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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1934.

CHARACTER GAUGED

BY FACE SHAPE

FRENCH SCIENTISTS

NEW IDEA

FIVE MAIN CATEGORIES

(By Harvey James.)

He still sighs, however, for the immediate post-war period and, even more, for the pre-war days.

Cinema stars are no compensation for the pre-war Indian magnates, or even for pre-war Englishmen. The French 'scientists and academi- tury, while the Gainsborough and truth of their orders of 50 xuits may cians are roaming over a new field the Reynolds portraits of reigning be arrived at by, subtracting the of knowledge.

Georgian beauties, Mrs. Siddons----- nought.

They are working out a new way shall we say or the Duchess of Outsize tailoring orders have been to gauge human character by the Devonshire, portray the oval in its a feature of London life in every shape of human faces.

varying degrees of sweetness andė century from Beau Brummell to the It has long been agreed, at least nervous irritability, late Marquess of Anglesey, jamong the savants, that the brain Very different are the traits de~ One single order was for £3,000, is shaped by the actions and re-noted by an apparently similar It was given in the early part of actions of the mind that the in-oval. It is a sort of debased: this century by Sir Dhanjibhoy side of the skull is moulded accord-cast of head-the ovoid. Bomanji, the millionaire merchant,

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The ovold is not related to the Bombayling to the form of the brain, and

that the outside is shaped by the triangle in the scientific category. Juside.

In the ovoid the top part of the face Before the war He Liked Them All

a famous Ger- | from cranium' to eyebrows is blown man scholar had stigmatised this out over the lower. It is in fact The order included 160 pairs of field of research as "the erroneous (as well as metaphorically) an white trousers.

execution of д possibly sound jawelled head: It shows the intel- Sir Dhunjibhoy, when placing this idea." And it is admitted by the lectual qualities of the triangle order, picked up a large book of modern French school that this re-jearried to the pitch of excess- patterns, thumbed them through maṛk was probably justified by the pride, ambition, and determiantion and turned to his tailor. "Beauti-practice of certain enthusiasts, Į inflated to the edge of the irra- ful things. Mr. - I' have them who professed at a glance to read|tional. all made up."

the character of their friends, and Queen Elizabeth had such a head. The Indian magnate was brought sometimes even went so far as She was able, determined, forceful to this tailor by the late Eugene Christopher North, who suggested and not over-scrupulous. Two Sandow, the strong man.

--maybe sareastically-that hu-hundred years later

we find in The meeting of the two men wasanity could be saved If the skull Napoleon Buonaparte precisely that curious. As a young man was massaged in infancy lato a mixture of the womanish oval with

Sir Dhanjibhoy had a

shape that accentuated good and the forceful avoid that we should poor physfque| and was threatened with consump-repressed evil tendencies.

expert of his mighty erratic genius. tion. He was sent to Sandow. who school of scientists is to con- The modern trend of the French

Lenia As Example centrate rather on general ten- dencies than on particular cases.

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restored him to health. inll we can say.

But when Mr. The China Mail

In gratitude he paid him hand- Somerset Maugham speaks of somely and bought him a the yea or nay of fate, of the house which is still known flong Kong. Friday, February 23, 1934 working of strange and ruthless Bomanji Hall.

forces that are beyond our con- trol, he seems to have in mind tndifferent eye-sight, and has To-day. Sir Dhunjibloy is 63, something more than mere interest in clothes. chance or accident-some force

Is It Luck?

It is

In a recent interview in Lon- that is working intelligently in don, Mr. Somerset Maugham, the and through all things. novelist and playwright, remark this thought which is expressed Hamlet's by Shakespeare in famous saying. "There's

Your Daily Smile.

And under a glass case in the Red Square at Moscow countless

Summing up the research of past pilgrims see the ovold head in its centuries. Dr. Desfosses, of Paris, perfection, sloping from the high, now suggests that human charac-gglike crown to the norrow, round- lost of categories and that each cate haster can be divided into a numbered of chin of Vladimir Ilyich

Ulianoff-known to history a Lenin. pory can be distinguished by the general shape of the face.

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ALTAR-CATION.

Old Car,"

Auto-biography.

The trapezoid head is carried on the shoulders of your steady, un imaginative man who goes placid- ly through life.

