The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-12
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very fine voice. Realizing that he had
been shipwrecked for the want of a
compass and pilot, he determined to
save others from his fate by seeking
and formulating the laws of art hith
erto left to the caprice of mediocrity
or the inspiration of genius. His stud
les took him by turns to hospitals,
morgues, art galleries, asylums, pris-
ons, churches, theaters; after weighing
and studying humanity in every place
and under all conditions. watching the
children at play in the great public
gardens, studying people in the hours
of their greatest sorrows, joys and ex-
elements he formulated the laws of
expression which have that same pre-
cision as mathematics or any other
science.
"Delsarte says that any one has three
natures; they are the mental, which
thinks, the emotive, which feels, and
the vital, which acts. Everything we
do has its rise in one of these three
states of the being; In every human
being one of these three natures is pre-
dominant, and the degree of the pre-
dominance of the one and the order of
Importance of the other two are the root
and source of all the various types and
traits in mankind.
"a philosopher or inventor is a good
example of one in whom the mental
pJeuolIlilldltS, d pdlllOl Vi plllldlIliiu-
| pist of the motive type, a healthy child
or an athlete of the vital. Naturally a
person who has each of the three large
~ developed and all nearly equally so,
| is the nearest approach to what we
would call the perfect man or woman.
Watch the man in whom the men,
| tai is predominant. walk down town
| buried in his own thoughts; his arms
are close to his body, his chin falls al
/ tn his hrR9 He CParPn1V lifts
| his face to you in greeting. On the
! contrary, the man in whom the vital
nature leads holds his head high-mov-
, ing his arms and walking rapidly If
the emotional nature rules in person.
! the motion will be nearly poised, but
may become either subjective or object
| i've according to the extent in which
| the emotional nature is invaded by the
mental or the vital. Suppose two men
! in whom the mental is predominant
| have some bitter misunderstanding.
| They will argue and discuss the mat
| ter. Two women of the emotional type
! have quarrel They cry, they say
| Spiteful things and then kiss and make
up; but if two vital men have a quarrel
their troubles always eliminate in one
Way--a fight Now, Delsarte divided
| the body into zones according to the
pfeponderanCe of these three natures
tai: the body. where the heart is, is
emotiVe; the legs and arms represent
the expression of the vital nature. Each
of these divisions is subdivided. In his
head the eyes and forehead are mental
the nose and cheeks emotional, and The
mouth and chin vital. Now these divis
ions serve as a guide in being in poin
OF arrival or departure for gestures.
Again, the hand is subdivided. The
thumb is vital; the index finger is men
tai and the middle fingers are emo
| tional.
Watch two men engaged in an argu
ment. One of them is presenting hi
view of the question. He is emphas,z
ing what he says by gestures made will
his index finger. He will continue t.
make them SO long as his argument
are broad and plain and easy to under
stand, but when he comes to a fin
point, one perhaps a trifle difficult t
perceive, he will instinctively drop hi
index finger and in the refinement 0