The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-07
and it should occasion no great sur

prise to find some little to condemn
where there is SO much to applaud.
The idea that a woman who takes
any active part in public affairs must
necessarily be specimen of a certain
fixed type, does not appear to hold
good in the present instance. At al
events this lady does not conform to
the particular types that frequently
distinguish the leaders and advocates
of ''womans rights" in other coun-
tries.
The writer will not presume TO Judge
of those who represent the cause in
America, but in those conservative
countries where a physician who is
not bald-headed would starve through
lack of practice, and where a Judge
cannot maintain the dignity of the
court or even secure the proper re-
spect due to his office unless his head
is adorned with the conventional peri
wig-in these countries they are exact
ing and particular about details and
no woman can hope to impress the
glddy throng with the Importance of
her mission unless she has been ia
Vored % by nature in being tall, slim
and angular in form, hands and feet
slightly above the average in size, a
rather strong voice, and on her coun-
tenance somewhat sad yet hopeful
expression as we might expect from
one who had resolved at all hazards
10 throw off a yoke she had endured
too long. Even with these natural
advantages the character is not COM
plete unless she wears blue goggles
and has her hair cut short.
Those, therefore, who are acquainted
with Mrs Cannon will readily con-
cede she does not fill the bill from
this point of view
As regards her physical constitution
II seen from the back or across the
street there is nothing special to at
tract the attention of any casual OBJ
server. The lady is average in size.
is well but not strikingly formed. her
weight it not up to the mark when we
consider her splendid mentality, and
her hair is somewhat coarser than is
usual with her sex. This, however
indicating as it does strength, force
and tenacity of will, harmonizes ad-
mirably with her character.
She is stately in bearing, vivacious
in conversation, brilliant in thought.
easy in expression, magnetic in in
f1uence, charming in manner and has
quick, piercing eye that reminds one
of the X ray
Her head measures 22K inches in
circumference, 141a over the head and
eB (caliper measurement between the
ears.
These measurements are decidedly
but they are in excess of the average
for men. Is it any wonder, therefore.
bearing this fact in mind, that she
should be a progressive woman?'
There are thousands of men today
who must be counted progressive" and
yet their brain capacity does not ex-
coed these figures. Add to these adj
vantages a mental-vital temperament,
fair organic quality and good health
and her power for good or evil-for
veal or woe is proportionately in
creased Such an organization cannot
fail TO make itself felt in some direc-
ton. 1t is light that will not be hid
under a bushel, and those who oppose
the claims and advancement of
woman on the ground of mental in
feriority must be wonderfully endowed
themselves if they could succeed in
proving i in cases like this.
While her features, voice and manner
are decidedly feminine, the contour Of
her brain does not conform to the
feminine type of head.
This is one of the methods by which |
we can ascertain whether a person |
most resembles their father or mother |
without ever having seen either of i
them. Mrs Cannon. being physician, !
Will know Of she has thought of it,, |
that not one woman in 500 who does |
not wei@h more than 125 pounds, cher /
own weight, viii have such develop |
ment Of the superior practical and su- /
perior frontal lobes of the brain as she |
has herself.
1t is here. in a large measure, we |
discover the secret of her progress
sive" disposition, though this is not
the only place. 1t furnishes, however.
the kew to her character Had Mrs.
Cannon been less intellectual, and less
the development above
referred to not existed, she would. with
her present disposition be one of the
most thoroughly domesticated stay-at-
home women that could be found. Even
as il is. she is not wanting in this re-
spect, only in a comparative sense.
The fact is. she has such a keen in
sight into human affairs, such an in
tense thirst for intellectual knowledge.
and is so capable of thinking and rea-
soning for herself, even in those mat
ters that custom prescribes for men
only, that it is impossible to tie her
Town to any conventional stakes. We
know there are some birds that, how
ever well treated and cared for,
pine and die when confined within a
barrow cage, and it is just as natural
.or this lady to strike out to help