Some Famous Faces The tnost highly developed people usually have faces enst in the

He goes placidly, but he goes to form of rectangles and triangles. The perfect rectangle alist and practical. If your

where in particular. He is materi ¡denotes balanced judgment and firmness of character. As the up-

goes wrong, stop the first passer-by with a trapezoid hend; he will pro- wed-per portion of the hend is sacen-bably be able to put it right for

Intellectual

tuated

you.

car

hours qualities-while the lower denote Such are the main classes into

than ever convinced that, how there

no 'Buch thing "Did they have a quiet ever well equipped one may belluck or chance, but everything is ding?"

SO Are the the battle of life, one's ordered and planned for us. Yet "Yes. It was nearly two triumph or failure depends upon there are some who think our afterwards before they

are portents and fret quarrel."

had their the physical ones. A play very dreams

We all of us have grown used to which scientists put our heads. the yes or nay of fate."

the protuberant forehead and the But it must not be forgotten- running at the Court Theatre herein lie many strange coin-

cidences. Huddenly failed and had to bel

Man believes himself The Life-story of a Twenty-Year-firm jaw. The late Marshal Foch that many outside influences, like to be a sensible, rational being,

had such a balanced rectangular

climate, environment, and heredit taken off. There was another but we have only to watch his

face; in Oliver Cromwell the lowerary qualities and failings, also con- one due in six weeks, but what actions on the race-course to

part-the jaw-is accentuated; in tribute. was to be done in the interval? realise that "signs and portents"}

Beethoven the upper part is stress- These Influences have all had The management was in a dilem-have a significance for him not!

jed by a projecting forehead.

their sharo in forming, for exam- ma and had nothing to fill the far removed from that of the A woman is an expert car-driver The heads of Talleyrand, ple, a type of countenance familjar gap. Mr. Maugham heard of the days of the ancient Greeks and when she no longer closes her eyes Edison, Marconi, and Gladstone are among Englishmen of the upper

Or consider the lot-while backing the

class. It consists of pale blue eyes, predicament and presented his Romans. compliments-and "Lady Fre-teries and other get-rich-quick garage. derick." All his plays up to this temptations which surround us on time had been rejected, but now every side, appealing alike to our cupidity and our devotion at

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TRUSTING TO LUCK

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car out of the variations of the rectangle.

When the upper

or intellectual fair hair, broad forehead, incon part of the head is yet more ac-spicuous chin. It has endured un- centuated over the lower, the phy- allered through the centuries. me.jsical, part, we find the face of the You can and it in any Guards" Intellectual; and when each mess. And you can also find it,

HOW COLD SHET "My wife doesn't understand The succeeded in having this par- the shrine of the goddess of Does yours?" Iticular one produced. It not luck!

"Luck," after all, is only "Well, you know, she hardly only ran for six weeks, but it es- a word; and it is a very much knows you, does she, old chap?” tablished itself in public favour abused word. In every race

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feature is sharpened In the where I have seen it, in the coun- face by the stress of acute suffer- tenance of King Arthur as he was ing and experience we get the depicted 500 years ago in the statue typical countenance of the ascetic, that watches by the tomb of Em Take up a picture of Richelieu, peror Maximilian at Innsbruck, in Lord Chancellor Brougham, the Tyrol.

and ran for over a year. Mr. some horse must win; in every Oldest Joke But One Maugham pulled out other plays lottery, or other "easy-money" "Some people take two which had been lying, almost contest, some ticket or coupon each morning," says a doctor. One Francis Bacon, William Shake- forgotten, in his study, and dis- must be the successful one; and we suppose, on rising, and another posed of them without diffleulty, there is no need to imagine that while eating the breaking grape- and you will see at once the trian- | In a little while he was recognisare at work

"strange and ruthless forces" fruit.

If our knowledge

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speare, or Lord Allen of Hurtwood, WELL-KNOWN RIDER

ed as one of the foremost drama-of men goes for anything at all, tists of the day. The goddess we know that the undeserving j The Pacifist Version. of luck had smiled upon him, and partake of this easy money just Three sneers for the Red, White, cruci

and Blue.

WEDS.

Lt. Hope Married To Miss Campbell.

BORDERERS. OFFICER

gular cast of the thinker.

Then turn to any mediaeval! divine--the gentle St. Francia, the Torquemada, Savonarola, that amazing anachronism of the Middle Ages who convulsed Renals- Words of Wisdom

Bance Florence, and there you will Patient: Doctor, my wife com, see the deeply marked, sharpened plains that I talk in my sleep. triangle of he ascetic.

