An original and illustrated physiological and physiognomical chart . lar easy grace into your own movements; roll a hoop, spin a top,learn to waltz, skate, and never allow yourseK to perform an awkwardmovement. Remember what Pope says of ease in writing; and his wordsare quite appropriate here:— True ease in writing comes from art not chance,As those move easiest who have learned to dance. B. To Restrain Gracefulness:—Eat heartily; sleep much; be stiffin your movements, and less bending, bowing, scraping, and nodding inyour salutations and deportment; pay less attention to gracefulness andmore
An original and illustrated physiological and physiognomical chart . lar easy grace into your own movements; roll a hoop, spin a top,learn to waltz, skate, and never allow yourseK to perform an awkwardmovement. Remember what Pope says of ease in writing; and his wordsare quite appropriate here:— True ease in writing comes from art not chance,As those move easiest who have learned to dance. B. To Restrain Gracefulness:—Eat heartily; sleep much; be stiffin your movements, and less bending, bowing, scraping, and nodding inyour salutations and deportment; pay less attention to gracefulness andmore to the ordinary necessities of life; and you will thus render your-self sufficiently ungainly and boorish to repel the esteem and admirationof all that admire elegance of manner and the charms of gracefulness. 218 PROSPERATIVENESS. PROSPERATIVENESS. THE POWER OF ATTAINING THE DESIRED OBJECT. The curved line running round the coiners of the mouth is nature^s stampor trade-marlc on the visage of a person who has succeeded or can do so misome department of Prosperativeness large. Jacob Strawn, an extensive farmer, cattle dealer, and business man of Illinois, ?who began life poor. 1. Almost all your efforts prove abortive; hence your life has been asuccession of failures, mistakes, and botches. 2. Allowing your latent energies to rust and corrode in idleness, themyriad circumstances and opportunities occurring around you are notturned to self advantage, partly arising from your being a bad planner aswell as spending your force in passional indulgence. 3. By economizing your life force your old age may not be one ofwant and misery; many of your plans are incomplete, and cause dis-appointments to cluster along your path as thickly as grapes on anarbour in autumn. 4. To you the beatitude, ** Blessed are they that expect nothing, forthey shall not be disappointed, is likely to prove about correct; hencebuild not high your expectations lest the sad truth sap their walls some
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