Chapter 34

THEIR EXPRESSION OF CHARACTER.--Thus, those who give a tame and loose hand, and shake lightly, have a cold, if not heartless and selfish disposition, rarely sacrificing much for others, are probably conservatives, and lack warmth and {476} soul. But those who grasp firmly, and shake heartily, have a corresponding whole-souledness of character, are hospitable, and will sacrifice business to friends; while those who bow low when they shake hands, add deference to friendship, and are easily led, for good or bad, by friends.

THE DISPOSITION AND CHARACTER BY THE MOUTH AND EYES.

1. DIFFERENT FORMS OF MOUTHS.--Every mouth differs from every other, and indicates a coincident character. Large mouths express a corresponding quantity of mentality, while small ones indicate a lesser amount. A coarsely-formed mouth indicates power, while one finely-formed indicates exquisite susceptibilities. Hence small, delicately formed mouths indicate only common minds, with very fine feelings and much perfection of character.

2. CHARACTERISTICS.--Whenever the muscles about the mouth are distinct, the character is correspondingly positive, and the reverse. Those who open their mouths wide and frequently, thereby evince an open soul, while closed {477} mouths, unless to hide deformed teeth, are proportionately secretive.

3. EYES.--Those who keep their eyes half shut are peek-a-boos and eaves-droppers.

4. EXPRESSIONS OF THE EYE.--The mere expression of the eye conveys precise ideas of the existing and predominant states of the mentality and physiology. As long as the constitution remains unimpaired, the eye is clear and bright, but becomes languid and soulless in proportion as the brain has been enfeebled. Wild, erratic persons have a half-crazed expression of eye, while calmness, benignancy, intelligence, purity, sweetness, love, lasciviousness, anger, and all the other mental affections, express themselves quite as distinctly by the eye as voice, or any other mode.

5. COLOR OF THE EYES.--Some inherit fineness from one parent, and coarseness from the other, while the color of the eye generally corresponds with that of the skin, and expresses character. Light eyes indicate warmth of feeling, and dark eyes power.

6. GARMENTS.--Those, who keep their coats buttoned up, fancy high-necked and closed dresses, etc., are equally non-communicative, but those who like open, free, flowing garments, are equally open-hearted and communicative.

THE DISPOSITION AND CHARACTER BY THE COLOR OF THE HAIR.

1. DIFFERENT COLORS.--Coarseness and fineness of texture in nature indicate coarse and fine-grained feelings and characters, and since black signifies power, and red ardor, therefore coarse black hair and skin signify great power of character of some kind, along with considerable tendency to the sensual; yet fine black hair and skin indicate strength of character, along with purity and goodness.

2. COARSE HAIR.--Coarse black hair and skin, and coarse red hair and whiskers, indicate powerful animal passions, together with corresponding strength of character; while fine or light, or auburn hair indicates quick susceptibilities, together with refinement and good taste.

3. FINE HAIR.--Fine dark or brown hair indicates the combination of exquisite susceptibilities with great strength of character, while auburn hair, with a florid countenance, indicates the highest order of sentiment and intensity of feeling, along with corresponding purity of character, combined with the highest capacities for enjoyment and suffering. {478}

4. CURLY HAIR.--Curly hair or beard indicates a crisp, excitable, and variable disposition, and much diversity of character--now blowing hot, now cold--along with intense love and hate, gushing, glowing emotions, brilliancy, and variety of talent. So look out for ringlets; they betoken April weather--treat them gently, lovingly, and you will have the brightest, clearest sunshine, and the sweetest, balmiest breezes.

5. STRAIGHT HAIR.--Straight, even, smooth, and glossy hair indicate strength, harmony, and evenness of character, and hearty, whole-souled affections, as well as a clear head and superior talents; while straight, stiff, black hair and beard indicate a coarse, strong, rigid, straight-forward character.

6. ABUNDANCE OF HAIR.--Abundance of hair and beard signifies virility and a great amount of character; while a thin beard signifies sterility and a thinly settled upper story, with rooms to let, so that the beard is very significant of character.

