When it is the fault of a face to contain too much blue and yellow, then green is used.

It is necessary to observe that the linings of bonnets reflect their colour on the face, and transparent bonnets transmit that colour, and equally tinge it. In both these cases, the colour employed is no longer that which is placed around the face, and which acts on it by contrast, but the opposite. As green around the face heightens a faint red in the cheeks by contrast, so the pink lining of the bonnet aids it by reflection.

Hence linings which reflect, are generally of the tint which is wanted in the face; and care is then taken that these linings do not come into the direct view of the observer, and operate prejudicially on the face by contrast, overpowering the little colour which by reflection they should heighten. The fronts of bonnets so lined, therefore, do not widen greatly forward, and bring their colour into contrast.

When bonnets do widen, the proper contrast is used as a lining; but then it has not a surface much adapted for reflection, otherwise it may perform that office, and injure the complexion.

Understanding, then, the application of these colours in a general way, it may be noticed, that fair faces are by contrast best acted on by light colours, and dark faces by darker colours.

Dark faces are best affected by darker colours, evidently because they tend to render the complexion fairer; and fair faces do not require dark colours, because the opposition would be too strong.

Objects which constitute a background to the face, or which, on the contrary, reflect their hues upon it, always either improve or injure the complexion. For this and some other reasons, many persons look better at home in their apartments than in the streets. Apartments may, indeed, be peculiarly calculated to improve individual complexions.

EXTERNAL INDICATIONS OF MIND.

External indications as to mind may be derived from figure, from gait, and from dress.

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As to figure, a certain symmetry or disproportion of parts (either of which depends immediately upon the locomotive system), or a certain softness or hardness of form (which belongs exclusively to the vital system), – certain delicacy or coarseness of outline (which belongs exclusively to the mental system),—these reciprocally denote a locomotive symmetry or disproportion, - or a vital softness or hardness,-or a mental delicacy or coarseness, which will be found also indicated by the features of the face.

These qualities are marked in pairs, as each belonging to its respective system; for, without this, there can be no accurate or useful observation.

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As to gait, that progression which advances, unmodified by any lateral movement of the body, or any perpendicular rising of the head, and which belongs exclusively to the locomotive system, — or that soft lateral rolling of the body, which belongs exclusively to the vital system, or that pependicular rising or falling of the head at every impulse to step, which belongs exclusively to the mental system, - these reciprocally indicate a corresponding locomotive, or vital, or mental character, which will be found also indicated by the features of the face.

To put to the test the utility of these elements of observation and indication, let us take a few instances. If in any individual, locomotive symmetry of figure is combined with direct and linear gait, a character of mind and countenance not absolutely repulsive, but cold and insipid, is indicated. If vital softness of figure is combined, with a gentle lateral rolling of the body in its gait, voluptuous character and expression of countenance are indicated. If delicacy of outline in the figure, be combined with perpendicular rising of the head, levity, perhaps vanity, is indicated.—

But there are innumerable combinations and modifications of the elements which we have just described. Expressions of pride, determination, obstinacy, &c. are all observable.

The gait, however, is often formed, in a great measure, by local or other circumstances, by which it is necessary that the observer should avoid being

misled.

Dress, as affording indications, though less to be relied on than the preceding, is not without its value. The woman who possesses a cultivated taste, and a corresponding expression of countenance, will generally be tastefully dressed; and the vulgar woman, with features correspondingly rude, will easily be seen through the inappropriate mask in which her milliner or dress-maker may have invested her.

EXTERNAL INDICATIONS OF HABITS.

External indications as to the personal habits of women are both numerous and interesting.

The habit of child-bearing is indicated by a flatter breast, a broader back, and thicker cartilages of the bones of the pubis, necessarily widening the pelvis.

The same habit is also indicated by a high rise of the nape of the neck, so that the neck from that point bends considerably forward, and by an

elevation which is diffused between the neck and shoulders. These all arise from temporary distensions of the trunk in women whose secretions are powerful, from the habit of throwing the shoulders backward during pregnancy, and the head again forward, to balance the abdominal weight; and they bestow a character of vitality peculiarly expressive.

The same habit is likewise indicated by an excess of that lateral rolling of the body in walking, which was already described as connected with voluptuous character. This is a very certain indication, as it arises from temporary distensions of the pelvis, which nothing else can occasion. in consequence of this lateral rolling of the body, and of the weight of the body being much thrown forward in gestation, the toes are turned somewhat inward, they aid in the indication.

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Other effects of child-bearing are indicated admirably in Plate XVIII.

The habit of nursing children is indicated, both in mothers and nursery maids, by the right shoulder being larger and more elevated than the left.

The habits of the sempstress are indicated by the neck suddenly bending forward, and the arms being, even in walking, considerably bent forward or folded more or less upward from the elbows.