Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-13
BONE AND MUSCLE
Are Better Indications of Character
Than Cranial Bumps.
BIG BONES CALL FOR. INTEGRITY.
Large Lungs Mean Driving Power and
Short Muscles Vitality.
EXAMPLES AMONG PROMINENT MEN
WRITTEN ron THE DISPATCH. !

| aware Of the work OF Mrs. Mary o. Stanton,
of California, In the study of physioghomy,
not merely Of facial traits, but rather Of
physaue reading. The subject is 80 akin "a
the culture OF beauty that one locks with In.
tsrest for further research In the same line.
The bulky volumes before me IL ~ selid 4
piece Of litefatufe=t hasten 10 add rs enter.
tanning aise-=ss often comes from the pen OIL
woman, II has been written A. books ought
10 be=with years OF patient incubation oil
thought, observation aud leisufely reading,
then with close study and condensation into
It's present form,
II will not detFaet from the interest of The
book to know how theughtfully every steT
In It's performances was taken, When, hel
children crown and settled In life, comfort
and leisure paved the way for the CON-
pletlon OF her cherished project, the writer
prepared To have her mind ~ Tree from
other care ~ IL is possible for mortal TO be,
Housekeeping was given up and cosy
suite fitted In Oakland for herself and hus-
band, the active, witty, money-making pub.
Usher Of the Ar0onaut. Her study was the
central attraction, where her favprlte
flowers, her pictures and her violin made
cheerful companions, Frightening the hours
Of toll. The author was 30 anxious Ia
leave her mind free OF every consideration
that she made her will, aud gave away her
house plants down TO the last hanging
basket, because they would require time she
could not spare.
HARD SYSTEMATIC WORK.
In that study for six TO eight hours day
| this woman wrote and delved Into books,
| like mathematician lost In his problems,
coming out at lunch time ready for the long,
| lovely drives ter her own last trotter, in
company with some favored visitor, while
her large circle of friends were always de-
vising gay evenings for her refreshment.
Four years Of such study ended in the year
away from home in philadelphia alone,
with her nearest and dearest across the COLI
tinent from her. tagging at the dreary. task
of experimenting the publication OF her
book. The year stretched into ID months,
and they meant work, strict regimen, going
to bed at 9 and getting up at 6, and setting
aside all amusement not demanded to keep
the nervous machine In repair. That is how
men and women have to work to accomplish
ANYTHING. Work that lives Is not done by
snatches with the tips of the fingers.
Neither can such work be read in the
sweep Of ones eyelashes, like q summer
novel. But so much appears novel and in
teresting to the student of human nature
that cannot forbear picking a few of the
garnets out Of the quartz, leaving professed
reviewers to quarry the book at leisure.
NATURES BAR SINISTER.
Taking the first sentence ofinterest opened
TO we learn that the muscular apparatus is
built on the plan of perfect curves, and in
its normal state will produce curves in every
outline and movement. But vitiated and
ignorant parentage brings orth perverted
offspring, and hence comes what the author
calls the Scalene Principle or law of the
skew. Those who are bodily and morally
defective show obliquity OF vision, angu-
larity OF the head which should be round
ing, the slanting of the foot or the skew of
the eve, catlike. crooked features and awk-
ward movements.
These are the true illegitimates of nature,
having upon their escutcheon, the face. the
bar sinister. These signs are observed in
congenital criminals, liars, sneak thieves
and confidence operators and those partak-
ing of their traits. The law of their being
Is oblique, askew, slanting like the scalene
triangle, with all sides and angles uneven.
Such beings demand our largest philosophy,
Justice and love, and like the Arabian
philosopher, we should pray, 20 God be
good to the wicked (deiective), tor Thou
hast been sufficiently kind to the good in
making them such"
CHARACTER TOLD BY PHYSICAL FORMS.
Straightness and squareness our author
finds inherent properties Of bone; true curv-
ing, OF muscle. If the bone has not mineral
matter enough to make it straight and firm,
the character also suffers through a de-
fciency Of integrity. If the muscle is rigid
and does not curve properly and easily,
then we find excess Of will or stupidity. II
Of motion and inability to execute mechani-
cal movements with precision, dexterity
and accuracy, observed in the feeble
minded and criminals. When the muscles
are too soft and flexible and the bones too
small and soft, abounding in animal mat
ter, the subject is apt to be too flexible, too
yielding ior morality, and suffers from
want OF decision and rectitude.
Hence has arisen the vague, instructive
idea that man too supple in his move
ments is dangerous. In many cases the
perverseuess OF nature does not assume
criminal or idiotic proportions, but simply
tends to waywardness and willlulness, to
cranky and inapt methods OF working, walk
ing, etc. In some it is indicated by poor
attempts at works OF art, in hoarse, dis
social and commercial irregularities.
WISE CUPID.
A scientific knowledge OF man is the first
step to the regeneration OF the race, for
which positive knowlege of the human face
and body is essential. This demands that
other factors than "blind love" be brought
into marriage. In this sacred relation there
should he no blindness. Cupid should be
all eyes.
Those with short and round muscles have
relatively broad and short figures with thick
chests, broad shoulders, the joints small and
we'll covered, the fingers tapering and nails
oval, the feet short with high instep, the
forehead broad and rounding outwardly at
the sides. The face is round or oval, cheeks
full, eyes large and full, chin often dimpled,
hands and leet small, limbs round and taper
ing. The predominance of the vital organs
gives great strength, love Of eating and
drinking, love of the opposite sex and fond
ness Tor social enjoyments. athletics, music,
dancing, etc. This type is inclined to com.
merce. The late James Fisk was good
specimen of the class. Those with good
brain in combination will show military
capacity like Napoleon l., who was OF this
build.
Where the muscles are OF long and thin
type the character mas less OF the aggressive
and more of the sentimental cast. The face
is rather long and the nose higher; the eve.
though ull, not SO convex as in the other.
Afectional and intuitional traits are we'll
developed, yet love exhibits itself in more
refined manner. Mentally this build will
have capacity Tor some form of art, enjoy
domestic ties and sincere friendship.
THE EYES AND THE CHARACTER,
The many and varied expressions OF the
human face, we read, are due to a great
number of muscles, the face having So pairs
and the body more than 500 The eve con-
tains more muscles, more active ones and
those which express more thought than any
other part of the body; hence the eve is the
facial exponent OF the muscular system. The
larger, more convex and deeper colored the
eve the greater the strength OF the muscular
system. Small or depressed eyes, with
suuken orbits. always denote less muscular
power than large, full ones, and pale ewes
express less vigor than well colored ones.
All eminent artist, singers, actors. musl-
ri ne and seul utorg ara endowed uifh C..