7. FIERY RED HAIR indicates a quick and fiery disposition. Persons with such hair generally have intense feelings--love and hate intensely--yet treat them kindly, and you have the warmest friends, but ruffle them, and you raise a hurricane on short notice. This is doubly true of auburn curls. It takes but little kindness, however, to produce a calm and render them as fair as a Summer morning. Red-headed people in general are not given to hold a grudge. They are generally of a very forgiving disposition.

SECRETIVE DISPOSITIONS.

1. A man that naturally wears his hat upon the top or back of the head is frank and outspoken; will easily confide and have many confidential friends, and is less liable to keep a secret. He will never do you any harm.

2. If a man wears his hat well down on the forehead, shading the eyes more or less, will always keep his own counsel. He will not confide a secret, and if criminally inclined will be a very dangerous character.

3. If a lady naturally inclines to high-necked dresses and collars, she will keep her secrets to herself if she has any. In courtship or love she is an uncertainty, as she will not reveal sentiments of her heart. The secretive girl, however, usually makes a good housekeeper and rarely gets mixed into neighborhood difficulties. As a wife she will not be the most affectionate, nor will she trouble her husband with many of her trials or difficulties.

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Dictionary of Medical Terms.

_Found in this and other works._

ABDOMEN--The largest cavity of the body, containing the liver, stomach, intestines, etc. ABNORMAL--Unhealthy, unnatural. ABORTION--A premature birth, or miscarriage. ABSCESS--A cavity containing pus. ACETIC--Sour, acid. ACIDITY--Sourness. ACRID--Irritating, biting. ACUTE--Of short duration. ADIPOSE--Fatty. ALBUMEN--An animal substance resembling white of egg. ALIMENTARY CANAL--The entire passage through which food passes; the whole intestines from mouth to anus. ALTERATIVE--Medicines which gradually restore healthy action. AMENORRHOEA--Suppression of the menses. AMORPHOUS--Irregular. ANÆMIA--Bloodlessness. ANÆSTHETICS--Medicines depriving of sensation and suffering. ANATOMY--Physical structure. ANODYNE--A remedy used for the relief of pain. ANTE-NATAL--Before birth. ANTEVERSION--Bending forward. ANTIDOTE--A medicine counteracting poison. ANTI-EMETIC--That which will stop vomiting. ANTISEPTIC--That which will prevent putrefaction. ANUS--Circular opening or outlet of the bowels. AORTA--The great artery of the heart. APHTHA--Thrush; infant sore mouth. AQUA--Water. AREOLA--Circle around the nipple. ASTRINGENT--Binding; contracting. AURICLE--A cavity of the heart. AXILLA--The armpit. AZOTE--Nitrogen. BACTERIA--Infusoria; microscopical insects. BICUSPID--A two-pointed tooth. BILE--Secretion from the liver. {480} BRONCHITIS--Inflammation of the bronchial tubes which lead into the lungs. CALCULUS--A stone found in the bladder, gall-ducts and kidneys. CALLOUS--A hard bony substance or growth. CAPILLARIES--Hair-like vessels that convey the blood from the arteries to the veins. CARBONIC ACID--The gas which is expired from the lungs. CARDIAC--Relating to the heart. CATARRH--Flow of mucus. CATHARTIC--An active purgative. CAUSTIC--A corroding or destroying substance. CELLULAR--Composed of cells. CERVIX--Neck. CERVIX UTERI--Neck of the womb. CHRONIC--Of long standing. CLAVICLE--The collar bone. COCCYX--Terminal bone of the spine. CONDIMENT--That which gives relish to food. CONGESTION--Overfullness of blood vessels. CONTUSION--A bruise. CUTICLE--The outer skin. DENTITION--Act of cutting teeth. DIAGNOSIS--Scientific determination of diseases. DIARRHOEA--Looseness of the bowels. DISINFECTANT--That which