St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-19
FoREHEADs AND EYEBROWS.
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shallow, shows want Of intellect; but a
slightly retreating forehead, or what appears
to be a retreating forehead from the fuliness
of the forms over the eye, indicates magma
tiou, susceptibility. wit and humor. The
German poet, Goethe, had this shaped fore
head, aud We see this form OF brow in all the
antique statues Of Apollo. A very project
ing forehead, one which dominates the
whole face, IS generally the forehead Of
person Of a slow II not OF a dull intellect. A
perpendicular forehead, well rounded Of the
temples, running rather high than low, and
having straight, well-defined eyebrows, shows
solid powers OF the understanding, love of
study, and power Of concentrating the atten-
ton, but it is not the forehead OF the poet,
painter or musician.
Arched foreheads. somewhat low. bat full
at the temples, with long, sweeping and
mobile eyebrows. appear properly to be
feminine, since they show sweetness and
sensitiveness Of nature. A woman with
this sort of forehead, unless her lips were
thin, could never be a shrew. This sort OF
brow, combined with great fullness over IN
eyes il the sign Of an impressionable, idea
listic nature, and is seen In poets, musicians,
and artists Of all kinds. j forehead with
sharp projecting eye bones-that is, the
Zone on which the eyebrows appear-shows
an acute intellect aud fonduess for research.
Yet there are many excellent heads (as far as
intellect is cOncerned,) which have not this
form of the eye-bOnes, but then these fore
heads have full and rounded temples, which
indicate intellectual power, though not Of
precisely the same sort.
High, narrow, and wholly unwrinkled
forehead, over which the skin seems tightly
drawn, are indicative Of weakness Of the
will power; want of Imagination, and very
little susceptibility They are the foreheads
Of narrow-minded, commonplace per-
sons. OF course other features
may soften these indications; intelligent
eyes may give intellect, OF a sweet ard ten
der mouth feeling enough to at any rate d.
minsh the unpleasant indications of this low
type Of forehead.
FoTeheads not altogether projecting, but
having angular and knotty protuberanees
upon them, denote vigor of mind and harsh
and oppressive activity and perseverance,.
To be in exact proportion the forehead should
be the same length as the nose. In Greek
art, however, it is generally shorter, which
gives softness and elegance to the face. It
should be oval at the top or somewhat square,
II the latter it gives more force; II the former
more sensibility Of character. 1t should be
smooth in repose, vet have the power Of
wrinkling when in deep thought, or when in
grief or anger; for as have before said, fore
heads over which the skin is so tightly
strained as never to change under these cir
cumstanees show a dull, unsensitive, and
unintellectusl nature. A forehead
should project more over the eyes than at
the top, and there should be
small cavity in the center, separating
the brow into four divisions; but this should
be so slightly accentuated as only to be seen
when the forehead is in a strong light com
ing from above 1t.
Square foreheads with broad. angular tenn
plies, with fine, well defined eyebrows, show
circumspection, resolution and constancy.
A blue vein, in the form Of the lottey, in an
open, smooth and somewhat low forehead,
shows poetic, ardent and sensitive nature
Perpendicular wrinkles, those between the
eyes, are natural to the forehead (where they
are sometimes seen in extreme YOUTH.
When much accentuated they show appica-
ton aud thought, habits Of concentration;
we invariably knit the brows when we wish
20 grasp a subject These perpendicular
wrinkles on the forehead are, however often
the traces Of habitual indulgence In anger;
therefore, 10 be sure Of the indication, one
should have TO consider the temperament.
IL the skin is of the color and texture which
denotes the cholerie or sanguine tempera-
menL one would probably be
right in attributing the formation
of the perpendicular wrinkles in such a face
TO the habitual indulgence Of anger: but If
seen in person Of Emphatic or melancholy
temperament We should most likely be cor
rect in attributing the lines 70 the habit Of
thought Persons OF the purely Emphatic
temperament rarely have these perpendicu-
lar lines. They are too indolent 70 indulge
much in study, and too Indifferent to be
given TO anger. In persons of a bilious
temperament the lines would probably be
produced from both causes-from the deep
thought Of study and also from the indulgence
of fits of aneer,-for the bilious tempera
ment is especially an irritable one, though
at the same time highly intellectual, being
the result of the double influence of Appolo
and Mercury.
Horizontal wrinkles acros the forehead,
| especially If broken in the middle, show an
an xious and somewhat fretful nature, II the
lips ara thin and dropping. These lines are,
however, often the result of continued cares
and sorrows. They are often traced by the
vexatiOns of domestic life; hence they are
more commonly seen on the foreheads of
women than men, to whom the perpendic-
ular wrinkles are more common. Apart
from the deductions to be made from the OBJ
servation Of the temperament, there is an
other indication which sometimes serves TO
distinguish the perpendicular lines Of anger
aud thought. Those caused by habit of
concentrated attention by deep thought are
generally of unequal lengths, whilst those
caused by the peTpetually recurrent form Of
anger are shorter, deeper, but both Of equal
lengths. We sometimes see only one OF
these perpendicular lines between the eyes,
in which case there is no longer any doubt
as 10 its indication being that Of habit Of
thought rather than Of singer.
The eyebrows have so much 70 do with the
indications given BY the brow that 1t viii be
wei to speak of them in this article. When
I the eyebrows are far from each other at their
starting point between the eyes, they denote
warmth, frankness, aud impulse gcner-
GUS nature. A woman or man having such
eyebrows would never be causelessly jealous
Eyebrows, on the contrary, which meet be-