WRINKLES

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1641, 14 May 1925, Page 2

WRINKLES

BETRAY INDIVIDUALITY

Wrinkles betray one's individuality. We are creatures of habit, whether in the\ wrinkles in our clothes or in our faces. A wrinkled coat hung up somewhere looks like its possessor. He has worn it long enough for it to become set to his bodily habits. Wrinkles, therefore, stand for our individuality. Every once in a while a good dresser must send his clothes to the presser to have the wrinkles taken out. By this act he recognises that his clothes assist him in mingling with his fellows because they reduce him to conformity with them. Most pressed clothes look alike, and the well dressed man looks very much like other men. When your clothes have become set to you and conform to you, you are no longer in style. For this reason the clothes of poor men and of the common people express them much more than the clothes of those who have different suits. The iron that is used in pressing the clothes must be hot, but it 'must not be too hot. So with our ideas of those about us. And the difficulties and obstacles we encounter are the hot iron. If the iron is too hot, however, the clothes are burned. Some people are so roughly handled that they 'become bitter or querulous. Everybody needs to be ironed out occasionally by the hot iron of circumstances, but he is fortunate if it is not too hot. As time goes on our faces become wrinkled. That is, they become set to our habitual thoughts and actions. The more individual we are the more we are wrinkled. It will be noticed in the case of those who have little individuality, whq are anxious to conform to those about them, that their faces do not show many wrinkles. We say that they are not indicative of much character. That means that the character they have is like that of other people and they s have not much personality of their own.

A wrinkled face and a wrinkled suit make a better photograph or picture than those which present no wrinkles. That is because they express most the individuality of the owner. In travelling through a foreign country one can see the most of it by mingling with the common people. If he confines his travels to the fashionable hotels he will meet the same kind of people in Paris or Tokyo or London that he finds in Chicago or New York. •

The inhabitants of "the country of table d'hote" all look alike and talk alike.

Those, therefore, who wish to see the actuality of another land had best go out of the beaten track, and mingle with the ordinary folk. They have the habit of their peculiar land most impressed upon them in their features and in their clothing.