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

One of the most interesting lectures
recently delivered in Wheeling was
given yesterday afternoon, commence
ing at half-past two o'clock, to the pu-
nils of the Elliott School, of this city,
by Prot. A. E. Willis, of New York
City, upon the topic fully outlined in
the caption of this article. The pupils
and q number of invited guests Of the
school assembled in the large apart
ment devoted to commercial study,
and there, with a blackboard at his
hand Prof. Willis talked most enter
tainingly for almost two hours, fully
explaining his lucid narrative with
copious illustrations.
After a PREDATORY remark that ne
had been engaged in %lecturing upon
his favorite topic, almost a life study
with him, for about twenty-five or
three years, and in that time had prob
ably talked to half a million young
people, Prof. Willis introduced his sub
ject of "Physiogomy," explaining that
it originated in two Greek words
meaning to know nature. The pub
lie" he said, generally refer to it as
a face study but in reality it is a
nature study. We can all read char
acter more or less by what is common
ly known as intuition. Some nave
the faculty more than others, the
American people are exceptionally gift
ed in that direction. There is some
thing in a face commencing a person
to you, or the reverse, but the subject
is not generally we'll understood, and
it is my purpose this afternoon to give
you the alphabet of the face, so that
you can read it scientifically. There are
three ways of doing this: % by form,
ca by color, and go by facial express
sion. and these are the essentials OF
the study.
I'm the first place, l will take up
form as indicating character. Every
thing God created or man has made
has a form. This book has a form pc
culiar to it's kind, SO has that chair
and this desk. The very hills and val
leys have a form peculiar to them, so
has a town-all these-everything-
has a form and a physiognomy. Why,
if I reach a city and get off the cars
and walk through the streets they i'm
press me with the character of the
people who reside and do business
there. You are all alike in one sense;
and all different in another. If you
would travel all over the United States,
you would not find two people who
look exactly alike, because no two
characters are exactly alike.
"All savages and fierce animals have
large, wide and fiat heads, with pan
cake tops, as %crocodiles, lions, pam
theirs, bull dogs, eac. On the other
had, all timid and inoffensive animals
have long and narrow heads, as the
horse, camel, rabbit, sheep, and others
of that type. Contrast the head OF the
bull dog with that of the hound, for
instance. Now, apply that to people.
II they have a round, flattish head,
they are selfish and pugnacious; if
their heads are narrow, they are the
reverse. The large proportion of sue
cessful business men have broad heads.
The broad head gives force of char
acter, executive ability and ideas. A
man with a narrow head frequently
has ideas, it is true, but he falls to
carry them out. You will find a we'll
balanced head in Andrew Carnegie, for
he has the intellectual and moral along
with selfshness, and therefore he is
liberal and broad-minded. He knows
how to make money, but has no de-
sire to keep it. and in giving it, be-
slows it worthily.
'"There are three distinct forms OF
faces, % the round face, the most