Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1912 — HARD TO READ FACES [ARTICLE]

HARD TO READ FACES

ONE NEVER CAN BE SURE OF Hltj JUDGMENTS. vSI .V**?*?’ Y . , j- "'V Facial Expression la CoMtimEM Chanqinfl and Correctly to Detß® mine Character From It la Fine and Intricate Art. §||| The living face in its relation to real character might be likened toJßjg expert Juggler manipulating the vars-J ous articles of his mystic trade. Ex- | cept in moments of revery or abstrao- ) tion the expression ie constantly cWfi glng; it scarcely remains the same for five consecutive seconds. It is a ease of 1 "Now you see me, and now ydu dontX?|:; and it is extremely difficult to dedeM mine when you may be catching ig| glimpse of the real character, ghfM when the fleeting expression may be a ; misleading token, involuntary, J*f|| haps, on the part of the individual, but ] cunningly calculated by nature to dml ceive the eye of the spectator.. JjOS j Hence the genuine ability to character” in facial expression is muollij rarer than is commonly supposed. , is not only a fine art but an intricate one. Most persons who fancy thaO they possess it in some degree are ) really proceeding upon a sort of blind j instinct, which is likely to be deceived ) entirely by superficial Indi cation*.i The accurate judges of men are «m| tremely scarce; their gift is one should invariably lead them to cess if they are blessed with half an J opportunity. The appraisal of character by pb»i| tographic evidence may be as erroneous as that which is based on the) living face, but at least the photograph gives opportunity for continu«Sl ous study and shows none of thoseg shifting moods which are sure to con«gj fuse the Judgment. The camera}’ catches its subject as he or she may'| appear at the given moment It may 1 be an inopportune moment the camera, | may be a poor one, there may be fta fault in the plate, or the photographnO may lack skill, but something of the true soul and character of the subjedt|| is bound to appear on the surface and’ to stand revealed to all who see it 3 The truth may be somewhat quaii-J fled by the fact that the average person in front of the camera is invarf»\l ably more or less self-conscious, but-1 in general effect the dominant quaflA| ties are at least partially revealed, that in almost any photographic portrait one may see strength of character, vanity, self-esteem, nobility, g meanness, fussiness, unscrupulousnesel or what not, as the case may be. When photographs are “reproduced” by half-tone process the essential facts of the physiognomy are sometimes ob- S scured, especially in the hurried proeg| esses of newspaper portraiture. in all but the most atrocious examples of such art, these essential facts show through, even if it be with but a dim glow.—Providence Journal. ~