PACES.
A German professor has just elaborated tbe theory that nobody hiis n faco the two Bides of which are exactly alike. This he bases on tho wellknown fact of tho" asymmotry of tlio face of the Ycnus of Milo>" though he
goes on to. express it in language that -■ has not much relation to" tho beautiful and true," When Professor Hasse
. ' makes the statement that "our faces are all somewhat awry and distorted," that "the nose leans a littlo to tho right or to tho left." and that" tho man of the right eye is usually higher than that ol the left eye," he not only condesends to particulars in a perilous degree, but forfeits Vail title to the esteem of the fair sex. sry fact, however, of which he makes so much has been familiar to portrait . Bculptors for a long time, as ho might have ascertained by ut visit to any studio in three minutes, in place of boring it out by years of study, Indeed, ho might havo fou.id out tho same thing long ago if he had only been in the habit of paying somo attention to politics, and observed the dilloient sides of his face which Prince Bismarck is in tbe habit of presenting, say, to . Russia and Austria, But, then, readiness was never one of tho merits of " the German method, 1
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2975, 13 August 1888, Page 3
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