HOW TO INVITE HAPPINESS 



position and a sympathetic spirit can mould the features 

 and light up the countenance in a manner that no 

 external cosmetic can rival. It is scarcely too much to 

 say that every thought writes its tell-tale lines on the 

 face, that all the world may at a glance read the record of 

 a life. 



Witness, as extreme cases, the vacuous face of the 

 idiot or of the hopelessly insane or the hardened visage 

 of the habitual criminal, as contrasted, in different 

 directions, with the shrewd profile of the business 

 magnate or the serenely placid countenance of the philos- 

 opher. 



Not all faces, to be sure, present so distinctive a 

 mask, for most faces give the record of strangely com- 

 posite lives. Yet in the main the balance for good or 

 ill is struck and recorded there; and what is more, the 

 popular reading of that record is usually correct. 

 Individuals may make mistaken interpretations, but 

 the aggregate verdict of a man's associates seldom does 

 injustice to his true personality. 



It behooves us then to give heed to the intangibles, to 

 the abstractions, to the phases of success in life that 

 are not concerned with externals and business practical- 

 ities. 



First and foremost there is the matter of tempera- 

 ment of individual bias. This enters into the problem 

 both as determining the nature of happiness for the in- 

 dividual and as influencing his capacity for enjoyment. 

 "Happiness is a matter of opinion, of fancy in fact," 

 says Cnamfort; "but it must amount to conviction, else 



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