Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1897 — THE CHIN AS AN INDEX. [ARTICLE]

THE CHIN AS AN INDEX.

Can Yon Tall n Person's Character by »h» Shape »f Hia Lower Jnw? A writer In the St. Louis Clinique, writing of the chin as an Index of character, says; "Protruding chins characterize men and women of the get-there type. Successful i>oople usually carry their chins thrust forward, with compressed lips. This chin, If heavy, with broad rami ajid swelling masseters, Indicates fighting blood. "A retreating chin shows lack of force, mentally, morally and physically; usually of the yielding sort; soon discouraged; desires protection; small executive force. The development of other faculties often makes up for this defect. A small, well-rounded chin, with mobile and red cushion of flesh upon, indicates a pleasure-loving owner. If dimpled, all the more so, for dimpled chins belong to coquettes. People with dimples love to be petted and loved; like admiration and praise. Generally fickle. Usually this chip is healthy, recuperative and long-liye<l. “Broad chins signify nobleness and large dignity, unless vertically thin, when, if with it there be thin lips of bloodless kind, you find cruelty. “Square chins with little flesh denote firmness and executive ability. These make good haters. "Drunkards usually have a circular line about tlielr chins. “Slovens have wrinkles about their chins. “Long, thin chins are poetical, unstable and delicate in constitution. Such people are subject to bowel derangements. If thin through the angles of the mouth, too, they are prone to tuberculosis. Generally short-lived. “Medium chins, with a suggestive bifurcation in the center, with small mounds of flesh on either side, characterize generosity, impulsiveness, cheery natures. (The same sized chins, with a dab of flesh just under the center of the lower lip, indicate meanness, selfishness, brutality.) “No one feature can be taken in judging character. Of ten; 1 development of other faculties of mind or feature entirely governs. In each ease take the ‘totality of indications’ before judg. ing.”