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2 Pauline Frederick
that when she drove a car, she drove it with her chin, for in maneuvering through difficult traffic she would thrust out her chin with deep concentration and determination. So she did when she wove her way through the traffic problems of life — out went the chin and though it took many straight lefts that all but knocked her out, she was always up before the count of ten and fighting her way back to happiness. As she expressed it: " Get out in midstream. If the current knocks you over, pick yourself up again. That's the surest way of growing strong."
There was a haunting sadness about her face and when in repose the lines of her mouth drooped slightly, indicating things not talked of. Yet, immediately one looked up into the deep blue velvet of her eyes, they gave the lie to the mouth, for those windows to the soul were merry and defiant against all attempts to get her down. Just where originated the expression " the girl with the topaz eyes " neither she nor any of her family ever knew; for while topaz can be blue, the universal acceptance of the color is a deep amber — a shade in complete contrast to that of Pauline's eyes. The statement that when she was born her parents considered calling her " Topaz " is a fairy story invented by someone who did not know the family. The eyes of a person are naturally their most expressive feature and if those eyes happen to be unusually beautiful, will become something for which their owner is renowned and Pauline Frederick's deep blue velvet eyes were such. Her mass of dark chestnut hair was another inheritance of the Leo sign under which she was born, and combed back so that it revealed her broad intelligent forehead, became another feature for which she was remembered.
Pauline's alluring beauty was proverbial and something of which any woman would be justly proud. Yet how typical of her great simplicity was her reply when one day someone