Friends who are near to me I know well?because through the months and years they reveal themselves to me in all their phases;but of casual friends I have only an incomplete impression?an impression gained from a handclasp?from spoken words which I take from their lips with my finger tips?or which they tap into the palm of my hand.
How much easier?how much more satisfying it is for you who can see to grasp quickly the essential qualities of another person by watching the subtleties of expression?the quiver of a muscle?the flutter of a hand.But does it ever occur to you to use your sight to see into the inner nature of a friend or acquaintance? Do not most of you seeing people grasp casually the outward features of a face and let it go at that?
For instance can you describe accurately the faces of five good friends? some of you can?but many cannot.As an experiment?I have questioned husbands of long standing about the color of their wives'eyes?and often they express embarrassed confusion and admit that they do not know.And?incidentally?it is a chronic complaint of wives that their husbands do not notice new dresses?new hats?and changes in household arrangements.
The eyes of seeing persons soon become accustomed to the routine of their surroundings?and they actually see only the startling and spectacular.But even in viewing the most spectacular sighurt records reveal every day how inaccurately “eyewitnesses” see.A given even