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VOL XXFI NO 41
VIENNA. GA. THURSDAY, MAY, 20 1004
TERMS |(1 A'YEAR CASH
OP INTEREST TO WOMEN.
EXPRESSIONS OF THE FACE
Letter No. 14 of a bcries of 20.
Copyrighted 1904 by Ohriatino Herrick,
The outdoor life, no less than the
indoor life is bound to leave its
mark on a woman’s face and bear
ing.
By this I do not refer only to the
effect of wind and sun on the com
plexion or of fresh air on the general
health. 1 mean as well that the
occupation to which one most de-
voloaoueselJLwill- in time alter the
expression of the countenance.
Recognizing this, it behooves the
woman who.takes up any outdoor
sports to avoid the snares connected
with suoh a sport.
It is not long since the . papers
player, may, like other occuprtions,
have a whole range of expressions
of its own. And there are other
outdoor ways of life that leave
their mark,—a mark that is not
objectiouable. Wc all know the
gaze of the' sailor or of «tho man
accustomed to look ng oft over wide
spaces of prairie. There is nothing
unpleasant about tlieso. It is when
the bicycle face means a sot look of
anxiety or of peevishness, when the
fixing with the eje o c the hoie to
which the ball must he driven means
the golf sqnini, whun the lung
stride across tlmTinksLas produce i
the slouching ungraceful ga t which
has been dubbed the golf walk,
that it becomes necessary io give
the subject of those idipsyncasia
some sonous consideration.
There can be no good thing with
course, not only for getting about
the country on errands and the like,
but also as a factor m developing a
higher physical standard. Anything
that will make stronger hearts, that
will 'stimulate torpid organs and
c car the brain \s bound to have the
support of,thinking people every
where. A horse, or an an omohilc
may lake one about and awaken a
love of outdoors, hut a HUtt'O or au
automobile is not within the reach
of persons o: moderate - means.
Tbouefore the wheel possesses
advantages for the everyday man
am.Lw.omen -that can be offered by
no other means of loooiriotion.
So good a thing as this should
not s.nk into oomdemuatiou because
and is doing the work of a lifo
saving station for men who could
never before bo coaxed from thoir
offices during tho daylight hours.
But is it to leave au unsightly mark
upon those who partake of its
benefits? Shall that which i? ad
mirable on the golf course he trans
ported to tho street and the dtawing
room? Small the half closed eye
which scans tho spaco to bo oovorod
in tho next drivo he fixed upon one’s
vis-a-vis at dinner table? Shall
our girls and men take thoir after
noon Btroll or their promenade to
church with long slouching stops,
dropped shoulders and swinging
nrfns? The poise that is acquired
by shouldering the hag of golf cf’shs
were full of what was known as the • out the defects of its qualities. Uur
“bicycle faoc." There was no
necessity for describing it. We all
know it as soon as we saw it. An
eager, anxious look, a straining
forward look, sometimes an expres
sion almost of terror,—it did not
make a pleasant impression upon
ativ one who saw it.' Tho bioyole
face was not the property of women
alone, meji had it, too, but oddly
enough, it was seldom seen on
children. They, bless their hearts!
wore'too busy enjoying their wheels
to have any powers to waste on
worrying about anything.
I was amused one evening to
observe the expressions of the faces
of Bevcval persons who were sitting
about a room engaged in various
. persuits. At one side of the room
an elderly man was writing. All
ihc while the pen moved his lips
moved also,—not repeating the
words he was writing, but twitching
hack and forth in a measured
fashion, as if the thougts of the
brain had their counterpart in the
mot gjnents of the lips. ' '
Another member of tho fanily
read a book in which she was deeply
interested and theplay of the author's
fanny was indicated by the n otions
of the reader’s eyebrows.
When there was something a
liti.o 'unusual, or amusing, the
.■ brows went’up almost into the hair,
when there was pathos or mailer for
indignation the brows Mere drawn
tog< ther. It M as no /wonder that
the forehead was a maze of creases,
longitudinal and vertical. Next to
the reader Bat her sister crocheting.
