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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 6, 1904)
1 3 Tke sweel and obedient profile I Your Face Changes Vfrtth AHMUNA, a Buddhist, who lias been visiting B New York, declared to the assembled ladies I of that city that be could read their thoughts I by the profile. " Your face changes with your mood, and your profile becomes stamped wltn good or bad. " I can tell at a glance," says Bahmuna, "what thoughts are In your mind. I know whether they are pure or evil. " The profile of a woman whose mind is filled with bad thoughts is sure to be. a sensuous one. Her lips will be too full, her nose will be drawn at the sides or too much inflated; her forehead will be filled with the wrong kind of lines, and she will have a look in her eyes which should not be there. " The envious woman Is still worse, for her profile is sure to be drawn down at the corners of the mouth. Her Hps are thin like a narrow line of red stretched across the face. The nose has a compressed look, and the eyes are sinister. The whole face has a sneering expression. ,3 Discontented, Melancholy Woman. " The profile of a discontented, melancholy woman Is ' difficult to read for the reason that It different on the op posite sides of the face. One eyelid is lifted higher than the other; one side of the mouth Is drawn down; even the nose has an uneven look as though she sniffed a great deal. " The profile of a woman who Is mercenary Is peculiar. The lips are always tightly compressed, with the upper lip drawn down long. The eyes are partly closed, as though she were calculating, an4 the forehead Is wrinkled between the eyes. The mercenary profile Is a hard one, showing that there Is little softness left In the woman. " Then there la the stupid profile. The eyes are shitty and the corners of both sides of the mouth are drawn down. S333C3333333S33333333333 Mysterious Sign Language of Italian Invites His Accomplice. if fo c- of V V 3 A A 5 f ' M J J L. L. I 1 F Thieve' Ideographic Alphabet. The Crab Ha Told AIL. "Cinalbil." A Veterlntry. A Teacher. A Drunkard. tYeino's Signature. That of a former sexton. I ? t A' Is th leader dead, and where is the murderer? Funereal Life of the n Tke entimeniaLpPcfiL Each cMood and the The cheeks are sucked In as though the teeth were parted, and the eyes are listless. The stupid profile may be pretty, but It Is never attractive. Madonna Profile the Best. " The best of all prortles is the pure profile. There are women whose side faces are positively Madonnalike. They are clear cut, true, and firm. There Is a certain something In the face of the Madonna which is not found In any other type of face. One painter described It as a certain fleshly look, as though the Madonna understood the world and its temptations, even though she were the purest of women., " The woman with the Madonna type of face has eyes over which the lids partly fall, but not sufficiently to veil their, straightforward gaie. She has full Hps that do not part. She has an oval chin, and she has level brows. When you find a woman with a Madonna profile you may be sure that she will be true and good. " As a rule, though, a big mouth is the sign of a good disposition. It is the tiny little mouth that can say spiteful things. The woman with a big mouth Is to be relied upon, especially If her teeth protrude. The big mouth woman with the distended teeth la the one who Is true at heart." If your profile is not all It ought to be, you can go to work and reform It. The profile Is not Immovable, as many persons seem to think, but, on the contrary. It can be decidedly In fluenced. You can change It so that It looks entirely dif ferent from the profile as It now Is. To change your profile take your defects first and remedy them. If your teeth protrude, have them straightened. Straightening the teeth Is not at all difficult these days. There come certain appliances which can be fixed upon the teeth In such a manner as to bring them into line with the By HE pictorial Instinct, so strong In criminals, Is an atavistic tendency. More elementary than writing, It has a firmer hold upon ths human organism, and criminals, whether edu cated or Illiterate, are moved to express plo torlally such facts, as known, which will serve for their defense, for the gratification of vanity, or for revenge. Some years ago, when I was visiting the prison of Turin, I was accosted by a strange person, who had been sentenced for stealing a watoh. Ha was a shoemaker, almost a dwarf, shaggy, with a flat head, projecting face, and little eyes. H gave me a scrap of cloth, which he had cut from his vest, and embroidered, and begged me to give It to the prosecuting attorney, who, upon seeing It, would certainly