The Washington times., 1919-12-20
Your Thoughts and Conduct
Make Your Face


Leonardo De- vinc painted his Last Supper" on the
rear wall Of church Milan Napoleon stabbed his horses
IN the church. The horses kicked away much of the
painting.
People from all lands visit the old church each year.
and Is they study the beautiful faces now grown dm they
o1sse about Napoleon about Da Vincs peasant mother
about times ravages, and other things
They might well morahse the story of Da vncis
great model-H they knew it.
Here Is the story it applies to eyery human beinr
You can make 1t OF use TO yourself without going to the
church In Milan.
The artist sought to express the widest possible range
q character study in his great painting Laborousy dur
mG many years he sought and sketched types of men
The eleven good disciples first painted and then
~ Vno began eagerly seeking for face worthy to serve
- foundation for his inspired portrait of Christ.
He found face that pleased him at last Il was that Of
syoung man singing in the Milan Cathedral
w beautiful face, breathing spirit Of truth and
g lofty idsahm The young man gladly accepted the
osred him and posed for the face that today looks
sut 70 calm and gentle among the twelve disciples
Only one face then remained to be painted-that Of
yndas the traitor.
rhrsughout the jas and through haunts of crime Da
taoe that should embody the hdeous deprav
~ tho utsr basenes Of spirit that could betray the
He found his model at last in prison cell in Rome
ne faoe vas not that Of oldman But vice. evil thoughts
the painter sought
That faoe painted as the face of Judasand after
s wcrk was done Da Vnd learned through an accident
as the young man who had posed the face of Jesus
fAee ef Judas
few years Of svl living had done the work. such a
had besn made in those few years that the painter
n1lse6 familiar through long work with the models face
fsaled uttsrH to recognize it.
This story is often heard with increduhty. But wbv
should It b heard with incredulity?
oaa you recognize stream Of pure spring water after
3 has run through the gutter Of city?
Gan believe that the face twitcng under the black
mask e the hangman mounts the scafold was once the
eos OF pretty young child loved by its mother and seem
mg IN every mans eyes the embodiment of permanent
innocence?
1ach city magiyrate when he climbs to his polics-
count sat- ses Of unhappy women before him Thew
IN aes nom twenty to sixty 1istessly he sentences
these womensometimes for drunkenness sometimes for
"0imes IN which the responsible criminal goes fre.
Would one OF these miserable women be recognized bv
VINO knew her when her face reflected pure mind9 Not
e except perhaps some mother whose eyes through
sn the marks OF hard world and into the soul that cannot
be destroyed.
Have you ever seen photograph of yourself made
when you were . child?
Look again at the picture of your childhood and loo.
seriously You viii be fortunate man or woman il Won
an look and not miss anything
Look carefully at the eyes and the mouth studv tho
expression Do you find of the frankness freshness
truth or other good qualities missing?
The woman who has devoted her life to pleasure to
dm social vanity to eager pursuit of worthless excite
nent looks bitterly in her glass the years 20 by The
peace has gone the youth has been replaced by calm
srespecng age but by bitter regret that stains all the
expression deadens the and makes the face look out at
s ovner as different from the girl of ten fifteen years
ago as is the face Of Judas from that of the great
picture Of Milan.
The moral in the story Of Da vinc;s model does not
3pply to extreme alone
It applies to the middle aged man made hard hard
inside and out BY persistent selfish hunting for money
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