The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-07-23
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Lavater | think it is who requires all
right-minded persons to have what he
terms homogeneous faces, every ica,
tWe and trait aud curve in harmony
with all the rest, and all leading up to
the same meaning. in sincere faces, all
the changing features do so but it is
difficult to see why, when We take the
manent features, these must be good
faces ; it is essential to beauty, 10 doubt;
but if the face be an evil one, its char
acter will hardly be mended by having
no opposing trait, no redeeming feature
left. The greater Napoleon had no.
mogeneous face, and certainly all the
Mndonnas have. But so also Tito's
must have been, and if any one has Il
good picture Of Mephistopeles, ] fancy
it will be the same throughout. Indeed
one would think that these people must
be wholly good or wholly bad, only that
there are none such in the world. The
people we call single e-heartcd are liNely
to have homogeneous faces, so are the
simple and vigorous. Ii their circum-
stances suit them, they will be well con-
tent; but NOu sometimes find them mt
war with all their surroundings, and
then they are altogether unhappy-uo
part OF their nature is Mt rest. These,
too, are the people who can be killed
by grief. The ordinary photographs of
Keble, the prints of Pope Plus VII,
Il DussSau, and Watts give us unhomo-
geneous faces If, then, incongruous
faces are not the handsomest, nor the
most lovable, nor the opposite thing,
they are generally the most difficult to
understand and the most in need of be.
ing understood. Probably their owners
don't understand themselves. When
one sees one set of features contradict
ing the other, tn whole face tells us of
an inward conflict, compleXiiy Of char-
acter that must be always troublesome
to the man himself and often very i'll
convenient TO his friends Aud uot only
are these the most in need of being nm
derstood, but as it is ever the struggle
that pleases us, they are also the most
interesting to study. Generally the in
congruity consists, think, in the mouth
AMI chin failing to support the upper
part of the face and then the meaning
OF it is most frequently that the mans
nature is better than his requirements,
not being dnly supported by his cuef-
gy. Now it is wonderful how far more
common good foreheads and eyes are
amongst MS than good mouths and
chins. This is evident from the fact
that We meet 20 many more grand.looE-
ing men now they have readopted their
boards than we used to do for there
can be no doubt that when man has u
good mouth and firm chin, he loses
greatly in looks by conccaIing these in
his beard. And this is very CRAFTY
ing fact--not that of the boards, but
that about good upper faces being so
much the most common. For our next
rule is, COB trye the forehead to dis.
cover what man is by nature, or what
he may become according to his nature ;
and the motionless closed mouth when
you would know what he actually is, or
has become by habit" The upper face,
the head, brow, and eyes express the
| intelligence and nature of the man; the
lower part, the mouth and chin, give us
the measure o his resolution and
strength, his practical or acquired abil-
ity, and the temper which he himself,
or his circumstances, may have formed
in him. The movable features which
chiefly (not wholly give us the passing
changes of thought and feeling, are the
mouth and nostrils OF the OF part, the
eyes, evelids and brow on the other. In
polished society the expression of the
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