cleanses or purifies. DIAPHRAGM--Breathing muscle between chest and abdomen. DUODENUM--The first part of the small intestines. DYSPEPSIA--Difficult digestion. DYSURIA--Difficult or painful urination. EMETIC--Medicines which produce vomiting. ENAMEL--Covering of the teeth. ENEMA--An injection by the rectum. ENTERITIS--Inflammation of the intestines. EPIDEMIC--Generally prevailing. EPIDERMIS--Outer skin. EPIGASTRIUM--Region of the pit of the stomach. EPILEPSY--Convulsions. EUSTACHIAN TUBE--A tube leading from the side of the throat to the internal ear. EVACUATION--Discharging by stool. EXCRETION--That which is thrown off. EXPECTORANT--Tending to produce free discharge from the lungs or throat. FALLOPIAN TUBES--Tubes from ovaries to uterus. {481} FÆCES--Discharge from the bowels. FOETUS--The child in the womb after the fifth month. FIBULA--The smallest bone of the leg below the knee. FISTULA--An ulcer. FLATULENCE--Gas in the stomach or bowels. FLOODING--Uterine hemorrhage. FLUOR ALBUS--White flow; leucorrhoea; whites. FLUX--Diarrhoea, or other excessive discharge. FOMENTATION--Warm or hot application to the body. FRIABLE--Easily crumbled or broken. FRICTION--Rubbing with the dry hand or dry coarse cloth. FUMIGATE--To smoke a room, or any article needing to be cleansed. FUNCTION--The office or duty of any organ. FUNDAMENT--The anus. FUNGUS--Spongy flesh in wounds; proud flesh. FUSION--To melt by heat. GALL--Bile. GALL-STONES--Hard biliary concretions found in the gall bladder. GANGRENE--The first stage of mortification. GARGLE--A liquid preparation for washing the throat. GASTRIC--Of the stomach. GASTRITIS--Inflammation of the stomach. GELATINOUS--Like jelly. GENITALS--The sexual organs. GENU--The knee. GENUS--Family of plants; a group. GERM--The vital principal, or life spark. GESTATION--Period of growth of child in the womb. GLEET--Chronic gonorrhoea. GLOTTIS--The opening of the windpipe. GONORRHOEA--An infectious discharge from the genital organs. GOUT--Painful inflammation of the joints of the toes. GRAVEL--Crystalline sand-like particles in the urine. GUTTURAL--Relating to the throat. HECTIC--A fever which occurs generally at night. HEMORRHAGE--A discharge of blood. HEMORRHOIDS--Piles; tumors in the anus. HEPATIC--Pertaining to the liver. HEREDITARY--Transmitted from parents. HERNIA--Rupture which permits a part of the bowels to protrude. HYGIENE--Preserving health by diet and other precautions. {482} HYPERÆMIA--Excess of blood in any part. HYSTERITIS--Inflammation of the uterus. IMPREGNATION--The act of producing. INCISION--The cutting with instruments. INCONTINENCE--Not being able to hold the natural secretions. INFLUENZA--A disease affecting the nostrils and throat. INFUSION--The liquor in which plants have been steeped, and their medicinal virtues extracted. INHALATION--Drawing in the breath. INJECTION--Any preparation introduced into the rectum or other cavity by syringe. INSPIRATION--The act of drawing air into the lungs. INSOMNIA--Sleeplessness. INVOLUNTARY--Against the will. INTROVERSION--Turned within. JAUNDICE--A disease caused by the inactivity of the liver or ducts leading from it. JUGULAR--Belonging to the throat. KIDNEYS--Two organs which secrete the urine. LABIA--The lips of the vagina. LARYNGITIS--Inflammation of the throat. LARYNX--The upper part of the throat. LASSITUDE--Weakness; a feeling of stupor. LAXATIVE--Remedy increasing action of the bowels. LEUCORRHOEA--Whites; fluor albis. LIVID--A dark colored spot on the surface. LOIN--Lower part of the back. LOTION--A preparation to wash a sore. LUMBAGO--Rheumatism of the loins. MALARIA--Foul marsh air. MALIGNANT--A disease of a very serious character. MALFORMATION--Irregular, unnatural formation. MASTICATION--The act of