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Show '"Model Your Own Mouth," Says I the April Grandmother. ASrWTFrS11'5 arc lar2ly rcspotisi- J itP4ay ble for their own mouths." ' Wk r is3 Tllc April tJraudniothcr! '52 J 1 mulied nloud, albeit soft-J Pu,-- 'J at tne lecture made by , WsPfifsffi her second granddaughter,; vuuajs whose eyes had suddenly ;rown round and large from their owner's' vnnzcincnt at the statement. - "I do not mean to say," amended the fldcrly gentlewoman, "that the mouth cam be actually made smaller or larger, but Jto a certain extent it can be reshaped, and, r after all, shape, not size, is what makes . that feature attractive or repulsive. - "One of your schoolmates who comes, here frequently has ignorantly cultivated; a 'flytrap' mouth by her habit of gaping. I She does not gnpe because she is half-' - wlttcd, but because she has never bieul told that when not using her mouth for' talking or eating she should hold h;r lips together, and that by allowing the under one to sag away from the upjter one she) has acquired an expression of stupidity' i which Is misleading to strangers and pre-' icuts her making friends of them. J "Abnormal pride nnd a habit of giving ' way to nngcr whenever that pride is! )ffcnded give to the upper lip of another )ne of your schoolmates a haughty curve - "hich is absolutely repcllant. Moreover, it' . thin becnuse preternatural sensitiveness Mas made it so, nnd consequently, instead-f instead-f her really beautifully shaped tucuth- Ming her best feature, it mars her face.l rXow, if your young friend could only be I nade to realize that extreme pride is be-1 Jttllng to the character, that flying into a' aje is undignified nnd thnt supersensl-j r3cness is liable to make her whole life! 'inhnppy Ehe would unconsciously be cul-j "-ilvatinj; n rounded aud lovable looking. L ipper lip." ,' "1 did not invite your brand new; friend, who was here yesterday, to repeat. ; ier visit," continued the April Grand-i v uother, "because nt Ihe first glance to-" to-" ard her I saw that she is vain, frivolous ' md has all the marks of a social climber ' Before she had opened her mouth, w itli Its :iiroed-iip corners, 1 was mire that vlipii ihe did begin to talk it would be wholly bout her father's yachts or her mother's I I parties. Yet .undeniably she is a bright ind intelligent girl, and would be most ut-f ut-f tractive -were ehe to devote some of her i thoughts and her time to the kind of , eoplc whom she can really help. 1 don't ean to say that becoming a home mis-nonary mis-nonary would draw downward or straighten out the comers of your new Wenel'u lipu, but thinking of others and Joltuj kindncsbCB for them iu the course )f time certainly docs give a kindly ex-i ex-i Prteslon to the mouth. 'Dissipation has withered and Bpoiled fcauy a lovely mouth." The April Unuid- i pother bpoke slowly and gravely. "Few J'rls under twenty, I am glad to say, we such mouths, but before that age ' sometimes begin the work of wrcck-xt- by secretly., smoking cigarettes and W consuming cocktails Xot because any Ii Jne among these very young girls ba.s a appetite for these dissipations, but Jfnse to nmokc and to 'nip' is being .l',Womon of le world.' . "tnat type of mouth is mosL of all at- , , active V The ono which exprobscs abso- K 'Ute calmness and mental repose," fciild R II -Apri1 Gr!Jothcr promptly. "And ,l i not dinicult to cultivate, for al- r "gb the hps may not be well propor- f DeJ thy ay be closed without teu- i n and their corners kept Btrnight. And I believe, my dear, you'll agree with mo that n mouth of that type makes any girl or woman attractive." |