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Show faca It is not what we would call the jnst and righteously indignant back, which is straight and noble, n fine thing and a vpcerable. It lx the bulldog shouldered shoul-dered back that deuctas tha domestic seer. TUb bald head ubinefl. (Hie known that in the front the reins ere bursting. His mustache has been i twisted ta sharpness by anpry f!ng?rs. j His hnnds are clinched or pushing might-i might-i ily agiiinrt his hardset knee. He could ! strike, but he haa too much pride, and ! hia orders are harder than blows. He ! has a habit of getting his arm crookedly bent to his knee in self restrained wrath, j There are, indeed, many b;u'kn thiit i are more gladly aeen than the corre-; corre-; sponding faces. The back of the bore is 't a goodly eight, while, on the other hand, , when good-by is jarrievous, how much j precious regard is wnsted on the dev.r j characteristic, well known back that I never knows what loving looks went J after it. Toronto Truth. ASTUDY IN MEN'S BACKS CHARACTER IS SHOWN THERE A3 WELL AS IN THE FACE. A Meeertatlon cm tha Virion Kind mt Back That One I Acruntomed to See. Icicrlptltii of tbe Thoughtful Baek, the Purse Proud Back and Other. The back of an individual is an easy itudy the whole of him, his figure and walk, his shoulders molded by the habits f bis life, the carriage of the head, the wearing of the clothing. Fao to face we see the man as he desires to be seen; but behind his back we take him by snr- ; prise, and catch sight of his character. Follow the thoughtful man as he wan ders through the streets, seeing nothing. While he walks his head and shoulders i bend; one knows that his eyes seek the ground just as one sees his feet linger on it. In this manner it mrtst have been that Macauluy walked ia his famous night wanderings, when he traversed the London streets and saw nothing, a contrast to the night walks of Charles Dickens, who trod the same streets and saw everything, with head cliaracteris-tically cliaracteris-tically held back and slightly to one side, an energetic observer rather than a deep thinker. Very different from what we may call the refined and intellectual back is the back of the broad and vulgar figure who BtruU past us as if ho owned the street. Ilia glory is not in his mind or heart, but in his pockets. lie has a habit of sticking up for bis rights. Even his collar sticks up, and his hair, to correspond corre-spond with his inner self, is bristling, lie thinks he can buy anything, from a picture, of which ho knows nothing.' to an elector, who knows nothing of him. The purse proud man will never hand money out of that pocket for charity, onlees he is pretty sure that his name is in a printed list of subscribers. j TUB ROGrjE'S BACK. j Not so the wealthy man who has a i heart above gold. Look at him. a back ! Tiew, as he stands ut a public meeting j called at some time of calamity or need. lie is sure to be there. If the hall is overcrowded you can see him Etanding, . never complaining of the lack of seats; ! he is there for the comfort of others; he ' i forgets his own. He is a large hearted j man, and everything about him is Urge, i The big hands are only waiting behind j sum to give freely, the broad back can bear a goodly share of others' burdens, j As for the back of the rogue, it is of j infinite Tariety. If there wers only one sort w might all make what Boldiety i wonld call a reconcoissance to tbo repj ! and detect and outwit him. There is j the sharp dealer of the business world, ; who is remarkably spruce at the back, , and the adventurer of society, who can i bow like the first gentleman in Europe, and ten thousand more varieties, from the wolcher on the turf up to the gentleman gentle-man who ought to be a baronet, and ! who has lived for the last thirty years on that statement and on charitably collecting col-lecting for the savages of Borrioboola. He could straighton his body if he liked. . but his mind is fixed in curves of cun- ning. Ho and bis principles are as j crooked ao wriggling eels. He can press others to his will, too, as he presses his cane to a curve like himself. I His spare form is not tho thin, bent , back of the student. The back of a : bookworm is another kind of bend a ; curvo to be respected. Nor is it the stoop of old age. The back is an index ! of age as well as of character. The , small child stands a square, upright atom of humanity. The man grows ; straight to his full height; then his shoulders broaden; then his shoulders J come forward, and his head goes down. I BACKBONE. j There is an old saying to describe a ; man of weak character that he has "no backbone." There is not much backbone back-bone in the man who walks as if not quite snre where he is going to, who I drois his letters and never cares to straighten his shoulders. Follow him and note hew his hat points backward, and you know from the angles to which he has set his hut and his whiskers that, seen front face, his aspect is not wise, j Still ho is a good natured fellow, and by j some iustinct we read on his back that 1 he has an ambition to be amusing. One is perfectly certain that the man with such a back sings comic songs, and equally certain that he never knows , when people cease to laugh at the song , and begin to laugh at himself. j But there is such a tiling as having ! too much backbone, and that is rather j worse than having too little. When a j man luss Ux much backbone his heart is j cot, as people say, "in tho right place." I Sometimes there is no room in him for a j heart at all. Now, there are some men ! in whom fcrce of character is carried j into the extreme, and becomes hardnesi and habitual severity. A severe back is J a plcasauter night ' to see than a severs |