Show scientific character study f one one of the most valuable lessons that can be impre st upon f the minds of any man woman or child is that every achot and feeling of the m mind nd is stamped upon the brain and reflected in to the fuco face if our chott feelings and acts are good we will f build a clean noble character if they are bad the whole being will show the only way to change the conditions is to change and act the poet who wrote the follow following illg lines was a student of human nature and lenew knew that ever everybody y mixes daod and bad acts hence a all 11 sow the seeds of life and death our greatest mission of life is to weed out the seeds of death and a nd build a stain less character we are sowing daily sowing 91 r bouti countless 1 seeds of good and ill by y a whisper sow we blessin blessings gs by a breath we scatter st strife riffe in our shots and looks clocks and r a actions ailt i ons el H lie the seeds seed of death and life the record is being made in in the life of every evera humon being 4 ya j just as s urb sure i as da the sound of the troice oice or mus musical ical instrument is recorded on the ibe bone r record ec ard but it is much moie more difficult to learn to read the record of life than the impressions that are made on the tible machine record lu in this little treatise on character study an effort will be made to explain in as simple laii language guage as possible the rules and laws thet that govern in ie reading bading lifes lifers record as it is re healed by the brain the face and the physical temperaments temper ments the ancient israelites and greeks understand the art of reading ebar character acter from the face aristotle wrote a hook book on the subject in the bi bible ble this statement is ia recorded the heart mind of a inan man chanreth cha ngeth his c countenance 0 u n t n D a n c e whether it be for good or for evil and a merry heart maketa a cheerful chee ful countenance A man mail may inay be known by liis his looks and one that understanding when thou mertest him modern scientists claim that thai the muscles of the face are capable of showing different expressions love sympathy happiness cheerfulness hope anger hate reve revenge ngn jealously and many other emotions of the mind are shown in the face when the brain centers thru which these emotions act are arc stimulated the human face I 1 love to view and trace the passion of the soul on it tho the spirit writes write s anew each changing as on a scroll there the mind its evil doings tells and there its noblest deeds all speak I 1 just as the ringing of the hells bells proclaims a nell or wedding feast how beautiful loves features tire are enthroned on oil virtues honest face like some jewel bright and rare worn by the fairest of the race but vice and hatred how they mur inar the form and face of man mail and from the cho choicest ic eat pleasures bar those who fail to do the g good 0 od they cair f A happy cho cheerful erful life turns t the 1 e in muscles u acles of ali the e face upward giving a pleasant expression sad de depressing pr essina give a do downward anward 1 tendency to lo the muscles 1 cl es of face pity and sympathy rather than love and admiration that is is shown clearly by these il illustrations lustrati 1 ons during the past few years the writer has visited school districts presenting these scientific facts to boys and girls frow from the begin beginner neni grade to high school ard ad in every instance the pupils able to distinguish the different mental con coil editions from black blackboard blackgoat boat draw i 11 an environment should be created for every person that will develop the mental powers normally by suppressing the faculties that are too strong and cultivating the deficient ones the thet jacial facial expressions will he be blended to pronounce symmetry metr y and beauty to change the and work from within is much more effective than trying to improve th the e face by using paint and powder in every day life one sees the variety in the following lines there are face as cold as the ice and faces warm as the sun there therb are faces all marred with vice and faces we ever shun there are races faces vacant of Fair FaitS faces aces but nothing more there faces with sunlight ight caught sweet faces we half adore there ars aro facas so hard we A shrink to greet with a word or kiss iss there fire are faces from froin which wei we drink and fa k C es we ever miss there are faces dark as a cloud portending storm or rain and faces that are gay and proud revealing a soul all yai vain n there are faces kind with a love that reflects the lovo love benign the love that shines from hea ven veil above and is of a friend the sign there are faces that wear a frown driving the world away and faces that tell of a crown As bright as a cloudless day there are cynical faces mean that sneer with never a word and faces composed and serene by the power of the truth once heard there are beautiful beauli ful faces oft but not of the chalk or paint and there are faces pure and soft the faces quiet of a saint god pity some faces I 1 seel they speak of a life of shame god pity some faces I 1 seel see they tell of no worthy aim aim I 1 read in the faces around every abot that lies within virtues all fair fair or hopes poo peo found every vice or nr secret sin we chisel our in the face fa emotions paint unawares with ur tir minds and hearts bea r ever trace s our joys and our ahde cares it is love it is hate we write whoever we think or feel it is doubt it is faith or light whatever is woe or weal What whatever Lver we choose we may maw bailit the feelings refined or allf ill the achot of the hero or saina mainc whatever we love and will A sculptor of self we may be chisel as phidias wrought carve in the face that all maysee A soul by the masters taught rev H 0 munson i its M journal |