Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1890-10-18 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

HEARTHSTONE LECTURES.  NO 16.  TIIE HUMAN FACE.  (CONTINUBD,)  111. ITS UNIQUENESS.  1, The:rerdation of Lthnic type—Northern nations have nearly all fair complexions and fair hair, with hazel, grey, and blue eyes; whereas the southern people have dark hair, dark oomplexions, and dark eyes. The former pursue the natural sciences, and have the heavier brains, and now for the most part are Protestants. On the other hand, the sonthern people are fond of all the fine arts, and have fine esthetic tastes. These people are nearly all Roman Catholics. The vast bulk of the Roman Catholics and Episcopalians have blaok hair, and generally black eyes, and the bulk of Dissenters are fair haired.  The dark haired peoples attract the ornate, the sensuous, and the gashing in religion, whereas to the bulk of the fair haired people, these things have no attraction.  People with dark hair and dark eyes have generally a depth of passionate earnestness, and a rush and vehemenoe of emotion seldom felt by the blonde and other fair haired people. Women with black hair and black eyes, require usually considerable managing, but they are as a rule worthy of all our patience, forbearanee, and tact. Black hair and black eyes are associated with most of our oases of abduction, clandestine marriage, suicide, and social romance generally. There must be some reason why these things are so, and one reason is that these peoples, the fair and the black belong to different ethnic types. In our day the types have mingled much in marriage to the advantage of both. We need the leading traits of both in one person, but when the Teuton and the Gaul marry unless there is admiration on the one hand, as well as love, and skill, and patience on the other, the marriage is sure to have its tempests. The elements of a tradgedy are always at bawl. It is strange that the colour of the hair, and a bit of pigment in the eye, should not only exhibit character, but reveal our very ethnic type. Those colours tell a long and Interesting story. 2 The revelation of prev3iling disposition—The face tells secrets, and it cannot no bribei into keeping our secrets from others. It will out with them, and hence there is no mistaking the nose of the drunkard, the month of the voluptuary, the eye of the rake, and the ear of the quarrelsome. Cuaracter is stamped on all our features, and hence what some people tieny in words' the features affirm with marked emphasis, The faoe is a mirror of the mind, and we all endeavour to see the indications of character in it. The prevtiling disposition is indisputably written on the face, but inasmuch as it can be concealed for a time, and inasmuch as we are not perfect in the art of rea''ing the face, we all get mistaken at times, It is well for the evil-doer that it is so, °lee he might never get an opportunity of turning over a new leaf, nor of mingling in the society of those most likely to do hint good. Berth would be made a bell to him,  But some people cannot read our face no matter how transparent we make them,nor how anxious we are that they should know us altogether. Ills sad to be a misread man, misread by those dearer to us than life itself. But that ia the fate of many a noble fellow, and of many a true-hearted woman. So live that you need not care, what your hoe reveals. Not in youth merely, nor in maturity, merely, but in old see we see how the man has lived. We can read those wrinkles and we easily see the difference between honoured old age, and dissipated old age. The past writes Its story on all our faces, and so the face reveals our prevailing disposition, to those who have the skill to use it, 3. The revelatiom of future possibilities.—We know pretty well what people are likely to do under given sets of circumstances, when we reed their temperament in their faces. We know who are likely to lead people astray, and who are most likely to be led astray, who are likely to care for others, and who are likely to be a care to others, who are likely to help, and who are likely to hinder, who are likely to develops and who are likely to degrade. The face reveals not only the equipment of each, but the probable future of each. Your present fortune will very much mould your earthly future. Now what is your fortune 1 Is your fortune in your face, in your mind, in your heart, or in your puree? If it is a purse many will woo the purse that despise tbe person, and many, both males and females, are taught by word and by example that money and not a maid is the main thing in marriage. If it is the mind, be careful; for the woman may be degraded into a blue stocking, which in these days is happening only too frequently ; and the evil is not lessening, nor are there any signs of its lessening. The signs of the times are all the other way. The greatest fortune is a true heart; for if we have every thing but that, all is vanity and vexation of spirit; and yet, surely all of us may have behind our fame a true heart. Give that t 3 a friend, to a husband, to a wife, and you have given the divinest endowment, within the reach of our ram We need never fear to face the future with a true heart; and that heart, sooner or later, will reveal itself in our face to all who care to see and read it there.  A poet has said with some measure of truth Black eyes most dazzle at a ball, Blue eyes most please at evening tall; The black a conquest soonest gain, The blue a conquest best retain; The black bespeak a lively heart, Whose soft emotions soon must part; The blue a firmer hue display, Which lives and burns beyond a day.