Wichita eagle., 1888-07-19
THE SECRET WILL OUT.
THE REVELATION OF PERSONAL
TRAITS AND CHARAcrERlST,CS

THE REVELATION OF Personal
TRAITS AND CHARACTERISTICS
Peculiaritics Which Furnish Clsw TO thu
Disposition-The Identity Of Authera
The Various Little FaAa"
Men betray their real characters in thou.
sand trining Ways The professors Of the an
Of delineating dispositions do % In various
fashions One artist will undertake TO de-
scribe character from tho examination Of q
photograph: another reads indications OF
tastes and feelings In handwriting. nay. an
American nvant has recently announced
that much may be learned regarding . man
BY observing how he wears his boots. Every
one has some small pecnliarities, which. 70
the accurate observer. may furnish . ciew 70
his disposition There have been manifold
instances Of strange and tnconvenient 70
ssmblances between men, leading to cases OF
mistaken identity" and yet, probably, in
every instance there was some trifffng and
overlooked personal which distinguished one
Droxaio from tie other. If alike In features
they differed In disposition.
1t is difficult, il not impossible, to stifis the
manifestations Of personal traits Counten-
ance and voice may be trained and disguised.
but q mans identity viii reveal itself In some
gesture, or glance. or trifing action. which
betrays bis real self to the accurate observer.
When Queen Elizabeth suspected some author
of having written work which she disap-
val ha HA~S -
would have him racked 10 produce the au-
thor of the book MAY, madam" said .
wise counselor, ''he is q doctor; never rack
bis person, but rack bis style Bid him write
q continuation of tho book. and will engage
to say il the first part be his or nos Authors,
OF all people. find IL difficult to conceal their
identity. AS Hans Andersen remarks, every
writer has some popularity Of style. which.
even if he publishes anonymously, enables
those who know his works to cry out, "Thers
he is again~
NOT ny rRE SANE HAND
Miss Strickland remarks that whom the
Olives Of the Queens of England" were first
published her present majesty detected that
all the biographies were not by the Same
hand, though ell purported to be written by
Agnes Strickland The queens critical scu-
men was perfectly correct; many Of tho
Lives" were by another member of the
Strickland family. who objected to DO known
az an authorizes, and therefore published I'M
der her sisters name Probably intimate
friends Of some Of our modern collsborators
might DO able TO distinguish the work OF one
writer from another. amid tho incidents and
action Of the story, after the fashion Of the
mendicant described by Sir Walter Scott,
who could identify tho origin Of each crust
and bone in his bag. Meeting stingy house
keeper who suspected TINT he had been IN
duly relieved at his kitchen door. the blue
gown Indignantly defended the contents OF
his poke" "Na, IA. these are no your hon.
ours banes, they're the laird Of IS ban-s;
and yon's the laird Of IS crustsr The
initiated might thus tell us what we had owed
to Besant and what TO Rics; what to Erck-
mann and what to Chatrain.
There are some personal traita only OBJ
servable by what may be called professional
eyes. Servants and tradesreople. FOR exam
pie, probably form their opinions of US from
the characteristics which fall under their OBJ
servation In the course Of their professional
careers. In his "Reminiscences Sir +. Pollock
tells a story OF housenaid who boasted thas
she had always lived in ecclesiastical farni-
lies, and was wont TO describe these cello
brated church dfgnitar1cs from her own point
Of view. They was all very different, espc-
cially as regards the filing and emptying Of
baths The bishop O. - be always took his
bath Sundays and week days Bnhop- he
took his bath every day except Sundays; bus
Dean never took nothing but a wet
Hrflf 1t.i ~
prisei to find by what characteristics MARKS
We were best remembered by some Of our ~.
tainern
PHYSICAL cHARACTERIsrrca
The lower orders IN Italy attach much I'm.
portance 70 what may b called physical
characteristics, aud speak 70 and Of their
neighbors N often by some descriptive name
sS by their bapt.srnai sstla They have no
sc1upie in taking Of the ''lame,s Or the s.orss
eyed, or the "humpbscfsd," nor hare the
I-rsons thus indicassd any ssnsit1vsnss ss
being 80 addressed
IL IL often fnssrvsting 70 ohnarvs bow dfh3-
cult people End IL 10 br-sk "a any character
istic habit they have unoooscsos1dy sfrnir.d.
There gues The Old shop" ncoss woud nus-
tor. a. he sometimes ended his page Of mana
script with toe ''eo1Hh' be had acquired A
the ''wri,srs' onsc.. To psr.oos who havs
riscu In hfs. the tsfAing pecuiiarieses 40
quired Ia their original spssrs become sors
tr.Als when thy themselves are traasiss~d
70 ioftier position They ar, Always Oh
iiged 70 bs On tk>ir guard &xaiass scr,s
phrase. sor>s trick OF ga.usS which
bss<sys thsr plsb<aAn assscsdsatA Saldopu
can the tnA,snoo a sassy itfs b wildly
ers65caaa1
OF al the chAs1cawAa6rs sh1s vhseb r,.,,
.ocial p,oasSuo are The most eaf.ru,s 4, s,.a,-
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By spseksns hs sdopsed hagaags TOO er.sp-
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