The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-01-17
lower lip denotes obstinacy or prevail

lower lip denotes obstinacy or prevail
ing resOluteness.
Mantegazza assigns reasons for the gen.
eral dislike of red hair, which he says
is always associated with two disagree
able conditions perspiratiOn and
numerous freckles.
1t would scarce be polite to record this
sweeping assertion were it not to point
out that any regimen corrective Of the
acid condition of the body
which causes unpleasant pcrspiratiOn
would in time improve the offending color
Of tile hair and complexion. Minute
doses of Epson salts, One-fOurth tea
spoonful in wine glass Of water, hot if
possible.
Wrinkled foreheads in children betoken
consumption, ricketts, or idiOcy. Vertical
wrinkles of the brow come early to men
who do much brain work Arched and
crossing wrinkles about the lower middle
of the forehead betollen physical or men
tai suffering. Fine clOSemeShed wrinkles
which cover the face, sign of age and de-
crepitude are caused by loss of contractile
nervous force, and are prevented by hot
bathing, friction and electricy.
When 4 man of inferior race is excep-
tionally beautiful he apprOXimates the
Aryan, or European type, as appears
among the Japanese and the Katfirs. The
European degenerated by goitre, crete
niSm or hunger, approaches the negro and
Australian type. A negro or Indian, bid
den to choose between beautiful white
woman and a beauty of his own race,
infallibly prefers the first.
We pass now to the evolution of beau
ty by force of expression. This-eXpreS
siOn-iS a discharge from the nerve-cen-
terS OF transmission of an OyerpluS OF
feeling.
We feel little or nothing-we express
nothing
We feel more or less strongly, and the
inward force transmits or relieves Itself
by some charge from the nerves, it may
be not enough to visbly stir any muscle
of the face, yet visbly it transforms the
expression, the speech of the soul, trans
latable by child. alien, savage or animal.
Speak to a dog, a baby who cannot
speak, to a foreigner who knows not
word of your language, yet speak, smiling
bencvOlently, or with kindly gesture, and
these beings reply with expressions OF
affection in return.
"When emotion is strong" says Monte
gaZZa, sit may kill us if it does not find
: vent by the motor nerves and express
itself. In many cases the nerve centers.
and, in consequence, life, are endangered
by an inability to weep or laugh. we
know of the husband who killed his wife
by binding her down tightly and tickling
her feet"
Iunatic asylums receive the victims OF
this repression. Paralysis, that Scourge
of New England. is traceable largely TO
the lifelong severity which forbids nature
its wholesome vent of laughter, temper
and tears, till the nerves Wreak thelr
vengeance in paralysis.
Art, literature. eloquence, suffer from
this conventional repression; the percep-
tive faculties are less keen for want or
the stimulus and relief of what is stigma
tized as ''eXcitement,' and emotion
atty"
Italians say of English, "they feel moth
ing" And the English say of Italians.
they are buffOons.' The italian nerve
cell discharges at once the energy stored
there The English cell slowly imprisons
the accumulated force, and ends by feel
ing rs little as he shows.
The defensive nature Of expression is
little understood, but Darwin explains
that the contraction of the eyeldS in
crying protects the delicate organs of
sight from congestion.
To bite the lips to tear ones flesh, or
the hair, appear to the vulgar but to add
pain to pain but really cause q diversion
from the more important nerve centers,
which preserves the brain from grave
dangers of too painful emotions. In pain.
to mold the breath and gasp spasmodical-
ly produces a slight anactteSea which
renders suffering more bearable.
Laughter, so far from being Il mark of
low development, belongs chiefly to high
and wholesome natures THE naughty.
the vain, the awkward laugh little. that
they may not compromise their personal
dignity. Laughter, easy, cOpiouS and
frank. indicates q good soul, devoid of
vanity"
"Of the kiss" our author SAYS, "the
lips belong TO the skin and also to the
yiscera There the inner and the outer
nature meet while very sensitive nerves
exchange the impression derived from
the senses, the heart, the brain. The
kiss given is a desire. an aspiration. The
kiss returned leaves in us some trace of
the heart and the thought of another
The kiss given and received is Il mar
rage"
What this scientific man of the world
says Of anger deserves the attention of
all persons Of intelligence and conscience
Every animal, every man born under
the sun. must hate, in shrinking from.
in reaction against. that which threatens
or OffcndS lis. Rage or passing anger.
precisely because it is q violent eruption,
relieves the nerve cCntcrS from their
tension, and leaves neither rancOr nor
hatred behind il.
"Unfortunates have the infirnity of
not being capable Of rage; their hatred
condenses inwardly i'll physical vcnoms
so formidable that prussic acid and
arsenic are nothing in comparison. 1t is
force which terribly increases criminal
statistics. Blessed 4; hundred fold in
comparison are those who stamp. who
tear their hair, who break glasses and
chairs"
This does not run in the lines of con
yentional teaching. but is there not a
truth i'll il which should modify greatly
our judgments Of character. and our
treatment of different natures, especially
i'll children?
1t will not be necessary to explain in
detail that it is not intended that children
or CROWN folks ShOnld be trained to Stamp