Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-07-30
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s,sL La9atsrI think it Ii who requires oil
Tight-minded persons to have what hs
terms "homogeneou faces, every feas
! ture and, trait and curve in harmony
with all the rest, and all leading up to
the same'meaning.s In sincere faces, all
she chhnging ieatures do so; but it is
permanent features, these must be good
faces it ia essential to Searty, no doubt:
but il the face be an evil one, It's char
eoter will hardly. be .mended byzhavipg
no opposing trait, no oyredeeming feature
left. The greater Napoleon had hos
mogeneous face, and certainly all the
Madornas baye.i But Sd also Tito's
must have been, and it any one has a
good picture of Meph histopeles, / fancy
1t, viii be the same throughout. Indeed
one would think, that these people must
be wholly good or wholly bad, only that
there arc none such in the world. The
people, Re cali single hearted are likely
to have homogeneous faces, 80 are the
sjzapis End vigorous. IF their soircum-
stances telit them, they will be we'll con-
tent; but you sontatiE,l,s find them at
var with all their surroundings and
then they are altogether unhappy-no
part of their nature is at rest. These,
too, ares the people who can be- Killed
by grief. The ordinary photographs of
Keble, the prints of Pope Plus VII,
Rousseau, and Watts give us unhomo-
geneousi faces. iIf, then, eincongruous
faces are not the handsomest, nor the
most lovable, nor the opposite thing,
they are generally the most difficult to
ing understood Probably their owners
don't understand, themselves When
one sees one eet of features contradict
ing the other, the whole face tells us of
an inward conflict, a complexity of char
'acter that must be always troublesome
tp the man himself end d,often7yery in
convenient TO his friends. And Tot only
ore thesethe most in need of being .un-
derstood, but as it is ever the struggle
that pleases u.s. they ars also the most
interesting to study Generally the in
congruity consists, I think, in the mouth
an- chin failing, to support the upper
part OF the face; and then the meaning
OF 1t is most frequently that the mans
nature is better than his acquirements,
not being duly supported by his ener-
gy. Now it is wonderful how far more
common good foreheads and eyes are
amongst rs than good mouths and
chlns. This is evident from the fact
that we meet 60 many morelgrand- look
ing men now Shey have readopted their
boards than we used to do; for there
can be no doubt that when q man has a
good mouth and firm chin, he loses
greatly in looks by concealing 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, !" Observe the forehead to dis
cover what man is by nature, or what
5he may become according to his nature;
and the motionless closed mouth when
you would know what he actually is, or
has become by habit."i 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 -o7Hhis resolution and
strengthy 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 are the
mouth and nostrils or til Z, ioi q part, the
eyes, eyelids and brow on the other. In
polished society the expression I Of the
eyebrows and the mouth is voluntary
except in moments Of se1f-forgetfulness
or rest55 and then the lips take' tile form.
OF the governing ror habittial disposi-'
tion; torioi q ldidgdssne..s asfsi'ffIq !
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