WHAT A MOUTH OUGHT TO BE.
The mouth is the frankest part of the face. It can the least conceal the feelings. We can neither hide ill-temper 'with it nor good. We bay affect what we please, bui affectation will not help us. In 3 wrong cause it will only make our observers resent the endeavor to impose upon them. A mouth should be of good natural dimensions, as well as plump in the lips. When the ancients, among their beauties, made mention of small mouths and lips, they meant small as opposed to an excess the other way, a fault very common in the South. The saying in favor of small mouths, which have been the ruin of so many pretty looks, are very absurd. If there roust be an excess either way, it had better be the liberal one. A pretty pursed-up mouth is fit for nothing but to be left to its complacency. Large mouths are oftener found in union with generous dispositions than very small ones. Beauty should have neither, but a reasonable look of openness and delicacy. It is an elegance in lips, when, instead of making sharp angles at the corner of the mouth, they retain a certain breadth to the very verge and show the red. The corner then looks painted with a free and liberal pencil,
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1887, 20 January 1875, Page 3
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224WHAT A MOUTH OUGHT TO BE. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1887, 20 January 1875, Page 3
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