ARE ROUND-FACED WOMEN STUPID?

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 98, 22 May 1909, Page 4

ARE ROUND-FACED WOMEN STUPID?

YES. ALSO FALSE AND FICKLE, SAY THE .SCIENTISTS. That cruel person, the scientist, has hcen saying horrid things about the round-faced 'woman. He says she is more prone than'the rest of her sex to deceit, that site is false, fickle, and, what the round-faced woman will resent moro than all else, that she is stupid. •He avers that when the round face is surrounded 'by a frame of curling hair its owner is more than ever impossible, because to all her other faults' she adds caprieiousness. He warns all young men against making round-.faced girls their ■wives.

Fo r intellect, for loyalty, for steadfastness of character," ho recommends Hint person scorned liy nil beauty-lovers, the hatchet-faced woman. Students of lininnii nature other than scientists who ar« (|ualilied to express their opinions' have also been discussing the merits and demerits of the roundfaced woman. A famous lady phrenologist states that the round-faced woman, with the vital temperament and the bright snide, is the type that attracts men. The reason is that men assume that such a woman is loving and docile. In a great degree they are right. That sort of woman lias a nose a little sunken at the middle of- the bridge, wide at the nostrils, and inclined to turn. up. That is the gentle, yielding nose, ft is the nose that always marries. lint if there were more equality of gifts the marriage would he more likely to he happy. For instance, take the marriage of Carlylc. Mrs. Carlylc married him expecting to help him in his work. She was not permitted to, and the result was unhappiness. STROXCI LTXES SHOW CHARACTER. An artist of repute, whose speciality

is the drawing of women's' faces, favors the sqnare-faced womau. Xot that her face should be literally square, but that it follows those lines rather than a circle or oval.

Tho Greeks had such faces, and their characters had strength as well as beauty. Strong lines indicate strong character. Besides, the round-faced woman is more apt to be deceitful than is the squareJaeed one. Her tendency is to move along the lines of least resistance, and if that line happens to be a lie--well, she lies. This latter view falls to the ground! when we consider the opinion of a medi-j eal man whose professional experience, would give him a deeper insight into human nature. Ho avers that mentally, round-fared girls arc optimists, loving m disposition, light-hearted, very rarely deI pi-es'sod, and often creatures'of impulse. They are also unselfish, and make kood. .jovial companions. One writer says of them: "They usually have more elas-' ticity than firmness, more diligence than ■persistency, more brilliancy than depth.'', Tflo answer to tTie query, says n famous sculptor, is found in the faces of the Madonnas. They are all round, or, at least, oval. Study the Madonnas, especially Leonardo da Vinci's in the group called The Holy Family, and you will sec the supreme type of the good wife. The good wife presupposes the good mother, and Hie round or oval-faced woman suggests a loving maternity. SOFT LITTLE I'EUSO.V IS A HANDICAP.

A keen student of human nature, and one who thoroughly understands women, expresses her views ill the following Jianuer:

Tliu round-faced woman is better /laturcd. No one will deny that. Hut her face must have planes, nr she will In' i'ns'iphl. A mini wants mi amiable wife, but ho doesn't want to lTt- bored. To lie n true companion a woman must haw intcllig"" il character. Both arc indicated liv lines, not liy curves.

The rounded contour is good. Accompanied by features with a line slant, to indicate decision I brain, such a fave is an index of a well-moulded character, 'flu- owner .should make an ideal wife.

The tired man likes to go home where he will be made comfortable and where he ( forget his troubles. There are detail* connected with his business or profession whieh he should not take Inline with him.

Mut in (he crises of his life when lie needs a Jricnd the soft little persin with amiability and no utile,- asset is not a helpmeet. She is a handicap. In conclusion, the views of a popular 'playwright, who, iu the course of his professional career, has |, a d hushes.-' transactions with a great majiv women, may prove of iulerc-t.

I He states that if a man wants onlv nniin'liility in liis household he can have that by keeping a cat. The cat will purr when pleased. So with the round-faced •woman. She typifies amiability, but she doesn't always practise it. p Hut I am convinced that no man of ambition wants a merelv amiable wife. Ambit ion and amiability do not mate. He want-' a woman who loves him well enough to he teinle r upon occasion, but he wants as much or more a comrade, an intelligent woman who understands and sympathise- with his aims. This the woman with the long, oval face or even tfie desniseil "hatchet" face, is more apt to do.—Pearson's Weekly.