set him free. I took the object away with me, made a copy of it, and examined It at length. At the top of it he had embroidered after long consultation with his companions the word " Innocent Joseph," and because he was illiterate he at Uched to these symbols, which he did not understand, vast importance. Pictures Demonstrate ''Innocence." But the design which he had traced underneath was more curious. He intended it for a complete demonstration cf his written words. On one side was his accomplice, a lame man, who held in one hand the stolen watch and In the other an ugly looking stick, from which a poor devil was apparently fleeing. Between the two stood Joseph, with a fiagment of chain, in his band, the only thing which he had taken from tne victim. Above him was the sign ot his trade, two pairs of shoes. He explained to me excitedly that ho himself had taken only a little piece of chain that he had not, like his accomplice, stolen a gold watch. This was, he believed, sufficient reason for shortening his sentencn. He was confident that the Judge would order his release as soon as he saw his' strange communication. A few days later, when I took back to him in his cell the piece of cloth, and tried to persuade him that a petition thus formulated had little weight, he fell into a rage, and, tearing the thing up, threw the pieces in my face, threatening even to strike me. And no offer of money could induce him to do the work over again for me, so much Importance had he attached to that pictorial petition which had come to nothing. The fact that he regarded as declsivs in his favor elr- . cumstances which oould in no way be construed as extenuat ing his guilt implies a certain grade of mental and moral weakness. Yet be did not show that lack of common sens and moral sense so frequent among Instinctive criminals; and it is also Interesting to note that, though Illiterate, he at tached so much weight to the few written words which de clared his innocence, and with which, moreover, he attempted a confirmation of his pictures. A congenital weakness of thought caused in the man a resurrection of the atavlBtlo pictorial tendency when he did not know how to express him self in any other manner. Turn to Pictorial Expression. This peculiarity Is not, however, confined to the illiterate. Take the case of the soldier Seghcttl, murderer and deserter, who was condemned to be shot. Out of bravado he drew on the night before his execution the scene of the shooting, with himself as protagonist, fixed on the fatal seat, with the soldiers drawn up opposite. On another page he told in verse cf the same tragedy, showing thereby that he had no neerf ' of recourse to pictures. Prison wall and a number of prison dishes bear curious pictorial monuments which prisoners have erected lh glori PrUon. a Drawn on Wall. X The gentle jpe cf prolil I-.- i I: OOOOQs 333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333 CESARE LOMBROSO. fication of v their own exploits. One jar at Turin has en graved rudely upon it the story of a hunchback who stole a valise front a fellow boarder, was arrested, and taken be fore the Judge, Often more hideous crimes are depicted, but the favorite subject Is the funereal life of prison. When one has seen how the criminals, even when edu cated, feel instinctively a need of returning to the pictorial stage of humanity, it Is more easy to understand how he passes, also, through the stage of pictorial hieroglyphics so universally used by primitive humanity at the same period of development. Hieroglyphics are used today In the midst of our civilisation as they were among the redskins. They vary little in different countries. Ave Allemant In his work on slang has Included a few signals used by German vagrants; a key crossed by an arrow means a theft, so also an arrow with dice, and a gambler with false dice. By a row of hook fasteped to a line a thief signifies to a companion that he has passed with wife, children, and an accomplice. A short time ago was published the secret code of traveling English peddlers which showed by certain hieroglyphics which bouses to attempt and which to avoid. Understood by All Criminals. It was only by chance and after I had talked with thou sands of criminals that I found out what hieroglyphics are ir. use today. Two feathers crossed, and preceded by an ad dress and a date, indicate that a robbery Is to be committed ir such a house at such a date. A hanging cat means a safe robbery. A horseshoe signifies a doctor an allusion hardly complimentary to the blacksmith, A police captain Is designated by an entire face, bearded; a sergeant by the lower half of the face; and a policeman by the upper half of the faoe. A robbery in the country Is indicated by a bunch of