Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-08-03
SHOWN BY THE FACE.
Ancient Fashions in Foreheads and Errox
by NoyeliSts.

of Character in the Face" s'it is most
interesting to mark the development OF
the face, to watch the soft, unconscious
baby lineaments merge into those OF
happy, careless, chubby childhood,
changing again into the dawning
thoughtfulness of an awakening mind,
circumstances. Whether correctly or
not, it is generally supposed that wom-
en- take much pleasure in that sort OF
thing, and that majority of mothers,
when they are young and inexperl-
enced, can gaze for hours upon an in
FAINT unpossessed of even a grain
of appreciation and utterly in
capable of making an effort that
is unconnected with physical nour-
ishment. No man, no matter how
young or inexperienced he might be,
could be induced to do anything Of the
kind unless at the orders of some one
who held him in thorough subsection.
Still, no one will dispute the correct
ness of the authors assumption that
attempts to diagnose the mental char
acteristics from external Indications of
the face have long exercised a high de-
gree of fascination for cultured and I'M
educated alike.
To millions of matter-a fact people it
will be inexpressibly soothing to know
that IAN ivory neck or "a brow of
snow" may pass muster in fiction, but
that in real life real flesh and blood are
infinitely more attractive. To the I'M
prejudiced mind it must seem reasona-
BILE. if this single fact relating to the
IS
were worked in wood and hung in the
frames that are now filed with
''God Bless Our Home" or
''What Is Home Without a Roof?"
that the place of the low-priced but
pernicious novel would be taken in
millions of homes by the shilling, or at
least the sixpenny, magazine. 1t is
impossible to overestimate the damage
that has been done in humble house
holds by the meek of ivory" fiction;
but in an article of this kind statistics
might not be relished. Since ancient
times even the fashions in foreheads
have changed. In days when Roman
holiday meant much more than it does
now the owners of noble intellectual
gifts were always sculptured. when
they were sculptured. with high. we'll
formed foreheads. This is due to one
or two causes. Either they had high
or well-formed foreheads. or it was not
the custom to be sculptured until the
hair had retreated two or three inches.
The same necessity for having a high
forehead does not exist now. but a
zygoma that is not unduly prominent is
de rigueur; why, ma turally goes without
saying. Although the perfection Of a
forehead is not governed by hard and
fast measurements, still to be orna-
mental as well as useful forehead
must be neither too large nor too small.
Fuchs says that people with abnormal
ly large foreheads eat voraciously and
go to sleep in church and at the the
alter. This is worth remembering, for
even the most sensitive need have no
qualms of conscience in giving u snor-
ing glutton an unexpected and vigor-
Gus prod in the ribs. The same writer
saws that too small foreheads indicate
mental feebleness. Fuchs must be
dead now, or he would never have
written that women with all too small
foreheads. and large back to the head,
are dangerous" and that women with
too large foreheads distinguish them
selves by cruelty and GOODNESS" 1t
might be as well to cut this out anG
paste it in your hat.
The Rainbow of Peace" as the eye
brow has been called, and the eyelids
are treated OF at considerable length as
being among the most expressive,
animated and mobile features of the
face. In fact, so highly are they ex-
tolled that one is almost forced to think
that person possessed. of nothing else
but pair of symmetrical eyebrows
could easily express his desire or his
emotions, no matter how complicated
| these might be. Highlv-arched brows
are said to denote vivacity and bril-
liancy. but not the power of pro-
fundity that are allied to the more
level kind. Regularly eye
brows are said to express cheerfulness;
square. deep thought; irregular, tickle
ness, versatility, excitability; raised at
the inner corner, melancholy; joined
over the nose, an unsettled mind.
Andamantius lillened individuals with
thick eyebrows which met over the
root of the nose to swine. This might
by some be considered actionable, but
these would do we'll to remember that
Andamantius is no more. Thick and
bushy eyebrows are supposed to denote
physical strength and energy on the
| part of their possessors, while the con-
trary development indicates delicacy,
refinement. or merely weakness, which
is hardly at satisfying diagnosis. A
lack of eyebrows is not considered a
sign of mental strength. The eye
brows and the eyelids are on terms OF
close intimacy, and the form of the
former is connected with the opening
of the latter. Only in the romantic
novel are black eyes to be found. BY
those who have studied the question
deeply four primary shades of color are
recognized. These are brown, green,
blue and gray, and each of these
| has five tones. It is considered some
| what singular fact that the rarest of all
noses is that found in the middle of the
face, and the author says that, taking
| hundred noses at random, one will
| not find on an average more than
three in which the bridge of the nose
descends perpendicularly from a
straight line drawn exactly between
the eyes. A well-proportioned nose,
according to most authorities, should
| take up one-third of the profile, meas
| ured from the commencement OF the
hair to the tip of the chin.
The smile is purely human, as brutes