Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1889 — Have You a Double Chin? [ARTICLE]

Have You a Double Chin?

The great justification of the double chin rests, of course, on its unrivaled ralue as an index of character—and filch a character! It is really nature’s patent with nobility. This was long ; ago discerned by the great master ol physiognomy. It is not difficult to divine wjiat Lavater thought of a double ?hin. He carefully points but that man differs from the animals chieflj by his chin, laying it down as an axion th it the chin is the distinctive characteristic of humanity; consequent!} double chinned people are doubiy differentiated from the beasts that perish, which is greatly to their credit. He expressly takes for his model of “the thinker, full of sagacity and penetration,” a man with a fleshy double chin, coupled with a nose rounded at the end. The portrait he gives is evea better than the letter press, as the gentleman is limned ivith at least five china, so that his lower jaw was a vista of magnificent distances, like Washington. This happy physiognomy of the double chin, coupled with the rounded nose, characterizes, he tells us, th< mind which can rise to heights and which follows its designs with reflecting firmness, unalloyed by obstinacy. Let, therefore, those with double china ' rejoice, whether they possess rounded jioses or not, and quote Lavater ia gratitude.