Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1886 — Philosophy of the Forehead. [ARTICLE]

Philosophy of the Forehead.

A very retreating forehead, which is low and shallow, usually accompanies want of intellect. If slightly retreating, or what appears to be retreating from the fullest of the forms over the eyes, it signifies imagination, susceptibility, wit and humor. Slow persons, with dull intellect, have very projecting foreheads. Perpendicular foreheads, rather high and well rounded at the temples, rarely fail to go with solid understanding, powers of concentration and love of study. * A low, arched forehead, which is full at the temples, is indicative of sweetness and sensitiveness, and when combirretl with great fullness over the eyes gives an impressionable, idealistic nature. High, narrow, wholly unwrinkled foreheads, over which the skin is tightly drawn, show weakness of will-power and a lack of imagination or susceptibility. Foreheads not entirely projecting, but having knotty protuberances, give vigor of mind and harsh, oppressive activity and perseverance. Persons possessing poetic, ardent and sensitive natures not "unfrequently have a blue vein forming the letter “Y” in an open, smooth and low forehead. Perpendicular wrinkles between the eye-brows, when of equal length, signify anger, but if the wrinkles are of Unequal lengths they show deep thought and much concentration. Philadelphia News.