chewing. MASTURBATION--Excitement, by the hand, of the genital organs. MATRIX--The womb. MECONIUM--The first passage of babes after birth. MEMBRANE--A thin lining or covering. MENOPAUSE--Change of life. MENSTRUATION--Monthly discharge of blood from the uterus. MIDWIFERY--Art of assisting at childbirth. MUCUS--A fluid secreted or poured out by the mucous membrane, serving to protect it. NARCOTIC--A medicine relieving pain and producing sleep. NEPHRITIS--Inflammation of the kidneys. NEURALGIA--Pain in nerves. {483} NORMAL--In a natural condition. NUTRITIOUS--A substance which feeds the body. OBESITY--Excess of fat or flesh. OBSTETRICS--The science of midwifery. OCULUS--The eye. OESOPHAGUS--The tube leading from the throat to the stomach. OPTIC NERVE--The nerve which enters the back part of the eye. ORGANIC--Having organs. OS--Mouth; used as mouth of womb. OSTALGIA--Pain in the bone. OTITIS--Inflammation of the ear. OVUM--An egg. OXALIC ACID--An acid found in sorrel, very poisonous. PALATE--The roof of the mouth. PALLIATIVE--To afford relief only. PALPITATION--Unnatural beating of the heart. PARALYSIS--Loss of motion. PARTURITION--Childbirth. PATHOLOGICAL--Morbid, diseased. PELVIS--The bony cavity at lower part of trunk. PERICARDIUM--Sac containing the heart. PERINÆUM--The floor of the pelvis, or space between and including the anus and vulva. PERITONITIS--Inflammation of lining membrane of bowels. PLACENTA--After-birth. PLEURA--Membrane covering the lungs. PLEURISY--Inflammation of the pleura. PREGNANCY--Being with child. PROGNOSIS--Prediction of termination of a disease. PROLAPSUS--Falling; protrusion. PROLAPSUS UTERI--Falling of the womb. PROSTRATION--Without strength. PRURITIS--A skin trouble causing intense itching. PUBERTY--Full growth. PUBES--External part of the organs of generation covered with hair. PUERPERAL--Belonging to childbirth. PULMONARY--Pertaining to the lungs. PULMONITIS--Inflammation of the lungs. PUS--Unhealthy matter. PUTRID--Rotten, decomposed. PYLORUS--Lower opening of the stomach. RECTUM--The lower portion of the intestines. REGIMEN--Regulated habits and food. {484} RETCHING--An effort to vomit. RETINA--Inner coat of the eye. RETROVERSION--Falling backward. RIGOR--Chilliness, convulsive shuddering. SACRUM--Bone of the pelvis. SALIVA--Fluid of the mouth. SALIVATION--Unnatural flow of saliva. SANATIVE--Health-producing. SCIATIC--Pertaining to the hip. SCROFULA--A constitutional tendency to disease of the glands. SCROTUM--The sac which encloses the testicles. SEDATIVE--Quieting, soothing. SEMEN--Secretion of the testes. SITZ-BATH--Bath in a sitting position. STERILITY--Barrenness. STIMULANT--A medicine calculated to excite an increased and healthy action. STYPTIC--A substance to stop bleeding. SUDORIFIC--Inducing sweat. TAMPAN--A plug to arrest hemorrhage. TONIC--A medicine which increases the strength of the system. TESTICLE--Gland that secretes the semen. THERAPEUTIC--Treatment of disease. TISSUE--The peculiar structure of a part. TONSILS--Glands on each side of the throat. TRACHEA--Windpipe. Triturate--To rub into a powder. TUMOR--A morbid enlargement of a part. ULCERATION--The forming of an ulcer. UMBILICUS--The navel. URETER--Duct leading from kidney to the bladder. URETHRA--Duct leading from the bladder. UTERUS--The womb. VAGINA--The passage from the womb to the vulva. VARICOSE VEINS--Veins dilated with accumulation of dark colored blood. VASCULAR--Relating to the blood vessels. VENA CAVA--The large vein communicating with the heart. VENOUS--Pertaining to the veins. VENTRICLE--One of the lower chambers of the heart. VIABLE--Capable of life. VULVA--Outer lips of the vagina. WOMB--That organ of the woman which conceives and nourishes the offspring. ZYMOTIC--Caused by fermentation.

