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Character Revealed in Eyes Enables
Expert to Change Failure to Success

talking and laughing instead of work
ing. and he spoke sharply to them.
hey turned away, Sullen and resent
ful When we We're bacI, in the fac
tory l said:
1t is because YOU humiliate and of
tend them 10y talking harshly to
them"
No, he replied earnestly. 1T is
only of late since | have lost all pa
thence that | am cross with them
began by trying to be "a model en-
ployer. 1 made it my rule to treat
the girls with the utmost courtesy
and kindness and to do everything
could for them. | installed every mod
ern device for their comfort, Went in
tor recreation plans, initiated a policy
OF Indulgence for hours Off and so on
They merely took advantage of my
mildneSs and ran wild. l decided
had been too easy with them and
tried sternness. l have made them
obey the rules and have discharged
those l saw were troublemakers. 1t
has had no effect. They do what mis-
CHIEF they can, and production re-
mains BACKWARD
| took hold and found things in
quite as bad a shape as the employer
had represented. l tried to get on
good terms with the girls, but found
them hostile. Still, in the course of
my friendly attempts 7 contrived to
study them. one after another. My
first observation was that the boss
had been wrong in picking out the
girls he had discharged as ringlead-
ers. There was a young woman who
answered to the name of Sadie She
was at first glance by no means the
most rowdy and recalcitrant of the
girls, but you only had to catch the
flash of her sharp CHANGING black eyes
to understand that she was profoundly
and bitterly afitagonistic. and, at the
same time, was one of those dominant
fiery personalities that are inevitably
fitted for command in the group to
which they are attached. Simply on
a basis of character study was con
WINGED that Sadie was the captain OF
rebellion, the inciter Of discomfort.
| On the other hand. she might be
as she now was of evil. She would
have to be tanned and transformed
into a friend. 1t would not be an
easy task. Those black eyes of hers
contained as much defiance and stub.
bornness as you could wish to see.
laid ambush for her, watched for
some offense. She was not much
given to overt outbreaks, but pres
emily I caught her starting a fox
trot during working hours and urg,
ing the other girls to join in.
walked into the middle Of it, and you
should have seen her eyes flash fire
/ said nothing more than to bid one
of the others tell her that I wanted
to see her, and turned back to my
od1cA
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age for matrons; he kept his appoint
ments and paid his bills, and what
more could you expect from bachelor
in Biarritz?
The worst of it was that aside from
her maternal qualms. she thought him
charming.
simultaneously Colcord was giving
board and lodging to various qualms of
his own. Often he wondered what the
two Osbornes would say and how
much of their benevolence would
vanish II he blurted out the balance Of
the truth which was depressing him.
The Osbornes. by this juncture,
were in midcareer. They had become
persons of considerable mark; they
were even prominent enough to be
mildly gossiped about. But despite the
glamour and acclaim, and the fervid
worship of Ted Minot, Miss Osborne
still allotted Colcord a fraction of all
evenings which found them under the
same roof. and she still walked with
him, now and then, in the afternoons.
You know" he said, there are
times when 1 just have to exert my
resistless will to the utmost to make
sure this is true. If anybody'd told
me 10 years ago that I'd ever ba parad-
ing around Biarritz, France. and have
| friends like you and your mother, why.
I'd have rung for the police to take
| away the mnatic."
Yes" she said, 1T must be a Won
derful sensation to feel that everything
x6u've got you've really earned"
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intelligent and studious. but without
half of her eXuberant vitality l
could see that he was working hard
hard enough to use up all his strength
and spirit.
l said TO hey:
Your husband does owe You NOR.
consideration and entertainment than
! he has been giving you. You have
been sacrificing yourself to him. He
comes home from his work tired and
passes his evenings with YOU resting
He has been using all of his energy
at his work and needs the rest. You
have been sacrificing yourself to his
labor and ambition. The whole queS-
ton is. do you love him we'll enough
for that"
The argument touched her at once.
| said to him:
You feel justified in your neglect
of your wife's inclinations. You say
to yourself that Your work demands
all of your effort. Very well. but
don't you realize that you are Sacri-
fcing her, and that without even any
recognition of her sacrifice? Yield t.
her desires as much az YOU are able
and in so far as YOU cannot, why then
acknowledge to her the injustice you
are doing her. Tell her that you feel
she is not getting a square deal from
you. Tell her constantly that you ap-
| preciate her devotion. She will like
that even better perhaps than If you
! did follow her wishes in everything"
| l was told later that they had taken
| my advice to heart, and now Were
quite happy together.
