TWO-FACED PEOPLE.

Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 160, 25 November 1926, Page 7

TWO-FACED PEOPLE.

Flat fish, excepting only the halibut, f 1 have both their eyes upon one side of i their head, and perhaps, if we lay al- j ways in bed and always on the same j side, our eyes would develop in similar fashion. Even as it is, our faces j are curiously asymetrical, a fact which ; .was strongly impressed upon me by a * recent visit to the photographer. i 1 “ Turn your head to the left,” he I j instructed me after a brief inspection, j j and each photograph was taken from j that point of view. Of course I do- ( sired to know why, whereupon he ex- t plained that he had yet to meet the l individual whose face looked the same from both sides (says “One of Them’ 7 !i in the London Daily Mail). “ The difference in the two sides is j s extraordinary,” he said. “In the first [ sl&ce, the nose is hardly ever quite j t straight, and, in the second, the eyes j j vary very greatly. In your own case, l j the right eye appears distinctly larger c

than the left, while the arch of the two eyebrows is quite different. The apparent difference in eyes is usually caused by one lid dropping lower than the other, but sometimes the eyes themselves vary considerably. The irises ,for example, are often different in size.” An artist friend supports the photographer. “ The two sides of any face are never exactly alike,” he stated. “ The classic instance is that of the Venus of Milo. The upper part of the face is far from symmetrical. The nose inclines a trifle to the left; the left ear is higher than the right, -while the left eye is not only higher than the right but also nearer to the middle line of the face.” You will find similar differences in all classic statues, a fact which proves what careful observers were the great sculptors of antiquity. Occasionally the difference between the two sides of a face so great that portraits taken from different angles give the impression of two quite different individuals.