Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1895-08-29
TRADES AND FACES.
HOW oNt 5 EXPRESSION IS lNFLu-
eNCEC az AIS OCCUPATION.
A Famous English Physician Discusses the
subject-The Fieshy Face Of the Must
clan and the Riveter's Fixed Expression.
Horsy Men All Look Alike.

suDJect-Ihe rieshy race Oh the Must
clan and the Rivcter's Fixed Expression.
Horsy Men All Look Alike.
DIR Louis Robinson. an English phy-
stefan famous for original and entertaining
ideas about human nature Is the author
of remarkably interesting article In
Blackwood's Magazine entitled Trades
and Faces liz Is admitted that a man !
trade or profession affects his facial expires
sion Thus all whose lives are spent with
horses tend 20 develop very distinct type
of face. The rule holds good Of nearly ev
cry trade, but in few is the type so marked
a. In this Perhaps the soldier tyne is as
distinct as the horsy Noncommissioned
officers of the British army who serve for
very long periods all look nearly alike
Even bakers and printers have each q
trade expression.
The processes which produce these re
suits are understood TO some extent. but
their working is variable. One chief req
son for this is that digestion has a
very important bearing on facial ex-
preston In the man of good digestion
the emotions are more plainly expressed on
the face than in the man of weak diges-
ton. A man may bo vile sinner. but
have the face of saint or an ascetic merely
because his digestion is bad.
While most drivers are affected by their
contact with horses, all equine character
istics are dissolved by malt liquor In the
case of the brewers drayman. There is %
popular belief that association with horses
tends to develop cunning and deceitful-
ness, and If that is SO beer may be valua-
BILE antidote.
DR. Robinson is inclined to believe that
the mental peculiarities which mark the
members of certain professions may be
owing to changes that originated primarily
In the features.
That there is u continual stream Of in
fluence passing from the brain to the
muscles of expression which tends to give
permanent cast To the features has been
shown, but it is not so generally recog
niZed that there are also reverse currents
from the organs Of expression To the inner
nerve centers, and that in many cases
these are sufficient, even when induced by
agencies which must be called external
and fortuitous, TO give bias TO the mind
Persons who are subjected 70 strong
emotional influences and have strong iii
gestionS are liable to possess heavily
marked features and To resemble one an,
other closely. The sympathetic nervous
system, which is very complex in the re
gion of the stomach, heart and liver, nour.
ishes the great motor nerves, which issue
from brain and spinal cord. Certain OF
these nerves are directly responsible for the
muscular expression of the face, and the
manner In which they are nourished by
the sympathetic system greatly affects the
facial development.
Herein Is some explanation of the strange
fact that musicians, persons of strong re.
ligious feeling and sensualsts have SINH
lar faces
Women and youths do not show the re-
suits of emotional influences in their faces
as plainly as men DIR Robinson thinks
this is because they are more habtually
under the sway of their feelings than
men, but that does not appear very clear
Passion prints on the face may often be
quite useless in enabling us to form an
opinion of the moral character of person
The impulses of Illicit passion and un.
righteous rage may leave their record on
the face and not the restraining influences
of conscience The face may show signs of
guilt when, In fact, temptation has been
nobly resisted.
The musicians face shows plainly the
effects Of activity Of the sympathetic nerv-
Gus system. The skin beneath the ewes
and about the throat tends to be full and
baggy and is often filled out with accumu-
lations of fat The eyes are prominent
and dreamy the cornea bright and the
conjunctiva glistening The natural blue
white sclerotic gives place to duller tint.
The nose shows few acquired qualities,
and 1t differs essentially from the clear cut
nose of the man of active wit or intellect
The mouth is characterized by lax and
flabby set OF the lips.
1t is declared to be essential that an art
list follow spontaneous impulses His ca.
reer is therefore to n certain extent a spe-
cies of self indulgence. This accounts for
the weak mouth of the musician
DIR. Robinson is inclined TO think that
the peculiarities generally observed in the
hair of musicians are not entirely due TO
fashion, but may be the result of mental
characteristics acting on the body
An actor by the constant exercise of his
facial muscles, acquires "a masklike express
sion. This Is frequently enhanced by an
even layer Of simultaneous fat-the result
of emotional stimulation of constantly
varying character. One of the consequences
of this exercise of the facial muscles is
that actors retain an extraordinary youth
fulness of aspect throughout their lives II
you want TO acquire perpetual youth, ex.
ercise your face in depicting constantly
varying emotions The blacksmith ac.
quires a permanent frown. He may do
this partly 10 protect his eyes, but the man
who holds the iron does not scowl as the
striker does Riveters and boiler makers
have an intent and fixed expression DR.
Robinson was once surgeon i'm town
inhabited by them. Al first he thought he
had provoked their general animosity, but
afterward learned that it was only the ia.
cial expression of the trade