WHEN THE FOUR LESSONS that immediately precede this one, have been mastered, and not before, the student must put into practice one of the simplest things that could possibly be taught, yet that holds in its little scope the greatest results in any line of training. While it is a simplematter that we now present, it is not theeasiest thing to do. No exercises are to be employed; nothing but habits; and these need nothing but attention in order to be fixedand retained permanently. Yet simple as it is, it affects every year of life as long as the person remains on earth. It also affects old age and its unnecessary decrepitude.

Two laws are at work in the face, as reflections of the trend of the mind:

1. When the face drifts into a concentric shape, lack of personal magnetism is not only indicated, but is made so apparent that any person, even a non-expert, may read the fact.

2. When the face drifts away from a concentric shape, the presence of personal magnetism is not only indicated, but the face gradually becomes interesting and attractive to all beholders.

We use the word "drifts" to indicate the tendency of the body to give way to the influence of habits that are both bad tad unpleasing. Left to itself it goes wrong at all times.

To use plain language, the face drifts into a concentric shape when its muscles draw toward its center, not only from the sides, but also from the upper and lower parts. All concentric tendencies of the face denote kinship with lower forms of creation; with the beast and the brute. The forehead seeks, apparently, to come down as if to meet the chin; and the chin seems to rise to meet the forehead. But the most noticeable drifting is that of the sides of the face toward the central line. By this action one, two or three lines form just above the nose between the eyebrows, and we say that the brow is knitted.

When the scalp moves forward towards the eyes, and the eyebrows move upward toward the scalp, the result is a corrugated forehead, in which several lines almost parallel appear. These lines denote some form of weakness, either mental or emotional. Worry gradually raises the eyebrows, and in proportion as they rise the mental condition of worry increases. People who go about constantly with raised brows carry with them the sign of giving way to adverse control of some kind, which is the opposite of magnetism. Likewise the lowering of the scalp indicates some form of trouble.

This part of the face is strongest when the eyebrows are as low as possible without the concentrating of the face between them known as the knitted brows. The combination can be cultivated by care. Often it is the result of weather exposure, and of light shining in the face; and still more often of a peevish and fretful disposition in which the face is screwed out of shape bo suit the character of the moods. These are evidences of weakness.

The scalp has certain muscles by which it can be moved if a person is able once to find them and to start them moving. The temples also have muscles by which they can be moved. These different muscles are constantly employed by persons who knit the brows, and by others who wrinkle the forehead. In both movements, the action is involuntary, but not naturally so. It is made so thoughtlessly.

One of the stimulating exercises is that which knits the brows, bringing them together at the top of the nose,and then unknits them. If you can knit them, you can as readily unknit them. The way of doing this is by the rebound of the muscle.

Stand or sit before a mirror for the practice. Knit the brows, and watch them form the vertical lines above the nose; but. instantly unknit them by reversing the direction of the temple muscles. Everybody can do this at the first trial.

The next step is to extend the rebound at every effort. This is done by knitting the brows; then unknit them in the rebound, making the effort slightly more decisive on each reverse action. Keep on doing this in one or more sessions daily until you can unknit the muscles by a pulling action that stretches the part of the face above the nose into a smoothness that contains no evidence of the vertical lines. Of course this result is not to be reached in a very short time. No matter if it takes weeks or months to be accomplished, its value is so great that it is worth all the time and effort devoted to it.

But very soon the phase called practice will have passed, and the better phase known as habit will be entered upon.

As soon as you are able at will to unknit the brows until the space between them above the nose is perfectly smooth, then adopt this action as a habit following all through the waking hours. Put it into action the first thing in the morning before you rise from bed; carry it as a companion all day long; and when falling asleep at night, hold the temple muscles tightly drawn away from the eyes. In this way the concentric tendency is soon destroyed.

