the Amateur Two instances have occurred reently which may illustrate what we fried to outline last week in the Berticle "Tolling one Chinese from Bother," that training is necessary for one to be able to distinguish people with no striking features to identify them, One of these was in in which the cat is to the rest of the features. Some ears stick out; some lie close to the head; others have marked contours in them, while others again appear comparatively' plain, The shape may be a good oval, or like an inverted pear, or even slightly cornered. All these. peculiarities should be noticed.
One of the simplest means of identification is the lobe.
The lobe of the ear vari greatly in size. In some people it is very small; in car; and the cavity of the ear.
Police study these in the following order:—the border, the lobe, the inner ridge, and the cavity. For' ithe purpose of the layman it i not. necessary to go into the same detail as do the police in their study, and here we will mention only a few more obvious points of difference for which an outlook should be kept:
First "the border. The upper border may vary in thickness from being almost non-existent to being thick and over lapping, and occasionally it is marked by some Jbump or cavity which is a peculiarity. of the person. As one reaches the curve of the ear, where the rear border begins, the upper border sometimes thins out until actually on the bend it is negligible, the rear border starting thus thinly and becoming thicker as it goes on. This is often noted in ears which are fa trifle pointed at that part. The rear border, like the upper, may The shape of this part of the sar the way the lobe is joined to the also varies greatly.
Tt-may be an check: +Rarely it is seen that, the leven curve, or almost a lobe is completely separated from line above the lobe. In most people, the cheek, hanging from the ear however, it is broken by an ext ra itself, and this circumstance is protrusion of cartilage in some enough for identification by the degree or other, and in this case it Jayman. But more commonly the is the degree of the break in the lobe is either joined entirely to the Hine of the antitragus, its depth cheek, or at least half of should be noted. is sometimes entirely joined but has a well pronounced line or wrinkle The ridge inside the ear which appears to make a di often proves an easy mark of If this is 0, it should be noted, as identification, if one can get close this is by no. means common. enough to examine it properly. The point where it finally vanishes away The small Jobo is often disting-sometimes dove-tailed into two nished by the continuation of the Tines, each a ridge of its own; or it|ine which usually follows the rear may possess some other peculiarity|border and which forms a small which of interest. channel across it. Or if the hobo Before. returning to. the tobe, vee, then there is often a. dent there "are. many, many" other!" itor a lamp on it peculiarities of the might mention, but it is possible Point to look ear which we|® here fe Resi ae angers one which could be for its whether or not that too many points to look may prove confusing, so we will only touch upon some of them. the lobe is pierced for ear-rings. "Tf man's lobe is so pierced, this is peculiarity which is noteworthy: if a woman's ear, especially among the Chinese, is unpierced, that also is something out of the usual run, It is only when one begins observing the peculiarities of the ear, im common with the other features, that one realizes how much differ-ought against a foreigner. A haring of x aut for, damages Ohinese witness stated that he could Rot identify the defendant in the Base "az all foreigners looked alike fo him." The second illustration was contained in a cable from Paris about the arrest of a certain financier. There it, said that he Fras recognised by a detective while the was riding on a wooden horse in merry-go-round, and that the Wetective had seen him only once joffre, a considerable time age. Could the trained and the untrained powers of observation be better fpontrasted in the news of the day? 1 Last week we touched upon the 8 points of identification to be ud in the features—common Pig ferences which can be noted and Fomembered as peculiarities of some particular person, And we mention that on the ear a whole book Might be written, let alone Iprticle; for the ear is about certain a means of identification [police work as the fingerprint. [hough from the point of view of lay student who wishes to trai Extremes in the rear border others it is Inrge and flabby: In some people the junction of the ear with the head at the lobe is even; lobe hangs down below ion, and sometimes protrades slightly. The variations here are, in fact, well nigh infinite, being the least complicated of the configurs of the member in question, the lobe is the plest ry very greatly in thickness, until it forms an easily distinguishable ridge.
Following the border to the bottom of the ear we come to the lobe, which we have already discussed sketchily. and will return to later in this article. Just below the tragus, or cartilage jutting out over the cavity of the ear, will be found a similar continued into the cavity of the degrees of this continuation.
Extremes in the upper border position of the car on the head, for instance; the way in which it' close to the skull or sticks out; whether the tip of the ear bends forward as if to present the cave ity in the fore—and many other general points which can be observed.
The shape of the lobe vai very uch according to the shape of the lear itself. Between the extreme of car, The series ence there is between people otherwise apparently alike. It is a study which, if taken seriously, can occupy a ict of time, But as an amusement, as a method of spending the time when one is on a long and rather wearisome journey by train or bus, it can be fascinating. And it ds really wonderful what variety of features and expressions pass daily before one's ey As a sideline it is also interesting to attempt to read character from features. An almost hope-fess task, it is admitted, since experts the world over are agreed that seldom can a man's character, be told from his features. This may. -Jsound extraordinary in view of the many pronouncements to the contrary. Butit isa fact. An attempt has been made by police to classify. the features of criminals in order to determine the criminal type, but the attempt: was abandoned. Tt was found that there was no really criminal type.
This should not be confused with the lines wrought on a person's face by indulgence for any length of time in one particular form of activity or vice; such lines tell thet story." At the same time it is impossible to generalis from these lines and classify the wearer of them in any particular criminal catalogue. merchants, who failed to pay a large sum of money to various district magisteates in Honan in connection with shipments of tobneco from Shanghai to Shensi, have been arrested, reports the' Chinese press, of this, the Commission for the Reorganization of Shanghai Commercial Organizations have tele graphed to Nanking demanding the immediate and unconditional release of these unfortunates.
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