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Show A Study of Faces. The faces of the women one passes in the street form a curious, and, too often, a saddening story. One woman purses up her lips, another screws her eyes into unnaturalness, while a third will wrinkle up her forehead and eyebrows eye-brows until she looks absolutely ugly. The trick is an unconscious one. but it Is none the. less a trick, and a bad one. There is no reason why a woman should look forbidding and bad-ter.i-pered Just because she annoyed about something. Deep-seated trouble has a way of writing itself on the face, whether we will or not. Sickness, too, has its own handwriting, and will not be concealed by art. But the frown caused by superficial troubles should not be entertained by the face for an instant. We should strive to look as pleasant as possible for the sake of others; a corresponding cheerfulness of always to the sweetening of our natures, na-tures, we cannot afford to go about temperament will inevitably rosul, and with gloomy faces in this a,-?e. |