The Washington times., 1907-04-15
The Expression of the Face

Few women realize. il their mad pur-
suit Of beauty and their endless pilgrim
! ages to the parlors of the beauty spe-
cialist, how important a factor the eX-
| preston of the face is as an aid 10
/ beauty. They concentrate all their at
/ tention upon various kinds of massage
and different lotions and powders and
| forget that which is most important and
which they can acquire gratis right in
their own homes.
| You Taey be as beautiful as you please
in form and feature. but if your express
sion is unpleasing all the rest will not
count for anything On the other hand,
| If your features are irregular and your
/ figure is dumpy, people will nevertheless
say that you arc beautiful provided only
! that your expression is pleasing.
/ You are not to suppose from this that
/ am prescribing the smile that won I
! come orr or anything like that am
| merely recommending the photograph
er's look pleasant. please" You know
/ every frOWn means an additional WTin-
/ kle and every time you let your lips sag
/ down at the corners under the weight Of
your troubles you deepen and impress
| the lines between nose and mouth and
increase the habbiness Of your cheeks.
But this Is not all. You are probably
not aware or the thousand and one
| grimaces you are in the habit of making
| and which have the effect OF making
/ people hate TO look at YOU
| You do not know how you raise your
! eyebrows every time you turn TO answer
| a question nor how you distort your
! forehead at the same time. This per-
niclous habit arose, in all probability,
/ from your desire to render yourself gra-
eious and df.tble to people and you do
not realize tEat the effect OF this trick
/ is anything but pleasing TO the person
you are trying so hard to make an i'm
! preston upon. You also do not know
I how disagreeable is your habit OF
1 thrusting out your tongue when par
/ ticularly satisfied with yourself or as a
vent 10 some other emotion
| The chances are that you distOTt your
/ lips in talking. pulling them down at
/ the sides. puckering them up, and even
/ twisting them away around 20 one side.
/ You do not know that you do all these
| unpleasant things, nor how ugly you are
| actually making yourself in conse-
quence.
The trouble is that you are so anx-
/ iOus 10 make your face expressive that
you OVerdO the thing. You think that
| In order to make yourself amiable you
must call every muscle Of your face into
play at one and the same time You are
not satisfied with calling into play those
which are necessary, but lot OF others,
too
You do not know that to produce an
pairs of muscles so in your ignorance
YOU make them all get 10 work, and the
result is that some of them get so tired
that they go on strike and leave You
with an expression YOU don't care par
ticularly about having.
For instance, If you continue to raise
your eyebrows every time you smile
they are liable soon To stay permanently
raised. or worse g still one eyebrow
may stay raised while the other re-
mains in its normal position. All the
regularly Of feature In the world. you
know, cannot make up for dishgure-
ment Ike this
Again. If yOu insist on twisting your
mouth I'm order to punCtuate your con-
versation, the muscles may get 50 in the
habit OF taking that position that they
viii soon do so naturally. and the next
stage. Of course, IS going on strike and
staying there
So you see that 1t Is really no idle
threat when we tell children that If they
DO not break themselves OF a certain
grimace their faces viii grow that
way"