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Show WHY REMEMBER THE" UGLY?. Would Seem to Be as Easy to Recall Points of Beauty of One's Acquaintances. Did you ever experience Ihe sens&-iion sens&-iion of hearing yourself physically described by another Mho 'lid not happen hap-pen to know that you "were "within earshot? ear-shot? If so you may "have heard yourself your-self pictured as "that. short logged man with the ffcraggly giny mustache, you know-." Vou nay have been pained or amustfdf it all depends upon your sensv of humor or the. fitness of things. I!ut do not (impair sit your portrait lust listen fame timi to a pair of men when'one of them is trying to recall to his companion a third individual, the iatt(r seen perhaps only once years ago bv the auditor. The gentleman, joking the, other man's mctmory is-likc-ly to sketch the absentee fit a few boliJ strokes, something like the fol-' losing: "Oh. sure you rc.nember ?lnm the fellow with longr yellow teeth he parted his hair utar his car and he had a. scar on his chin!" "Now. I do," cheerfully replies the othor at this "piece of graphic description,, descrip-tion,, nryd then adlds his mvn touch 'He vis Vilh -a Uttie chap who stut-lere(V stut-lere(V ail worn; bifr; spectatV-s of tor-loi;r, tor-loi;r, shf-11!"' And tly interesting cp-;stion It hringj 11 j i? -why do peopV. generally speJ:ing remark defects auvl slngu-larMes slngu-larMes r: ,vr than perfect! Dns and auti-s? A man with long yellow 'teeth might have had fine eyefi Jiud a nob)'- head hi t upon his should rs and a bogoggled chap with a stamOnelrlMi; toneup niilrt have had a Greek jprofilo and at), art (si's hands. ( We.siri assured that beauty is etMy wherq, yet prople seem to lant part 1-cular 1-cular .note of the ugly. No doubt it i easier to see the uly than the tefcutl ful In humanll.y, but why take t (ie a ler wfay? |