Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-11-15
FACE READING.
Some Interesting Facts About the Art of
Reading Human Documents.

Some Interesting Facts About the Art of
Reading Human Documents.
The human charaeter is divided into two
parts. the animal and the intellectual
Say animal first, because the animal pro
pensities are alive, the strongest, tho in
telleet located IN the brain having to keep
in subjectioa tho requirements Of the
whole body. The three principal features
are the eyes, fhe nose. and the mouth, and
each of these features has It's part te play
in forming the charBcter Of the Individual
The eyes. being located directly under the
brain, are the feature OF intellect and In"
telllgent emotions. the nose. being formed
of bone and cartilage. shows, according TO
its height and prominence. the executive
power of the individual; the greater the
height and prominence Of the bone the more
executiveness; AID the mouth, which Is
composed Of blood, tissue. nerves, and
muscles, is the feature which interprets
the quality of the passions and senses.
Thus the forehead and eyes are the INTEL
leetual, the nose an cheek bones the exec
utive, and the mouth and chin the animal
features. each defined according 10 Its de-
gree of development. The top OF the eye
sockets is the region Of the perceptVe
faculties, which are located In the brain at
the back of the frontal-sinus, and these
faculties are estimated In value according
to their external prominence.
The organs which are most discerniblc
may be mentioned as follows: Form, color,
ordar,' calculation, time. tune, constructive
ness, causality, comparison, memory ana
congruity; but to be able TO define them
accurately you must learn their exact
location, and also be very practiced In not
ing their gradauons at glance. The eyes
being the feature of intellect, we VIII COM
mence by explaining their characteristics
Note particularly the manner in which they
are placed in their sockets. There is more
shrewdness with deep-set eyes than with
prominent ones. The deeper the eyes are
set In the head, the greater their proximity
to the braiu. DR.. Stretch-Dowse, in writ
ing of the nerve agents velocity OF trans
mission, says:
This estimation Of velocity varies In re-
gard to differ11t individuals In fact, we
know from daily observation, how variable
in different individuals is the rapidity OF
the sensitive and sensorial excitatons, and
that of the consecutive motor reactions.
How common the remark that such a per-
sons understanding is lively and active, or
slow and dull. The difficulty which some
persons have Ia catching joke, which at
once makes other people laugh, is "a Sstrik-
ing example OF inequality of perception.
To be shrewd the brow must overhapg the
eyes; when the eyes are level withSthe fore
head 1t then denotes q lack of perception,
and such people are dull and wanting in
grasp A projecting eye more readily re-
ceives impressions from surrounding OBJ
1ects, 1t indicates ready and universal OBJ
servation, but lack of close scrutiny and
perception of individual things. .Deep-set
eyes receive more definite and accurate i'm
pressions. but their possessors are less
readily impressed and less discursive in
their views. Round-eyed persons see much
and live much In the senses, hut think less.
Narrow-eyed persons see less, hut think
more and feel more intensely. The larger
the pupil of the eye, the clearer the intel
lect and the quicker the powers of compre-
hension. People who show the whites above
and below the pupil are generally very rest
less and half simple; you will seldom find
this kind of eye in clever or sensible peo-
Splei 1t is generally known as the stupid eye.
The color of tue eyes Is caused by fluids
of various tints and shades, the darker the
more condensed in quality. Thus dark eyes
indicate power, and light ones delicacy.
There are no such things as black eyes,
though they are often written and spoken
about. The darkness is caused simply by a
condensation of the pigment which, If dis
solved in spirit or acid, would be Of the
palest yellow tint. There are many char
but fear there Is no anatomical basis for
them. There is certainly more passion
and intensity in dark eyes, whereas gray
and light eyes are calculating, cool and
precise. One generally hears of -gnay-eyed
people being greedy; but this greed seems
to me to be more the outcome of calcula-
tion and anxiety for gain than for the salts
faction or qualification of the physical
senses. Prominence or fuilness under the
eyes indicates la:ge language, and persons
with prominent eyes are ready speakers and
writer's.
The organ Of language. or e1oquence, as
1t ought more properly to be called. lies in
the brain behind the ball of the eye, at the
top; and, when large, 1t pushes the eye
outward and downv@:rd, causing promi-
nence or anterior projection. Professor
Ferrier and other anatomists have localized
this organ in the same position as the
phrenologists-viz. the third frontal convo-
luton of the brain; ;'but they term 1T speech,
which is a more correct Interpretation. as
people are apt to imagine that the word
language means the faculty to learn or
speak foreign languages. That would be
Quickness of learning, and is called appli-
cation. Language n this sense means elo-
quence, and great speakers and writers
have this particular fullness under the eyes.
You must be careful not to confound this
fullness with "bagginess," the result gen.
orally of ill-health or dissipation.
The eyes of Charles Dickens, Dfsraeli,
Gladstone Shakespeare, Byron, and many
other great writer's and speakers illustrate
the organ of language. Musicians are gene
rally fully developed under the eyes, but
that is due to the development of the organs
of time and tu2e which lie at the top Of
the eyeball. Music is the language OF the
.soul, and expresses itself in sound, as ideas
would in speech. There is a great deal Of
character in the ewes and their fieetfng
expressions alone show almost all the men
tai emotions Of mirth. fear. anger, horror,
lore and astonishment.