The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1912-06-21
What's What---and How
|-=IN WOMAN'S WoRLD-
MY LITTLE SON.

MY LITTLE SON.
My sturdy son! How we'll know
How you are yearning fast to grow
To mans estate that you may feel
The charm of knowledge-know the
real;
But don't be weary yet of youth
You'll be so sad to know the truth!
My bonnie boy! sympathize
With all the longing in your eyes;
l know how green the distant field
How eager you to see unsealed
The Book of Fate-but you will find
You've left the best of Life behind!
My little sonl Don't hurry so;
Since time began they longed to know
The mysteries that old age solves
And reckoned naught what that in
voles.
Drink deep of all the joys of youth
You'll be so sad to know the truth!
Dan Banks.
Years ago George Eliot observed
through one of the characters in "The
Miss on the Floss" that people have
to put up with their relations as they
do with their features. Noses, we
think she said.
Well. perhaps our noses are irrevo-
cable. Presbyterian, predestinated, as
it were, portions of our anatomy, but,
thanks be our mouths are our own.
We can make use of them in large
measure that we will. The mouth is
amenable to training and beatifying.
1t is essentially self-made and the i'm
portance of that making can be ap-
preciated when we realize that this
feature has been called "the visible
seat of the emotions"
OF course, the first essential to-
ward the making of lovely mouth
is strict attention to the teeth. We
once asked a girl with musical laugh
why it was that she laughed so seldom
To our amaze she replied that while
her teeth were always in good con-
dition, she felt that they were not
pretty teeth. A subconscious fear
of exposing them actually restrained
her laughter and caused her to smile
with constraint. Hence teeth should
be made as beautiful as possible to
encourage ready smiles.
Children should never, under fear
of severe punishment. be permitted to
bite their lips. Such nervous habit,
for it is habit, irrevocably ruins the
cupid's-bow outline of the lips, and
changes their beautiful red to dingy
white, stiffins the texture of the deli
cate skin so that the lips do not eaisly
relax and fall into smiling curves.
Health also should be maintained
to give the lips fullness and color and
to these attractions should be added
the sweetness of smiles and intelleg-
ent expression. 1t has taken years of
civilized ancestry to teach us the deli
cate shades of expression that play
about the mouth. Animals and primi-
tive peoples lack this power of ex-
preston. The smile is the high flower
of intellect and chivalry, of cultural
and gentle breeding, and there must be
training to attain the expressive and
beautiful mouth. Primitive peoples
have stolid mouths or relax their feat
ures in grins that are unbeautiful even
if good natured. A child, predisposed
to grin, should have the error pointed
out to him before a mirror and its
relation to savage grimance ex-
planned. The mucies of the savage
mouth are not trained to express the
refinement and feeling so intimate a
part of cultured lives.
Pleasant thoughts incline the lips
to lovely lines and an authority upon
musclar movement in relation to face
states that "the inheritance of unde-
sireable contours will melt away in
our individual expression since "form
is merely crystalized expression"
Ruskin says: There is not any
virture the exercise Of which. even
momentarily. will not impress new
fairness upon the features" and It Is
asserted that German women owe to
their love for music and nature the
beautiful mouths that distinguish
them form the otherwise more beau-
tiful women of other nationalities.