A pretty wedding took place at What do you suggest I should do?) Round heads, oval heads, St. John's Cathedral yesterday when

Doctor: Nothing

you hexagon heads, and heads-cast | Mina Vida Campbell, daughter of less in the shape of Dr. and Mrs. A. W. Campbell, was trapezoid are also shown to the married to Lt. James Webley Hope scientist. The oval, varying from S.W.B. the well-known steeplechase. la perfect round which tends to be rider

that

This fortune was made. The late as often as the deserving, ・ and Alfred Sutro, another famous the thriftless just as often as the playwright, has recorded that thrifty, and we see it dissipated he, too, had a somewhat similar almost as quickly as it comen experience. He had written a "easy come, easy go," as the old number of plays and had sub-jadage has it. Man people re mitted them to various manage main poor all their lives because ments without success. It was they are unable to

Bave their shouldn't. difficult for a new writer to get pepnies and their sixpences, but a hearing, much less a reading, raust for ever be trying their Facts You Did Not and he had to wait years before luck"; and it is strange that chance favoured him-chance, those who are more, thrifty and

Know. luck, or whatever we choose to stable and succeed in making a call it. "I believe in luck," says success of their lives should be automobile engines, a rail car that sometimes Mr. Maugham. "People, accuse dubbed "luck" · merely because

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me of being cynical or bitter, they have gone on working with carries 52 passengers has made a character. whereas I am simply trying to the hands and brains which God speed of 115 miles an hour on a set down my impressions of has given them, instead of trust-rallway near Paris strange and ruthless forces that Ing to the chance of a die or a are beyond our control” · · The coupon. In all walks of life-

High speed photography has will find It in the oval form in the MacLean. priceless Codex Sinaiticus, which in the course of business as well shown that golf balls are flattened countenances of our Stuart Princes,

Oval Faces Insipid But is occurs also in men-men of the irritable artistic type: you

Jinalpid, to an elongated ellipse, The Rov. J. N. Lewis Bryan, which betrays the nervous tempera-S.C.F. offefated, and the bride was Driven by four. 200 horsepower ment, is the mark of a womanly, given away by Lieut. Col."G, TA

womanish Raikes, D.8.0., omcer Commanding

the South Wales Borderers Regi ment Mr. J. L. Jordan performed the duties of best man and the stron of honour was Mrs. Gordon

The reception was held at the

Licut, and Mrs. Hope are spend mistakable in Charles L, who coming their honeymoon in Australia bined the bastiness, the swift and and England, electricity or aften unbalanced judgments, and

has now found a home in the as in art or letters there are on one side when struck with clubs, in varying degrees frein James I to Officers Mess, Murray Barrack. British Museum, would probably ups and downs, successes and resuming their spherical shape Bonnie Prince Charlie. It is un-

has

never have been discovered it fallures, accidents and mishaps; after they

Constantine Tischendorf had not there are "lucky" and "unlucky" been interested in turning over ones. The remarks which Mr.

Operated by

some old leaves which he dis- Maugham, applies to novel-writ- water power, a machine Invented the Irritability with the on- covered in a dust-bin at the ing and play-writing might just by an Italian for home use grinds thusiasm, loyalty, and devotion that monastery of St. Catherine, an easily be applied to any other wheat and converts it into bread, often make up the character of wo Fitzgerald'st translation of the calling. There is "fuck", in 'all almost automatically. Rubalyat⠀ of - Omar Khayyam of them. But we, shall com-

might have disappeared for ever monly find that the men who Boviet Russi

if Bossetti had not happened, to have the greatest talent, com- world's

| come across A BITRY Copy of it; bined with a capacity for hard of: min know

TOO MANY EXECUTIONERS

General Chiang Kai-shek, the Chinese: generalissimo,, anding But in the usual oval form, that there are too many unau found among women themselves, thorised executions, has issued a this shaped head shows sweetness circular to all military Judges. supplies of temper and gentle manner: putting them on their guard you see it in the idealised paint against possible miscarriages of fngs of the French eighteenth can-fustics.

There is no accounting for these work, have 'most of the "luck about 85 per cent of all imp things, they happen, and that is Luck is tili "half pluck,

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