Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-03-14
CHARACTER IS SHOWN THERE As
WELL AS IN THE FACE.

QefH through lNc Streets SEEM NOtuluB
while he walks his head and shoulders
bend; one Knows that his eyes seek the
ground Just as one sees his feet linger
ON t. ia this manner il must have been
that Macaulny walked in hia famous
Night wanlcrugs. when he lrayersed
the London streets aud saw nothing, a
contrast TO tine night walks Of Charles
Dickens, who trod the same streets and
saw everything, with head charucteris-
Sically held back and slightly 20 one side,
an energetic observer rather than "a deep
thinker
Very different from what we may call
She refined and intellectual back is the
back Of the broad and vulgar figure who
struts past as rs If he owned the street
HE glory is not in his mind or heart,
but in bis pockets He has habit Of
sticking mp for his rights Even his
collar sticks up, and his nair. 10 CORE
apond with his inner self Is bristliug
He thinks be can buy anything, from a
picture, of which he knows nothing TO
@n eleclor who knows nothing OF bin.
The purse proud man will never hand
money out OF that pocket for charity,
unless he Is pretty sure that his name 10
Ia printed list Of subscribers
THE EoGUE's BACK
Not so the wealthy man who has a
Aeart above gold Look at him, back
view, os be stuuds at public meeting
called az some time Of calamity or need
BE Is sure 10 be there II the hall is
0yercrowdei you can see him standing,
never complaining Of the lack Of seats;
be Ia there for the comfort OF others; he
forgets ms own lie is "A large hearted
man, and everything about him is large
The blg hands are only waiting behind
him 10 give freely, the broad back can
bear gouliy share of others burdens
AS for the back Of the rogue, il is Of
Ssfinite variety II there were only one
sort we might all make what soldiera
would call reconnaissance to the rear
and detect and outwit him There Ia
the sharp dealer Of the business world
who is remarkably spruce at the back
and the Udvtuturor Of society, who can
bow like the first gentleman in Europe
and ten thousand more varieties, from
the welcher on the turf up to the gentle
man who ought 10 be a barouet, and
who has lived for the last thirty years
on that statement and on charitably col
lectng for the sayages Of Bouioboola.
he could straighteu his body If he liked
but his mind is fixed in curves of cum
ming He aud his principles are as
crooked us wrggllng cells. He can press
Others to his will, too, as he presses his
cane TO "a curve like himself
Ills spare form is not the thin, bent
back of the student The back Of a
bookworm IL another kind of bend-a
curve TO he respected Nor Is II the
stoop Of old age The back is an index
of age as well as Of character The
small child stands a equare, upright
atom of humanity The man grows
straight % his full height; then his
shoulders broaden, then ms shoulders
come forward, and his head goes down
BACKBONE
There Is an old sayirS TO describe a
man of weak character that he has mo
backbone. There is not mnch back
bone in the IMAM who wall,b p. If not
quite sure where he is gors to-, who
drops MS letters aud never cares to
atraighteu his shoulders. Follow him
and note how his hat points backward,
aid you know from the angles to which
he has set his hat and his whiskcrs that,
seen front face, his aspect is not wise.
Still he is good natured fellow, and by
some instinct we read on his back that
be has an ambition TO be amusing One
Is perfectly certain that the man with
such a hack sings comic songs, and
equally certain that he never knows
when people cease to laugh at the song
and begin to laugh at himself
But there is such thing as having
500 much backbone, 0ra ,dut is rather
WORST taun having too hJtle, When a
man haas toe much backbone his heart is
hot, as people say. lin the right place
Sometimes there Is no room mo him for q
heart at an Now, there are some men
in whom fatr Of character is carried
into the extreme and becomes hardness
and habisual severity A severe back is
peasauter sight to see than severe
face lt is not what we would call the
just and rshteously indignant back,
which Is straight and noble, q fine thing
aud "a venerable is the lllog shout
dered back that dcuo,-s the domestic
oyer His bald head shines.
One knows that In the front the veins
are bursting His mustache has been
twisted to sharpness by angry fingers,
ly against hls hardsot knee Tie could