Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-03-22
CRANIAL UNEvENNESs.
Humps aud DepressiOns that Give Their
POssessOrs Away.
TALK WITH A PROFESSOR OF CRANIosC0PY-
HONEST ADVICE TO L0vERS--JAY GOULD's AND
GRANTS PHYsIOGNOMICAL PECULIARITIEs

A TALK WITH PROFESSOR OF CRANI0sCoPY-
HONEST ADVICE TO LovERs-JAY GouLD's AND
GRANTS PHYsIOGNOAICAL PECULIARITIEs.
From the N Y. SUM-
An elderly man of rotund form and pleasant
face stood at before his library fire the other
day, balancing a couple of plaster casts of hu-
man heads in his hands and whsting softly to
himself. On both sides of the room were long
shelves loaded with busts. plaster casts death
masks, portraits charts and rows of grinning
| skulls The elderly man is one of the st-known
phrenologists. ~
The long line of busts was headed by George
Washington. on whose right was Jim Fisk, with
mOustache deliberately waXed. Then came Rob-
ert Burns. Horace Greeley. Peter Cooper, Dio
men. Shakespeares poetical face stood side by
side with the stoical features Of John Kelly.
whose hair and beard were cut in wavy ringlets.
giving him the appearance of Greek god,
whose neck is so thick that it looks as though
it were a prolongation OF the head. 1t is that of
"Jim Crow" Rice. who won distinction by first
initiating the plantation negro.
What do you want: sr2" the professor
| asked
81 want to know something about heads'
"Ah, sit down."
The professor placed the two casts on the
shelves and returned to the fire. There was a
letter on the tray. He broke the seal and read
it slowly, looking carefully at two photographs
that were enclosed, and then said, in an explain
| atory tone:
'1t's-a-lettcr from young man in Indiana.
He has written to ask if he should marry a
young lady whose photograph he incloses with
his own"
''DO you advise in such cases?"
"Oh, yes Next to a head is picture'
The two photographs did not represent par
tcularly robust couple, the man being very frail.
and the woman small, thin, and colorless
blonde, with very weak looking eyes,
''Whose head is this?'' asked the reporter, tax
ing cast from the shelf. The head was very
high at the top or crown.
THAT is Robert Owens. the philanthropist
There's gentleness and benevolence tor You. 1t
is mild face. There is scarcely any back head
Take a man with high top head, and you can
depend on it he has good morals
Heres EdisOn's head. It's very remarkable
from its size, indicating large brain, and is
particularly well developed at the seat of the
constructive faculties, just back of and above
the eyes. For man with a head like this to
fall on new ideas is no marvel 1t would be
| marvellous rather if he did not
The Professor then called the reporters atten-
ton to some casts to which are attached curious
bits of history.
''This one,' he said. 'is the head of Stephen
Burroughs, an American adventurer who led
most curious life The number OF avOcations
ne followed is in itself remarkable. He ran
away from home when he was only ID years old
70 join the army of the revolution. Army life
didn't suit his tastes. and he deserted at the
end of six weeks. He was next heard of as a
student at Amherst College where he figured as
wild and rebelliOus sophomore He was COM
PEELED to leave college to avoid expulsion
Alter this he was a priyateer and subsequently,
a ships physician, though where he picked up
his knowledge of medicine is mystery He
left the sea and became schoOlmaster for a
while, and then took up theology and was the
regular pastor of Congregational church in
Massachusetts. While preaching in the pulpit
On Sundays he was detected in passing counter
felt coin on week days, and when thrown in
to prison for this offence he attempted to escape
by firing the Jail. He did not get away and had
to serve his full term in prison. After his re-
lease he went at counterfeiting again. and was
for years at the head of gang in Canada
When an old gray-haired man, he suddenly re-
formed and went into the Catholic church. He
tutored the sons of rich Canadians at his own
home His head is preserved as one in which
certain faculties are developed to an extraordi-
nary degree.
This is the head Of VendOvi, a Fiji chief, and
is striking example of strong conjugal deyel-
opment. That part of the head where family
love is situated is very prominent, you see
When he was being taken from home TO a vessel
as prisoner, he chopped off ore of his fingers
and threw it to his wife AS q keepsake He
pinned so for his family that he died soon after
The heads of murderers are nearly always
wide Just above the ears. 1t is also found that
tnelr heads are very low and fat on top. This
head of Mrs. Gottfried has these characteristics
strongly marked. She killed. by means of poi
son, her own mother, two husbands. several of
her own children and three other persons. Her
motive was to gain money. find that in her case
the faculties Of destructiveness, acquisitiveness
secretiveness and kindred qualities were highly
developed, while self-esteem and beneyOlence
were excessively small.
'"Ths low brutal head is that of another muir
derer, who killed five of his wifes relatives that
ne might inherit few hundred dollars. The
head OF Anton Probst, who murdered the Deer
ing family in Philadelphia, has the same char
acterlstics, and alse that of the murderer Burke
VINO killed people simply that he might sell their
bodies for dissection"
Are the heads of theOlOgians all well deyel-
Oped at the top?'
mot always to marked degree. The reason
is That many men are in the pulpit who are not
fitted for it by nature Many boys are bred to
it, learning nothing else from the cradle''
DO men as rule adopt the pursuits they are
best fitted for?"
''Sone men do, but in many cases it is merely
matter OF accident. In this way:-A boy is ad-
vertised for, and boy is sent down to take the
place, not because he has a fitness or fancy for
that particular position, but because his services
will bring SO many dollars month. He gets
place in the paint and oil line, fish, or hard
ware. or whatever it may be, and grows up in
the business. II he had gone into anything else
under favorable circumstances his chances of
success would have been the same. Men are for
the most part led to adopt the professions by q
natural tendency. A man with an evenly bal
anced head-that is, with all the faculties har-
mOniously deyel0ped-can do one thing about
as well as another. There are very few such
people, however"
"Are many entirely on the wrong tack ?"
There are thousands of men struggling IN
fields they never should have entered and in
which they can never succeed"
"How do women's heads differ from mems p"
'They are more prominent behind. and show
larger development of the social faculties A
wOmans head is seldom large and square in
front. where the intellectual and reasoning
faculties are situated. Once in while a woman
is met who takes after her father and has
large, square front head. The portrait on the
side wall here is that of Eliza Farnham, who was
an able thinker. Her head was shaped like a
mans. Anna Dicknson's head is quite mascu-
line in formation"
do people believe in phrenology?"
cat first they looked at it as an occult science
to be classcd with mesmerism and second sight
mysteries. They were SO incredulous that when
they went to see plrenologist they pnt him to
all kinds Of tests. They now pay $25 for an
examination, and accept the observations with
confidence"