The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-27
Put Expression I'm Your Face.
New York Sun.

New DIRK sun.
A face may be ever so pretty in outline
and ever so irregular in feature. Its COM
plexion may be perfect and its grooming
all that could be desired. But If il lacks
expression the chief attraction will be
missing.
An expressive face. the other hand
may not be specially regular in contour
and some of it's features may be open to
criticism. Even its complexion may not be
all it ought to be. Yet it is pretty, because
it is expressive.
An expressive face is a possession which
is priceless to the woman who has it. 1t is
a thing which the woman who does not
possess it should set herself at work TO
acquire.
Anyone can acquire an expressive face.
1t is a thing more easily attained than any
other in all of beauty's category.
1t would be a very good thing If the
woman who is beginning to cultivate SYM
pathy would look after her complexion. 1t
should be nice and clear and pink And
for this she must study the laws OF ny
giene.
The eyes should be bright and pretty. To
make the eyes glisten, do not use bella
DONNA and do not put drugs into them
Simply battle them with hot water, and do
not go out into the air for an hour after
applying the hot bath.
Those who want to make the eyes very
brilliant can sometimes apply warm com
press of hot water and bOracic acid. This
is purifying to the eyes and strengthens
the sight.
The woman who rubs her eyes will not
have expressive eyes. But the woman who
weeps a great deal is pretty sure to have
good eyes.
1t is a singular thing not accounted for
in ones philosophy, that the crying woman
usually has bright clear, expressive eyes,
and the more she sheds tears the brighter
her eyes become. A physician accounted
for il in this manner:
"1he crying woman, said he, rarely
feels her woes. She sheds a great many
tears, but that is the end of it.
She does not worry at all and never has
a headache. She weeps at the slightest
provocation, but when she has dried her
eyes she is happy again.
Her eyes are cleansed by the process
and she has given vent TO her feelings and
avoided nervous strain.
1.-The dry-eyed. fearless woman, on the
other hand, worries great deal. she
never gives vent to her emotions and her
eyes have that worn AID weary look which
is so destructive TO their beauty.
''She is worried and her head aches per-
petually. Now. If she would have one good
cry and cry IL out she would be the better
by thousand per cent. fer her indul-
gence."
There are things which are said to make
the lashes grow, but it is risky to try
them.
The eyebrows are very important in
beauty's list of expressive features. And,
fortunately, they can be easily treated Inc
woman who will warm a little olive oil
every night and apply 1t to her lashes with
a camel s-hair brush will find that her
lashes increase in thickness and that they
grow darker day by day.
The mouth should be one of the most ex-
pressive features of the face. But often
il is the least so.
An expressive mouth should be lifted at
the corners. 1t should be full of lip and
very curved. 1t should be a bright rosy
red and it should be soft and warm.
u,
upward at the corners has one to blame
but herself. She has formed the habit Of
drawing ii down and the corners have
learned to droop.
Now the beautifully pathetic dropping
mouth may be lovely in poetry, but in real
life it is seldom attractive There are girls
Of sixteen whose mouths droOp naturally
and children whose lips have that down
ward droop. But as woman grows older
the dropping mouth is a sign OF age and of
sorrow; and it often accompanies the
woman who has had a very hard lot In life
Force the corners to smile. insist upon
it that the lips form themselves into a
Cupid's bow. Do not be contented with any
thing else. Let your lips be full and red.
Mobility is of the requisites of an
expressive face and this bespeaks a pliable
skin. The skin must be soft or IL will not
be mobile. And this means that Ii must be
well cared for.
Take the skin and massage 1t with To-
tions, keep IL soft and nice, and you viii
have no difficulty about the mobility of
your countenance.
The question of dimples is a very i'm
portant one All faces dimple in childhood :
and the woman of forty who wants 10 re-
store her dimples do so If she Will. 1t
is all a matter of pliability, Of mobility, OF
Softness
If woman's skin is hard she cannot hope
10 have dimples. The skin is so stiff that
il cannot form itself into curves, and the
dimpes which ought TO come and go are
actually prevented by the stiffness and the
hardness of the skin. Keep the skin soft
and the dimples will come back.