THE UGLIFIERS.

Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15886, 26 July 1923, Page 2

THE UGLIFIERS.

You have read a lot of beauty hints. Suppose you attend awhile to some ugliness hints. Perhaps by avoiding the things that make your face repellent you may save what beauty you have or even attain to a beauty you have not.

There are certain stains that leak through from your inner thoughts and 'leave unmistakable splotches on your face.

They are not spots of yellow or brown, but of spirit discolouration. A repulsive air can drive love away. Hence, note these things:—

Worry mars the brow and mouth. No eye wants to dwell upon a countenance where trouble sits. Thoughts of peace, calm and cheer attract us, as flowers in a garden attract us. Don't worry: if you can help things, help them; if you cannot, why worry ?

Anger distorts the features. Nobody wants to see an angry man, still less an angry woman.

Hate, or a grade, or an evil wish toward any human being the face as if with a tarred brush. That sort of thing pushes all souls away from you. Whereas goodwill, and a hope for anyone’s success or happiness, make your face diaw us to you with a strong lure.

Vanity, pride and egotism are uglifiers. The moment a proud and perky idea enters your mind it casts a sort of goose shadow on your facial expression. It rouses in the beholder a lively desire to get away from you, One of the ugliest of spiritual dyes that deface men and women is jealousy. Jealousy has nothing to do with love; it is inflamed'egotism. If you knew how repulsive you look when that wretched feeling is in you you would cast it out. Self pity is also

a face spoiler. If the whiners only knew how they are detested! Bitterness of heart, inner self contempt, despair, pessimism, and all such nasty heart liciuors deform the eye and lend a hateful cast to the mouth. The face is no more than the soul window. It is a sort of glass through which the spirit shines. And any person, no matter how ill-featured by birth, can have a winning and beautiful face if he will only put gracious fine and cheerful thoughts behind it.