MUSCULAR ACTION AND DIRECTION OF HAIR 73 



A Side-issue. 



This conclusion brings me to the piece of gratuitous advice 

 I offer to the unmarried reader. It will be more likely to appeal 

 to the woman than the man, I believe. Let such an one who is 

 contemplating matrimony make a short study of wrinkles and the 

 long hairs if possible — unfortunately she cannot do this of her 

 prospective mate if he be at all young, for neither of these features 

 will be pronounced as yet. I recommend instead a study of the 

 wrinkles and hairs of the father and mother and a deliberate sum- 

 ming-up of the evidence in this way. If she wishes to have a 

 cheery, genial, hopeful companion inlifelike B. W. (Fig. 26) let her 

 seek as many arched wrinkles in his parents as possible and avoid 

 very deep vertical wrinkles. If she be herself of that disposition 

 she will want a mate of different qualities and may venture on one 



Fig. 29.— B. F. cet 52. 



Hairs : On both sides much twisted downwards, producing shelf over eye. 

 Wrinkles : None on forehead ; strongly-marked concentric orbital wrinkles 



on both sides. 



whose balance of family wrinkles inclines to the vertical, see Fig. 28, 

 R. N. She can risk that, and perhaps get a more capable and 

 strenuous comrade in life's battle. But let her beware of him 

 whose wrinkles are all of the vertical kind ; for he will be thoughtful, 

 moody, abstracted and not too good-tempered. I would rather 

 myself join my fortunes to one who could claim a large share of 

 arched wrinkles. 



After this digression, which follows logically on the facts 

 and arguments of this chapter I am now in a position to affirm 

 that changes in the direction of the hair in the individual can be 

 caused by muscular action. 



