Beauty That Endures

To be beauíiful in person, we must not only confomi to all the lawsof physical liealth, and by gymnastie arts and artificial appliances devélop the elements of otir physieal being in symmetry and completeness, but we must also train the mind and delevop the atïections to the higliest possible degiee. To be beautiful, we must feed the spark of intellectual fire by reading and meditatión, until it burns in a steady Dame, irradiating the face by its brilliancy, suffusing the countenance witli liglit. To be beautiful, we must put a great oi'gamzing and ennobling puipose into the will, and concéntrate üur thought and affection upon it until enthusiasm swells up in the heart, suffuses the countenance, and rebuilds tl ie Itody on its own divine plan. To be beautiful, we must cherish every kind impulse and generous disposition, making love the ruling affection of the heart and the ordering principie and inspiring motive of life. The more kindaess, the more beauty; the more love, the more lovliness. And this is the beauty that lasts. Mere physical good looks fade with years, bleach out with sickness, yield to the slow decay and wasting breath of mortality. But the beauty that has its seat and sonrce in kind disposition, noble purposes, and great thotights, outlasts youth and maturity, increases with age, and, like the luscious peach, colored with the delicate blush til' purple and gold which comes with autuinn ripeness, is never sol icautif ui as wlien waiting to beplucked by the gatherer's hand.