and lips vermilion; her teeth are well-set, white, and bright; and her ears are large, thick, and pink in colour. (3) A woman of the meanest sort is low in stature, round, and corpulent; her face is flat; the hair coarse and thick at the borders, which are irregular and angular over the forehead; the eye-brows are low and covered with thick down; the eyes are round and turn down at the corners; the ears are small and almost without ear-lobes, appearing as if they had been pasted on; the nose is flat and retroussé; the mouth is large, and the cheek-bones are low and laterally protruding; the arms and legs are short; the teeth irregular; and the voice is hoarse. Though many Japanese may take exception to thin-slit eyes in a beautiful woman and prefer large ones, there can be no two opinions regarding the physiognomy of the very mean woman.
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THE PROFESSOR OF CHIROMANCY.
Palmistry is as popular as physiognomy. The left hand is examined in a man and the right in a woman. Long fingers are signs of dexterity, and short ones the reverse. The nails should be long. The shape of the thumb determines one’s relations to one’s father; that of the index fin-