grapes; a successful robbery is shown by a star and by a rose. This sign language is common In Naples and Sicily, where illiteracy Is the rule, and Its use Is based largely upon the current slang. But criminal hieroglyphics are not merely fragmentary. From the valuable collection which the cele brated Hans Oross discovered In the little Austrian city of Frlestadt, and which dated back to the Napoleonlo wars, when criminals were numerous In that frontier city, it ap pears that hieroglyphics are used by the Illiterate criminal classes as widely and commonly as we use slang in our ool . Joqulal speech. Signatures Revert to Totems. This mass of material reduces Itself to three principal groups. The most important of them, comprising 510 In stances out of 1,700, Includes the representations of robbers' names. This excessive use of signatures may be due to an ex aggerated sense of personality, or It may be an atav'sllo tendency similar to the practice common among the savages and among the old Egyptians, of representing the names of (he chiefs, ot the kings, of the tribes, of the totems. Or there may be in th name the more important Idea of recogni tion by an accomplice, or concealment from the authorities. Some of the hieroglyphics which stand for names are curious. That of " cannibal," a brigand who gained this name f-om some brutal adventure, was a big nose, and a bow with two arrows; a retired veterinary surgeon was designated by a horse's head; a schoolmaster by the figure ot a teacher; a diunkard by a mug of beer, or by a mug of beer surrounded Th Hunchback' Story Engraved on a PrUon Jar. ifflv4.(jeqrqe (jould ha3 Ike 1 1- M 0 fSil amDmoug Type ot prorue Impression Oft Repeated 'Becomes Permanent rest of the mouth. Instead of an Irregular, straggling row of teeth you can have teeth that are perfectly arched To accomplish this have them drawn In by pressure and then curved In pretty rows. Let your dentist mold them for you until they are pretty to look at. Half the broa'd noses are caused by a defect In the breath ing apparatus. Get your head and lungs, your throat, and your nose In good condition, and your looks will Improve as if by magic. Care of the Eyebrows. Sharp eyebrows never make a pretty profile. Get a small bottle of pure almond oil and put It In a dish of hot water. Let the water remain hot while you add a teaspoon of red vaseline to an ounce of the oil. Stir while it cools and you will have a soft pomade which Is Just the thing to use as an eyebrow grower. Take a small camel's hair brush and go over your eye brows every night. Outline the brows Just exactly as you like them to be. Next morning wash the face with hot water. Do this every night and you will be rewarded by abundant and pretty eyebrows. To treat the eyes successfully take a bowl of warm water say a pint of water and dissolve Into It a teaspoonful of powdered borax. Set the bowl where It will keep hot, and then bathe the eyes with the solution. Use it every night before going to bed. It Is said that the French beauties, those wonderful wom en with boundless chic, are the ones who prepare for bed slowly. It was said of a certain famous French beauty that It took her two hours to go to bed. The beauty of today, or the homely woman of today, ty an arrow; a noted brigand, Freino, by a head with a sword above it and with a cord about his neck. An ex-sexton was Indicated by a sickle and by a key. There were In the list 170 women's names. Nature Pictures Esthetic. Next come the Ideographic and pictorial groups, which must be the vestiges of the pictorial writings of antiquity; and. In many of these one finds evidences of genuine taste and of esthetic appreciation, especially In the representations of nature. Wonderful in Itself, this Is rarely to be found in the work of primitive peoples. Drawings of animals are done with a singular exactness which contrasts with the sim plicity of the lines that sketch them; but what Impressed me most, by their delicacy, were the Ideographic hieroglyphics representing spring, autumn, and winter; and the sensuous ress, so to speak, of the hieroglyphic for beauty, composed of a man's profile, and a vase of flowers, A hand with a wed ding wreath Is a sign of happiness. On the other hand, many of the semi-pictorial symbols used by thieves are marked by that cynicism which Imbues all their slang and their manner of feeling and thought. For the same reason simple symbols have always a dishonest oi bad meaning; a bookseller for a counterfeiter, a missal for a church about to be despoiled. Some of the characters have a humorous and a savage flavor about them at the same time; thus a heart signifies joy, a pair of shoes a long Jour ney, flags in a row mean that one will be pursued by many people, a