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Title: With the children on Sundays, through eye-gate, and ear-gate into the city of child-soul
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Stall, Sylvanus, 1847-1915
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en we feel pleasant our facesare short and drawn up; when we feel sober, or cross, or angry,they are lengthened and the character of the expression is entirelychanged. You would scarcely know the face were you to see itradiant with smiles and pleasantness, and afterwards see the sameface when the person is cross or angered. When you look at a per-son you can tell whether they are in good humor, or whether theyare displeased or angry. Do you know, boys and girls, that our character and our dis-position are seen in our faces? It is impossible for us to conceal our174 PLASTIC FACE. 175 real selves, even though we might try. I will tell you how it is. IfI were again and again to press this face only in this way, so as tomake it look very long, after a time it would retain this expression.If I were to press it in this other way, so as to make it very short andgive it a very pleasant expression, and were to hold it in that posi-tion for a very long time, it would assume that expression, and
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Frowns and Smiles. retain it constantly. It is just so with our faces. When a boy isangered again and again the deep lines of his face become moreand more permanent, until after a time he comes to have a facewhich expresses anger. If a boy is kind and good and generous,these feelings express themselves in his face, and if repeated overand over again, day after day and year after year, it becomes a per- 176 PLASTIC FACE. manent expression upon his face and the boy is known by all whomeet him as a good-natured, pleasant and agreeable boy. I suppose that most all the boys and girls here can tell a min-ister when they meet him on the street. And when you grow olderI think you will not only be able to tell that it is a minister, but youmay be able to tell, possibly to what denomination the man belongs—whether he is a Methodist, or a Presbyterian, or an Episcopalianor a Lutheran, or to what denomination he belongs. This cannotalways be told, but in many instances this can be judged quitea

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