“The best way to be really pretty, indecently of regular features and good complexions is to have pleasant thoughts constantly in our minds, always to be doing kind and good-natured things, and never to listen to anything unkind or bitter about others.  If we do this, the eyes will grow clear and bright, the corners of the lips turn up pleasantly and prettily, and the beauty of countenance be fully devleoped—a far higher beauty than that of feature.”

Sylvia’s Home Journal, January 1878