THE FACE VALUE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 693, 19 June 1929, Page 8

THE FACE VALUE

A physiologist, writing to a paper, says that every pursuit whether business or pleasure, writes itself clearly in the faces of its foilowers. But in each case there Js * developmental difference in the face marks,—News item. The Sun has pleasure in announcing that it has obtained the exclusive services of Madame Zenobia. the eminent physiologist, philatelist anti philemupist. of Cox”s Creek, who will (perhaps) write a series of powerful articles entitled “Facing the Future,” or “A Mug's Game.” Below we print the first of Madam e Zenobia’s articles:

Have you ever taken a quick glance at yourself in the mirror, friend, and then, after hurriedly turning out the light, wondered bitterly what it all meant? Would you have guessed that your vacation, hobbies and pleasures had all stamped themselves indelibly on your physiognomy*? [‘Meaning face.] If you are a boxer, would you guess that your profession shows itßelf in your countenance? If you are a contortionist, would you dream that your affliction, is luminously indicated on your lineaments? If you are a footballer, would you imagine for one instant that your sport (or your opponent’s foot) is stamped all over yonr facade? Certainly you would. But did you know that by changing your job or hobby, exercising much patience and taking my admirable correspondence course—“Fhiz Faking” —that there is hope for you; that yon can change your face? You didn't? Oh, well . . . A man came to me some years ago for a consultation. He crept in almost in tears, his face hidden under a red cloth, and begged pitifully for me to save him.

“Madame,” he pleaded, “is it right that a man’s job alters and moulds his face until it corresponds to his vocation?” I shuddered and told him the dreadful truth. “Then,” he screamed, “there Is no hope for me!” and fainted. That man, gentle reader, was a City Councillor! But I took him in hand, made him reform and break from his old associates and haunts, and now he is considered by many to be the third bestlooking commercial traveller in the Central Otago district!

Just as you can tell a prune by its wrinkles, a potato by its eyes and a cauliflower by its ear, so it is possible to tell a person’s pursuits by his physiognomy, and in my next article X will point out the facial characteristics of politicians, dentists, men who wear tartan socks and alleged humorists. [The second article of this series has been cancelled owing to its morbid tendency.—Ed.].