he suppressed and held in
check the desire.
often when some great actor was
announced, or some standard play
was holding the boards, he would
say to me, 'Oh, how / would like to
go with you to the theatre tonight,
but L do not feel that L dare.'
Now that man." continued the
preceptress, married and brought a
family of children into the world,
and every one of them was perfectly
stage crazy. They would sooner go
to the theatre than prayer. 10 Getting
any night in the week, although they
had been brought up to give the
prayer-meeting first choice. The
desire which their father suppressed
they inherited and did not control
as he had DONE"
ONE VIEW OF DEATH.-An arti-
Gle in the Montreal Herald upon
THE Sky in March, 1897" by Mr..
Wilfrid Marsan, director of the West
mount Astronomical Observatory.
concludes as follows:
" Astronomy is the science Of life
and death, of worlds and souls
Nothing is so beneficent as death un-
derstood; the history of the planets
progress shows that death has been,
at every single step, the condition of
growth and of advancing life. The
lower types of organic life must die
and disintegrate before we can have
the higher stages. Thus all along it
is life, new life, larger life, grander
life, born out Of decay and DEATH -
DO we not also see how, instead of
being a terror and calamity, it is
really the last, highest, best, sweetest,
crowning gift of God. There is only
a separation, and that for little
while. When the world learns how
to obey the natural laws of this our
human life, and knows the fact Of
continued existence, death will then
be recognized as a benignant spirit,
the messenger of the excellent crea.
tive power, a friend, not feared. but
welcomed, as opening to us the
golden gate of life of greatness and
splendor.
We humble travellers from the ce
iestiai worlds TO the lands of HEAVIER
look at death as the finest, greatest
and noblest kind Of birth from the
most wise, most just and most loving
, Eternal Ordainer, and we shall all
when we know how to detach our
selves from certain ways of lookine
| at death, from certain selfish views
| be able to see the divinenesS of it.
| Birth and life, work and enjoyment
, death and reSurrection--such is tn,
: imminent law i'm the terrestrial life
| as we'll as in the universal and eterna
, creation, for inferior lives and supe
! rior existence form a single unity
Death comes and touches us, ant
! then we realize that we are citizen
| of Heaven"
' SPRIGHTLEIGH-Hello, old man
what are you moping here fOr?-
{ Why aren't you dancing?
3 Fauxpas-To avoid entanglements
Sprightleigh--I didn't know yo
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