A Woman's Lips.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 11727, 4 September 1902, Page 2

A Woman's Lips.

Soft red lips add greatly to a woman's appearance, and when they part ove** even, pearly teeth, a face cannot but be attractive, even though the rest of the features be not as faultlessly chiselled as those of a Greek goddess, or the complexion be lacking in that white trans|>arenojy so mitfch. desired. Upon th 9 mouth more than upon any other feature are recorded the various conditions of the mind. Peevishness, anger, worry, doubt, and sorrow —all the human emotions perch upon the lips in passing, leaving there tho record of their brief tendency in script -so plain that all who look may read. Good traits and bad are registered alike on the mouth, and as the years go on this mobile feature unconsciously assumes a habitual expression reflecting those emotions whicjh. are most common to it. Smiles following merrily, one upon another, will .shape the Mps into the curve of Cuoid's bow, but lips that curve downward at the corners are usually burdened with the results of ill-natured or uncharitable thoughts. Beware of the lips that droop at the corners. They are not to be trusted. The owner of such lips is the one who-, when things go awry or anyone gets into trouble, remarks with acrid terseness, "I told you so." ' , • t One cannot help associating thm lips with a refined cruelty or coldness of disposition. They belong usually to the one who, although severe in judgment and inclined to be censorious', may yet be fairly just upon occasion. It is the girl with full red lips and regular, white teeth, whose smilUes chase one another across the lovely landscape of her countenance as merrily as a butterfly dances over the field on a summer's day, who has the loveable disposition and a mind free fro mjnetty jealousies and spites. This is the girl we all ought to love to look at, as all who are not puritans or .aesthetics most certainly do.

When once the lips have permanently fallen into certain lines it is difficult to change their shape. Still, whatever its shape or defects, a mouth may be improved upon and made attractive by sim™ Icultdvatiing a pleasing lexjperssion. That lift to the mips which Hardy gave in imeultivating <a pleasing expression. That in its quick upward movement expresses the same sentiment that a Parisienn© voices in a shrug of the shoulders'. A mouth need no* be small to be beautiful. Indeed, in a large mouth the lips are usually finer and more expressive, but they must be taken care of. Biting them to make them red is certain to make ihem coarse and thick. —'"Science Sittings."