Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-08-14
PAYSIOGNOMY.
LEADING SIGNS OF CHARACTER AS
SEEN BY AN OBSERVER
Facial PecuIiarities and What They In'
dictate - Difference Between Gross
Organizations and Refined
Physical Developments.
ID. N. Fowler In P-hrenolorical journal

P~hysiognomy is of great service in in.
dicatlng some points of character. A few
Illustrations will serve to explain. A
large, straight nose, with a retreating chin
and forehead, do not go with strength Of
constitution or originality of mind. A
large mouth, with full lips, and wide.
awake projecting eyes, indicate a talker.
A brain set back and large behind the
ears, and small in front and small in the
coronal region, with a large projecting
face, indicates a low, animal type of mind
A large neck and face, with coarse, heavy
features, with a head smaller in proper.
lion, indicate a mind averse to study,
thought, improvement, reform, or beneYo'
lent enterprises, especially where personal
sacrifices are required.
A person with a predominance of the
mental temperament and brain power
with a high, upright, and coronal brain,
will be given to study and general i'm
provement A person who is high in the
crown, with a narrow, retreating fore
head, and a heavy base to the brain, and
a large, stiff neck, will show the elements
of a tyrant. A natural born philan'
thropist will have the vital and mental
temperaments, and a narrow, long, high
head, and especially a high forehead.
Such persons will also be disposed to
teach and help Others.
A person with a low, broad, short head,
is anxious to accumulate property, and
will only let 60 when death loosens his
grasp. A full eye and a long eyebrow,
and a 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
a wide head from ear TO ear, will be more
c%arnivorous than herbivorous. A narrow
head, with the ears high, and a re
fined temperament, will be more herb
ivorous.
A person with small, dark, deep.sunke1
eyes, with a vigorous, impulsive tempeFa
ment, will give off condensed thought anC
feeling in short sentences and vigorous
language. Projecting ears, standing Out
from the head, with a large o%rifice, and {
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 a do
nestle, stationary state of mind. A
small, short head behind the ears, anC
high in the CT 'wn, broad at the base, auC
narrow al" e, with a large lower part Of
the for head, and a desire to travel and &C
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 s%trikingly one.sided, peculiar,
eccentric character, go together. Thir
skin, fine, bright hair, small features anC
bones, bright blue or hazel eyes, betoker
a tender, susceptible, active, wide.awake
earnest, and intense state Of mind, and
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
slow, coarse, blunt, low, rough state o.
mind-one difficult to cultivate. Sucl
persons usually have a strong, tough, en-
during constitution, and are not very sus
ceptible to great pleasure or pain, anC
their e%njoyments will be physical rathel
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 pliabIe nature, anC
will show versatility of talent, character
tastes, expression, likes and dislikes, ant
will have longings for what he has not
will be always wanting more, and be very
susceptible to excitement and alimentivt
pleasure.