The Italian mothers get for nurses the most beautiful persons,
because they believe that by constantly looking into such faces
the infant will unconsciously take on some of the beauty of the
nurse.
This may be a fiction; but we do know that where there is mutuality of
interest and deep affection, persons thrown closely together, in the
process of the years, take on traits each of the other.
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See BEAUTIFUL LIFE, SECRET OF; LANGUAGE, FORMATION OF.
=Absorption in One’s Art=--See THOROUGHNESS.