The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-02-15
MARRIAGE BY pHRENoLoaY.
Men Will Bad Tcmpers Should Els.
pousc Women OF Mild Manners
Two of q Color Cannot Agree.

AhASh Il ASItiIpC1S StlOIIu ES-
pousc Women OF Mild Manners
Two of a Color Cannot Agree.
New York World. .
Four weird portraits and the pallid
bust of q gentleman whose skull was
neatly divided into building lots, decor
ated the platform at Cooper Union last
| evening, when Professor Nelson Sizer
came forward to discuss marriage by
the standpoint of ~phrenology, There
was a large audience. The speaker be-
gan by saying that the first things which
engage q yonug mans attention are
cho sing a vocation and a vile. 1t was
usually considered that woman was at
her zenith at twenty and old at twenty.
five. When she was sixteen, the ques-
ton YVES. whom shall l take? Twenty,
who will take me? Mothers.in-law and
step-nlothers are, in the professors
opinion, much less black than they are
commonly painted. In speaking OF do
nestle discipline, the speaker told of a
man who had adopted twenty-si SIS chill
dren, OF whom twenty-seytn turned out
well.
Glow many of the audience can show
such a record rs tfatp" asked Professor
.iZer. To illustrate visa people shou d
marry, lie showed his hearers some por-
traits, OF which ne had several upon the
table.
"Of her" he said, holding up a severe
angular face" | have some doubts. Uhe
audience gigeled) Perhaps you have
none at all. Would some of you like
her for a molher.inlaw? Don't ak at
once. HI woman (holding up another
picture Is pert, substantial, ambitious,
and sell reliant, and woul ! make u good
mate for this man, exhibiting a mild
made ~countenance adorned with tatiy.
colored hair).
He is intelligent and religious, but can
not clench his fists. She will run the
house while he writes the editorials.
She furnishes the lemons and he the
sugar. Marry one like YOURSELF peo-
pie sometimes say. That is very well if
you are perfect, but some OF us are not
perfect. Men should marry to make up
for their deficiencies, There should be
harmony of temperament and mental
development.
SIN this picture" continued the pro-
lessor, pointing TO a smiling likeness of
Daniel Lambert, Eve see Llunlpness
and vitality. This man will drink when
he is treated, and is a Jolly good fellow.
If he married a woman like himself the
children would have dots in their faces
instead of eyes. Pic ure No. 2 repre-
sents the hard, bony style of mantle
treIlis without the vine. He Should
marry a wcman who Is soft, rounded,
ant cheerful. No. 3 is pretty mach ali
brain, and if he marries , woman of his
W type the children would be of The
kind ca onized in Sunda, school liter
ature, snd would die before they were
six years old. l believe that most OF the
unhappy marriages occur because men
know SO few women who are not already
spoken for.
Blondes should marry brunettes.p
To illustrate, Professor Slzer showed the
portraits of n couple who we're married
in Vermont in 1912. The man was very
dark, the woman Il blonda. The speak
er also held up to the admirin. aud ence
q blonde, very decollete, who, she said,
would select u dark husband,
In contrast he showed a demure Purt-
tanic burDette, whose name WAS Lola
Mortez. Going on With his lecture the
speaker said the tall should marry the
short, the stout should unite with t 9
lean, etc. Fine training and careful Sc
lection he'll produced a Jay-Eye-See and