A mother brought a 10-year-old boy
to me. He was always Ill, and the
doctors could do nothing for him.
! They diagnosed his case as some oh
| scure nervous disorder, but their rem
edies were of no avail. They boy ate
| little and was mere skeleton. Ny
| first impulse was to tell her that 7
did not practice medicine and could
| be of no use. But the boys eyes held
me. They were simply alive with
! fear, with a constant, chronic fear.
Her attitude toward him was one of
gentle affection, and yet l observed
! that once when she reproved him
mildly she used the phrase, II will
| tell your father"
| I inquired about the father. and she
! told me that he was a just but stern.
grim man, one of those forceful peo-
| pie with whom no one would dare To
| take liberties. He was good to his
| son. but severe.
1.-The boy is wasting away with
! fear" ! told her. HE is extremely
sensitive and the combination of tenn
peraments between him and his father
| is such as to terrorize him. He lives
! in a fright. The cure is for the father
| to exert himself to the utmost to b.
gentle, smiling and indulgent."
And I found out later that it was
J ~ NA
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Then III go by myself" She had
flashed out of sight in the doorway.
The doctor darted after her. but
midway in the first flight he WAS
blocked by 4 baby grand piano which
Dorothy had passed on the upper
landing. IL cost Il delay of i've min
utes, and after that he thought that
he might as Well take his time and as
sist Mrs. Osborne. And Mrs. Osborne
was no channels
On the threshold OF the Elephant s
Nest he released her arm. You'd bet
ter let me handle this situatiOn,' he
said bruSkly. But as he went on to
the door of Colcord's bedroom she fol
lowed. putting and apprehensive.
4: * =
PY nature neither of them was an
~ eavesdropper. but for once they
We're both guilty. Dorothy was on her
knees with her arm supporting Col
cords head. oh, my dear, my dear,
she was saying. 1t was for mother.
I'd promised her. And how could
have known"
But there never was any other
girl" said Colcord feebly 1T was YOU
| meant all the time. I'd tried every
other way to make YOU tell me ever
since | spotted YOU that first night.
NEtl was so lldbttfSitSteu ny Inc
Way Your mother talked that
couldn't talk
oh, my dear. III promised, How
could l have known you knew al
ready? And how could have guessed
you meant me-
Then l sort of cracked, do you see?
I'd given YOU a thousand chances to
tell me, and ! couldn't go any further
| | thought you cared more for the gilt
ter than YOU did for me. II was 81
one-sided. I'd told you everything
about myself. and you-then | heard
you were going away, so l tried to get
over to the PalaiS and
oh, hush. dear, hush. Its al
right now. On the Rock-oh. if I'd
only understood" She kissed him.
DR.. McGarrah took Mrs Osborne
very firmly by the elbow and led her
back to the little salon
| Mrs. Osborne was very erect and
regal, although her lips We're trem
! bling
| 'He's-he's had breakdown be
/ fore"
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Three months ago. And desperate
~ sensitive about ii. too. Thinks
that for Il man OF his physique it's Il
disgrace. That's why he preferred to
pose as a loafer.'
Then Dorothy came in.
Mother" she said. pelham and 1
are engaged. And I'm going to stay
and take care of him
NcGarrah cleared his throat.
Haven't | already explained. Miss
Osborne. that this isn't an amateur
job"
There was q long hiatus. during
which Dorothy's look to her mother
was partly expectant. partly contrite,
and wholly tender. Then, she turned
To McGarrah. Yes. doctor. but
happen to be a graduate nurse of the
there five Years" She turned back
to Mrs. Osborne. And. mother-Pel-
hams "a vice president Of the Cimar-
ron Oil Co
Mrs. Osborne quivered and then
rose majestically. Her cheeks We're
very pink, and TWO big tears We're
hunting 4 pathway down her nose.
oh, we'll she said, If he's going TO
be my own Son-in-laW-''
Dorothy swallowed hard. You see. :
she said 10 NcGarrah, with some diff
{
my going into nursing anyway. She
didn't think it WAS
'Oh. don't" said Mrs Osborne shak.
/ lily. Its all over: I'm tired of pretend
/ ing. | suppose | could keep it up
| and did love it, being somebody over
| here-and I did hope you'd marry into
Ia grand family-but. doctor, l was al
the Lake Hospital for 20 years, Wei
take your case together. There. Dor
/ othy, There goes society. And-anG
it was just getting So it wasn't hardly
| any strain
! Mrs. Osborne sought her handker
chief. 1T was my fault. ] made Dor
/ othy promise not to tell. l made hel
promise. / wanted her to have q
/ chance. But we We're at the lake
until they struck oil on some land
! my husband-he died when Dorothy
/ was a baby-bought for nothing il
| Oklahoma. when he was Il young mar
! in drug store. And the Cimarror
! Company leased it from us, and we
made a million. And went down nea,
/ cleveland TO get away from gossip
new-rich and all. Oh, I have fell
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
BY KENNETH WILLIAMS.
