MOUTH MANNERISMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2711, 15 January 1910, Page 4 (Supplement)

MOUTH MANNERISMS.

Mouth -mannerisms disfigure a girl more permanently than do almost any other facial contortion, declares a celebrated woman of the world. Hie most deplorable of all mannerisms is lip compression, as in time that habit transforms the mouth into a thin straight line, which will lend a hard expression to- the prettiest face, and the face that has a hard expression is old, no matter how few may be the actual years of its owner.

The nervous girl who holds her lips tightly pressed together is likely t-o be seriously misjudged by strangers, who imgine that her disposition is quite as narrow as her mouth. Therefore any embryo bud who is conscious of possessing this mannerism would best speedily break herself off it, as otherwise, unless she is a millionairess, she will certainly decorate the walls instead of the dances where she appears next winter.

It behoves a girl who possesses a pretty mouth not only to refrain from drawing it down, but to practice turning up its corners as though just about to smile. This exercise will help to keep the chin from sagging. The girl who bites her lips whenever she is embarrassed or annoyed not only gives ipublio expression to her mental state and exhibits lack of self-control, but is cultivatng a thick-lip mouth, which no art of the beauty-doctors can overcome. Those who naturally have thick lips are apt t-o form the habit of pinching them hard with the fore-finger and thumb, in the hope of flattening them. As the disfigurement is usually traceable to protruding teeth, it may in many instances be ameliorated.