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Show Don't Look Down ' In The Moulh. Blessed is he that hath a cheerful Countenance. These are not. quotations from the Scriptures, but they are as wise and t rse as many expressions found in the Bible, t'.esides they illustrate the point. Lugubrious is the word that describes des-cribes the natural expression of some people's faces, and their owners ought to keep out of business, for i pessimism is contagious, and there is too much of it in the world. If a man is not naturally as doleful as he looks he might pass as a business man by wearing a placard on his breast explaining away the apparent libel of which his face is guilty if it were not for the danger of being misread by having people look at his face instead of the placard. A man'used to live in this region who had a crooked face. His mouth was unduly drawn to one side. Viewed View-ed from one angle he seemed to wear a perpetual smile, and the beholder involuntarily felt like congratulating congratulat-ing him on the addition to his household house-hold or other stroke of good fortune that had come to him; but seeing ii from the other side, one would as natural! v feel like obeying the scriptural scrip-tural injunction to "weep with those who weep.'- The doctors offered to straighten his face, but his wife lear-ed lear-ed that if they did that there might be competition for his affections, and forbade the surgery. So this modern Janus continued to wear his contradictory face to the end of his days, and if any susceptible female was ever charmed by seeing the cheerful side of his countenance, one glance at the other side sent her hopes into total eclipse. There is a moral in this for any man whose face indicates that his case is hopeless or that his business is going to the dogs. Fleedno protests, hut get your countenance fixed if possible, and then look the world in the face with a smile. (selected.) |