As Told to Prosper BuranelIi.

Y u. too, are a character ANALYST.
" You form judgments of peo-
I pie. You size up every one
YOU meet. In every project
you mediate your reading"
of the persons involved has a vital
part. Your opinions are made on "A
basis of action and beha vior. of course
but if you We're limited to that you
would be badly off indeed. You get a
good deal Of information out Of peo-
pies faces-this one is Enthusiastically.
another is too stolid, and still anoth-
err is intelligent but lacking in earnest
ness.
IL you will observe your own mind
you Will be astonished at the extent
to which you go by peoples eyes.
Your gaze is always on person 8
eyes. Instinctively you feel that these
give you the best clue to his thoughts.
They yield an impression of charac-
ter, too. To certain extent you rea-
son upon simple, conscious premises
eyes have an expression of candor or
they are uneasy and furtive, or they
are bold and alert. But even more
you get something from eyes that you
do not understand. And II pressed for
an explanation you could only fall
back on the verb felt
l am profeSsedly character an
alyst, and do my work by studying
peoples eyes. l have found that your
eyes will give me the clue to your
soul. 1t Is partly a process Of con-
scious observation and reasoning. but
there is an element that don't under
stand, and 1 can only say that I feel.
What results do l get? What expert.
ences do I have? The best answer
can give Is to relate a few incidents.
I was factory production manager
and was making success at that pro-
fession. 1t was to be seen that l had
l knack at handling men and getting
results out Of them. i realized more
and more that my secret was that ]
could penetrate the temperaments OF
men and then manage so as to estab
lish a personal relation that kept them
contented and full Of good will. Fur.
Their. was conscious that I was being
guided by a study Of their eyes.
One day I was offered a new and
better post, and took 1t. My employer
spoke to me candidly. His was dress
goods mandatory not long in opera.
ton and he employed several hundred
girl operatives.
you will have a difficult time Of it
here" he said. II myself am at my
wits end. can't get normal produc'
ton out Of the girls. They are NAL
lingering, and l can't find any way
to stop it,
When he took me through the plant
we came across several Is who were
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She arrived. hard and sneering.
Sit down, Sadie l said
"Aw, l can take the bawling out
standing up she snarled
| studied her for a moment longer.
although / needed no further study
OF her eyes to come by an opinion
l had judged her to be Il creature as
strong in affection and loyalty as in
antagonism. quite a trifie sentimental
and protective, too. She was the kind
that would sacrifice herself to the
limit for any one belonging to her
The family instinct must be strong
in her.
Sadie" l asked, have you any
brothers around at your house,"
Two she replied. Why"
Well" l went on. Suppose one of
your brothers was in my position in
Il factory and his job depended on his
keeping things going and getting the
work done. And suppose there was a
girl in that factory who was dancing
| around as YOU We're and getting the
other girls to stop their work. Sup
pose that girl was making your
brother fail in his job. What would
you do?"
Her head went tossing
why, I'd scratch her eyes out"
"Of course you would. Then look
at it this way, Sadie. / have a sister.
l want you to put yourself in her
place and feel about 1t as she would
feel. Try that for a few days, will
you?"
/ That appeal quite conquered her
and / don't think any other attack
| save upon her home feelings, would
! have had any effect. After that open
ing 1 was able. with a bit of cultiva
| ton, to win her friendship. The
| other girls followed her lead and pro
| duction in the factory quickly wen,
to normal and over.
| During this time / gave an occa
| sional lectur on character, and these
| increased in number gradually until
1 threw up my work in factories. On
one tour man came to me, saying:
Two very dear friends of mine, a
young married couple, are contem
| plating divorce. / know they love
each other very much, and yet they
cannot get along. think you car
| help them"
| He brought them to me, and I had
long talk with them and studied
them. The handspring of the trouble
was to be found in the wife's com
plant that the husband gave her nc
attention, but was cold and Indifferent,
toward her. At home of evenings he
| would remain silent. read the news
papers and go to bed.
She had vivid eyes. restless, eager
She wanted gayeties. amusements
dancing, the theater. Yet there was q
| turn of profound devotion in her.
He was Quiek and rathar astiua
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He shook his head Unexpectedly.
