The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-10-26
HUMAN DOCUMENTS.
SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT
THE ART OF FACE READING.

Gated by the Various Kinds of Eyes, Ac-
cording to DIR. Stretch-Dowse.
The human character is divided into
two parts-the animal and the intellec-
tual I say animal ti:rs+ ,.LLaxaUse the All
NAL pE.Sf%ps5tieS - t;Ss+stsSs the strongest,
the intellect located in the brain having
to keep in subsection the requirements of
the whole body. The three principal fea-
lures are ohe eyes, the nose and the mouth,
and each of these features has its part to
play in forming the character of the indi-
vidual The eyes, being located directly
under the brain, are the features of intel
lect and intelligent 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 pry0slinence of
the bone the more executiveness. And 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 intellectual, the nose and cheek bones
the executive and the mouth and chin the
animal features, each defined according to
its degree of development. The top of the
eyesockets is the region of the perceptive
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 discernible
may be mentioned as follows: Form, color.
order, calculation, time, tune, construc-
tiveness, causality, comparison, memory
and congruity, but to be able to define
them accurately you must learn their eX
act location and also be very practiced in
noting their gradations at a glance. The
eyes being the feature of intellect we will
commence by explaining their characteris-
tics. Note particularly the manner in
which they are placed in their sockets
There Is more shrewdness with deepset
eyes than with prominent ones. The deep
er the eyes are set in the head the greater
their proximity to the brain. Dr. Stretch
Dowse, in writing of the nerve agents
velocity of transmission, says:
This estimation of velocity varies in re-
gard to different individuals. In fact, we
know from daily observation how variable
in different individuals is the rapidity of
the sensitive and sensorial excitations and
that of the consecutive motor reactions
How common the remark that such per-
sons understanding is lively and active
or slow and dull! The difficulty which
some persons have in catching joke
| which at once makes other people laugh
is striking example of inequality of per-
ception. TO be shrewd the brow must
overhang the eyes. When the eyes are level
| with the forehead, it then denotes a lack
of perception, and such people are dull
| and wanting in grasp. A projecting eye
more readily receives impressions from
surrounding objects. 1t indicates ready
| and universal observation, but lack of
close scrutiny and perception of individual
| things. Deep set eyes receive more definite
| and accurate impressions, but their possess
ors are less readily impressed and less
discursive in their views Round eyed per-
| sons see much and live much in the senses,
but think less. Narrow eyed persons see
less, but think more and feel more in
tensely The larger the pupil of the eye
the clearer the intellect and the quicker
| the powers of comprehension People who
show the whites above and below the pu-
pill are generally very restless and half
| simple. You will seldom find this kind of
eye in clever or sensible people. 1t is gen
orally known as the stupid eye.
The color of the eyes is caused by fluids
of various tints and shades, the darker
the more condensed in quality Thus dark
cacy. There are no such things as black
eyes, though they are aften written and
spoken about. The darkness is caused sim
ply by condensation of the pigment
which, if dissolved in spirit or acid, would
be of the palcst yellow tint. There are
many characteristics applied to the color
of the eyes, but fear there is no anatom-
ical basis for them There is certainly
more passion and intensity in dark eyes,
whereas gray and light eyes are calculat-
ing, cool and precise. One generally hears
Of gray eyed people being greedy, but this
greed seems to me to be more the outcome
of calculation and anxiety for gain than
for the satisfaction or qualification Of the
physical senses. Prominence or fullness
under the eyes indicates large language,
and persons with prominent eyes are ready
speakers and writer's.
The organ of language, or eloquence, as
it ought more properly to be called, lies in
the brain behind the ball of the eye, at
the top, and when large it pushes the eye
outward and downward, causing promi-
nence or anterior projection. Professor
Terrier and other anatomists have local
lied this organ in the same position as the
phrenologists-viZ the third frontal con-
volution of the brain, but they term it
speech, which is a more correct interpreta
ton, 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 ap-
plication. Language in this sense means
eloquence, 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
generally of i'll health or dissipation.
The eyes of Charles Dickens, Disraeli,
Gladstone, Shakespeare, Byron and many
other great writers and speakers illustrate
the organ of language. Musicians are
generally fully developed under the eyes,
but that is due to the development of the
organs of time and tune, 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 eyes, and their
feeting expressions alone show almost all
the mental emotions of mirth, fear, anger,
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