CHARACTER IN THE FACE

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7923, 30 January 1904, Page 1

CHARACTER IN THE FACE

Hl-teraper and t_s Complexion. ; i (American Paper.) You can tell the good-natured girl without a chart to reveal her whereabouts. All you have to do is to look at her face. "You take a face that is open," says, a lecturer ,on physiognomy, "and you find a peculiarly frank disposition. The girl who can laugh and show, her teeth £ broadening her mouth into a wide smile, is a girl who ha. an open spirit, one who would not deceive you. The won\an who, when she smiles, keeps her lips closed 1 , ia not the woman whom you can trust. She may not be dangerous, but she is secretive. And, though, she may tell you the truth, she will not tell • you the whole truth. But the open-mouthed girl may have a quick temper, and she generally has. Her upper iip is short and her temper is no longer than the upper lip. She gets angry in a hurry and it is a flareup with her. Soon over, it may be, but, foi* a few minutes, the girl with the short upper lip, %he laughing mouth and the white teeth, falls a victim to her own temper. ■ It is usually supposed that the girl with the quick temper- is the girl of; unfortunate disposition, the. girl to bo avoifed. But, as a rule, the quicker the temper the sooner over; and the girl with the spirited disposition is the one who is the nicest in the "long run. Affectionate girls can always be told by tbo mouth.. The lips never stay together, but are always parted or ready' to part. The affectionate girl is the emotional girl. She always has her sympathies on tap, and. she can weep with: you as readily as she' can laugh. Her lips, which lie in a curve half parted, will reveal all the emotio?_ of her soul and. at very- short notice: The round, Soft chinned girl is the girl to choose for a wife. The woman who has no chin at all, or at best a sloping chin, is not the. woman who would make a good, helpmate. She would, have no self control whatever, and would fall _ victim to every temptation that beset her pathway. The weak chinned woman is the woman who becomes addicted to alcoholism, who takes to smoking and- to the minor vices for women. And it is the weak chinned woman . who goes far beyond her husband's income and cannot resist doing so again and again. The weak chinned woman is not vicious, but just weak. There are a great many estimable women who have no chin to speak of, but they are estimable only because they have never been tempted to be Otherwise. Quite the opposite is the woman- with the prominent chin. Here is the womani who knows a thing or two, and does not hesitate to tell you so. She absolutely rules the household' roost. The amiable woman has a rounding chin, just chin enough and no more than enough. It may be a single chin., or it may bo a double chin. But its type is unmistakable. This desirable type of chin is eurveo. and sometimes dimpled. It is rather wide 1 , ! fair from pointed, and it gradually broadens into full happy cheeks. The beautiful type of chin may not belong to the beautiful face, for a pretty chin does not make a pretty woman. But it is one of the straws which show which way the wind is blowing. The eye reveals character, but unfortunately not so clearly as the other features, though the contrary is supposed to be true. People are too much influenced by the colour of the eye, which is, • after aIL, no guide, and they are too much influenced by the size and the lustre, whereas neither is any indication whatever of character. Character is revealed in the eyes by the expression, by the softness or by the hardness, by the glow, by the appeal, by the way of looking at you. There are people who cannot look you I full in the eye. and these are the people 1 who are not frank, the people whose strategy, whose duplicity, whose methods and whose means are not the best in the world. Dark eyes are supposed to belong to the best type of soul. But this, also, is a fallacy. Dark eyes are more expressive than light eyes. They are more capable of .showing the emotions, they can say more than •light eyes. But they do not denote any clearer, better character. On the contrary, there are many people who argue wholly in favour of the lighteyed person and say that blue eyes are true eyes and that black eyes and brown eyes are .ull of duplicity. The skin is a wonderful index of the state of the body, and consequently of the habits and disppsition of the body. The skin of a dyspeptic is sallow. The skin of a morbid person, troubled with the 1 liver, is a greenish yellow, going into saffron. The skin of a woman who is lazy will be mottled. 11l temper affects the circulation of the blood ; it sends the quick rush to the head ; it paralyses the nerves of the skin and makes the hands and head hot and the feet cold. A Women are more affected by ill temper than they suppose, and a great many colds are caused by bad circulation, which in turn is caused by "an attack of bad temper. ( I The skin that is perfectly clear and pretty almost always belongs to the good natnred woman, and a pair of bright, pretty red cheeks are almost always the property of the girl with a sunny disposition. It is said that an Ul tempered woman cannot have a nice complexion. Certainly her chances are/ much better if she will govern her temper, guard her tongue and try in every possible way to remain equally/balanced through the trying scenes of .life. The contour of a woman's face, while set ■to a certain degree by nature, is not'arbitrarily fixed. She can influence it in every case, and absolutely alter it in a great many; cases!'' The forehead^ which is such an index of !

character, can be kept free from lines. It can be made smooth by massage and kept smooth by care. It is one of the features which show very plainly the disposition of the owner, and the feature whioh, more than all others, first displays the mark_ of age and ill temper."