Kallos : a treatise on the scientific culture of personal beauty and the cure of ugliness / by a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.

Date:
1883
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Credit: Kallos : a treatise on the scientific culture of personal beauty and the cure of ugliness / by a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    CHAPTER XX. TRICKS AND HABITS. These ai-e usually more or less disfiguring. How mucli so, is only fully seen wLen they make ridiculous and mar the effect which should be produced by some highly gifted and trained public character, whether on the stage, in the pulpit, or in the senate. To enumerate them all would be impos- sible, for their variety is as infinite as the perverse ingenuity or circumstances of man can make them. But some are ^particularly common, and deserve to be named. They are:— Movements of the features expressive of emotions which are not really felt. For ex- ample, raising the eyebrows when listening to a statement incapable of exciting any astonishment, or, iudeed, Avhen the mind is perfectly vacant at the time; or knitting the