Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-04
Hats and Boots Reveal
Villainy and Virtue


TT takes a German savant to discover big
meanings in little things that the ordi-
= nary observer regards as Of no special
consequence. Prof. Gross of Leipsig has
devoted several years to the study OF head
gear and footwear. He has now given the
world the benefit Of his strenuous labors
IN work on the psychology of hats and
boots According to the German professor
by the aid OF MS book you can spot a
mans true character at once by noting
how he wears his hats and boots.
For instance, the hat worn exactly per-
pe0dicular to the vertical axis of the head
Is a sign that a man IS upright, but q
pedant and a boor. Should 1t turn out
that Herr Gross wears his hat in this
IA shion one might conclude that there IS
something IN his theory As It is one must
take his statement on trust. Men who are
amiable and fUI Of the milk of human
kindness, ne tells Us, wear tho hat little
on one side. But the wearing of the hat
very much on one side is an unfailinG
sign OF insOIeUce and swagger. The man
VINO wears his hat on the back of his head
Is In a bad way. 1t shows that he is reck-
less and given to spending more than no
makes. The further back the hat is the
nearer TO bankruptcy is the wearer. You
must be careful how you tackle Q man
who goes to the opposite extreme and
wears his hat pulled down over his fore
head. 1t is proof that he has an ugly
temper.
Another Lightly compromising thing. 1t
seems IS ones bootheel record. Prof
Gross can re I'D 1t you run. ''Scrapology''
is the name of this science. 1t says that
man who wears down the heels of his
boots equally may he put down as ener-
getc and trustworthy II they are worn
down on the outer side he has imagination
and an adventurous spirit If they are
worn down on the inner sde-and that is
where most folk wear them down, as any
shoemaker will tell you-he is weak and
undecided
This sort of stuff passes muster APP
parently in Germany as scientific literature
Anybody can theorize on the subject with
just as much likelihood of hitting it off
right the learned Herr Gross. Here s
contribution to the science which occurs
to NE offhand. If a mans heels have
rubber pads on them he is unlikely to lend
one large sum of money without Sc
curity. l guarantee that, if subjected to
the test Of actual and extensive experience,
this deduction will he found to be true far
oftener than any Of those put forth by
the learned German professor after years
of arduous study.
don't suppose that Prof. Gross will ever
have cause to complain that his work has
been prated IN America. But there are
many German authors who complain that
they don't get fair play there. Privy Coun-
mllor Lehr of Munich has been commits
stoned by them to agitate in favor of the
abolition OF what they describe "the
piratical American copyright law" Herr
Lehr has begun the task by asking promi-
nent German writers TO give them an ap-
proximate estimate OF the losses they have
sustained through their works being pirat-
ically printed in America.
Prof Arthur Achleitner considers that
American printers and publishers have
robbed him OF the sum of 81, $50 during the
space of seventeen years: Herr Adam
Beyerlein writes that he has been robbed of
s3,I5o for Jena oder Sedan" alone Ida
Boyed states that her losses during the
space Of twenty-five years have amounted
TO 10000.
The losses which other German writer's
consider they have suffered through the
piratical publication of their works in
America are: Theodore puimchen. $40 900;
Or. Ludwig Ganghofer, $1,000 to $1,000;
Wilhelm Jensen s7.5C0: Ernest Won Widen
bruch, :2cCo; Ernest Won Hesse- Wartegg.
s2.5C0, Max Nordau for conventional Lies
and Paradoxes' alone, $4,000, and Peter
Posegger. $500
Ludwig Fulda accompanied his estimate
with the following remarks: The existing
treaty is unworthy of the German nation.
The obligation to have imperial German
work printed in America is unjust and
entails considerable expense, and pieces for
which copyright has been obtained at
much sacrifice are played without any roy
atty being paid. 1t Is hardly exaggerat!on
to state that before the present treaty
came into force German authors were plum
dered gratis In the United States. but now
adays German authors must pay in order
to b. robbed by Americans"
Shan F. Bullock has been REVEALING the
dearth Of honest and stimulating literary
criticism. The days Of plain speaking
not less than OF high thinking, are no
more" he says. We must dssemb!e our
hates. Considerateness. that is the pre-
vaiins literary fashion. Because of mo-
tives, some Of them good many Of them