But that isn't quite correct. How
| could ii be? Why, with the war com
ing in. I've only had 3 years. But I've
had some luck-in land deals. That
isn't anything TO be pulled up about,
! is it,
Why if you used your intelligence
+ and your judgment-'
But | didn't" said Colcord. ''It
was this way: | had a client who was
broke, so instead of fee he assigned
me an option he had on some land. In
a year that land had edged right into
| town. so instead of a 500 fee | made
$4,000. SO speculated on another
parcel and made another profit and
! then | joined kind of syndicate~-and
now I'm in BiarritZ. I'm pretty fair
| lawyer could always make a living
but I've been lucky. And you show
! me anybody that's proud Of luck and
| I'll show YOU somebody can't under
| stand
THE end of Minot's vacation was
now peeking around the corner,
! wherefore Minot was skirmishing on
! the frontier of hnbecility. And when
! Dorothy was SO maddeningly elusive
! toward him. what did il mean? Where
did he stand?
At about this period Colcord and
| Miss Osborne wandered down the hard.
packed beach to IlbarritZ. and dis
covered. halfway up the steep cliffs, a
! pocket of sand where they could sit
and contemplate the miles Of curling
surf which give these shores their
name-the Coast OF Silver.
She said muSingly: There's one
! thing you've never spoken word
about. Not word. But in all these adj
ventures of yours. hasn't there been
the least tiny bit of sentiment"
He smiled. Yes" he said. once
and that was plenty enough"
| oh. Was it long time ago.
! NO. it wasn't. But you couldn
hardly blame her. anyhow. You know
what my records been-and I'm not
ashamed of II. She wouldn't have
been. either: she had to work, too.
! But. then. her folks fell into too much
money all Of a sudden. 80 we couldn
seem to talk the same language And
that was that. Only Id kind OF count
! ed on her. so ii was quite :. hump.
! Miss Osborne was sitting sand
! through her fingers. she couldn't
really have cared for YOU. though, or
/ money wouldn't have made the slight
| est difference, would it? She didn I
deserve you. You'd do better 10 Tor
| get her
Funny part of it is, | don't want
to-"
| Miss Osborne went on winnowing
the sand. WAS that what-led TO
| your breakdown"
| His eyes We're vacant OF expression.
so? Just because | don't rise up on
my hind legs and paw? Look at me-
Sick? l haven't seen a man in Biar-
! ritz I wouldn't undertake to lay on
| his back in two minutes"
! You're not fooling me-" said Miss
Osborne, under her breath. You'd
been under a terrible strain-and then
this happened-and then you broke
down--and then you came over here
to get as far away from her as you
could. Didn't YOU
He smiled. who do you think YOU
are-Mme. ZoZo, the mystic sorceress
of Egypt, consultations 80 cents"
| = x x
THE Osbornes, escorted by Ted
Minot, motored to san Sebastian
for long week end, so that the next
Ia, hot '.1a
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ooh VOC " cold Mics Osborne
lie tooi, her 70 tho Casino uhare he
Ut 49, n., ~ .'.o ..CI -. :. Ia -,
"a, . ,r 80 ia ,.o,,'ra ~,
IN ~ '.nM " i's "iue 'io" '''u 'ou g VII
..pah,r, ,.ou,ra , nri,cer.
.Ec - sa,d C,icora yawning "J'm
t.,,. go -, ,oIrc
ri,eht honi ,nE "a a. NV stuff
Ua Iaft nt n,idni.ht Miss Osborne
bowevar ,p,s en- gnv and tireless that
sba ramoinad mil tho fn,I hIe,t Of
tha ,one,ast r.;ndad Saxonbora Also
Che ,wica Want n,,t to roam, in the ar
nade with. Minot. This appeased her
mother
..ya' ssensd IN ho having an esne.
cialIv good time tonight dear" she
,aid uhen tbey ,vare In heir s,,ite
..Did To-, Dorothy smiled Wei T
oua.s that moves 7 ought ia have
been an actress"
why; no" so
Tin so sick Of all this sham, moth
ings genuine-nothlnG wish we
we're pavn III .naIa'ii. e. es ',,, I'M
oaEo' one h''hed o'i ne on pp.to
w ny uo We H'isc " 9''E i'''e' any
way
het I'otiiei ih'S'" me- VDi 'N9
| w ny thouaht we hiaue Hoi'lI ,
very acnShtiui dcqu1li'aii'eS he'e'
NJ iiliot' anu ..,.,
On ,here are peoPie eNei ,ie .l e.
