PERSONAL APPEARANCE.
Tnrs is one of those things of accident, resting
with nature. No man or woman can form their
own persons, and none should bc praised or blam-
ed on this head. The disposition for looking
is ruining half the young people in the world—
causing them to study their glasses, and paint or
patch, instead of pursuing that which is lasting
and solid—the cultivation of the mind. It is al-
ways a mark ofa weak mind, if not a bad heart.
to heara person praise or blame another on the
ground alone that they are handsome or homely.
Actions should be the test—and a liberal source
of conduct pursued to all. It matters little
whether a man is tall or short—whether the blood
stains the cheek or runs in another channel.
Fashion makes the difference as to beauty. The
lily is as sweet if not so gay as the rose, and it
bears no thorn about it. As to appearance, fash-
ion should not be allowed to bear upon that
which cannot be changed, except by deception,
and what indeed, in reality, is not worth the
trouble of being so, even if it could.
The sight of a white man in Africa is much
more homely than that of an African here—and
in Scotland, at one time according to Walter
920tt, the fashion to judge of a handsome man
was in a broad face and a red nose.
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