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someness of form and beauty of features are the outward manifestations 
of health. 
But, of what value is, for instance, a handsome figure without char¬ 
acter ; fine features unbeautified by sentiment or good-nature ? 
As even the finest landscape, seen daily, becomes monotonous, so 
does the most beautiful face, unless a beautiful nature shines through it. 
The beauty of to-day becomes commonplace to-morrow; whereas 
goodness, displayed through the most ordinary' features, is perennially 
lovely. 
Moreover, this kind of beauty improves with age, and time enhances 
rather than destroys it. 
Beauty, when sickness conies, will fade, 
’Twill faint, and droop, and die; 
But Worth with ten-fold pow r er will shine, 
When sorrows gather nigh. 
For what is Beauty? ’tis as dreams 
That quickly pass away; 
And what is Worth? ’tis what it seems, 
Anchnever will decay. 
True Worth will live beyond the grave, 
’Twill pierce Death’s shadowy mist, 
And near the throne of God on high 
Eternally exist. 
—John S. Adams. 
The berry of the pimento, a tree of the West Indies ; a spice of a 
mildly pungent taste, and agreeably aromatic. It has been supposed to 
combine the flavor of cinnamon, nutmegs, and cloves; and hence the name. 
