A headmistress is often mean or reckoned as it. She would often have a pocket watch attached to her dress. I would think her hair would be pinned in a tight bun and she would wear dark colors that did nothing to accent her body. She would often frown and not smile. A pair of spectacles would add to her face she probably grew up poor and did something for herself that is why she wants girls to work hard in society.
In “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, when the age of Old Lady Chong, the piano teacher's mother, is being describe, the author uses two similes she smells "like a baby that done something in his pants” and has skin "like an old peach" appealing to the smell sense.
