The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-09-30

to right We, from childhood. Imagine
and probably acquire the forms OF letters
| correctly in the left lobe and backward
| in the right. so We produce them accord
ing as the left or right lobe predominates.
yogt in an interesting experiment with
about hundred children noted that when
they were made 70 write word with the
| right hand and then with the left ike
ness in the writing was never attained
| If that of the left hand was written BACK
ward and shown in a mirror likeness
was seen
! These. however are simple hypothesis;
hut what is sure, is that criminals are
more often left-handed than honest men,
and lunatics are more sensitiyely lett
sided than either of the other two.
That fact indicates that in criminals
and lunatics the right lobe predominates
very much more often than in normal
persons
While healthy man thinks and feels
with the left lobe the abnormal thinks,
wills and feels more with the right
thinks crooked" as the popular proverb
truly has it.
/ may say that the little research / have
made in brains and skulls of criminals
shows a singular predominance Of the
right lobe.
In the only brain of a criminals weighed
by Bischof the right lobe was twenty
one grains heavier than the left. In fif-
teen brains of homicidal thieves, weighed
by Prof Giacomini. eight had the right
lobe twenty-one grains the heavier. and
only in seven was the left heavier, with
an average of thirty grains. | have stud
led forty-four heads of criminals in my
museum at Turin. and 1 ind asymmetry
very prevalent in the right lobe in IL per
cent. and in the left % per cent. This
agrees lin a negative way with what
Boyd and Ireland (''The Brain" 1890 find
in normal brains and Bastian who finds
a greater specific weight in the gray sub
stance of the left hemisphere in COM
parison with that of the right.
Here IT may be said: How is it that one
person is left -handed, and another sensi-
lively selft-sided. and not both together?
How is it that there are in the world left
handed people who are anything but luna
tics and idiots and even less criminals?
This is explained by the fact that the
workings of the brain which influence
the movements are quite different from
those which act on the sensibilities. and
SO it may easily be that the first predon1-
mate over the last.
Besides the presence of a single heredi-
tary trait in an individual does not at
all mean that his organism Is in state
of arrested development or of inferiority.
A.,t laft h nd
edness or sensitive left-sidedness, it is as
though we had only one musical note,
which taken alone, signifies nothing and
gives no harmony; that is. such traces of
lunacy or criminality. until associated
with other symptoms. such as exaggerat-
ed Uranium esymmetry. Authorizations,
etc, mean nothing. So one can without
difficulty find among good men real left
handedness, as among the greatest evil
doors there are some who have not that
characteristic. l do not dream at all of
saying that all left-handed people are
wicked. but that -handedness united
to many other traits. may contribute to
form one of the worst characters among
the human species.
Here l will note curious thing Long
before I. after much technical observa-
ton, came to this conclusion, the people
in the provinces of Emilia. Lombardy
and Tuscany had already declared the
same when they framed and used the
saying. He is left-handed," to express
the idea that person is Enthusiastically.
Rev. r. H Fife. of the Westport Chris
tan church. Kansas City. Mo, has about
completed his new church. 1t is a hand
some edifice. and every stone was placed
in position by the pastors own hand or
set under his personal direction and su-
pervision. His three sons are employed
on the building
Altar of ylangylang which rivals altar
of roses as a perfume and is worth from
$40 to $50 more per pound, is the product
of a tree which grows in the Philippines
An iron cable. which is claimed to be
the largest in the world. has been finished
at Lebanon. Pa. 1t is more han a mile |
long anu each link weighs 90 pounds