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Alphabetical Index.

A broken heart, Page. 159-161 Abortion, or miscarriage, 253, 254 Adaptation, conjugal, affection, etc, 181-185 Advantages of wedlock, 135-137 Advice to the married and unmarried, 181-188 Advice to the newly married couples, 201-205 A good name, 18-20 Amenorrhoea, 355 Animal magnetism, 470 A perfect human figure, how to determine, 99 A plea for the girls, 380-389 Apoplexy, how to cure, 365 Associates, influence of, 11

Bad company, result of, 11 Bad breath and quinsy, how to cure, 365 Babies, how to keep well, 330-331 Bathing, practical rules for, 370, 371 Baths, all the different kinds of, 372, 373 Beauty, a dangerous gift, 27 Beauty, 91-94 Beauty, sensible helps to, 95, 96 Beautiful children, how to have, 288-290 Beginning of life, 5 Beware of idleness, 436 Beware of advertising quacks, 457 Biliousness, 357 Blackheads and flesh worms, 112 Bleeding, to check, 356 Bleeding, from the nose, 364 Boils, 364 Boys, save them, 390-394 Bruises or cuts, 360 Bunions, 364 Burns and sores, 355

Care of the hair, 107-110 Care of the new born infants, 315 Cases cited, 314 Cause of family troubles, 217, 218 Celebrated prescriptions and how to use them, 354-364 Celibacy, disadvantages of, 138 Character, exhibits itself, 15 Character, how to read, 473-478 Child in the womb, education of, 292-294 Child bearing without pain, 304-310 Chilblains, sprains, etc, 359 Children, too many, 229-231 Chapped hands, 355 Chicken pox, 346 Choosing a partner, sensible hints in, 165-169 Chastity and purity of character, 400-403 Cigarette smoking, the destructive effects of, 449-450 Cooking for the sick, 375-379 Confinement, special safeguards in, 299-301 Correspondence, 36 Conversation, 79-83 Conversation, home lessons, 80-83 Corset, benefit and injury, 101-103 Costiveness, 362 Courtship and marriage, hints and helps, 144-152 Conjugal affections and fatal errors, 181-185 Conception, prevention of, 240-245 Colic, 338 Constipation, how to cure, 339 Coughs and colds, 360 Croup, spasmodic and true, 342 Cramps and colic, remedies for, 356

Dangerous vices, 451-456 Deafness, cure for, 362 Dictionary of medical terms, 479-484 Diarrhoea, 363 Diphtheria, home treatment of, 346 Disinfectant, 360 Diseases of women, 348-350 Disposition, an easy going, ??? Diseases of infants and children, home treatment for, 338-347 Diseases, transmission of, 263-265 Diseases of pregnancy, 274-281 Doses, of disease and death, 441-444 Dress, 88-90 Dress, diet, and exercise during pregnancy, 304-310 Duration of pregnancy, 295 Dyspepsia, cure of, 360

Education of child in the womb, 292-294 Eruption of the skin, 111, 112 Etiquette, rules on, 49-54 Etiquette of calls, 56 Etiquette in your speech, 57 Etiquette of dress and habit, 58 Etiquette on the street, 59 Etiquette between sexes, 60 Expectant mother cautioned 284 Exciting the passions in children, 404, 405 Eye wash, 355

