Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va) 1886-1890, 1890-01-29
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The great Justification of the double
chin rests, OF course, on its unrivaled.
value as an index of eharactbf hbd such
ID character! 1t is REALLY hhtdfas potent
of!nobisity. This was long 1ig6 discefnet
by the.great astepofphysiognomy. 1t
is not difficult to divine what Lavater
.thoughsof a double chAs. r IFerarefully
points but that man differs frop che ami
NAL chiefly by his chin, laying it down
as an axiom that the CHIN is tile distihcts
rive characteristic of humanity cnnsc-
1ucntly double chinned people are doub-
" differentiated from tho b&ists dlafper-
ish, which is greatly to their credit. He
expressly takes for his model of "the
thinker, full of sagacity and pendtra-
ton" man with ileshy double chin,
coupled with nose rounded OF the end
The portrait he gives is even better than
tho letter press. as. tho, gentleman is
limned with at least five chins, 80 thatlis
l3wer jawwas vista of magnificent Dis
tances like Washington. -Go
This happy physiognomy Of the double
chin coupled with the rsunded nose,
chatacterizes, ctels us, the mind which,
can rice to heights, and which follows
its designs with rejecting firmness, IN
alleged by obstinacy Let, therefore,.
thosetwith double chins rejoice. whether
they possess rounded noses or not. and
quote Lavater in gratitude. He gives
ao.,in another example Of the double
mentor. and the face so endowed he
saws enthusiastically, is reasons own,
image. He quite revcls in this feature,
He takes an example of Raphael with. o
beautifully rounded double chin, and in
criticiang it he acknowledges that tho
profile is wanting in truth, harmony and
Grace; but then, asks he, how is 1t it'Bo
strongly takes captive our sympathy?
Where lies the illusion? Merely in the
chin. he answers, and. as tho chin is
double one, the matter is no longer q
! mvstery He points triumphantly to
Cicero, magnificent double chin. and IN
burs: of eloquencc says OF Wren's that.
if Won can find a man with (among other
things) such Il chin as that. without
being riftcd with some extraordinary
talent. he rcnounces forever tie science
of phy,iognomy. si.ala
VIVA Lavater has thus Laid down ex-
perience amply corroboratcs. The double
chinne,i, therefore, should hold their
heads Up higher, in the consciousness OF
modest merit. and give free play and
lust prominence to their certificates OF
CHARACTER. 1t is, as limited above, rather
difficuls at present TO tell who IS endowed
and WHO is not. Portrait painters are
craven enough to dissimulate double
chin; they leave it to caricaturlst. who
seems TO think it great fun for popular
statesman or poet to have two chins..
whereas those appendages are tho secret
of their success. Some of our moro OBJ
servant writers have got glimpse OF
the truth; Wilkie Collins, for instance.
He ver7 properly credits Count Fosco.
The man Of daring, resource and deter
mination, with double chin. to which
Fosco's pet cockatoo calls public atten-
ton by rubbing its head against it in the
most appreciativo manner possible. But
your ordinary novelist would never have
thought of that.
AS an Englishman, by the way, one
naturally turns to Shakespeare to see
whether his appearance corroborates La
vater's views Shakespeare undoubtedly
foresaw the point, as he foresaw every.
thing else. but he was sufficiently artful
to wear just enough beard to place it in
eternal doubt whether he had double
chin o.. not. Thus he leaves it open to
all parties. singe-chinned or double, to
quote him Us an instance of anything
,hev like, which, after all, is the great
use which Shakespeare has always been
put to..-London Standard. .aita