In and out .went the needle and
every time the book drew the M'ool
through a loop the lips were pursed
up. While the mother of the girls,
who sat sewing, snapped her eyes
energetically with every stitch she
set.
Perhaps this may seem • an
exaggeration, hut let any one M’ho
questions the possibility of such a
set of expressions in one household
take the pains to give a little study
to ilie facial tricks of those about
her Possibly the group I instanced
may have had especially mobile
eoi,menaces, but there are others.
When we see this sort of thing pro
voked by ordinary iiidooravoeations,
is it any wonder that a more ex
citing pursuit leaves its mark on the
face?
When bicycling was one ot the
first sports to receive the, honor of
having an expression, named after
it, other sports have followed in its
wake. I do not refer now to the
expressions gained by athletes. The
golf, the' football or the baseba 1 1
oave mu3t he not to let the defects
outweigh tho qualities or to permit
a really admiradie thing to do us
harm as well as good.
Take bicycling, for instance
The. wheel may have seemed to io e
ils popularity for a brief Lime, Iqit
it has oOmc hack io stay,—noi, as
some one says, as a fad, but as a
homely custom. The day has
probably gone by when people go
bicycle mad,—although when one
sees the M’heels of the present day
one can pardon an occasional attack
of mania,—but the tune has arrived
when tho bicycle is a matter of
REAL
No
those who uso it are too M'eak or loo |or by posing oneself for the drive is
earoless to epnqr.or the' few draw- .out of place oxoept. on the links,
backs commoted with it. There is j Yet if one must choose between
no reiijon why’ a bioyole would ho these and the dispirited droop of
tho cause of a bowed, bunchert-up mouth and ihouldors that are lounti
back or of an unpleasant oounlc- among the women M ho live thestay-
The small amount of cure that is
given to the skin will keep it in
tolorablo order and the attention
that is bestowed upon the expres
sion will not ho thrown away. Only
recently havo our women come to
appreciate all that fresh air and
systematic oxeroise will do lor thoir
health and looks. There are still
too many of them u-ho neglect all
these things and are content to Ioro
attractiveness and youth and strength
sonnor than take the pains to go out-
of doors. It would make matters
'infinitely worse if those who. havo
boon converted) to the gospel of
exorcise and oxygen should do thoir
case harm by dismaying expressions
and habits which prejudice the stay-
lit-homos against ihe porsuits to
M’hioli they should be won.
nance, if Its riders M ill pay as niuoh
audition to tlmir attitudes and their
expression as they do to the costumes
they wear when riding.
The case is the same with golf,
“the ro;al game.” More ana more
U grows in populuui'y. The busi
ness man finds in it an outdoor
sport which gives nim exercise and
amuseuieut at the same , time,
and tne girl who plays golt
Ins become a recognize t leaiure
in our social outdoor life. The
punch- vvqrttjyof all con.menoati
at-home life and know notniug of
the joys of free exercise in Urn good
open air, lot us, l'or tho love of
mercy, have anything that tlm
blc' clcs or tho nil umolnlos or golf
or tennis can give ns. Tlm one, at
least, is a sign ot a healthful mode
of lifo, hou’ovcr much wo may
deprecate the form it lakes. But
why should one have either?
Already I have tried to indicate
in these papers that one need not
sacrifice a complexion in order to
- rciic in.. ix.iMimf sport'.
B. Orovilz took tlm oath of
atlogimme to tlm United States and
sign naturaliza!ion papers in Judge
Henderson's court last amok to be
come a cit.izeii of tins' ooiliitry. Ho
is a Jew about 20 years old w,lio
came to tins country from Russia
about two yearH ago and desires to
release his citizenship from Russia
and become a subjo’ct of Lnole Sam.
Two years from now ho can tako
another oath, sign a second paper,
and from that time he will he a full
fledge citizen of tlm Unite 1 Stales
and enjoy, all tlm privileges as Midi.
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THE LAND MAN
CORDELE, GEORGIA