The Nome daily nugget., 1912-04-22

and they don't know enough to come in out of the rain. Then think of the svclt and lively man-soUls. all delicacy and Itheuess. and cncased in bis fat bodies, And those other man souls m HtuJsom, flesh castings. gorgeous mu~terrcs. Jovitu hrows, supple t.ra- ..seaut noses uJ eyebrows. yet whose real selves. actually. if you could N-fay tuym would look like frog
 Nrd then talk to mo of reading ones character in ones face! It shows how poyerty-strickcn people arc for ideas Somebody thought Of ,his that personality shines in the fac, and -tllightWov all the troops of uwcu-t~. moralizcrs and hoi polloi caught up the thoueht-toid and ran away with t like dog with a bone.
 Talk of guilt in the oyr' The most arraut rascal | ever knew had an eye like a dove Talk of sensuality al- ways cropping out on the face! I have just seen a portrait of Diane If Peleticr that hara-hearted, mercon- a1t. devious and poison-soulod ad- vcutmcss that stopped at nothing. and swear to vou she looked Ike 9 prize saint.
 I remember tho shock had when saw John Flske. ono of tho most rare and spiritually perceptive minds Of thi, country. and found him to re- semble some hus, hewhiskcred mi nal
 And you know of Socrates. the in- est brain ever enclosed in human skull. the greatest of all thinkers liv- iug or dead. the supreme intellectual product of the race of man, and you recall his dcscription-eye protrud- ing like lobsters' thick. fieshy ears bald and bulle, head and absurd ears.
 Just now I have been reading a modern book of essays and have como across this old platltude again which angcrs me. The soul or interior spir- itual life of man is necessarily wsav- Ing itself into the structure of his body, suffusing it with It's own subtle essence until the glance of ths eye. the lines of the mouth. the set and expression of the features. nay. the very carriage and gait, reveal to the experienced eve the character of the inhabitant within"
 That is very clear and interest ing statement. There is only one slight difficulty with 1t. to-wit: It Is not so
 That my position is sound is proved by fiction. which on the whole Is usually uucr than life. because 1t is life distilled to types. In stories there are TWO kinds of bad women-the beautiful bad and the ugly bad; SO also there are two kinds of good wo- ncn-hena-one good ana p,ain good difference.
 If there is any difference. if ap- pearance does mean anything. 1t Is safer to take it to mean the opposite of what it seems. Usually. not always. of course, the perfectly beautiful young woman wants to marry for money; at any rate she is more apt 70 be selfish and hard than otherwise. Usually. also, the unattractive girl will make the best wife and mother. Usually the man with taking way Is looking for something of yours to take. Usually the shy. awkward, sensitive. modest fellow is the best to tic to.
 don't blame people for wanting to be attractive. nor wonder that they patronize beauty doctors and mas sage their wrinkles, but there is q more excellent way. A steady, years long, inwa. | life and purpose of sweet and kindly thoughts will creep out and make m invisible hut none the less perceptible halo around any face. Make tho most of this contradiction.
 This modern prevalent horror of old age is one Of the sickliest symptoms of cur time The real kind of per sonal attractiveness increases with