How to Read Character from Features
A woman with fairly harmonious features and a
double set of perfect, regular and pearl-white teeth
freely and frankly displayed in laughing, is fairly
certain to be a creature of remarkable mental balance.
Such teeth accompany unusual endowments, the chief
drawback in the make-up of the subject, particularly
if she have the smiling habit, being a lack of
firmness.
Women of tremendous resolution, concentration and
fixity of purpose have a habit of closing the lips and
showing very little of the teeth, even when they
smile.
When you see a pretty girl with rather short,
square teeth which have wide spaces between them, set
her down as fickle, for these are the teeth of
constitutional inconstancy.
Girls with long, narrow teeth are rarely strong
physically. Consumptives who have inherited pulmonary
troubles almost always have these long, narrow, frail
teeth. When the upper teeth and jaw noticeably project
over the lower the indications are for a rather
elementary mind and an uncertain temper.
Women with these teeth are not, properly speaking,
ill-tempered. They are generous and often
fundamentally good-natured, but once they are roused
-- well, it is wise to give them the floor and to
maintain a discreet silence.
Irregular teeth that look like tangled kernels of
an ear of corn are the index of a badly balanced
nature.
When you see a girl whose teeth naturally curve
from the gum margin in toward the mouth you can wager
anything you like she is prudent about money matters.
Women with uneven teeth, those which project or
recede noticeably, are uneven in disposition also, and
more developed in the passions than intellectually. Of
course the form of the circle of the teeth must
naturally repeat the form of the jawbone, and the girl
with a generous mouth, which her family calls big, may
console herself by the knowledge that, according to
face readers, a broad mouth, full of white, even,
normal-sized teeth, with jaws that meet exactly or
nearly so, surely betokens a mind with a broad grasp
and a generous, even temper, but rather careless
nature.
The girl with the happy-go-lucky teeth exemplifies
this type. She is the girl who gets taken in and
imposed upon right and left, but she smiles and
forgives and never learns that the world is hard and
selfish, no matter how long she lives.
THE CHIN
A woman's chin is also a telltale feature. People
with small, weak, receding chins rarely have much will
power. This type is also called treacherous. Its
possessor would be deceitful and disloyal because she
would not have the strength of will to be anything
else.
A round and rather full, well-formed chin denotes a
sweet, yielding temper.
A pointed, projecting chin betokens avarice. When
the subject has also a long, hooked nose you have two
of the characteristically facial signs of the miser.
A square chin of good size, with an indentation in
the center, is the accompaniment of a firm, capable
nature. Its owner will not, perhaps, be quite so
gentle as the girl with the round chin, but other
things being equal, she will be more of a helpmeet.
THE NOSE
Personally I am much impressed by the indications of
the nose. For example, the nose of the conqueror,
which is the aquiline, is found upon the faces of most
of the great warriors. Napoleon had such a nose; so
had Wellington.
The Greek nose, which forms a straight line from
base to tip, is considered the perfect nose. It
indicates a gentle, peaceable nature, with a love of
the beautiful--of the arts and of home. The Greek nose
does not belong to the most forcible type of
womanhood, but Greek-nosed women rarely are
quarrelsome, and with a good, moderately large mouth,
a Greek-nosed woman will usually prove a treasure.
Alas for the snubs, for they are usually found upon
the faces of cruel women. I do not refer to the nez
retrousse, which is just tip-tilted enough to be
saucy, but to the real snub which is flattened upon
the face.
Look out for the snub nose every time, but if you
happen to strike it in conjunction with a small
rosebud mouth, round nearsighted eyes and tiny
shell-like ears, flee for your life, for you have
encountered the incarnation of perfidy and cold,
treacherous cruelty.
The Roman nose is a good one. It is called the nose
of wealth, and in its exaggerated forms it indicates a
tendency to avarice. If you want a prudent wife, one
who will be saving and thrifty, select the girl whose
nose has a little hump on it. She will have more at
the end of twenty years, though she started out
empty-handed.
THE EYE
No feature of the face is more self-assertive than
the eye.
Large, round, wide-open eyes are a sign of
amiability and gentleness in young girls, but always
indicate a very childlike and undeveloped character.
When these eyes are clear and luminous it is a sign of
great trustfulness.
These women remain childlike always--or if they
grow worldly wise and suspicious their eyes narrow
perceptibly during the process.
Protruding eyes are a sure sign of a good memory,
so it will be well for the summer man who is not in
earnest not to commit himself. Just consider that the
girl with the slightly bulging orbs is usually very
clever mentally, capable of strong emotions and
possessed of a memory that makes her a terror to the
youth who desires to be forgotten.
The girl with deep-seated eyes is rarely to be
found with the merry, laughing throng of
mischief-loving young women that haunt the hotel
piazzas of the watering places. When she is discovered
she is often alone with her thoughts, which are somber
frequently, as her companions. She is introspective,
and the man who becomes her slave will have to answer
an entire series of questions upon the good, the true
and the beautiful to say nothing of the muchness of
the much and the greatness of the small. The maid with
the deep-set eyes is in dead earnest. She takes
herself very hard. There is no nonsense about her. Be
warned in time.
The long, narrow, Oriental-eyed girl is a variation
of the summer girl, who is also to be handled as a
parcel marked "With care; glass." She is
charming and her timid, oblique, dreamy but watchful
expression means everything on the list but that
condition of inertia that comes before dreams with
ordinary mortals.
The long-eyed girl is suspicious--she is charming,
but oh! she is jealous, and I advise her swain to give
her no cause to distrust him, else she will make life
such a burden as it hath not entered into the joyous
soul of the inexperienced summer youth to conceive of.
The eye of the coquette scarcely needs description.
It is in evidence every moment of the day and every
second of the first half of the night, wherever men
and women congregate. It may be round or long, wide or
narrow. It is never tranquil. Its possessor is
"making eyes" every moment of her life. She
may make them to your undoing. You may love her with
all the strength of your being, but you will be very
foolish if you trust her. She gives a shy glance and
looks down.
"Beware, beware! She is fooling thee!"
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