The vertical lines between the eyes above the nose may be so deeply indented that they cannot be smoothed out. In this case, massage must accompany the unknitting of the brows; as the temple muscles pull back from the eyes, rub a cold cream, or better still some cocoa butter against the deep indentations, pressing and rubbing by turns as if trying to iron them out. This massage rubbing is best done in eight directions; right, left, up, down, up diagonally to the right, then to the left, down diagonally to the right and finally to the left. We have seen many cases of very deep indentations completely rubbed out, and that part of the face become smooth and take on the appearance of youth, as if many years had suddenly dropped from the person. In one class, more than two hundred students of more than middle age accomplished this result in a few months; and several thousand in a single year did so without one failure in their number.

But massage alone will not do the work. In the first place

It will not pull the temple muscles back to the positions of youth. Then it will lack the essential benefits of stimulating the themselves.

The crow's-feet or thin lines at the corner of the eyes close to the temples are also eliminated. Thus we get rid of three of old-age wrinkles; the forehead lines, the knitted brows, fend the crow's-feet; all of which accompany old age. Many women make long and painstaking efforts to get rid of these wrinkles by massage and by manipulation in the beauty shop; but they never succeed in removing the actual positions of the muscles that attend old age. The old age positions still remain, and all that massage accomplishes is to cover them over, not eradicate them.

The habit that we teach is the actual condition of YOUTH.

We set the clock back twenty to forty years.

Massage is beneficial, but rarely necessary after the face has once been smoothed out by controlling the muscles. Let us see if we can make this clear. In youth the forehead muscles are rarely ever concentric; if so, they are abnormal and unusual, indicating a morbid mind or nervous system. In youth the temple muscles are never concentric when conditions are normal. In youth the side-muscles at the outer edge of each eye do not close up, as they appear to do later in life.

It is an old law of human nature that conditions that are natural in youth invite the mental and nervous conditions of youth, if they can be resumed. As the normal positions of these three sets of muscles are natural to youth, the reinstating of them invites the mental and nervous conditions of youth. Massage never does this. The plastering on of cream and the creating of a coating of a temporary character on the cuticle itself, does not restore a single position of the facial muscles, and does not invite any of the spirit of youth into the countenance. A pupil who has graduated from the beauty parlor treatment, shows an unnatural face because all the fine lines and delicate lineaments have been obliterated.

There are still other reasons why the muscles must be made to do their own work and to get the face back to the condition of actual youth.

The most recent science tells us that the countless billions of atoms of which the body is composed are charged, each and every one of them, with inherent or native magnetism, the presence of which is necessary to hold together their electrons, and to maintain a sort of solar system in which a central orb exerts an influence over its satellites, and the latter in turn by the magnetism of a force akin to that known as centripetal, keep their distance from the ruling orb. Also we are told that each atom holds a mighty pent-up power that, if let loose, would destroy matter vastly greater than its size. All these engines of force and energy are coming into the body in countless billions daily, serving their mission of making and maintaining life, and passing out to join the great fund from which they were drawn.

All this magnetism is known as diffused power.

It is scattered throughout the body.

This is recognized by all scientists as the basis of a higher use than that which has yet been drawn from it. In order to understand how this higher use may come about, let us review the manner in which the vegetable cell that holds the germ of intelligence, is made by nature to collect these scattered forms of intelligence into a collective mass, which is called the brain, and by which the animal is created from the plant.

In the same way the diffused or scattered presence of magnetism in the countless atoms of the body, is drawn collectively into ganglia, or nerve centers, and into the brain or greatest of all nerve centers. When the process of collecting this magnetism is carried forward to greater results, there is present in the body a much more active fund of magnetism. When the collective fund known as brain power is united with the increased fund of magnetism, the result is personal magnetism.

Any action that will excite the generation of magnetism will increase the stored up fund of this power. Any faculty that is favored by an exciting cause in this line, will be greatly intensified. The human eye is located in the midst of vast funds of magnetism, small as things are considered, but great when related to the uses of the eye. The stimulating of the blood flow in the direction of the eye, will bring countless billions of new atoms to that organ, all of which will contribute their magnetism to it, and so establish the magnetic power of the eye.

The furrowed brow is not attractive and is not necessary.

The knitted brow is not attractive and is not necessary.