The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-22

calls for hats "a, FIVE or six during the
season, and there are many with rs size
who have hats made to order. We asked
Tim II he had any objection to giving us
the names of some OF the prominent men
having the largest heads not comprehend
e1 in the regular averages. The result is
extremely inter sting. From nearly 100 We
select as follows. Each Of the following
wears hat of size rs: J. Pierpont Nor
g.S. the anker; H. B. Hyde of the
EQUITABLE Life Insurance Society; Capt.
j. Brosan, of the police force; c. c. Bea-
man, member of the bar; G. $. Hub
bard, another lawyer; Prof. Moeller, ].
publisher; j. f. Milholland. of the New
York Tribune; DR.. Griffith, Alexander
Williams. ex-inspector of police.
Bach of the following wears size ia;
Prof. Andrew Victor Herbert the music
ian; F. Fl. Partridge, author; Justice
Clarence Meade, and Mr.. McCutcheon,
the dealer in linens. DR.. jacob the emf
Bourke Cochran. the orator, requite hats
of rs. But all these. English and Ame-i-
can, are inferior in size TO that of one of
the regular customers of the Nrm we con-
suited. For him they regularly made a
hat SIS.
In order to make a comparison with
English hats, we found that the English
When a head is "a inches long and 81.
inches wide. they add the two measure
ments and divide by two giving as the
size of the head. The American me hod
is different. Here the circumference of the
head is care fully measured, and is always
estimated one-eighth more, so that Glad
stones head, rs by the English meas
urement, would be Ia American. aud all
these American heads re duced o the Eng
fish Standard would be one-eighth less.
Persons having large heads should n5t
fancy that this demonstrates greater abi'-
ity than is possessed by those whose skulls
are smaller, nor should the latter be ais
coureged, for it is easy to prove that
quality of brain is as imporl ant a fac or
as size. Disraeli was certainly one Of the
ablest men who ever sat in the Britt n
Parliament, and, in the opinion of Jus in
Mccarthy. a greater parliamenta y orator
than Gladstone, yet his head was but us
according to the American plan. Lord
Chelmsford's size was SO, the Duke o.
York's, 65s; Dean 6tanley's, ga, and that
of the Emperor of Germany, 63s.
If man is distinguished from the lower
animals, physiologically, by the super Or
development of the anterior portion OF the
spinal cord, that is TO say, by the greater
size of his forehead, all other things beS
ing equal, the relative location OF the
brain in man must have much more 10
measured by mental results. Such phe-
nomenal beings as Blind Tom are no. as
rare as might be supposed He seems
very extraordinary because of his mu IL
cal power, but similar unquestionaole re
suits of brain conhguratioH, quantity ana
relation to the movements of the nyst~ al
force that egitates them, can one ac-
count for such peculiarlties. The largest
heads of peasants we have ever seen we e
among the Cretins of Switzerland, m3st
OF whom are but little above idiots
The old school phrenologists with their
charts can produce many plauslole CON
cidences. and they will always nave a ioi-
lowing, since those who have large heeos
will be predisposed to believe in their sys-
tenn; but 1t will always be strongly OPP
posed since those who have small neao
have a constitutional objection TO thelr
views. $500
The new views. which attach no imfor-
lance to minute divisions, maintaining mat
the quantity and quality Of the brain de-
terrnine a mans intellectual powers ana
probably his predominant tendencies q e
being more and more supported by pos
morten examinations, aud when appue
to the complex being known as man, more
and more will modify the views OF psy-
chologists.