New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . MIllTHFULNESS IN THE EYE 235 Bons for it—by showing that it is not wrong, though it mayappear so to another. MIRTHFULNESS IN THE EYE. Mrs. Barrett Browning speaks of one whose eyes Smiled constantly, as if they had by fitnessWon the secret of a happy dream she did not care to speak; and Mrs. Osgood describes Laughing orbs that borrow irom azure skies the light they wear. Every one recognizes the mirthful expression referred to, butit would be difficult
New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . MIllTHFULNESS IN THE EYE 235 Bons for it—by showing that it is not wrong, though it mayappear so to another. MIRTHFULNESS IN THE EYE. Mrs. Barrett Browning speaks of one whose eyes Smiled constantly, as if they had by fitnessWon the secret of a happy dream she did not care to speak; and Mrs. Osgood describes Laughing orbs that borrow irom azure skies the light they wear. Every one recognizes the mirthful expression referred to, butit would be difficult to describe it so far as it afiects the eyealone. The actionof the eyelids insuch cases is, how-ever, susceptible ofillustration. In laughing (andin crying also), theouter circle of theround muscle (or-bicularis^ fig. 166,Chap. VIII.) of theeyelid contracts,gathering up theskin about the eye,and at the sametime compressingthe eyeball. Thephysiological rea-son for this is, that. Fig. S41.—Laughtbb. during every violent act of expiration, whether in hearty laugh-ter, sneezing, coughing, or weeping, there is apparently a ret-rograde impulse imparted to the blood in the veins, whichnot only extends the vessels, but is even regurgitated into theminute branches; and were the eye not properly compressedat the time, and an efficient resistance o:iven to the shock its 236 ABOUT THE EYES. delicate textures miglit be irreparably injured. Fig. 341 showsthe appearance of the eyelids and contiguous parts in a personconvulsed with laughter. Among the noticeable traits exhib-ited are several furrows or wrinkles running outward and down-ward from the corners of the eyes, as if to meet those whichturn upward from the angles of the mouth. These wrinkles,where the action that primarily causes them is habitual, be-come permanent lines, and are infallible indications of largeMirthfulness, PROBITY. The wrinkles observed in some faces running outward andupward from the corners of
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