The Washington herald., 1911-03-05
ARE YOU "TWO-FACED?"
EVERY ONE ELSE HAS
TWO, SAYS CAMERA

Are YOU right faced" or left faced?''
Are you "two-faced?"
Do you know that there is as much
difference between the right and the left
halves of your visage as there is in the
strength of your right and left hands?
The question as to whether or not you
are "two-faced' has no reference what
ever to any trait of deceitfuness that
you may possess. 1t means just what il
says. Are you. or are you not two
faced?' 1t refers to the symmetry of
your visagc to the fact that most people,
nine out of ten in fact. have counte-
nances that are decidedly one-sided. You
are apt TO be a very different looking
individual when looked at from your
right to what you are when you are
viewed from the left.
Nine people out of ten have one-sided
faces. Their friends do not know it, their
families have never noticed it. and their
own mirrors have never made it known
to them. The fact remains, however, that
something. some time and in some way
has caused the right or the left side of
the face to develop a little farther than
its other half. SO slight IS this difference
In many instances that a trained eye can
not detect it. 1t may consist in a little
fullneSS of the cheek an eve that is
slightly higher than its mate or an eye
lash that is little more luxuriant The
difference is there somewhere and even if
the eye cannot detect it the lens of the
camera can. In a great many faces il
requires careful measuring to detect any
deviation from the normal but the tape
and the Calpcrs are certain to find
difference in the features no matter how
rla
seem to the eye.
Even the fair faces OF womankind are
exception to the rule. Most women
know that one side OF the visage is more
pleasing that the other, and portrait
makers are quick to find the best view
point from which TO photograph the
sitter. The charm of some womens
faces lies in the slight irregularities, the
departures from the classical lines of
beauty. Such faces are more piuuant
more allurinE- and far more individual
than those tina closely approach perfect
symmetry.
Mirror oren Decefves.
Doubtless you are quite certain that
your face is one OF those very few visages
that are as regular and as symmetrical
as though nodded in a statuary factory.
Your mirror has shown you that your
eyes are apparently alike and that one
side OF your face seems no larger than
the other. For all that, you are more
than likely to be badly mistaken. There
is way of detecting which side of your
face has outgrown the other Just as one
OF your arms and one OF Your hands is
much stronger than the other arm and
the other hand.
Take an exact fuIl-face photograph OF
yourself and have two prints made from
the artists plate. One of these copies is
prepared in the ordinary way and the
other is inverted. Each of these prints
is divided into two parts by an exactly
median cut. This is done by spIittiTrevthe
picture in half along a line that runs ex-
actly between the pupils of the eyes
Then the right half of the original COPY
is fitted to the left half of the inverted
copy, thus making a face from the two
right halves The effect is sometimes
startling. 1t is apt to be very startling
indeed IL the photograph happens to be
taken from a point little to one side
or the other of the exact front of the
subject.
Grotesque faces wide as two ordinary
countenances are apt to result when the
original photograph was not made accu-
rately. A left-sided portrait may be OBJ
tanned in the same manner. The inverted
or reversed points fitted to the original
prints will make q remarkably different
face to what its owner has been seeing
in the mirror. Yet in most cases the like
ness is undoubtedly preserved II Is easy