Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-09-21
FoKEH Ds AND EYES.
Some Ways In which Character is Indicted
There.
Public Opinion,

Public Opinion. Ell.
A head justly proportional to the
rest of the body shows steadiness and
force of character; too large, it gener-
ally indicates grossness and stupidity
too small, feebleness and ineptitude of
mind, if not of constitution. The
physiognomy of forehead it seen in
the form of the frontal bone, its height
and proportion, regularity or Irregular
ity; this marks the disposition and
measure of our faculties, our fashion
of thinking and feeling. Pathognomy
should be studied in the covering skin,
its color, wrinkles, tension or relaxa.
ton; this gives clue to the passions,
the actual state of the spirit within,
the use it has made Of Its natural gifts.
Foreheads, seen in profile, are divided
into three classes; projecting above,
fiat on the eyebrows; retreating from
behind developed brows, and perpen-
dicular. Broadly speaking, hose with
prominent cyclones act promptly, on
the judgment, perhaps passion, of the
moment. Yet they err but rarely, for
their gifts of intuition and rapid de-
duction seldom fail to guide them
rightly. High foreheads, lacking some
part of this quick spirit, pause, con-
blu6T anu weigh bHo ihabtei boioio
taking action. Less passionate, less
imaginative, less resourceful, they can
not afford to make mistakes. Short
foreheads, prominent brows. belong to
the man OF action; high, well-de-
veloped temples to the man of thought.
A perpendicular, fiat forehead with
wrinklsless skin stretched tightly across
| it, may be briefly dismissed as the
| forehead of the fool. cyclones which
project so sharply as to cause the hair
| of the brows to bristle outward throw
immense acuteness and genius for in
trigue. Ii Hung Cnang, the great
Chinese minister, and Prince Bismarck
are good examples of this class. A
| forehead square on the temples and
retreating into the hair on either side
| Is sign of retentive memory and ex-
cellent Judgment. Lord Kitchener Of
Khartoum has the typical forehead Of
a leader of men. Short, compressed,
with prominent cyclones and thick,
straight brows, square and receding
on the temples. A man with this fore
head could not fail to judge character
or circumstance with quickness ant
accuracy, to store such observations il
tenacious memory, and to act upor
his conclusion with promrtness ant
decision.
Eyes, mirrors of the soul, may, per.
haps, be considered more beautiful
and attractive than any other feature
Dividing them into two great Glasses
light and dark, it has been said tina
the dark indicate power, the light
delicacy. Black eyes, SO called--fo
they. are really of so deep an orang'
that they appear black contrasted will
the white surrounding them--are tropi
cal Sometimes they, seem dull ant
sluggish, but the forces they betokel
are only slumbering, SO that any chanc
spark may set them ablaze. Will
such eyes the intellect will be powerful
and the passions stropg. Clear blu
eyes belong to temperate regions
Other intellectual indications beini
equal. what they may lack in power an'
passion they will make up in subtlet
and versatility. Hazel eyes shoS
steadiness and power of constant affec
ton; green, cat-like orbs, though fire
quently fascinating, are dangerous, TO
they are sign Of coquetry and deceit
The eyes of genius are said to be @
varying tints, like the sea, sometime
blue, tinged with green or orange j
certain lights or when affected by emo
lion, deep ana almost Ozark. IneSe at
but few Of the infinite varieties in tint
1t should never be forgotten that eye
are more capable of misleading tina
any other feature. Form and color ma
indicate much; the glance, steady @
} shifting, quick or languid, keen Or sol
perhaps even more. Widely expande
eyelids see much without ref1ectin
greatly; they live in the senses, an
think little beyond the present moment
| Eyelids half closing over the eye
J denote less facility of impression, br
clearer insight, more definite idea:
greater steadiness in action they motto
} less, but think and feel intensel,
Deepest eyes with wrinkles at the outt
corners show penetration and q sense {
humor. Eyes set near together, esp
cially when there are wrinkles aero!
r the nose. are sign of cunning an
neanness in small things, money ma
s tiers and otherwise. Set wide apar
2 the character will be generous; if tt
. wide, careless and extrayagant. IT
: proper distance between the eyes is tt
. length of one eye.
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