The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-10-25
STUDY THE WoMAN's LIPS.
Maxims of sheik Abdallah and Others
About Choosing a Wife.

In choosing a wife, let her be a woman
whose lips do not drooD at the corners
This Is the advice Of Sheik Abdallah, the
Persian sage ---.
II a woman's lips droop. her husbands
life will be a perpetual mourning time.
Nor yet should they curve 100 much up
ward. for that denotes frivolity.
Beware Of the under lip that rolls out
ward. for that woman has ne great con-
science. Select for wife one whose lips
are straight, not thin, for then she Is a
shrew, but with just the fullness neces-
sary to perfect symmetry.
The mouth has more 10 do with making
or marring the beauty Of the face than
any other feature
Few things indeed are so charming as
lovely mouth and few so rarely seen.
There will be fine eyes and beautiful hair
in profusion, but a perfect mouth is hard
TO find.
Ii is not a feature that engages the at
tention OF unrefined or uncultivated peO-
pie. who are attracted by bright eyes ana
a brilliant complexion, but TO the reader
Of human nature the mouth Is an inter-
The Cupid's bow Is the traditional
mouth OF beauty, because. for one reason,
it gives an arch expression TO the face.
To cultivate a Cupids bow, be careful in
closing the mouth not TO let the upper
lip prOtrude; that It should obviously eX-
tend beyond the lower Tip Is excessively
ugly, but. on the other hand. IL should
not recede. 10 SHOULD trifle more than
touch the upper lips.
A mouth with the upper lips curved,
lower lip straight, full and well defined,
and a depression beneath, shows a high
artistic sense, a love OF ease and beauty,
a fine moral nature and certain cold
ness Of temperament. II the chin is firm
and rounded, that bespeaks determination
and physical strength.
The mouth OF sagacity is large and al
ways well closed. The line Of the. lip is
firmly defined and a certain tightness
about the jaws when in repose is notice
able.
That woman will be keen clever in con-
versatiOn. and analytical. She will not be
easily received. and while good CONVEX
sationalist, knows well how 10 act upon
/ Talleyrand's maxim that Language is
/ given 10 conceal thought"
III "A mouth Is long and thin, with the
| Lines between the lips clear cut and firm.
the woman is selfish. morbid. and DOM
/ mating. IL is the mouth that desires 10
I rule everything, and its owner VIII ride 10
an end no matter over how many bodies.
But where the line Is flexible. the chin
l weak. and the corners inclined TO droop,
! there is selfishness without decision, ego
| ttsm without character, melancholy with
/ out cause
The short upper lip. with a depression
| under the nose and the inclination upward
at the corners is the merry mouth. Here
are Fun and laughter, and the man who
] LdILlGE the WNlltL Wall AAAlN a MlAN MANA
/ happy traits.
She win be appreciate OF everything
( done for her; quick 10 smile, and sympa-
/ thetic 10 pain; but never tragic. She vii
/ have an artistic bent and II the line OF
! her lower lip Is graceful, her tastes are
/ daintily refined. She may be a triflt
| hOydenish. but never coarse.
! II the corners dimple deeply as thes
/ turn upward the lips are quick n repair
I tee Love OF ridicale viii be strong. bu
not in malicious vein
| Unusually red lips denote cruelty anS
/ rapaclty Cleopatra had such lips.
A small mouth with lips slightly com
/ pressed gives an expression OF shrewdnesl
and worldly wisdom. They say quit
/ plainly:
You may be able 10 take me In. bu
! want 10 be very careful that you don
| get taken in yourself
Lips that are firm and a trifle grim ar
/ never afraid 20 tell the truth Lips tina
/ are straight and finely cut, and when Il
/ repOse not unlike the lips Of a statue, =
| perfect in their outline, belong 20 coli
I nature