Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1881 — The Seat of Emotion. [ARTICLE]

The Seat of Emotion.

I must give here as my opinion, founded on what I have observed, that lips become more or less contracted in’ the course of years, in proportion as they are accustomed to express good humor and generosity, or peevishness and a contracted mind. Remark the effect which a moment of ill-humor and grudgingness has upon the lips, and judge what may be expected from an habitual series of such moments. Remark the reverse, and make a similar judgment. The mouth is the frank part of the face; it can the least conceal its sensations. We can hide neither ill-temper with it, nor good ; we may affect what we please, but affectation will not helpjus. In a wrong cause it will only make our observers resent the endeavor to impose upon them. The mouth is the seat of one class of emotions, as the eyes are of another ; or rather, it expresses the same emotions, but in greater detail and with more irrepressible tendency to be in motion. It is the region of smiles and dimples and of trembling tenderness, of a sharp sorrow, of a full breathing joy, of candor, of reserve, of a carking care, erf a liberal sympathy. —Leiah Hunt.