Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-01-17
CHARACTER IN EARS.
Great Variety in Their Form,
Size and Shape.
An Organ Which Receives Lit
tie Consideration.

formation and shape of the car, say.
writer in the Pal Nal Gazette,
"will amply repay those. who give il
close attention. On; mod:rn portrait
piintcri seldom go iuto minute tc:ai
over 1t. Taey seem c,ntcat with Z
general outline aud rough touch here
and there. showing the pin cipal
points. The scuiptors arc more part:c-
ular, especially am ing the antique; one
seldom secs good pee, of s:n;uary
withou. noticing that srca: care has
been taken to corrcc II mod Il the car.
aud it was regarded ~ worthy of study.
a well formed car is IL thing of great
beauty, and, like all other WORKS OF
the Creator, i, cxquisi:cly lup:ed and
designed for the function it performs,
that of collecting AM concentrating the
uldulation; of sound
Owing to the imm,aso variety Of
siz, and form in cars it is somewhat
fleet to definitely classify them, but
they may be roughly divilel in:o two
divisions, which arc easily idcn titled =
Division l., with curve |, hanging 10 bc;
Division H., with straight lobe.
Besides the pccnl'ari'ies of shape,
the car may be large Of small, proirul l.
ing or flat, and st,aiyh. or sloping.
Some cars have pointed tops, whi:c
others have straight. Snail and thia
cars usually denote dee ,cy and rc;in,-
meat, and abnormal'y large, thick ears
arc associated with sensual and coar c
nature.
''f.ars of the fits: division ara By far
the most common. while MT more than
one person in fifty po,sc'io' tic straight-
lobe cir OF the second division. Tnis
peculiar shaped ear is oftca hereditary,
and can b, trace back in som, fami-
lies for generations. Pope with mu
steal tastes generally have large and
prominent cars, while the thin angula r
car is SAID to denote bad temper and
cruelty. The cars of great philosophers
AMI statesmen have been notice to b,
large and sloping. Mr. Glads:ones car
has curved han ,ing lobe. lie, close to
his head, and has sloping position.
EARS vary greatly in form and s;z.
and the pcculiarities Of shape they AZ
sumo sometimes give an index to the
character of the individual. Women
nave much better shaped cars than men.
They arc usually much smaller, and lie
closer to the heal. Some pcopie pos
scss singular MUSCULAR power OYER the
car and can move the upper part with
VIII, but 1t is rarely met with The
car is worth stu lying from an auatom.
ical point of view. Beginning with
the ou'cr fold or ridge, called the
helix. which forms the outline, tho ear
is composed OF thin cirtil,gc IN in.
tesunicnt. The next prominent ridge
Is the antihelx. which some people
have very largely developed. but in II
WELCOMED car prof .cts very little be-
You'd the helix. The little knob that
projects from the foot of the an;ihciix
Is called the antitragus, and the CORE
spending knob on the other side the
tragus. The deep well in the centre
OF the car is tho coucha, and, last of
all, the flcshy part below ia called the
lobulc. The concha, so cilcl from its
shcll-likc form, plays the most impor-
tant part in rejecting the vibrations
into the inner ear; in fact, all these
projections ald deprcssions are of i'm
portance to our hearing. and play their
own parts in conveying the fluctuations
OF sound to the drum of the ear.
"Thc Marquis of Salisbury's ear is
massive ani well proportioned. and has
also s.oping position. The car of the
great Napoleon was rather small !, we'll
formed, with curved lobe. As age in.
crca cs the ear becomes more angular
and marked. From our youth upward
the ear docs not receive much considcra-
ton. 1t is pinchcd to signify pleasure,
1t Is sometimes boxed 10 denote anger,
anil even pierced or borci for purpose
OF vain ornamentation. This very an
cicnt but barbarous custom of piercing
the ears. which now we are glad to OBJ
serve is considered I'm fashiona Bile. has
spoiled and d si3urci the shape of
thousands of cars through the pcrfora-
ton OF the ioba for tho purpose of
wearing earrings. 1t may we'll be hoped
this fashion wiki never be revived"
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