New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-29
MISS FOWLER HOME AGAIN.
SHE HAD AN INTERESTING SEASON IN
LONDON. AND EXAMINED THE
LORD MAYORS HEAD. ..r,., -
HER LECTURE on PSYCHOLOGY AND MENTAL
scIENcE-viEws on THE INFLUENCE

HER LECTURE on PSYCHOLOGY AND MENTAL
scIENcE-viEws on THE INFLUENCE
OF HEREDIT"
Miss Jessie A. Fowler daughter Of Professor l..
n. and DR.. Lydia Fowler one Of the best-known
phrenologists In the world Is home In America
again. after spent as the head OF the
London Institute. While there she made examina-
lions of the heads OF many noted people. among
them Lady Elizabeth Bddulph Sarah Grand. Sir
Algernon Borhwick and the present Lord Mayor
Of London.
When asked If she proposed TO take her fathers
place at the head of the institute here and in the
management of THE Phrenologcal Journal" Miss
Fowler said to Tribune reporter: lone never
take anothers place, but | shall accept an edl-
torial position, shall lecture give drawing room
talks and keep up private classes Work IL never
hard. unless you make 1t While in London
kept M with all the interests of he day in my
own country. | am deeply Interested in the prison
question. and | am satisfied that If the Govern
ment would simply treat crime disease II
could be got rid Of entirely"
Miss Fowler gave on Wednesday night, at No q
East Twenty-hrst-st.. her fifth lecture on "Psy-
chology and Mental Science" the subject being
"Heredity."
Science" she said sis revealing daily. by
slant inquiry and experiment. something further
upon the mysterious subject of heradity. We. how
ever. look forward 10 time when the imperfect
and reparative capacities We now have to deal with
will be so strengthened and matured by careful
living and sanitary surroundings to prove ire
sistible against the encroachments OF many dis
and mental characteristics
"An our principal writer's psychology demon
strate what important factor hereditary influence
is In the development Of youth. Inherited talent
is spoken of by Homer when he represents Minerva
as addressing Telemachus In the following words
Thou hast received from Heaven thy fathers force
Instllled thee; and resemblest him
In promptness both Of action and Of speech.
wherever we find life, find heredity. In
studying cell life. we find throughout the organism
that everywhere inherited qualities are reproduced
Throughout historical events find proof that
talent is transmitted. Thus nave two Pitts
Charles and James Fox, and Tasso In whose
family eight poets: Raphael AMI Beethoven
also Indicate that the development of the intel
lecual faculties of parents render their children
mere susceptible to educational influences.
Miss Fowler mentioned many cases where the
heritage of great qualities had been intensified by
transmission. while the lowest form Of Intellect
works itself out In like manner true genius does
not often descend to posterity. Men OF Intellect
may be bred, but not men Of genius. Resem-
blances between parent and offspring. physiog-
nomically and psychologically speaking. are met
with every day; but many are the neutralizing
Influences at work that endless variations are the
result.
The great beneficial result of studying the sub
ject" said Miss Fowler is in arresting the evil con-
sequences OF heredi,y in youth. Hence. IN criminal
classes 1t IL essential TO crowd out the evil by crowd,
ing in the good: by stimulating good thoughts ana
implanting habits of industry rather than 10 give
time for passion and vice to increase - ,
pray understand that while am pnrenoloslst, l
am not simply what people sometimes can pump
ologisi' she added II do not believe in narrow
ness -, -. 49,
What do you think OF suffrage?' asked the re-
porter, after the lecture was over
p"Wei.. don't believe women to vote just for
the sake OF voting only they don't want 70 o..
classed with idiots and criminals. Women are forcei
to perform duty outside of their own homes Science
has done this believe woman Will ever prefer 10 De
essentially womany If she is allowed TO ioli9" net
nclinations | don't object TO bicycling Dut uoh
believe i'm boomers. Yet / think boomers, win a
Reasonable skirt preferable to many hying skirts
and they form a much more proper dress tnan, tne
decollcte ball gown exposing so much OF the bare
neck and arms .,,. T., , ,or
setless sloyenly manner calling themselves dress,
reformers think it is well to go without stays
do myse.f because good circulation Is necessary ioi
bright ntellects but | try to dress with as mucn
trlrnness and taste as II wore tnem NO "oi"ah
could tell did not, unless told her So -, -
Miss Fowler Is giving series or evening talkS on
Vital and Social Subjects" every W ednesday ever
ing al the Phrenologca Institute, No q East I"eh-
fir