The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1900-06-01
READING THE EYES.
WHAT MAY BE SEEN IN THE SWIM
DOWS OF THE SOUL"

Their Indications as to Character
Are, as a Rule, Remarkably Ac-
curate-Detectives Spot the Liar
by q Little Trick of His Optics.
1t is little realized in how many
things eyes betray their owner. Many
people without at all processing to be
physiognomists frequently are led to
form opinions about their neighbOrs by
purely physiognomical signs. We often
hear q man say: THAT man Jones is
the biggest fool in town. He has the
most foolish, expressiOnless, bovine
pair of eyes I've ever SEEN" Young
parents in particular are fond Of plan
ming bright futures for their children.
basins their judgment entirely ION
most wonderfully intelligent look in
our baby Joe's eyes," The proud moth
er will add, 81 am sure he'll some day
be a great poet"
Men, more sensibly, will be led In
their business dealings by opinions
formed in just this way. Few indeed
will be found inexperienced enough to
| repose any confidence in man having
la pair of round. shifting eyes, closely
set together in the head and usually
accompanied by pair of narrow. slop-
| ing shoulders. This Is the make up of
| a typical sneak thief. But a man not
knowing this will still say: 81 don't
| like his looks. He looks too slippery
for me-"
| When the average man, however,
having some secret conviction that he
Is a born physiognomist. tries to form
positive judgments about people by
mere individual signs, he is likely to
err sadly. Many a naturally gifted or
ator has been pronounced by such a
Judge as a man given over to dissipa-
tion because his full, prominent, sau-
cerlike eye bears some resemblance to
an eye full by dissipation. The latter
case, however, Is easily distinguishes
BILE. Physical pleasure has a tendency
to draw up the lower eyelid as though
to half close the eye. 1t soon becomes
thicker. feshier and remains pressed
up against the eye like soft cushion
giving this appearance of fullness to
the eye, the sign for fiuency and great
command Of language.
Undoubtedly much Is told about us
by our eyes. Dogs and children have
been called natural physiognomists. A
dog sometimes will refuse any caresses
or tidbits from some stranger and slink
Off, but will run up to another mar
equally as strange to him. wagging his
tail, and begin to lick his hand. Chill
dren also know well who will grant
their request and who will refuse gruf
ly. A 7-year-old boy who went up tt
q stranger to ask him to do something
when asked why he went to that mar
when his uncle was by. answered
well, because the man had yes writ
ten in his eyes,"
Many professions apply some trait o.
other of the human eve to their owl
particular use. Surgeons and dentists
remembering that some Of the mos
delicate nerves Of the human body ar
. in the eye, when giving an@sthetic
judge by his eye when the patient Il
: sufficiently under the influence Of tn
drug. They lift the upper eyelid ant
, feel the eyeball with their finger. Whel
the eyeball no longer answers to th
touch Of the finger. the surgeon feel
, assured that the patient is sufficient.
ObliviOus to the influence of the QUITE
, world for him to begin operations. Sc
likewise. many forms of poisoning ca
be told by the condition In which tn
!. eye is found. Habitual use Of drugs
!. like laudanum. opium, ETC., has
marked effect on the eye, and the uI
!. naturally distended pupil of victims t
o the influence of such drugs easil
j 'gives them away"
But the most interesting Of the eye
n "give aways" is its use as an effectiv
: detecter of double dealing. A privat
a detective. in discussion as to how ia
the eye can be depended upon to detet
falsehOod, says:
: at Is sometimes pretty hard to te
a from the manner of smart. fueI
talker whether he is telling the trut
or not. or course in the case Of a
unskillful, amateur liar the thing
simple. Even the average man. wi
usually is pretty poor observer, ca
: determine for himself whether tn
- man lies, for the would be prevaricatt
y usually takes good care to betray hin
= self. He involuntarily seeks to avo
meeting the eyes Of his intended vi
tim by averting his face and shiftir
his eyes. He no more can refrain fro
acting in his suspicious manner tha
can a man look straight at some brig
light after staying in a dark room f,
30 hO<
avoiding to look at q thing too strOI
for the delicate nerves of the eye
instructive and Involuntary. But tt
liar Of sufficient practice can acqui
enough self control to refrain fro
showing these telltale signs.
ITO detect fulsehood In cases of tn
kind we employ a delicate test. whic
in the hands of a clever man. Is infal
BILE. We call it the eye test IT.
, sharp detective puts a sudden. dire
question to the crook which adml
. Of no equivocal reply and which 60
.. to the root of the matter. AS the m,
tries to answer the detective steadi
looks into the pupils of his eyes al
carefully observes any changes
movements of the Iris. Should t
man lie In answering, 1t will be shOy
by the muscular twitching Of the ey
as If trying to make the aperture
81 the eye smaller. This Is the sar
movement as results in trying to ave
too strong light. The eye thus seel
to be equally susceptible to beams
truth and to beams of light."-Ne
York Press.