The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-12-29
YouR rHoueHTs ANL CONDUCT
MAKE YOUR FACE.

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horses in the church The kicked away much Of
the painting
People from all lands VISIT old church each year.
and as they study the beautiful faces now grown DIM
they moraize about Napoleon abost Da Vincis peasant
mother, about times ravages and other Things
They might well moralize the story of Da Vincs
great model--if they knew it
Here is the story; it applies TO every human being
You can make it Of use to yourself without going to th
church in Milan
The artist sought to express the widest possible range
Of character in the great painting Laboriousy during
many years. he sought and sketched types Of men.
sThe eleven good disciples were first painted and then
Da vnc began eagerly seeking for face worthy to serve
as foundation for his inspired portrait Of Christ
He found face that pleased him at last 1t that Of
young man singing in the Milan Cathedral
It was beautiful face breathing spirit of truth and
Of lofty ideasm The young man gladly accepted the
honor offered him and posed for the face that today looks
out 50 calm and gentle among the twelve disciples.
! Only one face then remained to be paintedthat Of
Judas, the traitor.
Throughout the jals and through haunts of crime Da
vnci sought face that should embody the hideous de-
oravty the utter baseness of spirit that could beay the
gentlest Of
He found his model at last in prison cell in Rome.
The face was not that Of an old But vice, evil
thoughts evil living, gave it the stamp Of sunken hui
mainly which the painter sought
That face was painted the face of Judasand after
ha uor ,yas dona 10 Vinc learned through an acct
dent that the young who had posed for the face Of
Jesus was the same he in the prison cell who had
posed for the face Of Judas
few years of evil living had done the work Such a
change had made in those few years that the painter
himself familiar through long work with the models
face failed utterly to recognize it,
This story is often heard with incredulity But why
should it be heard with incredulity?
Can you recognize of pure spring water after
has run through the gutter of city?
Can you believe that the face twtchng under the
black mask as the hangman mounts the scafold
the face pretty young child loved by its mother and
eemng in every mans eyes the embodiment Of perma
aent innocence?
Each city magistrate when he climbs to his police
court seat, sees row of unhappy women before him
rhey vary in age from twenty to sixty Lstlessy he
sentences these women--sometmes for drunkenness
ometimes for 'crmes" in whc hthe responsible criminal
yoes free Would one Of these miserable be rec
ognzed by those who knew her when her face reflected
pure mind? Not one, except, perhaps mother
whose eyes through all the marks of hard world
into the soul that cannot be destroyed
Have you photograph of yourself made
when you were a child?
Look again the picture of your childhood and lool
seriously. You will be fortunate if yot
AN look and not miss anything.
Look carefully at the eyes and the mouth Study the
expression Do you find of the frankness freshness
truth other good qualities missing?
The woman who has devoted her life to pleasure tc
sma social vanity to eager pursuit of worthless excite
ment looks bitterly her glass the years go by This
has gone the youth has been replaced by calm
ef-respectng age but by bitter regret that stains al
the expression deadens the eyes and makes the face oo
out at its different from the girl of ten teer
ago the face of Judas from that of Jesus the
great picture of Milan
The moral in the story Of Da yinc's model does moi
apply to extreme cases alone.
, 1t applies to the middle-aged man made hard hard
inside and out by persistent selfish hunting for money
1t applies to the gourmet or gourmand who has de-
voted his intelligence exclusively to the service of his
stomach
1t applies to the newspaper who thinks that "jour
nalism makes pessimistc" but who ought to know
that lack of interest in other is what makes
pessimstic."
When your life is ended far material accomplish
goes you have money you may have fame you may
be enved by others.
p.,t Co... S.na