Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-11
@. S. F.
HE TELLS WHAT HE KNOWS ABOUT
HEADS AND THINGS.

A Lecture Remarkable. for its Wisaom---
And Little Pamphlet for Sale--Looking
for Subject to Expatiate Upon--The
Right Man In the Right Place ut Last
Tho Most Startling Developments of the
Century rs the Result-If Old Softly Had
Had More Nervous Power He Would
Have Discovered a Great Man.
Mr.. O. S. Fowler's free lecture attracted
large audience to Music Hall last evening.
The lecture contained some few truisms,
a great deal of bosh, not little impu-
dent brag, and some absurdly exaggera-
ted anecdotes. he told the people that the
present system of education was all a mis-
take, and fearful injury upon the human
race. The home education was wrong,
and the public schools were dangerous
institutions, and yet he said parents are
idiots for making money for their children.
Let them make money for themselves. Put
your money IN your children, not on them.
Whether he meant in the shape Of alimentary
material-bread and butter, or brain food,
he did not explain. parent, he said,
should be more solicitous for the develop
ment Of muscle and bone in his child than
in cultvating the intellect; and in doing this
care should be taken to distribute
strength, not concentrate it. First, be Ger
tain, he said, that your child has large,
healthy .'bread basket Up to the age of
IA child should do nothing
more than run about and
exercise their muscles. They should never
be compelled to sit down and remain IN
doors more than they want to-which is not
| very much. The present educational sys-
tenn, he said, blights the existence of 80 out
of every 100. He illustrated by reference to
| Goldsmith Maid, horse not broken to
harness till nine or ten years old. Ameri-
cans, he said, are school crazy, and yet
educated men are not smarter than other
men. From the age of 81 to 40 was the
period for cultivating the affections, and
from 40 out to the end, the time
for study. He, the lecturer, had
worked more since his sixtieth birthday,
than before. He had not written any book,
he, said, till he was sixty, because he wanted
nothing, green in them. A man after he is
40 can study better than at any earlier
time-it was nonsense to say that tho brain
| of child was more capable of culture than
that of grown person. Life does not
commence to run down hill at 40, it is never
! uOWu UA"oyo LII
of development, he referred to Winship,
who SO cultivated his physical strength that
he could lift 2,7O0 pounds. A little girl six
years old with curved spine whom he knew,
could lift Sc pounds, but after years exer-
cising with the :shealth lift she could (at Z
years old lift easily 24O pounds, and her
spine was straight. He had no SYM
pathy with consumptives, they were
for the most part lazy. Perhaps
they were not naturally indolent, but society
had forced them to become 80 in order to be
fit for marriage. If men would court mus
Gle, the ladies would cease to be the puny,
complaining, delicate creatures they are; they
would adapt themselves to the matrimonial
market. Referring again to children, he
said it was absurd to punish child for show
ing temper, or any vice. If the child is bad
!, the parent should consider that it came hon
est!y by his bad qualities. In speaking o.
life, he said that man could live as
1 long as he liked; and in support OF
g his argument he told an absurdly funny tall
of woman at deaths door, reviving ans
living to spite her husband. People arc il
the habit of speaking of the visitations O
Providence, of His wise dispensations, bu
he did not believe in such nonsense. FL
could not believe in the Almighty crawling
carry off our best beloved darlings, becaus
he loved them. He knew Of girl who hat
: been eating too heartily of raisins; the
stopped tho passages, and she died, and tn
Il minister in preaching her funeral sermon
9 took for his text, "The Lord giyeth and tn
O Lord taketh away'-and he forgot al
: about the raisins. He said that he could tel
- to what age mans ancestors lived and wha
:, age he would live! He could tell by e1amir
% ing mans head, his profession, and hi
o religion even to what church he attended
II After some further assertions of his i'm
IS mense powers, he drew attention to sewers
7, pamphlets which he had for sale for fe
IS cents, each of which he averred were wort
~ 800 each.
Before closing he asked the audience I
II nominate man to have his head examined
Several names were mentioned, but it we
8, evident that the right man had not bee
t, named. Capt. Starkey Mr.. Little, Mr.. Coole
/ could not fill the bill, but finally Col. Como
10 ly was hit upon, and that retiring gentlema
o modestly stepped upon the platform, whe
L the lecturer commenced glibly to eypatia1
10 upon the splendid physique and wonderf
e. mental endowments of the subject und
III examination. Of course he was wonde
ut full fellow, good, generous to a fault, fran
bGS
love, forbearing and forgiying, fond
lie home: should be surprised if he were n
ne married-are you married? I thought 8
ne and to a lady who does not scold; he cou
as not stand scolding, and l am sure b
Ne wife does not scold, because when he W
ne counting if the lady found fault
q ca would have gone away and court
ne there no more. Does your W
Us: scold? A woman who would scold such
no man, is an idiot, and is only losing her inf
ar ence over so great an embodiment Of dom
AZ tic and moral virtues. Should say he v
10 not good at making money-he was too fir
hearted for y-making-not mercena
Should think he would be lawyer or parse
or if neither of these, an editor; he y
for more adapted to this than the others;
thought he must be an editor, and if SO,
Of was successful one; brilliant writer "
,au good sound judgment, and a wonder
-" talent for collating and amassing news.
Tue short, the wonderful skill of the lectu
de- discovered in the reporter brilliant liter
the genius. who would soon get
of whole State by the ears. The gentlen
and had considerable pride and was very fond
nod fattery-it was evident the lecturer fully
~ ieved the latter statement, but did not 6
to mate his own abilities and powers at Il
the ~o.,h. voice, what rehglon Is ne!
eets IS noerai III iehg1ous views ana IKE n
ion. Alnellca aus, tnlnKs 1or nlmseI' Aho!
and voce, Wnae ooes ne Kno" Oh n'usi
ttee u :, .! u Is very olihcuie 70 una o.
,ck the liver organ is so near the music or
cen that it depends much upon the size Of
liver, but I should think if he could cate
10 q tune he would catch it quickly and rem
ne's pel .'' rinuine tne ques'iohs IKE Inc
inaa | likely W DeCOIue cmOa1faS