Arizona republican., 1905-10-01
The Human Face.

of a young woman. This young wo- man. it has been established, is an expert forger, and for months she has been obtaining large sums by forging checks on the Los Angeles banks. She was a Sunday school teacher, moved in the best circles" and altogether was the last person that would be suspect ed of crime. Her face is described as peculiarly frank and innocent.
 It is the belief of most people that they can describe ones character by reading his face, but this Los Angeles incident proves that the popular belief is not always well founded. Discuss ing the same subject the Providence Journal reminds us that it is one of the master strokes of Shakespeare's genius that just before Duncan's fatal visit to the Castle of Macbeth he is made to say, thinking of the unfaith- ful Cawdor. There is no art to find the minds construction in the face" a statement which gives in cpl tome the nature of the simple, kindly, easily hoodwinked king who went to his death rejoicing in the pleasant situation of the scene of his murder.
 But, nevertheless, it is by no means certain that Duncan was wholly wrong in his sad reflection. Despite all as- sertions to the contrary, even the keenest students of human nature in general and of physiognomy in partic- ular are sometimes deceived in a f.ce. It is a notorious fact that occasionally wONen criminals are among the most beguilingly baby-faced of their sex and that even man may In rare in stances completely take in competent judges by an air of honesty and traightforwardness. These are, how ever, exceptions; in the majority of cases experts can tell not only that a man is a criminal but the variety of crime in which he has been engaged. while the ordinary man or woman who has given any attention to the matter recognizes a good" and a bad face by certain all but infalli- ble signs.
 But another side of this question than the ethical has been expounded by writer in the London Lancet, who declares that every calling in life has a type Of face that more or less be- trays the vocation of its owner It is certainly not an unusual thing to hear remarks concerning the probable occu- patton of some person seen in the street or on a train. Frequently these
 
 der evidence; but by the trained ob- server the superficialties are ignored and attention bestowed upon the lines and the tricks of manner that must inevitably be acquired in different pro- fessions or trades. It is more ques- tionable whether it is possible to form an equally shrewd guess by the mere cast of the features. It is doubtless true that certain noses and mouths ought to belong to scientific men or musicians or lawyers, but it is equally certain. not only that the tenth time they do not, but that the person has tastes, not acquired but inborn, in an exactly opposite direction. In spite of every attempt to prove the converse theory. this remains an indisputable fact.
 Probably the reason why intelligent people continue to talk as if the med teal face" for example, were simply a case of natural development instead of, as is the truth, the result of the inn press of mental habit is that it is so ,5;a3o,,1+ +o 5{c+f,,o-,,f.t +L ..-. ,.-z.a.z.- from the other. Temperament may, indeed, be denoted plainly by the mere shape of the features, but the exact form of intellectual or physical activ- ity can be discovered-if it can be discovered at all-only by close study of expression. In connection with physiognomy of this kind it is anus ing to notice the influence exerted on the facial expression by certain sports It is generally easy to single out the man who is continually with horses or dogs. We have had the bicycle face" and the golf face" each entirely diff ferent from the other, and now we have the automobile face"-a face which sometimes recalls the anecdote of the confident young sportsman who fresh from successful expedition, presented himself for afternoon tea and palmistry, both of which were be- ing dispensed by a brisk young wo- man. When she took the hunters hand for examination she remarked somewhat harshly that the principal thing which it indicated was a need of soap and water.
 That association either with ideas. animals or persons produces a marked effect upon the cast of countenance is abundantly proved by the we'll known fact that husbands and wives, if thrown together for a sufficiently long time, often look alike, The truth