Show r UNABLE TO SEE OURSELVES No Man Thoroughly Familiar with Mil Own Lineament How curious It Is said tho philosopher philos-opher that the person for whom you care most on earth tho one you see oftenost and who receives your moat constant attention Is the one whose countenance Is least familiar to you Who Is that 7 asked the visitor Yourself said tho philosopher 9t Is u fact that if people could be duplicated dupli-cated and could meet themselves In he street very few would rqcoxnlna heroselves We look at ourselves tnttfrr llnies ddrlngtho 366 days of tho year We say our eyes are blue or brown or whatever other color they may beQnr hair black our chin peaked our forehead high We know every lineament of our face from constant con-stant study and attention yet when wo turn away from the mirror we cannot conjure tip a picture of ourselves We know Just how our friends and even acquaintances look In fancy we can sec them sitting so or standing so and their varying expressions under d hjferent circumstances Is clear to us eVert though we may not have seen hem for years but wlin It comes tg ourselves we cannot lilt In oven the nitlines of tho picture We may laugh we may cry wo may frown but we do not know how vo look while wo are doing It Photographs do not help us We have never seen ourselves In tho flesh Mh 101 s xnd pictures aro poor aids when we sit down and try to see ourselves with the minds eye That Is why people are so deeply Interested In anybody who Is said to lesomble them Just say to a man I Know somebody who Is the dead image of you and ho will never rest till ho sees that person Then If tho likeness Is really true ho will own that up to that time he had no conception concep-tion of how he really looked Tho visitor smiled wanly I wish you wouldnt talk like that she said It makes me feel positively uncanny |