The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-01-17
A STUDY OF FACES.
HOW TO READ CHARACTER BY HUI
NAN EXPRESSION.
Some Rules for Reading ChRracter-WOmen
with Beards-HOw to Have Almond
Eyes-What Wrinkles BetOkcn.

with Beafus-uOW tO HNSe hihOuu
Eyes-What Wrinkles BetOkcn.
1.-The human countenance interests all;
it is book in which all must read every
day and every hour
So writes one Of the most :ngratiat-
ing modern students of human nature,
descendant in direct line of the immortal
sagcs who joined erudition TO keeneSt
observation.
The fathers Of the church, pagan poets
and philosophers, the great Arabic ply
sicians and the classic founders of medl-
cine, all believed in the science of ply
siognomy and wrote at length upon 1t.
The seventeenth century counted ~
writer's of note upon the subject.
The director of the National museum
of AnthropOlogy at Florence, and presi-
dent of the Italian society of the same
science, has gathered a store of curious
and suggestive observations on face
speaking" and this article cOndenses the
most striking ideas from his fascinating
works. He says quoting an older Italian,
that excessive size of the brow is Il sign
of idleneSS," and one remembers folk
overweighted with forehead, who, in cur
rent phrase, never amounted to much.
''Men with curved noses are magnani-
NOUS" 1.-The smalness of the forehead
indicates q chOleric man." Very red
eyes are inclined to cruelty" Such he
says, have an Inflammation Of the brain,
or tendency to which leads to irrltac
BILE and cruel, because careless conduct
The red light in the eye should always
send a mans friends to the physician
for him. QueereSt of all is the rule which
declares, "A beard on Il woman Is Il sign
of little honesty
This runs curiously with modern med
ical observations which assign feminine
boards TO kidney disorders and obstruc-
lions of a class which tend to blunt men
tai perceptions and weaken moral force.
l know q woman of exceptional con-
ScientiousneSs in matters great ana
small, who, stricken with the defibrinat-
ing maladies of middle age, complained.
horror-stricken, that she found herself
losing discrimination between right and
wrong making misStatements in CONVEX
sation ready to take advantage by the
careleSSneSS of others in business eSpc-
cially if il saved her trouble, things which
never had the power to even tempt her
before. She had to rouse her sluggish en-
ergies and call her blunted wits severely
to account for fear of losing her moral
sense For if not" she said, humor-
ously, 81 shall probably wind up be steal
ing an umbrella"
1t would do no harm for us to realize
how dependent our moral states are
upOn our health. DR.. Weir Mitchell
spoke an awful truth when he wrote
that our cOnscieEtiouSness depends en-
tirely on the sounGCeSS of our nerves, or
words To that effect. He found out by
a bullet wound in the spine what some
women learn in that physical martyrdom
miscallcd life. one almost wishes every
doctor could have the advantage of Il hil-
let wound near the spine. 1t would teach
him more than he could gain by ten years
walking in the hospitals
After the color of the skin the brow
and eyes are the features by which we
knv~ one person from another at first
80 'npre2PSS 1 the eye depends
of the eycball, but
he lids The eye be-
s-,.le With power of expression,
.e;tfly capable of being trained to larger
size by the development of strong feel
ING. A person with insignificant CycsrouS-
ed by anger, Watchf:llnCSs or tense emo
ton of any sort. opens his eyes. Their
orbS expand. project slightly. and the
blood and crystalline humcrS give momen-
tary life and brightness. To repeat and
proIong such emotion must develop the
eye, and it is by experience of uplifting
md exciting sentiments that beautiful
rs become the property Of Il family
race.
re Aryan and Semitic races and white
JlyneSianS have the almond eye, with
very pointed outer cnd-the Spanish
AndeluSian eye which Oricntas initiate
by blackoning the outer corner with anti
mony. The Skillful surgeon in IN eye
inhImary will give you the reality by
cutting the outer corner the six
teonth of an inch. if YOU are willing to do
without the use of sight Il week or two
and pay fifty dollars for the operation.
Should your blood not be in the best state
you will very likely pay for the exploit
by Il lengthy inflammation of the eye.
perhaps puTulent ophthalmia, but zone
must suffer 10 be beautiful
As to the cOiOrS of the eye, the An
thropological Society of Paris admits
five shades each Of gray, blue, green and
brown.
Mantccazza found in studying The eyes
of the LappS at least fourteen different
shades, dark chestnut. middle shade and
light chestnut turquoise. azure-eraF.
light Sky blue. graz brown and yciloWish
gray among them.
Horizontal and straight eyebrows. La
water decides, correspond with a virilc
ana vigorous clittdtt'T. While iitlH eye
hrowS are n .nfaliibe sign of apathy
and fahbineSS. Alantc@azZa. Sleptical
of the guesSeS of Iavatcr, confesscs that
he finds them exact in the matter of
eyebrows.
Mouths whose upper lip iuts over the
lower are u sign of great tenderness and
self-devotion. Lavater calls them ''senti-
mental mouths and they usually reveal
deep purity and affection, the type of
madonna mouths. Prominence of the