Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-29
TOW do you wear your hat? Do
you jam it on the back of your

TTOW do you wear your hat? Do
n you jam it on the back of your
- - head, wear it sedately straight
up and down, or tilt 1t over one ear?
This detail of daily demeanor has be-
come worth watching, along with
number of other minor matters, be-
cause one of the new class of investi-
gators they are developing in Europe
Is likely to read your past and your
character in it.
The. new European experts have
been confining the application of their
work largely to criminal science so
far, but their methods can be used by
any intelligent man in his daily busi-
ness. They tell you how to read what
the other fellow is thinking and feel
ing especially when he wants you to
believe he is thinking and feeling
somthing else. When you put price
on a piece of land and the buyer al
most falls out of his chair in surprise,
you can tell, if you know what to
look for, whether that surprise is real
or not. When you strike the head OF
your department for raise. and he
is horrified, you want to know whether
the horror is genuine or assumed.
The new methods are based on the
fact that there is q part of us-the
subconscious part-that is largely be-
yond our control The more we are
interested III SOUlelHluS tiSei liiS iliOl Z
the subconscious part-that is largely
beyond our control The more we are
interested in something else, the more
the subconscious goes it's own sweet
way. And for every emotion, the sub
lconscious mind sets in motion some
| little gesture, some apparently unim-
portant little twitch of the face, turn
of 'the head, change of the eye. The
real personality, the real John Smith
I, m a fhnSn LITTLE
gestures He can't stop them. II
/ you know what to look for, you car
come pretty close to the truth about
John Smith.
In Europe this new science of ges-
lures has been applied to the court
room. Experience has proved that il
| is entirely beyond the powers of the
average man to describe a thing the
way he actually saw it. Days are spent
in hearing testimony which is abso'
lutely untrustworthy. Lawyers are
now able to save q great deal of time
by employing their knowledge of typi
cal gestures. When man makes {
resolution he suddenly congresses hii
lips and makes slight backward mo
ton of the body. When you resolve
that you are going to perform a GER
tain action you set your lips and per
haps push back your chair. Then yol
begin to think it out. You canno
imagine yourself making an importan
! resolution with your mouth open. Tit
lawyer, then, watching the prisoner
detects q sudden compression of tht
lips and an almost imperceptibl'
backward movement of the body al
the man moves in his chair. The las
piece of evidence brought forward b!
a witness declared that the prisone
was seen at a certain place at Ger
tain time. The lawyer now knows tha
the accused has resolved to deny it.
The same thing is noticeable will
the jury. When juryman sits bacl
inhis chair with his lips closely set, l
is conclusive proof that he has form
ed his opinion and that thereafte
nothing can change 1t. By the natur
of the evidence preceding this atti
tude the criminal lawyer can deter
mine what that opinion is. II con
demnatory, the verdict will b.
Guilty: if favorable. he will vot
} for acquittal.
The eyes are always infallible bar
ometers of the emotions, especially tn
7 pupils of the eye which dilates an
{ contracts under great mental stress
A man may be weak with pent-u
} anger and outwardly serene with tn
, exception of his eyes, the pupils o
which will be contracted and haV
an unnatural glitter. Sparkling eye
are always an indication of inwar
, hysteria, the sparkle in reality bein
, an Intensified secretion of tears.
{ The quick closing of the eyes Is in
dicative of unpleasant shock. Tn
! lawyer produces the knife OF the &C
/ cused which was found near the seen
+ of the murder. The man in the doc