Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1884 — Scowls. [ARTICLE]

Scowls.

Oftentimes we meet people whose faces would be beautiful if they were not darkened and wrinkled by scowls. It never was designed that mortals should thus disfigure themselves—no, it never was. Scowls are the result of habit; we first yield to irritable emotion, and then let these wrong feelings settle into a chronjc state. It is well to bear in mind that the emotions of the heart are photographed on the countenance. They will as certainly Aeave their peculiar impressions on the countenance as a potter’s wheel leaves its impression on his vessels. , What is more beautiful than a fair

countenance? The features may be a little irregular; but if they wear smiles and good cheer, they will soon lose their plain appearance and become attractive. < ', “I fee! so bad and sick,” many a one says, “I can’t help scowling.” We cannot agree with you; you can help it; for if the minister chances to call, your scowls will vanish like the dew before the morning sun. Custom tells us that we .fljust wear smiles when we have visitors; and if we assume them to please visitors, let us keep them on to please our friends.— -Anon.