THE CHILD. THE VALUE OF FACE AND FORM READING IN THE RAISING, EDUCATION, AND TRAINING (PHYSICAL AND MENTAL) OF THE CHILD. By THE PUBLISHERS. THE raising, education, and training of children by the parent or guardian is a problem of no mean proportions, and any work suggestive of methods in advance of the systems at present in vogue will, we think, be hailed by parents and guardians with pleasure. Many times we are confronted with the fact that harsh measures will not succeed, nor in many cases will easy treatment bring about the desired end. Do not many of the errors and mistakes in training rest primarily upon the parent or guardian? Is not this primary fault, in nearly all cases, ignorance of the physical and mental capacity and capabilities of the child? Are we not often arbitrary and harsh with a child when, if its mental condition, disposition, and traits were more perfectly known, it would be found that mild measures, with an occasional appeal to the approbativeness of the child, would accomplish far more than harsh words or blows? Knowing how to treat children in their training and education is an art that every parent or guardian would gladly learn. We do what we think is for the best interests of the child, and often we wake up to the fact, after much time spent in such training, and realize that we have been pursuing the wrong course. Will a study and application of the principles of “Face and Form Reading" enable us to become better acquainted with our children, their needs, their capacities, their capabilities? Can the secret springs of volition be traced to their fountain-head and the why and wherefore of mental phenomena in the child be analyzed and understood? We think so; hence this work. And in order that parents and guardians may possess some landmarks to aid them in the search for mental characteristics in the child, we have prepared the appended questions, the answers to which (found on pages indicated) will enable you, we hope, to handle this delicate subject in a manner befitting its importance, and with results far more gratifying than under the old "hit or miss" plan. To parents nothing is more important than the proper raising, training, and education of the child, and as they are trained in youth so will be their Manhood or Womanhood. Almost every phase and condition of child-life is touched upon in these questions, and the answers from the author's standpoint are, in the main, practical and in accordance with right reason. These questions could readily be extended into the hundreds, but what we give you will suffice to show the great desirability and utility of "Face and Form Reading" to every parent and guardian. MUSCULAR SYSTEM. Why is a good development of the What are the best means to develop? What important traits will it develop If your child has a very large muscular development, upon what particular lines should be the training? Pages 81-83. Should your child have a bright eye, what does it indicate as to the nerves of sense? Page 96. BRAIN. What have Brain and Nerves to do with character-building, and how can you measure the Mental power of the child? Pages 97, 98. Should the child be puny and weak physically, but brain development large, what can be done to balance and harmonize? Page 99. FORM. What has this to do with Natural ability, and how can we interpret Form? Pages 120-124. COLOR. What does the difference in com plexion indicate? How and why is this so? Page 127. Does Color indicate Mental Power and Genius? Page 113. What are Kindergartens doing to develop the Color-sense in children? Page 129. HARMONY. Is not this the basis of a really good How shall we treat very precocious What should we do and what not do? Page 139. What is the most conducive to the Mental and Physical welfare of the child, and what method will produce the best results? Page 139. How should oversensitive and ner vous children be managed for the first ten years of child-life? Page 140. Why should children be overseen at play as well as at work? Page 141. What do pinched features usually indicate as to physical condition? Page 143. How is the Moral sense of the child created and fostered? Pages 155, 156. (Read Dr. H. Mandsley.) DIETARY FOR BONE AND MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT (continued). (as in all vegetables), and Animal Fats? Pages 87, 88. Should an excess of Bone exist and a deficiency of Fat and Muscle, we must use foods that are Flesh and Muscle builders. See the author's remarks. Read all as to" Dietary" carefully, as it is very important and has the indorsement of Phy sicians and Hygienists of prominence. Pages 91-93. CONCLUSION. If you read carefully and follow out the suggestions of the author of "The Encyclopædia of Face and Form Reading," can Health, Happiness, and Character-building be advanced and developed in the child? Pages 1183, 1184. LONGEVITY THROUGH HYGIENE. THE LIGHT THROWN BY "THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FACE AND FORM READING" UPON THE ATTAINMENT OF LONGEVITY THROUGH HYGIENE. By THE PUBLISHERS. As progressive Medical Publishers we have noticed, the last few years, the gigantic strides of the Medical Profession in the line of Hygiene, or Preventive Medicine. Almost every physician, we think, would sooner advise as to means to prevent threatened sickness than to prescribe for serious illness. The articles specially prepared as "aids" to the study of this work by prominent physicians bear us out in this statement, and, in connection with this article on "Longevity through Hygiene," we kindly ask you to read each and every such article. The theories advanced as to tendency to disease and the means to avert such tendency through a knowledge and practice of the laws of Hygiene, while not new, gain additional force and assume a more important aspect from the connection of Facial and Bodily signs as indicators of Health and Disease, Strength and Longevity. To the majority of people these theories may appear novel and startling; but they are evidently based on facts that are daily becoming more apparent to the advanced, progressive physician, and are being used more and more in his daily diagnosis of disease. Indorsed, as this work is, by eminent members of the Medical Profession, its readers will gain much valuabe information of every-day use, enabling them to better cope with the realities of life. The following questions (the answers to which are to be found on the pages indicated) will suggest some of the uses to which the knowledge conveyed by a study of "The Encyclopædia of Face and Form Reading" can be put to aid one in securing Longevity through Hygiene: VEGETATIVE SYSTEM. If the system is overburdened with System exists, what diseases are liable? Page 70. THORACIC OR CHEST SYSTEM. What Hygienic measures tend to produce harmony? Page 74. |