Evening star., 1933-01-11

Sometimes one is led to believe that
people put on too severe look.
Surely life isn't as bad as all that
Many man. and especially many 9
woman, goes around with a great Ions
face, as If the very world were cominf
TO an end.
II you happen to be sensitive to such
things you will be harassed by a walk
through the city streets, so many ol
these lugub"ious countenanccs are met
each one more woeful than the last.
The effect Of this distress is cumu-
lative. 1t weighs upon the mind ano
heart until one pauses to reflect that
this sad appearance, for the most part
Is probably merely a habit, and a bad
habit, at th2t.
One Is forced to the conclusion that
mostly the severe look seen upon SC
many faces Is matter of muscle pull
pure and simple, unreStrained by efforts
of mind or will to right it.
Just what woes there may be behind
these faces no one can say authorita-
tive.y. buo on3's sympathy is given a
severe jolt upon seeing such a counte-
nance suddenly lose its severity and
wreathe itself in cmiles over exactly
nothing much at ALL
II there were any real reason for
the set face, the inexpensive eyes, the
doWn-drawn mouth, would 1t be able to
be banished so quickly?
The observer has a suspicion that
there is no true reason; that in the
majority OF such cases the owners OF
these harassed faces have got them
selves into series Of bad habits, both
mental and physical.
This conclusion may do-no doubt
does do-an injustice to certain persons,
whose woes are only too evIdent. We
Will leave them in their sorrow, since
no one on the outside can help them
any. If there is to be any help for
them, the cleansing passage OF time will
bring Il.
The remainder of the owners Of
these severe faces need a little lecture
from some one.
They are hurting themselves and
others.
If they hurt themselves, that is their
own business. but when they hurt
others that is society's business.
1t is the business Of every one who
has to look at 'em, alas. Especially if
you happen to be one of these human
beings, of whom there are many, who
fin6 endless diversions in looking at
and watching other human beings.
Not every one, of course is so in
trigued. Many a person is interested
solely in his precious self. Such a man
Tor woman) always makes diverting
study, but we are not concerned with
him now.
The special subject of interest is the
sadfaced wight who perhaps has no
real reason tor being So
He ought to do something about it.
He could do something about it, pro-
vided it is not an inherited facial con-
formation, such as is sometimes seen
He could do something, that is, pro-
vide5 he would realize his failing, which
he will not, of course.
Therefore the matter Is hopeless
one?
Quite right!
The world is full of hopeless matters,
that Goes not make them any the less
interesting.
Some scientists think that human
society is plain failure, and that there
is no hope for man; that he is drifting
to destruction in a world which has
neither balance nor guide.
This attitude does not prevent them,
and all the rest of us, from eating, and
enjoying life, and prying into the love-
illness of the universe and its mystery,
its wonder, its never ending treasures.
Such an attitude does not initiate
one whit against happiness, or praise,
or the sense Of worship.