cat In the road Is unhapplness, a trumpet signifies that all is known) scales, "divide the booty." Among the hieroglyphics are some the significance of which it is hard to see. There are lines and designs which appear conventional and can only be symbols reduced to their lowest terms. For example, a vertical line means " riead not guilty." An Inverted V means " arrested." A horizontal line stands for punishment and also for theft Evidently these lines are the vestiges of the feathers used In antiquity, reduced to a minimum. Sometimes the symbols have an Individuality about them. Thus one who has for his nlcknams ' The Crab," when he wishes to say In a letter. that he Jias confessed, draws a picture of a crab with Its antennas open, shows them closed when he has pleaded Innocent, and hall open when he has kept silence. Ideographs Make Entire Language. Thus with ideographic and phonetio signs one can weave an entire language, and give precise directions, helping out, if need b, by the letters of a cryptographal alphabet, or with arithmetic ciphers. In the Invitation to his accomplices Is told a whole story; The parrot Is the totem, or nickname, of a thief, so-called because of his loquacity; then there Is a sign of a church and a key; underneath there are three stones, piled UP, which alludes to St Stephen, the martyr, who was stoned to death, and whose day Is Dec. 20; then there Is a child In a bundle, which signifies the nativity. Translated, all this reads: " The thief called Parrot means to rob a certain church on the 20th of December, Here, where the drawing Is found, bis accomplices will meet him." But .the police happened to understand these symbols, and, hiding near the church, captured the burglars. It Is Interesting to note that the symbols are alike In dif ferent countries and among diverse peoples, evidently be cause they have a common psychological basis; such as, fot f xample, the heart for joy, nails for grief, a cat for disgtace, h snake for poison and revenge. In every way this use ot pictures and hieroglyphics Is the most certain corroboration ct the theory which makes atavism the basis of criminality. A i & H w rrtd and hiard before th court thras time (); pld not guilty (b) of highway robbery c which they had committed together (d), Would Ilk to know if be would hv another hearing Is) end If hi flv companion h) had be trayed h'm. Tby, together with mother pron (f. should b srrtd (g). A reply through th guard (1) I wa'td with anxiety (k). rl wko believed you and. cxirl who believes y 01 Iruelsou . could hot put In an hour hotter than at bedtime. If stir will take a full hour for the preparation of her face for the night she will be rewarded by a greater measure of beauty than she has ever before possessed. The wrinkles between the eyes and all women of 30 have this wrinkle must he massaged away. Then, ton. all the little querulous lines In the forehead must be brushed away with the finger tips. Beside this, the chin must be nicely massaged to keep away the crow's feet from around the mouth. How to Beautify the Face. Steaming the face Is a process best done at night Wet the face with hot water and let the skin become smoking hot, but not so hot as to blister it Don't allow the steam to play directly upon the skin, but apply hot cloths until the skin Is warm through. It takes a little practice to know just how hot the water should be. Now Is the time to wash the face well with soap and water. Only the best of soap should be used, and. for this purpose the highly advertised brands are generally best Shaving soap is pretty sure to be pure, and many women use It In preference. Wash the face thoroughly and rinse well. RinBlng Is Important. Finally, apply a little oald cream to the face, rubbing It well Into the skin. Next morn ing wash It off. This course of advice, if carefully followed, will certainly bring about Its own reward In an Increased degree of beauty. And particularly will It benefit the profile, for It la when seen In side view that facial defects are most plainly evident, Make your side face pretty. " Make It pure," the Brah min will tell you. And you will have added a certain at tractiveness to the face which It did not possess before, e3333S3S3333333333333 Criminals. Hieroglyphics of the Seasons. Spring. Autumn. Winter. The lesder is dead snd the murderer has etcaped. c The third house from her will be robbed st the next new moon. Whoever wish to hlp y to. You (s) who wer In prison, snd who, I know () are t free (b), to (dt to th shepherd () in hi hut If); you will And money hidden thars (), take It, and five to the prlton guard (h) fifty lira li) o he will com to an undrtndinf with m (k) and will t m fr (). The Defense of Innocent Joseph. Ml I COCO b jj i