Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-05-01
THE AUTOMOBILE FACE.
Marks Which-the Features OF Beau"
tifuI Women Are Alone PROOF
Against.

The wheeling face was easily recog-
nized. The set expression, the
strained eye, and often the sadly
drawn-up mouth became distin-
gushing characteristics of the faces
of bicyclists, both men and women.
Since then the coupon thumb and
the ticker eye have appeared in Wall
street, and golf has had its shin and
it's arm. OF late it has been asserted
by physicians and artists that the eye
of the golf enthusiast may be recog-
nized by it's fixed, steady gaze, similar
to that observable in the eye of the
yachtsman, says the New York Sun.
The golf eye, of course, comes from
the strain of following the balls
course through the air, just as the
sailors eye becomes fixed from look
ing over the sea for great distances.
Sometimes the forehead wrinkles ha-
bitually with both the golfer and the
yachtsman.
The hands and arms of the women
golf players are easily recognizable.
The arms show the brown tinge from
the sun half way to the elbow, and
no matter how carefully the hands
are looked after the fingers of the
player show a tendency to become
broad and fiat, while the game plays
havoc with the nails. Manicure oper-
ators say that the game has caused
a hnnn1 m THAR do md fhof
en- who once INDUCED only occasion
ally in the professional treatment are
now obliged to have their nails gone
over twice and three times a week.
Doctors say also that golf gives
the body sturdy but graceful pose.
Women who drive well over the links
unconsciously form the habit of
standing very squarely with the feet
wide apart and the heels and toes fat
on the ground.
The mind is intent on retaining the
pose, and it clings to the player when
the game is done. The movements of
the arms and limbs become freer
through the exercise and walking re-
quired, and this has produced the So
called athletic type of girl.
Now the automobile has marked
its victims faces with a set express
sion that tends to become a decided
frown. 1t is already well defined on
the features of several well-known
men who have taken up the sport.
Thora 80 mara raoc ny, for ba o,fn-
mobile face than any other of the
others recorded. The strain of run
ming one of the machines is intense.
The wind naturally beats against the
face, and the operator lowers his
head against it and contracts his
brows in the unconscious effort to
protect his eyes from dust.
In crowded thoroughfares there is
always more or less danger of an ac-
cident from collision or the running
down of careless drivers or pedestri-
ans, who seem in many cases to be
dazed by the bell instead of warned
by it. Horses have not yet grown ac-
customed to the whizzing vehicles and
frequently rear and run away.
All this danger causes the chauf-
feur to feel nervous tension which
leaves its mark indelibly on the face.
The result is a permanent and disa-
greeable frown.
Every occupation has its marks.
Even the prize fighters who desert
the ring for the stage cannot be brok-
en- of the custom of crouching as
they advance to meet the leading lady
in love scenes, with the chin well for
ward and down and the eye alert in
stead of tender. Painters and sculp-
tors have queer hand characteristics,
the thumbs being specially marked in
type.
Librarians readily acquire the
studious stoop. Doctors are recog-
nizable by a certain calm demeanor
which is a part of the profession.
Actors who, in their work, have to
study all the traits of face and man.
ner that mark the different callings
and professions, are themselves quite
easily recogniza BILE. Priests have
been mistaken for actors, but an ac-
tor has never been taken for priest.
Both are close shaven, but the actor
is apt to be lean and-the clergyman
stout. The lips of the latter, how
ever, have never the suggestion of
elocution of the actor.
The only human beings who seem
to escape the memorable marks of
their occupation or fad are beautiful
women, whose faces rarely express
anything but artistic perfection.
Someone has discovered of late that
vanity is one of the finest forms of
contentment. The beauty habit
grows on a woman, and sometimes,
sad to relate, on a man, and the re-
suit is an unmistdkable look of self
satisfaction, which sthe distinguish
ing trait of face.
1t is one form Of contentment and
has its good points, for contentment
with conditions is said to be a sure
antidote for lines, frowns and the
other marks of the too strenuous
liver.