Characteristic Trade Marks.

Otago Witness, Issue 2105, 28 June 1894, Page 49

Characteristic Trade Marks.

"Have you ever observed how many people carry some distiugu'shing mark of occupation or habit?" asktd a phrenologist the other day. "Now, see; that man is a jeweler. Do you see the peculiar wrinkles around his righb eye and *y,'brow ? Those come from habitually carrying his jeweller's glass there Half those passers-by are desk-workers. Their shoulders droop.

" See that j oung lad* ? When sbeis at homo shesits with her left limb drawn up under her —sits on it, in fact. The knee is forced out. See where it hits her skirts ? Her walk is onesided in consequence. " Those j oung men are b : cycle riders. They walk on their toes like a schoolgirl. A man's occupation or condition has a good deal to do with making his facial expresson. Soldiers get a hard, severe look; overworked labourns conttantly look tired ; reporters look inquisitive ; mathematicians look studious ; judges become grave, even whe n off the bench. The business makes the face, I say. "There is the butcher's face, the publican's face, the beggar's face, the minist' rial face, tho lawyer's face, the doctor's face, all so distinct, each from the other, and singly, that one seldom fails to recognise those callings showing through the countenance."