The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-07-22
THE GIRL YOU WOULD
LIKE TO BE.

"Who is the terrible little girl. max
ing those awful faees9" exclaimed d
young society woman, good many
years ago. as she stopped to look at an
awkward child of 10. That same day
/ great actor, nc other than Sir Henry
! Irving happened TO be at the garden
party at which the grimacing child was
present, remarked on the extraordinary
power OF expression of the small face.
THAT child said he. will certainly
| be an actress. and Will have a face
that will express every thought and
! feeling. providing, of course, she is
not trained, and now she is simply
making faces"
The child did grow up into an ae-
! tress, and after she had learned to
control her face her power of express
sion was her ohiaf charm.
Peoples countenanoes can be di-
vided into three classes, the express
sionless face, the set face and the ex-
pressiVe one. The expressive face will
make up for any deficiency In beauty
and is more attractive, no matter hoW
irregular the features may be, than
the most perfectly chiseled and ey-
quisitely formed physiOgnorny that does
not respond to every passing fancy
The worlds great beauties have been
usually noted for the perfection OF
their features, but the women who have
welded the greatest power ever their
contemporaries have not always heen
faultlessly perfect in features but they
have been able to express in their mo-
bile features the thought with which
they were fillsd When a waman's
face is really beautiful, it should be
as the lamp, lighted by a divine and
beautiful fire. The face which attracts
US on the great street is the express
sive face. 1t may not always be per-
feet either in cOloring or in contour
but il is Give.
The greatest actresses on our modern
stage if We took the trouble TO dissect
their features, are not really beauti-
full, but their features are so ami
mated with the spirit and intelligence
behind them that one has no thought
for criticism and the shape of the
mouth is matter of no Importance
when its lines are censtaly changing
with enhancing variety of expression
The chiids face is usually expressive
until it begins TO form its own con-
illusions and hide these conclusions
from its elders, AS soon as this stage
of development is reached the child
learns to assume an expression and
keep it. From that time ON. 1t is not
the spirit or soul which pays over
the child's face, but the mind and so
it remains till the end of life In wo-
men of 40 the face has assumed the
habitual expression which, except in
extraordinary cases, will continue
through life merely getting more and
more deeply etched as time goes on
After this period the face seems 10
lose its youthful animation and he
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does. When once this happens, the
bridge with divides youth from mid
die age has been traversed and burned
behind one unless one Is willing and
has power enough to overcame this
settled feeling. The muscles 0f the
face stiffen Very much more quickly
than the other muscles of the body. !
They are used more and they are very
much miSused.
You have pet motion of the hand. |
for tnstarce. Say. you MAKE this NO
ton once every half hour It is q
trick CT yours. Now, you also have
some trick of expression. Instead of |
doing this trick OF facial expression |
once every half hour if you are vi |
vacious at all you are doing il once |
every five minutes or so. The mus |
cles are all getting used to being drawn |
or pulled IN this particular direction |
Say, you are in the habit of scowling. !
Gu scoWl when you are sad, you scowl /
when you are in earnest, you scowl |
when you are thinking, you scoWl when /
you forget something. etc, ad fnitum. /
NO wonder that presently those little |
seoWilng lines appear between the eye /
brows- They become deeper and deeper |
with use, and finally a deep furrow be- /
tween the eyes changes the expression |
entirely. These lines are the despair /
of the woman whose face is expressive. |
Fortunately she must remember that |
II she can express disaRnroval or con- |
centratiOn by contracting the brows, /
she can remedy this expression by a |
more cheerful thought and open and |
free feeling between the eyebrows. If
she can contract the eyebrows. she can
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