Judge — April 18, 1885 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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PRACTICAL PHYSIOGNOMY. “Speaking Zyes"—The Windows of the Soul and Their Curtains.—How to Read What is Back of Them. JUDGE continues its efforts to help its readers to the delightful knowledge of the inmost natures of their respective neigh- bors—their fine feelings, meannesses, ete, Kind Providence evidentiy gave us so many means of expression that we might. have no private characters at all—a plan of creation that our fellow. cr ave always de- voutly tried to carry out. They e failed sof uncovering their defective, Substitute for phrenology, clairvoyance, lawyer’s cro: examination, and other false systems Tar JupGe's complete science, and people will be better able to fathom their fellows and to more satisfactorily discharge their chief duty of regulating their neighbors. ‘There is now no doubt that the complete power of mind-reading was an original gift to Adam and the tailoring of fig-leaves is a parable reg ing the firat human efforts to conceal thought. ‘Therefore our scienc n attempted restora- tion of man.to his primal state of open- heartedness. It will restore paradise, instead of inaugurating hades on the planct, as some have rashly concluded, The eye is the starting point of all expres- | sion; the storm-center in a family disturb- ance; the hydrant of the emotional works; the dynamo of intellectual lightning. I very near the brain, and therefore, Del tells us, it gets the fir dvices from that seat of authority—or sick room, as the c may be—and bulletins them ahead of all i expressional contemporaries — au ‘ that our newspaper friends will see. rd- By the eye as an organ of soul-revelation we mean the eye-brows, lids, lashes, and the contiguous muscles of the face. All these | take part in the simplest and most common- | place of your eye-speaking, as you can by looking at them on f the next time yuu call for a glass of Indeed, the expression is not in da man with glass eyes has ge in politics, or courtship, or stoc -obbing | ‘than the man with natur eyes, This explains the fact that the ghost of Banker had no speculation in his ey not being able to give Macbeth “a friendly tip” without the use of his accessory optic muscles—which, it is well known, regular ghosts in those days were not equal to. We have improved all that by the invention of the cabinet-seance, and there is now nothing a live medium can do that the gauziest ghost cannot. As was explained in a previous finding regarding the nose, the eyes are merely organs of expressions and “have outgrown their original function of vision. ‘This can be tested by listening to the sworn evidence of different eye-witnesses to any event. No two men will sce alike as to who struck first. Read also the testimony on the Fitz John Porter case, and the recent articles from eye, muneseen of Shiloh and other battles in the late unprincipled raid of the hireling North. Read also the evidences of the com- ete loss of eye-sight by New York police. [he fact that some of our keenest-sighted men are now not able to see after four o'clock is evidence of the gradual disappearance of sight by disuse; while an instance of sudden no more advanta THE JUDGE. loss of vision, on the other hand, is the blind- ness of Democrats and the ** high-moral cus- ses” of reform to the faults of Clev land—they who just before could sec nothing but sins im the other Presidents. We now proceed promptly to illustrate concrete examples. ‘To prove conclusively that the e: no share in expression, we fi cut of a sub, " obscured by -ball hy t submit the © eyes are purposely guggles, an pu will be sur- | prised to. see how easily you can ‘call the turn” on this CS man’s probable acts und mo- 23 xt tives in spite of his spectacles, p Around the glass ellipses cor- 4 uscate the tell-tale features THe Mencesany like the corona of an eclipsed waissany. sun. Observe the bushy and outward and orbits turned downward—a divergence atures that su sistency and of moral purpose S are sat apart, which indicates intellectual abili- ties, especially in speaking parts. If a man with such optics were an orator, his incon- brows sweeping up th t the legend of ONE OF ‘Oh! THE Lapy Proresson—* luded.”” Livre Girt—* are e. stant, conscienceless nature would lead him to sell his talents to any one who would buy, regardless of his record or previous opinion. Even if he should happen to adbere to the party he had always professed to supports it would be for a selfish motive. Ie could not speak for the cause he loved except for the most exorbitant pay, cash in hand, perhaps so much as $200 a specch. Our next type of eyes is of an opposite reading, Here the brows sweep upward, but they are arched, while the lids follow the same direction, and there is a large distance ey, ea between the orbs, Th of great will and obstinacy, Sgr no inconsiderable intellect. ‘Ve GANG will not get the credit of as much riz brains as he really posseses, be- ne1i-pos. cause his bull-dog nature makes him essentially afighter. Heis a good judge RISING isa dead failure—the ladies won't come because the gentlemen of men and a natural leader of then eyes are small, which shows a omatic nature and nipment for affairs. “But they also Indi- cate a narrowness which will bar bis success in broad arenas, He will make a powerful and lasting leader among men of limited mtellect and low morals. How accurately this reading fits, anyone can see by a mere unce at the illustration, . Now please give your careful attention to a more difficult: subject—in fact, a tough This is an exaggerated type of a man of which there are too many feeble examples in this conutry. You will not om. {ail to remark the high-pointed FPS vrow, the pointed arch of Am of the upper lid and the way it “Se scems to curtain not only the I but sweeps down over the lower lid, too, as if it would drop like an impenetrable veil over the man’s entire face. «Tough and deevilish sly” is inseribed on that curtain. Few people know what goes on behind it. ‘THe Jcpae doesn’t care to; ILis ptive di- ves a fairly-good THE TRICKSTER, GEN, URA TION, Well, who can blame them, a girl dow't want to elope with a female.” there is more of a show on the drop curtain than behind it, sometimes, This man has the ingenuity in sin of Mephestopheles, but, fortunately for society, he lacks the devil’s daring. ‘He is a coward and flinches from the consequences of his own plotting when it comes to light. He will spoil all his larger enterprises by superfluous guile and finally throw away” great opportunities by indecision and indiscretion. He is capable of buying a high ofiice, but not of winning it on merit. Ife would prefer to win by secret and abhorrent forces, and when these fail has no powerful resources left; he col- lapses when tapped for manly qualities. Lady Constance prophetically described a man of this type: ‘Thou little valiant reat in villainy.” comicbooks.com | |