The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-05-10
Beast Faces.

a writer in Household Words gives
US an amusing article on the study of
eJhnology in faces, tracing the distinc-
tive features of the Sclavonian, Tartar,
Nubian, and Malay, in the countenances
we meet every day in the streets, and
then passes to the resemblance of the
various animals. We will extract
portion of the latter part of the article:
But the beast faces, there is no limit
10 them. Dogs alone can supply the
outlines of half the portraits we know.
There is the bull dog-that man in the
brown suit yonder, with handy legs and
heavy shoulders did you ever see
ksnnelled a muzzle more thoroughly
the bull dog than this2 The small eyes
close under the brows, the smooth bullet
forehead, the heavy jaw and snub nose,
all are essentially Of bull dog breed
and the same time essentially British
Then the mastiff, with his double bass
voice, and the square hanging jaw; and
the shabby looking turnspit, with his
hair out at all sides, and the grey
hound, lean of rib and sharp of face;
and the terrier-who is often a lawyer
with a snarl in his vice, and kind
of restlessness in his eyes, as if mental
" worrying q rat--his client; and the
Tyke, all beard and mOustache, and
glossy curls, with plaintive expression
Of countenance and exceedingly meek
demeanor; and the noble old New
foundland dog, perhaps a brave old sol
d er from active service, who is chival-
rous to women and gentle to children,
and who repels petty annoyances with
grand patience that Is veritably
heroic
The women, too, wo have Gkenesses
for them. know a woman who might
have been the ancestress of all the alb
bits in all hutches of England. A soft,
downy looking, fair, placid woman, with
long hair looping down like ears, and
an innocent face of mingled timidity
and surprise. She is a sweet-tempered
thing, always eating or sleeping; who
breathes hard when she goes up stairs,
and who has as few brains in working
order as a human being can get on with
She is Just human rabbit, and moth
ing more; and she looks like one. We
all know the setter-wOman-the best of
all types-graceful, animated, we'll
formed, intelligent, with large eyes and
wavy hair, who walks with q firm
tread, but light one, and who can
turn her hand to anything. The true
setter-woman is always married she Is
the real woman Of the world. Then
there is the Blenheim spaniel; who
covers up her face in her ringlets, and
holds down her head when she talks,
and who is shy and timid. And there
is the greyhound woman, with lantern
Jaws and braided hair and large knuck-
les, rather distorted There is the cat
woman too; elegant, stealthy, clever,
caressing, who walks without noise, and
Is great in the way Of endearment No
limbs are as supple as hers, no
back bone so wonderfully plant, no
voice SO sweet, no manner so endearing
She extracts your secrets from you be
fore you have spoken; and half an
hours conversation with that graceful,
purring woman has revealed to her
every most dangerous fact it has been
your life's study to hide. The cat wO-
man is a most dangerous animal She
has claws hidden in that velvet paw,
and she can draw blood when she un-
sheathes them. Then there is the COW
faced woman, generally Of phlegmatic
temperament and melancholy DISPOSE
ton, given to pious books and teetotal-
ism And there is a lurcher woman,
the strong-Yisaged, strong-minded fe-
male, who wears rough coats with men
pockets, and large bone Buttons, and
whose bonnets fling a spiteful defiance
at both beauty and fashion This Is that
wonderful creature who electTItes for
eigners by climbing their mountains in
a rnOngrel kind OF attire, IN which
mems cloth troWsers form the most
striking features; and who goes about
the business Of life in q rough, grutf,
lurcher-like fashion, as if grace and
beauty were the two cardinal sins OF
wOmanhood, and she were on a mis-
sion 70 put them down. This is not a
desirable animal We have women like
merino sheep; they wear their hair over
their eyes and hair on their necks. And
women like poodle dogs, with fuzzy
heads and round eyes; women like
kangaroos, with short arms, and a
clumsy kind OF hop when they walk;
and we have active, intelligent little
women with just the taintest suspicion
of a rats face on them as they look al
ter the servants and inspect the mystic
ries of the jar closet Then there are
pretty, little loving marmoset Iacea l
know the very transcript Of the golden
haired Silky Iamerln ia the Geological
Gardens. 1t Is a gentle, plaIntIye, low
ing creature, with large, liquid brown
eyes, that have always a tear behind
them, aud look OF soft reproAcn Ia
them; its hair hangs IN profusion Of
golden-Orown curls-not curls so much
as mass of waving tresses; II IS a
creeping, nesting, clinging thing, that
seems as if il wants always to bury II
self IN some one 5 arms-as If the world
outside were all too large and cold for
II. There IS tho horse-faced woman, as
well as the horSefaced man; and there
Is the turnspit woman, with her rag
ged head and blunt, common nose. 4
la fact, there are female varieties OF All I
the male types We have mentionedi ex- 4
ceptlng, perhaps the lion woman
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