The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-01-10
SIGNS ON YOUR FACE,
rE.L-ALE EXPRESSIONS THAT Ex-
POSE YOUR THOUGHTS.

Many Ways by Which the Careful
| Observer May Detect Your Real
! Feelings In Spite of Strong Efforts
| to Hide Them.
Everybody in this imperfect world
likes to be able to take care of himself,
and to do this the more insight one has
into ones fellow men the better.
Rogues, as rule, get on because they
Ire shrewder observers than the people
they cheat This article, among other
things, gives the honest man the pow er
of protecting himself.
There are dozens of little signs which,
do you but know them. give you the key
to mans thoughts and betray him
without his being aware of it. This pa
per is the last paper in the world to as
sist the private detective mania or en-
courage morbid suspicion of deceit, but
o clear comprehension of the real sig
nificance of these face signals will, be-
sides making peoples observations of
use to them, lead to a better under
standing all round.
Most of these muscular actions by
which-to the skilled facial reader that
is-we give ourselves away are involun-
tary, and hence their value. Supposing,
for instance, you are telling something
to man who can keep his countenance
and you want to find out whether he
likes your news or not. In the ordinary
way, if he has sufficient self control to
look placid you would be hard put to
discover it; but if you know where
to look for it he cannot, even if he has
a face Of brass, hide the sign you are
wanting.
There are certain muscles which Oar
win called the "grief MUSCLES for the
reason that when any one hears infor-
nation he doesn't care about these
muscles act instantly and without the
person knowing it.
These muscles are connected with the
eyebrows, and in case like that above
it is the eyebrows you must watch, for,
il your information be unwelcome, the
inside ends will for an instant arch
acutely upward and a slight wrinkle
come across the brow. Then. though
the rest of the face be wreathed in
smiles, you may disregard these and
feel certain you have "got home" The
action is SO involuntary that it often
escapes observation, and even those
who notice it frequently take it as be-
ing indicative Of pleasant surprise.
The individuals who invariably smile
when you speak to them are difficult
class to read, but there is none the less
q way of doing it. The man who smiles
out Of pure good nature and because he
is pleased always does it more with his
eyes than his lips, but the smile you
must never trust is that of the man
whose lip goes up for moment and
shows you the pointed end of his canine
tooth.
Watch him in a rage and you will
see precisely the same movement. The
fact that be does it when smiling shows
infallibly malevolence, cloaked by de-
oeit.
A good many people seem to think
that there is difficulty in finding sly
person before the mischief he does dis
closes his character. AS matter of fact
it is absurdly easy. You have only to
watch him Cor ten minutes and he will
give himself away.
The sly person is always trying to
see something without being supposed
to see it. When that something is out
side his visual field, he has to move his
eyes instead of his head. Any man 8
eyes therefore that you see very much
drawn to one side, say twice in five
minutes. is sly, and you would do well
to mistrust him.
The old trick Of making a man you
suspect.look you straight in the eyes"
while you glare into his has more in it
than people think. Any ordinary per-
son bent on deception will ten to one
find his optics finch under the ordeal.
But the accomplished liar and swim
dler has by long practice taught him
self to Withstand the test. and for him
an additional one is advisable. The
most delicate portion of the face after
the eyes are the lips, and any man or
woman whose lips, when they are be-
ing brought to book, don't twitch visi-
bly,. is "acting on the square.
Determination, one would think, is
an easy thing to discern in man, but
as matter of fact it isn't, especially
il he talks loudly and has good deal
to say.
AS rule, most people are deceived
by the appearance of determination
which a man, when he is "bluffing, "
puts on to carry his point. In these
matters it is the involuntary things
that tell, and directly man is thor
oughly determined he is resigned as to
what will probably happen. There, if
you will watch closely, you will see his
shoulders suddenly become arched (not
in shrug). and when he says he
doesn't care he means it.
A difficulty that most face readers
| experience is that Of discriminating be.
tween surprise and the action Of the
grief muscles, inasmuch as both cause
| the eyebrows to be elevated slightly.
But the fact that surprise always makes
people open their mouths, even when
| they are threading needle, should
help them. The brow, too, is full OF
difficulties, for it may be beetled either
from intellectual effort or melancholy.
Probably in the first case, however, the
eyes will be not quite wide open.
| Then laughter should be received
with suspicion, for a person will often
laugh hilariously after coming through
| IN ordeal that has left him heavy Of
heart, and fresh, spontaneous smile il
more surely indicative of happiness.
| Perhaps, however, the most difficult
thing to detect in person of strong
self control is fear or violent agitation.
A man of pluck and healthy nerves will
betray his excitement only by the back