TELL-TALE FACES

Opunake Times, 26 August 1932, Page 4

TELL-TALE FACES

Many people learn to mask their thoughts, Anger, chagrin, greed and spite, as well as glee, pleasure and humour, may effectively be hidden by the man with rue “poker face”. All the sam« no one can really disguise his real nature by facial control. Those who have learned how to read the human face as one reads a book are able to estimate character by a close and shrewd inspection. It is because so many people never attempt to master the art of face reading that the whiles of rogues are successful and the triumph of the practised liar complete. j Apart from the general aspect 'of a face, which is determined b/ the bone structure beneath the skin, v.'hat really noulds the features anjd general expression? The answer is character. I Scientists now realise the close relation between body and mind. In nothing is this interaction more complete than in the imprint of the mind upon the face. We hear of the* “legal” face, for example. It is a face with a set firm mouth, keen eyes, and a powerful jaw. These characteristics are merely the result of constant concentration, persistence and determination. Why ? Because the many minute muscles which mould the expression of a face are directly controlled by the higher centres of the brain. The man whose thoughts are noble will gradually assume a beauty of countenance entirely independent of features. President Lincon was an ugly man, and so was Leo Tolstoy, but their faces had beautiful expressions.