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Beautiful
Do you spend ft good de»l of time fretting about your looks, -wishing you could swop faces with some very handsome person you admire? If you do, stop pitying yourself—and start pitying the handsome people you envy.
It is true that beauty gives a person many immediate advantages in opening doors and attracting admiration. But life is frequently made so easy for the handsome people during their youth that they have little incentive to develop their capacitis.
Our most conspicuously handsome presidents were Warren G. Harding, James Buchanan, Franklin Pierce, and Chester A. Arthur.' All are rated by historians as among our most ineffectual, least distinguish*}, Presidents such as Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt—who will go down in history —have been conspicuously unhandsome, or were during their youth.
American parents tend to trees, ure and overprotect their bestlooking children. They should realise that with their good fortune comes the added responsibility of seeing that these children have normal opportunities for personality development despite the temptation to ride on their outer glory. ■
The only worth-while beauty a person can have is, in essence, an inner sparkle produced by a combination of
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