The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-23
LESSONS 1N FACE READING

from the New YORK Advertiser
The human character is divided into
two parts, the animal and the intellec.
tual. l say animal first, because the
propensities are always the strongest,
the intellect located in the brain hav-
ing to keep in subsection to the re-
quirements of the whole body. The
three principal features are the eyes,
the nose and the mouth, and each of
these features has its part to play in
forming the part of the individual. The
eyes, being located directly under the
brain, are the feature of intellect 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 prominence
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 execu-
tive, and the mouth and chin the
animal features, each defined according
to its degree of development. The top
of the eye-sockets in the region of the
perceptive faculties, which are located
in the brain at the back of the frontal
sinus, and the faculties are estimated
in value according to their external
prominence.
The organs which are most discern
ible may be mentioned as follows:
Form, color, order, calculation, time.
tune. constructiveness, causality, COM
parison, memory and congruity; but to
be able to define them accurately you
must learn their exact location, and
also be very practiced in noting their
gradations at glance. The eyes be-
ing the feature of intellect, we viii
commence by explaining their .charac-
teristics. Note particularly the man.
ner in which they are placed in their
sockets. There is more shrewdness
with deep-set eyes than with promi-
nent ones. The deeper the eyes are set
in the head the greater their proximity
to the brain. DIR. Stretch-Dowse, in
writing of the nerve agents velocity of
transmission, says:
This estimation of velocity varies in
regard to different individuals. In
fact, we know from daily observation
how variable in different individuals is
the rapidity of the sensitive and sem
serial excitations, and that of the con-
secutive motor reactions How COM
mon the remark that such a per-
sons understanding is lively and
difficulty which some persons have
in catching joke, which at
once makes other people laugh, is a
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
lack of perception, and such people
are dull and wanting in grasp A pro-
jecting eye more readily receives i'm
pressions from surrounding objects, it
indicates ready and universal observa.
tions, but lack of close scrutiny and
perception of individual things. Deep
set eyes receive more definite and ac-
curate impressions, but their posses
sors are less readily impressive and less
discursive in their views. Round-eyed
persons see much and live much in the
senses. but think less Narrow-eyed
persons see less, but think more and
feel more intensely. The larger tho
pupil of the eye, the clearer the intel
lect and the quicker the powers of COM
prehension. People who show the
whites above and below the pupil are
generally very restless and half simple;
you will seldom find this kind of eye in
clever or sensible people; it is general
ly 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 eyes Indicate power, and
light ones delicacy. There are no such
things as black eyes. though they are
pftsn written and spoken about. The
darkness is caused simply by con-
densation of the pigment which, II dis
solved in spirit or acid, would be of the
palest yellow tint. There are many
characteristics applied to the color OF
the eyes. but fear there is no anatom-
lcal basis for them. There is certainly
more passion and intensity in dark
eyes, whereas gray and light eyes are
calculating, cool and precise. One gen
orally 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 sat
isfaction or qualification OF the phys
zeal senses. Prominence OF fullness
under the eyes indicates large Ian
guage, and persons with prominent
eyes are ready speakers and writers.
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.
il pushes the eve outward and
downward, causing prominence or
anterior projection. Prot. Terrier and
other anatomists have localized this
organ in the same position as the phre-
nologists-namely, the third frontal
convolution Of the brain, but they term
It speech, which is a more correct in
depreciation. as people are apt to inn
agine that the word language means
the faculty to learn or speak foreign
languages. That would be quickness
of learning, and is called application
Language in this sense means elo-
quence. and great speakers and writers
have this particular fullness under the
eyes. You must be careful not to con-
found this fullness with ''bagginees,"
the result generally OF ill-health or
dissipation.
The ewes of Charles Dickens. Dis
raeli. Gladstone, shakespeare Byron