Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-07
CLOSED EYES CAUSE
CURIOUS RESEMBLANCE
Sleeping Passenger Has Features o:
Noted Poet, Edgar Allan
Poe.
OPENED LIDS SHOWS MARK
Genius and Mental Power Of Humans.
Often GuaGcd Through "WindowS
OF Soul" Says Professor Garrett
ScrviSS.
N, AnREr sEnyI:s.

entering 4 subway train in lower
became fastened upon the ace of a
man directly opposite. who had fallen
asleep. with his head against the Yer;
door. His hat was pushed back and
his resemblance. 20 Edgar Allen Poe
asorbcd in noting its details. There
swas the same swelling breadth OF the
> upper part OF the forehead, the am
gset OF eyebrows. the same narrowing
,sof the lower face. tho same nose and
chin. and tho same intellectual OK
preston, even combined with the half
acterized the portraits of that great
and unhappy genius.
Sleeper Josticd.
Blu when the train stopped at tho
"a star; and fixed his eyes upon me.
1%nstan;t% the wonderful resemblance
was sorry to have it go, and I tried
to cali it hack. But the features
seemed TO have Shrunk. assuming an
sion of an entirely different character,
and ;hey would no longer blend into
the image tina, | had seen before.
y subtle change had come over the
Sace. which | could only ascribc to the
influence OF the opened eyes com
bined with the mobility now given
the awakened. conscious mind. II the
form before me was the form OF Poe.
tne SptTlI lnat animated II was not
akin to his, but one incomparably less
potent II was n very commonplace
man whom l now saw across the aisle.
4 An Old Truth.
= such an experience gives a striking
proof of the truth OF the old saying
that the EYE is the window of the
soul, It Is more than that; It is
man in the eye s@e if sS you w aeH to to0 Fead
him. If you cant catch his eye you
can't catch him. The soul is conscious
secrets. and so the dishonest or insin-
!rere person either never looks you In
lhe face, or. II he does force him
TO his eye to blur the image of his
real thought. Look for that false TO-
GGussing. for YOU can always detect it.
in its opera lion. It's effect is like n
c~urtainins Of the eye; but il bctrays
ats purpose.
Genius and mental power also show
themselves through the eyes. and this
!, revelation is the surest physical man
rides every other indication.
Eyes Reveal Character.
AS long AS the man who looked
like Poe in the subway train had his
eyes shut my imagination was free
10 give shape and combination to tho
suggestive forms that his impressive
lace bore, Just as one can see remark
s ssle re SS, ,ba moms sr f fac svo in w thc
opened they impartd a character from
within to the features. which then as
Sumed their accustomed waking forms,
as n resting squad OF soldiers falls
stiffly into rank at the work OF com
mand. And, Mt the same tire, my eye
WAS called OF from its perception OF
mere physical resemblance to look into
the window" that had been thrown
open, revealing what lay behind.
Rays Penetrate BraIn.
II seems "A significant fact that the
eye affords almost direct conmunica-
ton from the outer world to the brain.
The rays of light that pass hroug the
eye lenses strike and are focused upon
a kind of threshold Of the brain itself
the rctina. 1t is hardly n misleading
statement to say that when you look
into a persons eyes you look into that
persons brain. Its machinery is at
work there in the cavern, II the brain.
when active, really does give forth some
form of energy. resembling liGht-waves
or electric-woveS, as tclrpaihy assumes.
from what part of tho body could they
so readily cmanate as from the eyes,
or by what other part could they so
readily be received or recorded?
This would seem TO imply that
tclcpathic impulses can only be eX-
changed within the limits OF cyc-range.
That something which is not speech.
but which carries all the meaning OF
speech. and sometimes even more, is
exchanged between the eyes of scpar-
ate persons ia the belief Of the major
ity of mankind. Only the more Skep-
teal saw that il Is q sign language.