The San Francisco call., 1904-02-21

delicate tracery of pin pricks and
from this map of your bumps" your
hat is made and the map filed away
for future reference. This is the up
to-date way of buying your hats.
Halter Dillon has hundreds OF these
little pin perforated maps, and among
them are the most prominent politi
clans of the last two decades, though
for the purpose of best illustrating
this article only the men who are now
filing the public eye are used herewith.
First on the list is Mayor Schmitz.
Would you ever suspect from looking
at his face how the birdseye view of
his head looks to Halter Dillon? AS
recorded by the head measuring ma
chine it is almost perfect egg shape.
with only a slight DETECTION from the
even curving line on the left side. AS
shown in the pictures, the lower end Of
the dotted line is the forehead and the
upper the back of the head. To the
right of Mayor Schmitz is Franklin K.
Lane and to the left Henry ]. Crocker.
who were the rival candidates for Mr..
Schmitz's office during the last cam
paign. Just note the great dissimilara
ity in the shape of all these three
heads. Mayor Schmitz's is widest at
point directly above the ears. Mr..
Crocker's dust behind the ears, while
Mr. Lanes, strangest of all, is widest
directly in front of the ears and almost
above the temples, sloping off abruptly
into very pointed forehead. 1t is the
most curiously shaped head of all the
politicians in Halter Dillons big col
lection, full of dips and angles and un-
expected contusions.
Halter Dillon explains these sudden
little dips from the even curve of the
head with the very ingenious theory
that they are caused by sleeping more
on that side of the head than on the
other. The expert phrenologist would
have quite another theory and would
proceed to demonstrate it thus: That
the width of the head behind the ears
denotes the driving force, the grit, the
determination, the bulldog tenacity
that brings success, while the width in
front of the ears shows the intellectual
development. Those who are fond of
delving into the sciences. therefore, can
make a comparison between these three
records Of the head-measuring machine
ana the ISIuTuS Ol lllC ldSI ClCCNLOhs
OF almost similar shape to Mr.. Crock
er's is the little pin-hole map of Cor
oner Leland's head, though it has
greater proportionate breadth at the
forehead, without any diminution of
width behind the ears. Those who
know anything of phrenology may be
able to Gull from this the reason of
Coroner Leland's successive return to
office. Halter Dillon has his own pecu-
liar theories on this subject And per-
haps they are not all based on the rec
ord of his head-measuring machine.
District Attorney Byington's head, as
may be seen from the dotted lines
around his portrait, Is of quite diff
ferent shape, so perhaps the little head
measurer is not an infallible index to
political success and perpetuity. The
most prominent protrusion is here
shown on the. right side Of the head,
though whether or not it is the special
bump" of legal learning does not seem
to be borne out by comparison with the
curvature of three other judicial and
legal lights. City Attorney Long and
Police Judge Mogan have heads much
alike in shape to be sure. but they are
nothing like District Attorney Bying-
toms, while on the other hand the shape
of Lawyer Edward L. Sweeney's head
is so totally different from the other
three as to belong to another race en-
tirely, though Halter Dillon declares
that nativity hasn't anything whatever
to do with the subject at all, at all.
Lawyer Sweeney's head is almost Gu
cumber shaped, and in a modified form