Arizona republican., 1912-05-13
HOW MANY ARE
 LEFT PARED?
To Get the Answer Try to Adjust a Telephone Re ceiver to Your Right Ear; Some Other Queer Features

How many people in Phoenix are there who would answer anything but right if they were asked which hand they used the moSte The an- ~Wer is precious few But ask them suddenly. as a Republican reporter recently did q number of citizens and oItizennesscs. whether they are right "r left cared. and they stop. scratch their head in perpleXity and give it up."
 Which ear do you use when you're at the telephone? Left one?
 Have you a telephone ear? Or. in other words. are you left cared? Don't know?
 Well. ninety-nine to one YOU are left cared. Just to prove it. take Your telephone receiver and call cen tfaI. sitting with the receiver to your right ear. You cannot distinctly hear 'entraIS number or conveniently work the automatic wheel
 This is q sure indication that vou are leit-eareo. Had you begun by using Nour right ear when talI<ine over the telephone you would have been right cared but following the natural bent of the mind. to take down the receiver with your left hand while drawing down the transmitter with the right has made the race left-elrcd
 once in while the schooling de- partment at the telephone office will lake girl as a prospective operator who believes she can hear better with her right ear than with her left. Hut usually all of them are left-ear- rd and naturally use their left ear.
 Remember the first time you ever talked over a telephone? Most of the folks were so young at the time that they do not now remember when there Were no telephones. but the old-tines will tell you what a hard time they first had to make them selves understood
 of course telephones have made rapid strides forward in the last few years and now everybody uses the phone. but in those days there were n" "telephone ears" their ears were not trained as are the ears today of ninety-nine out of every hundred persons.
 It stands to reason that a left handed person will be right-eared. for the very same reason that a right handed person will be Ieft-eared. And telephones have taught almost everv- one to scratch the directory books with lead pencils and the like.
 Perhaps the average person has never noticed it. but just hundreds of men and women are left-hande l. Il photographer rarely takes" a ., de view of the right side of a moders face. It's always the left side that is photographed There's reason two Of them in fact.
 The first reason is that the lines on the left side of the human face are softer. All the kindG- ness in a human being is shown in the left side Of the face. scientists declare while physiognomists asser, every evil passion can be detected on the right side
 4 visit to any rogues' gallery will snow that the system followed there exposes the right side of the face to the camera. This is done fer d pur- pose. Criminal characteristics are Ll0re easily detected on that side Ot the COuntenance.
 By the BertillOn system of idanti- fying criminals by means of photo graphs two pictures are taken. a front and a side view. with the right side always exposed. That. it is de ciared, is the side which does not change rapidly and readily betrays criminal instincts
 Masseurs always devote more at tention to the right than to the Jeff side of the face for the simple req son that it is the side which re qnires the most attention and care.
 By which it readily will be seer that while the most of you may not have suspected it. the two sides oi the human face are never alike al though to the casual observer there is not the slightest difference.
 Some day when you have the time to he ohservant you will see that II is the left side of the face which is used the most. and that it almost always is the left ear which is ex. posed to the telephone receiver.