Sie noi ne" put vi
huiidrtu, uoiiaf lroch-- pesiue9' | just
refused Ted about an hour ago
Mrs. osborne Sasped ou-Nou
what!
Dorothy MADE a Srilnace
All j want Is 10 get OUT OF TINS not
mouse atmosphere. II boreS me. Let
go somewhere else
Il think" said Mrs. Osborne, with
a sigh for the lost Minot. that YOU d
better go to bed. Wen talk it over il
the morning.
Dorothy went to her own room and
cried until dawn. But by noon she
had gained her point. She had per
suaded her mother TO migrate at the
end OF the week
j $ i
u '"ic"rd. MISS osoorhe l1a seen
pntbirp for two DAYS hut CON.
-.
si''eiiiS 'iie "hi'i u iiit' al f'i" az
and the variety OF plaisance, this
wasn't extraordinary - that Is, II
wouldn't have been extraordinary un-
der previous conditions. But since he
must certainly nave had some rnnor
of her plans, she did think II rather
odd that he hadn't come to her to
express his sorrow. odd. not To say
unaccountable. in view of his protesta
tons of friendship-especially on the
Virgin Rock.
Yet. after all, what did it signif+?
| Personally, she didn't care whether
she ever saw him again.
on the last afternoon she went TO
walk with her mother. ana as they
crossed the Avenue victor hugo a Ia
inlllar nsure emerged from doorway
IN 'front.' oil them. II was Dr. McGar'
ran.
An said Mrs. Osborne Is this
where you live, doctor. Or were you
making u call?"
Il was making a call on 4 friend of
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SliE stood motionless. DO You mean
you're afraid =
still" he said Il might chance it.
il you'd only play as straight as i do.
oh, You don't think | have. them"
Why. it's like this" he said, with
more seriousness. An joking aside.
we've got along pretty smoothly. but
I've always been in a kind of II special
class. You couldn't really measure me
up against the rest of the herd; | was
separate. But the minute | throw a
leg over Il pony, or swing "A driver, or
try to he hoofer. why. you'd have to
make different comparisons. I'd just
be one entry in Il big field. How long
do YOU reckon I'd last"
Why"
In plain English he said. If |
compete with these lads on their own
ground do you think YOU could keep
on forgetting that l used to wear my
dress suit in the daytme?'
What a poor opinion YOU must
have of me-" she said.
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A Bachelor in Biarritz
BY
About Miss Osborne Her Mother Suggested Family and Wealth.

1t isn't liquor, I'm-well, man TO man,
arc you going to plug my game or not?
I'm just asking you to be human,
that's all"
Colcord's eyes were pin-points. He
was saying to himself: why, the poor
blinking huzZard! What does he take
me for. But at San Sebastian he must
have proposed to her, and she stalled.
Why did she stall? Oh, but she is a
dear, But her mother. But her
money, But we've got To have Il
night!
He stood up. Ted. I'm going To lie
SO human you'd be surprised. But
don't crowd me, boy. You see, to Il
man who was raised the way | was
your proposition sounds lanEuid Ted
But I'll null 1t over and let YOU know.
Now is that a fair notice. He Saun-
tered back to the ballroom.
Miss Osborne greeted him cordially
and indicated the neighboring chair
but he said. NO, let's go out and get
some ozone"
From the mainland they went across
the wooden footbridge 10 the Virgin
Rock.
At length she said demurely. We'll
are you thinking of taking up garSlins
again."
ITO tell the truth, said Colcord, Il
was kind of wondering if | wouldn' I
take up, most everything again
Everything? What does that
mean"
We'll, | used to play golf once. You
see, before we moved TO Texas ] was
a Caddy. That was when I was 49,
And there was one time when ! could
dance pretty well. too. That WAS when
| was about 90. And | could always
fork a horse anyway. But ! wouldn't
do II except for one reason-and that
would be to please you. Would it?'
asked Colcord.
Her heart quickencd perilously
Yes" she said. lit would please me
very much"
It's a risk. though.
is it? Why?
Well" he said banterinGly. III
We're following your prescriptions I'd
Ice kind OF at your InercyAwouldn't |?
And then suppose | Went and fell In
love with YOU"
But you needn't do THAI. neces'
sarily."
We'll, the main trouble" he said
lis that you never know when the
cussed germs going to bite. And I've
had one experience that wasn't SO
good, and | don't crave To have any
carbon copy of it. But that's what
would happen
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THE Osbornes. escorted by Ted
= Minot, motored to San Sebastian
for a long week end. so that the next
time that Colcord saw them was on
Tuesday evening at the Municipal Ca