The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-06-09
REGARDING HATSAND HEADS
THE Brain SIZE AND ITS GREAT
POWER.
Quality Rather Than Bisness Counts
Heads of some Famous Men.

News stated that his head was of excep
tional size, and gave an incident which
Gladstone told at Lord RiponS resi-
dence, about man who could not get {
hat large enough till at last the hattie
called, in desperation. for an Aberdeen
hat. The point Of this was that Scotch
men have larger heads than Irishmen o
Englishmen. The News recalls thu
special study in hats made by Dr. Col
Inns, in the course of which it was men
toned that Mr.. Gladstone's number IL
hats was seven and three-eighths.
A No. hat is the average English
size Sir Walter Scott's and Lord Bea
consfield's hats We're of this size The
hats of John Bright, Robert Burns anC
Charles Dickens were seven and one
eighth, Lord John Russells seven an(
one-fourth-all smaller than Mr. Glad
stones. But the Gladstone hat was ex
ceeded in size by that of DR.. Chalmers
seven and three-fourths. Daniel O'Con
nell, whom Gladstone styled the great
est Irishman who ever lived, wore a hat
of the ,size of eight. The late DR.
Thomas, archbishop Of York, wore a
large eight, and Joseph Hume's was en-
phatically abnormal. eight and one
fourth. At meeting of the convention
OF London university, DR.. Collins had
one hundred and twenty-six hats meas
ured, and found that between forty and
forty-one per cent. We're above the Eng
1ish average, between twenty-five and
thirty per cent. were just the average
size and thirty-four per cent. were UNI
der the average.
When Bismarck died, Herr Friedrich
H. Kranz, the present head of the old
Frankfort firm of hatmakers, Martini e.
Co., communicated some trade statistics
to the Hamburger Nachrichten, which
the London Times published for the ben
eft of future biographers and physiolo-
gists. Fifty years ago, according to the
first record of the Martini "Kopfhass-
machine Bismarck's head had width
of fifty-nine and one-half centimeters.
During the last years of his life his head
had swollen to the width of sixty-two
centimeters. 1t is obvious that this
statement means not width, but cir
conference, for the sixty-two centime-
tiers are equal to twenty-four and forty
one hundredth inches, which would give
him size of about No. g. Concerning
his heads swelling, this would mean
thickening of the scalp of two-fifths of
an inch all round
On reading these statistics it occurred
to us to call at what is generally sup
posed to be the leading hat store in this
country, and probably the most numer-
ously patronized ofsthe "big-headed'
class (perhaps in both good senses of
the wordD in this city, and to inquire of
the manager concerning the relative
proportions of size of heads in a large
order. He kindly responded to our re-
quest, showing US that in four lots of "a
dozen EACH total of LISP hats, there
were the following sizes: Six and one
half, 8; six and fve-eighths. So; six and
threefourths, Ill; six and seven
eighths, 213; seven, 273; seven and one
eighth, 249; seven and one-fourth, 165;
seven and three-eighths, 76 seven and
one-half, "a; seven and five-eighths, g.
The manager informed us that there
are calls for hats seven and three
fourths, five or six during the season,
and there are many with seven and five
eighth size who have hats made to or
der. We asked him If he had any OBJ
lection to giving us the names of some
of the prominent men having the largest
heads not comprehended in the regular,
averages. The result is extremely in
teresting. From nearly one hundred we
select as follows. Each of the follow
ing wears hat of size seven and five
eighths: j. Pierpont Morgan, the bank
er; H. B. Hyde of the Equitable Life
Assurance society, Captain j. Brogan Of
the police force, G. c. Beaman, a men,
Der of the bar; G.. S. Hubbard, another
lawyer; Professor Moeler; j. S, Barnes,
the banker; Colonel w. /. Brown, pub
Usher; j. e. Milholland of the New
York Tribune, DR.. Griffith Alexander
Williams, ex-inspector of police.
Each Of the following wears size sew
en- and three-fourths: Professor An
drews, Victor Herbert, the musician; f.
H. Partridge, author; Justice Clarence
Meade and Mr.. McCutcheon, the dealer
in linens DR.. jacob, the eminent ply
stefan, Bishop Goodsell and Bourke !
Cochran, the orator, require hats of
seven and seven-etghths But all these,
English and American, are inferior in
size to that of one of the regular GUS
toners of the firm we consulted. For
him they regular make hat eight and |
In order to make comparison with |
English hats we found that the Eng |
lish measure upon the principle of the |
oval. When a head is seven and three |
fourth inches long and six and one
fourth inches wide, they add the two
and divide by two, Civ
ing seven as the size of the head The
American method is different Here the
Of the head is carefully
and is always estimated one
eighth more. so that Gladstone's head,
seven and three-eighths by the English
would be seven and one
half American; and all these American
heads reduced to the English standard
would be one-eighth less.
Persons having large heads should not
fancy that this demonstrates greater
ability than is possessed by those whose
skulls are smaller, nor should the latter
be discouraged, for 1t is easy to prove
that quality of brain is as important
factor as size. Disrael was certainly
one of the abest men who ever sat in
the British parliament and, in the opin-
on of Justin Mccarthy, a greater parli-
amentarian orator than Gladstone, yet
lis head was but seven and one-eighth,
according to the American plan. Lord
5helmsfords size was siv and one-haIf