The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-09-29
PHYSLOGNOMY.
LEADING SIGNS OF CHARACTER As
SEEN BY AN OBSERVER.
Facial Peculiarities and What They In.
dictate = Difference Between Gross
Organizations and Refined
Physical Developments.
IL. N. Fowler in chronological Jou;.ns, !


Physiognomy is of great service in in.
dlcating some points of character. A few
illustrations will serve to explain A
large, straight nose, with retreating chin
and forehead, do not 90 with strength of
constitution or originality of mind A
large mouth, with full lips, Il wide
awake pro ecting eyes. indicate talker.
A brain set back and large behind the
ears, and small in front and small in the
corOnal region, with a large pro iecting
face, indicates a low, animal type of mind
large neck and face, with coarse heavy
features, with head smaller in proDor-
ton, indicate a mind averse to study.
thought, Improvement reform, or bencvo-
lent enterprises especially where personal
sacrifices are re. iuired
A person with predOminance of the
mental temperament and brain power,
with high, upright, and coronal brain,
will be given to study and general i'm
provement person who is high in the
crown, with narrow, retreating fore
head, and a heavy base to the brain and
a large, stiff neck, will show the elements
of tyrant A natural born philan-
thrOpist will have the vital and mental
temperaments, and narrow, long, high
head, and especially a high forehead.
Such persons will also Ice disposed to
teach and help others.
A person with low, broad, short head.
is anxious to accumulate property, and
will only let go when death loosens his
grasp A fall eye and long eyebrow,
and prominent outer corner to the eye
brow, indicate great powers of observa-
ton and a strong desire to study nature
and science; and if the eyebrow is pro-
jecting there will be a capacity for math-
ematics, art, and business A person
with full temples and a high, broad fore
head, will be musical, ingenious, and
given to scheming and cOntriving new
modes of doing things, and will be dis
posed to think, theoriZe, invent, combine
principles. and try to account for every
thing. a coarse, gross organization, with
wide head from ear to ear, will be more
carnivorous than herbivorOuS. A narrow
head, with the ears high, and a re-
fined temperament. will be more herb
ivorous.
A person with small, dark, deepsunken
eyes, with vigorous, impulsive tempera.
ment, will give off condensed thought and
feeling in short sentences and vigorous
| language. Projecting ears, standing out
from the head, with large Oriice, and q
! fully developed speaking eye, indicate the
! power to recite verbatim and repeat cor
| rectly. A large back portion of the head,
| with a rather small and narrow front por-
! ton, indicate local attachments. and do
! nestle stationary state of mind. A
| small, short head behind the ears, and
high in the crown, broad at the base, and
narrow above, with large lower part of
! the forehead, and desire to travel and go
all over the world, and come in contact
with everything, go together.
An irregularly formed body, imper-
fectly formed features, and an uneven
head, and a strikingly one-sided, peculiar.
eccentric character, go together. Thin
skin. fine, bright hair, small features anG
bones. bright blue or hazel eyes, betoker
a tender, susceptible, active, wide, awake
earnest, and intense state of mind, and g
tender, delicate body. Thick skin, veins
out of sight, coarse, black, wiry hair,
rough, harsh features large face, bones
and joints, and black eyes, indicate 6
slow. coarse. blunt. low, rough state OF
mind-one difficult to cultivate. Such
persons usually have strong, tough, en-
during constitution, and are not very sus
ceptible to great pleasure or pain, anC
their enjoyments will be physical rather
than spiritual
One with a predOminance Of the diges
tive system will be easy, elastic, anC
graceful in motion, fond of pleasure anC
luxury; will have a pliable nature, an(
will show versatility of talent, character
tastes, expression, likes and dislikes, anC
will have longings for what he has not
will tie always wanting more, and be very
susceptible to excitement and alimentiv
pleasure.