Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-04-26
SIGNS OF CHARACTER.
EXAGGERATED PHYSICAL FEATURES
IN PROMINENT MEN.

Ambitious People Never Vhistle-Chat-
terboxes Have Light Jaws.
There is much nonsense written of the nose.
Contrary to popular belief there is no such
nose as a benevolent. social or literary, one
unfailingly representative of any of these
characteristics. Rightfully considered, its
size and texture indicate only physiological
and hereditary facts, its outlines alone ex-
pressing mental traits Its shape, size, angle,
texture and relation to other features must
be noted to get its true character value. As
a fair rule, bigger the nose and finer the men
tai organization, greater the force of char
acter.
The reason is the brain works through the
physical vitality to get effective results in any
profession except literature, and they cannot
be attained in any eminent degree with weak
stonlachs, bad livers, narrow chests OF sterile
blood A big nose usually is found in
strong physical make up but either brain or
body is more the question of fine organic
quality than avoirdupois
Those famous lawyers, physicians, invent
ors and business kings who have beat down
all opposition and elbowed out all rivals have
universally exaggerated physical features
ALL ABOUT NOSES.
There are four principal kind of noses with
their varieties The Greek nose, straight,
narrow, finely chiseled, in a line with the
forehead, is the ideal nose, indicating refine
ment, love of art and the ideal TGe Roman
nose is grosser larger, bridged, general course
straight, forming an obtuse angle with the
forehead. 1t expresses force ambition, lead
ership and governing power. The CONNER
cial or aquiline nose has in some degree the
shape of the eagles beak, denoting tenacity,
shrewdness, cruelty and love of gain. Some
of our most eminent philanthropists have this
sort of nose. Then there is the negro nose,
indicating aninality There is, among the
many varieties, the Yankee nose, having the
ambition and force signs of the Roman, the
tenacity and love of gain of the commercial.
So in shape we have the combination of the
Roman in the long, high bridged nose with
the tendency to hookedness of the aquiline.
The bellicose or fighting nose presents a
broad base and rather 'beefyn appearance
Pug noses express lack Of mental force. The
short, high, bony, hooked nose means cruelty.
The Romo-dish nose, round pointed, points
out the tattler and the intrusively curious.
Among the uneducated the prominently
round pointed nose of almost any outline in
dictates the gossip and meddler. The tip
tilted, bluntish nose is usually found in girls
of fun making, fun loving disposition. The
secretive or shrewd have an overwide nostril
base; the money making a nose thick in the
middle The nervous, impossible, artistic
nearly always have large, thin walled nos
trils. First class proof readers and eminent
draughtsmen have the root of the nose wide
and flat.
Heredity has much to do with the nose
The nose is frequently stock trait and
breeds true. Look at the Jews, the Indians,
the negro, and behold the Puritan nose of
some of our New England familiesi Some
times this family trait of a peculiar nose will
be bred out; then it will rather freakishly
appear over several generations, showing
more of some ancestors trait rather than the
possessor's own. The nose to some extent is
formative, the pug nose of the s10-yeaf-eld
girl becoming the dish nose of the matron of
45, or the Roman of 20 change to the Yankee
form at later age. Levi P. Morton has a
peculiar nose. 1t has enough of the Roman
to express ambition or governing power. 1t
has principally the Jewish outline, denoting
tenacity and love of gain We find the wide
nostrils, indicating shrewdness, name for
another kind of secretiveness; the wide, bel
igerent base, expressing a pugnacity that
will overcome opposition; huge nose, that
features, much force Of character and a man
who would be leader in a business enter
prise.
WHAT THE MOUTH SAYS.
Of all the features the mouth is the most
expressive, not excepting the eye. As
the eye more especially represents the intel
lectual, the nose and chin will power, energy
and tenacity, so the mouth expresses senti-
ment, purity and passion. The teeth wide
apart do not indicate rowing disposition, or
when overcrowded anything more than lack
of proper dental attention in the process of
growth. Large eye teeth show a currish pro-
pensity, and small squirrel like incisors in the
lower jaw deceit.
Grief OF melancholy droops the corners of
the lips, while amiability and jollity raise
them. There are always curved lines about
the mouths of the gentle and affectionate and
angular hard lines there in the morose, selfish
and mean. The vulgar and vain have short,
uprolling upper lip, the afectionate, trust
full and tender a full thin skinned under one:
and in those especially noted for the strength
of their friendship the lower lip is filled with
transverse wrinkles. A thin, pale under lip
means just the opposite Of this. A long
thin upper lip unfailingly indicates self
esteem, dignity and sometimes hauteur. The
ideal lips are like the form of Apollo's bow.
The upper lip when stiff and short expresses
love Of praise and obstinacy. Uniformed,
lips show vice and sensuality.
The transcendently pure minded have at
maturity unpimpled faces, uninfamed eye
lids, nearly always pure compilations, bright
eyes and beautiful lips.
People of great ambition, will power and
energy have rather large to very large and
close set jaws. They seldom whistle and
rather infrequently laugh. The chatterboxes
and the gay usually have light jaws Dis
small mouths generally indi-
cate lack of steadfastness in sentiment or
depth Of passion.
Combativeness, decision and coarseness are
usually manifested by big chin.
A double chin the world over means de-
light in the opposite sex. What a double
chin is is indicated by the artists pencil. A
sharp pointed chin frequently means fineness
Of organization while if fiat and sharp hori-
unfailingly indicates fckleness in
affection and lack of steadfastness in business
pursuits. man with a receding chin sell
dom succeeds in any vocation demanding de-
cision, great energy and leadership.
Sometlmes there are comDlnatlons that
offset or modify the meaning Of the sign
value of other features 1t is this that puz-
lies the face reader and it is fact also to
which physiognomists have paid little atten-
lion. A big Roman nose indicating will,
force or leadership is belied by an insignif-
can't receding chin, showing lack of conba-
tiveness and tenacity. Sometimes rae see
mouth indicating affection lose its sign value
because we find a hawk nose, expressing Sc
verify, or fiat pointed chin, denoting lack
If steadfastness in affection Often a dish
nose pointed, expressing obtrusive curiosity,
S neutralized in its true meaning by an ami
,ble mouth and culture indicated by fine
Globe.
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