Falling of the womb, 350 Family troubles, cause of, 217 Family, government, 76-78 Facial eruptions, how to cure, 111-112 Feeding a baby on cow's milk, 329 Felons, how to treat, 364 Female character, influence of, 30 {486} First love, desertion, etc., 185 Films and cataracts of the eyes, 355 Flirting and its dangers, 190, 191 Fleshworms, etc., 112 Form and deformity, 98-103 Foreign bodies in the eye, to remove, 358 Former customs among men, 162-163 Formation of life, mystery of, 238, 239 Food, digestibility of, 374 Friends, procure none in haste, 12

Generative organs--Male and female, 234-237 Good behavior, at all times and places, 49 Good character, influence of, 73, 74 Gout, cure for, 362 Guard modesty, 210

Habit, 17 Hair, the care of, 107-110 Headache, sick, cure for, 355, 360 Health, a duty, 7 Heartburn, 357 Heredity and transmission of diseases, 263-265 Hints and helps on good behavior, 49 Hints in choosing a partner, 165-169 Hives, cure for, 354 Home power, 23-25 Honeymoon, how to perpetuate, 209 Home lessons in nursing sick children, 325-328 Home treatment of the secret habit, 455-456 Hot water, how to use in all diseases, 368-369 How to keep the bloom and grace of youth, 97 How to be a good wife, 210-212 How to be a good husband, 212-215 How to feed infants, 329 How to keep a baby well, 330-335 How to apply and use hot water in all diseases, 368, 369 How to mesmerize, ??? How the mind speaks through the nerves and muscles, ??? How to cook for the sick, 375-379 Human magnetism, effects of, ??? Human figure, a perfect, 99-100 Hygienic laws, 406-408

Ignorance, coarseness, etc., 24 Illustrations, ??? Immorality, disease and death, 416-419 Impotence and sterility, 248-251 Improvement of offspring, 222-227 Impregnation, 269 Impregnation, artificial, 270 Infant teething, 336, 337 Infants, feeding, 319 Infants, care of, 315-320 Influence of good character, 73-74 Inhumanities of parents, 396-399 Intoxication, 355 Infants, care of during hot weather, 332-335 Infantile convulsions, 319, 320 Influence of associates, 11 Influence of female character, 30 Indigestion, symptoms of, 328 Inward graces, 28

Jealousy, its cause and cure, 219-221

Kidneys, the object lessons, 447 Knowledge is safety, 3

Labor, time of expected, 295-298 Labor, signs and symptoms of, 297, 298 Leucorrhoea, 349 Lessons of caution to young women, 380 Letters, how to write, 34-47 Letters, social forms of, 39-43 Life, beginning of, 5 Liver and kidneys of a drunkard, 446, 447 Lock and key, 4 Longevity, 367 Love, 114-120 Love letters, forms of, 44-47 Love power, the peculiarities of, 118 Love, connubial, 122 Love and common sense, 123, 124 Love spats, 154-157 Lost manhood restored, 459, 460 Lungs and heart of a cigarette smoker, 448, 449

Maidens, a word to, 192 Male and female generative organs explained, 234-237 Manhood wrecked and rescued, 461-463 Man, a careless being, 32 Mashed nails, 358 Men, prostitution of, 427-429 Maternity, preparation for, 266, 267 Marriage, history of, 132-134 Marriage securities, 174-177 Matrimonial pointers, 170-173 Menstruation, 351-353 Mother's influence, 21 Morning sickness, 282 Mumps and measles, 345 Murder of the innocents, 255-257 {487} Nervous, disability, remedy for, 356 Nervous headache, 356 Neuralgia, 356, 360 Newly married couples, advice to, 201-205 New revelation for women, 246, 247 Nocturnal emissions, 457 Nursing, pains and ills of, 321-324 Nursing sick children, 325-328

Object lessons of the effects of alcohol and cigarette smoking, 445-450 Offspring, improvement of, 222-227 Old maids, 140-143 Our secret sins, 409-413 Ovum, ripe from the ovary, 238