Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-15

common form: ~ the egg OF pear
shaped face, broad IT the top and
tapering toward the chin, or the re-
verse. common of the type from which
come professional men; and az the
oval face. the least common OF all.
Sharpness of temper is accompanied
by sharpness of features. Most OF the
poets had long and sharp faces; ora
tors have broad and sharp faces, and
these ideas illustrate the relationship
between form and character"
Prof. willis then drew a profile OF a
head, saying it vas that OF q boy dis
inclined to study, rebellious and diff
cult to manage. It was abnormally
developed at the back of the head,
1 but very deficient in front over the
forehead, and after thoroughly ex-
planning such a character, he showed,
how, by culture and care and refining
influences, through, perhaps, several
| generations, such a head would be Inn
proved until 1t became symetrical and
well-balanced. Originally, he said, it
was simply "a bad boys head" but
improvement was not only not impos-
sibIe, but certain under right eendi-
tions. "The ~i1l-balanced and lop-sid-
| cd head is not hopeless"
Passing to a discussion of the laws
of h%eredity, the speaker said their re-
lation to the formation of character
was not sufficiently understood. IF
any Of you should have a disposition
to airt, then there will be another gen
Grafton of flirts, and SO on. The Good
Book tells us that God made man but
a little lower than the angels, but
when l look into the faces OF people /
see more of the devil than of the
angel. But it is possible to improve
the human race. Compare the luscious
pear of to-day with that Of the not re-
mote past, and see also what has been
accomplished with flowers, and horses,
and cattle, and sheep. The human
race may be similarly upbuiided."
After analyzing his drawing of the
bad boys head, pointing out the de-
fects, and declaring that to him it was
apparent that such a boy had ignorant
parents, of low moral character, the
Professor said: why, you can go out
into a cemetery and dig up a skull n
hundred years old, and from it I can
read that persons character"
He then made the reverse of his first
sketch, the skull high over the fore
head and low behind, and criticized it
in the same manner, and after
rounding it out saying, for in
stance, that his hearers would
find a boy with a head like that tying
a can on a dogs tail. 'THe would get
his fun in some other way. He would
have sympathy for the dog"
Speaking generally to the students
in a collateral vein, he gave them
much excellent advice, impressing up
III tuCiil LuC uCICSolCy vi QOiA6 lo
they undertook with all their might.
Exercise of the brain would cause it
to grow, and a larger brain meant a
larger head and a change Of form.
There is more mathematics in your
body than you, perhaps, imagine. Ii
anyone had a perfect face, which no
body has, it would be found to be di-
vided into three parts, the forehead
one-third, the nose one-third and the
remaining third from the tip of the
nose to the chin, the head one-eighth
the length of the body, ETC."
He then took UP the subject of color
in it's relationship to character, saying
the color of hair, eyes and skin was
not a mere matter of chance, but was
an indication of character. you can
not buy a good complexion at the drug
store, although many have an
idea it can be done. You
can obtain a good complexion, but
that is not the way. 1t is a matter of
diet and of climate. | would not eat
the mixed-up and greasy messes many
people live upon. l would not eat
pork at a salary of 500 a week, and l
would not use tobacco for a thousand
dollars. Too much meat is eaten. A
plain, simple and wholesome diet is
the best-not SO much meat, hut fruit,
vegetable and cereals. One of the hard
est working business men I know lives
might think that was not sufficient,
but he has proven 1t to be. Not only
the complexion, but health and char
acter is affected by diet. You have no
business to be sick. / would be