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Show Gestures Tell More Than Spoken Words (' and downward movements to the tat- ter. There are few exceptions to this. : but they only prove the rule. For example, there Is a way of raising the eyebrows that expresses a sneer, hut then a sneer Is deliberate, whereas I the gestures that are really tell-tale are always made without deliberation. 1 It Is one of the most difficult things In the world to act a lie. Gesture is, . In fact, far more revealing and far more truthful than speech. Comparatively Compar-atively few persons possess complete control of this "language of the body." Neither a golden tongue nor a voice thrilling with passion is any match for a contradicting gesture or glance, i Scientific study of gestures has shown that they fall nntnrally into j two classes acceptance or rejection, j Almost every gesture of which wo are capable belongs to one or other of these classes, for, In truth, the language lan-guage of gesture Is much simpler than the tanfrusse of the Hps. I'pward movements of the head, bands, arms or oyvjlds belong to Uie former class, |