Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-08-08
TRADES AND FACES.
HOW ONES EXPRESSION is iNFLU-
ENcEo BY HIS OCCUPATION.

ENCEO BY HIS OCCUPATION.
4 Famous English Physician Discusses the
subject-The F1eshy Face OF the Musi-
clan and tho Riveter's Fixed Expression.
Horsy Men All look Alike.
Dr. Louis Robinson, An English ply
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" 1t Is admitted that mans
trade or profession affects his facial express
sion. Thus all whose lives are spent with
horses tend to develop q very distinct type
OF face. The rule holds good Of nearly ev-
cry trade, but in few Is the type so marked
as In this. Perhaps the soldier type 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
trade expression.
The processes which produce these re-
suits are understood tn some extent, but
their working Is variable. One chief rea-
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 DO a 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 IL a
batio ~ huf taf horses
tends to develop cunning and deceitful-
ness, and IL that is so beer may be Il valua-
bic antidote.
DR. Robinson Is inclined to believe that
the mental pcculiaritcs which mark the
members Of certain professions may DO
owing TO changes that originated primarily
III the features
That there is a continual stream Of in
nucnce passing from the brain to the
muscles Of expression which tends to give
a permanent cast to the features has been
shown, but il is not so generally rccog
ni2cd that there are also reverse currents
from tho 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 fortutous, to give n bias to the mind.
Persons who are subjected to strong
emotional influences and have strong di-
gestions are liable to possess heavily
marked features and to resemble one an
other closely. Tho 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. ...e
Herein is some explanation of the strange
fact that musicians, persons Of strong re-
ligious feeling and sensualists have SINH.
lar faces.
Women and youths do not show the re-
suits Of emotional influences in their faces
as plainly as men. DR.. Robinson thinks
this is because they are more habitually
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 I'M
righteous ragc may leave their record on
the face and not the restraining influences
Of conscience. The face may show signs Of
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