The San Francisco call., 1908-08-16
By Agnes Foster Buchanan

make yourself popular is to be
able to talk to other people about
Observation-Disclosures If pos
etble. II not. il doesn't much matter.
The main thing is to be engrossed-
vttally so-in everything that pertains
70 the personality Of the man or woman
nearest US. There is Unborn in all Of US
q huge amount of vanity. We know
great deal more about ourselves, OF
course, than any one else can possibly
guess at but don't we all, even the
most skeptical, smile sweetiy and self
consciously as we sit down before
paIrnist. whose advertisements have
sworn that he viii tell US everything
we want to know? Why, even names
are given, Wonder of wondersl We're
willing to pay even as high as IS to
hear the magic Of our own names!
II gives us a thrill of idiotic pleasure
to be told that we are impulsive. or re-
served: that we have had one serious
illness in our lives and are going to
have another before we are 2s 1t
6oesn't matter in the least to US that
Che panic Of % has been weathered
some six or seven years ago. and that
the shadow Of the thirty fifth mile
stone. like that Of coming event, had
already been cast in too definite and
clear an outline. The fact remains that
the man said we were generous; had a
gift for mathematics. and that our
Hepata-or, good luck line-was re-
rnarkable. We pay our fee gladly and
with open hand What is more, we
send the next friend we meet to inter-
view the great man.
And II Is not only our hands we offer
TO the professional discloser of the fu-
lures holdings One would think from
the variety Of their promises that they
might satisfy the most curious, but. we
1esve che parlors' Of Nine. Curosi and
-.sh eagerly around the corner TO see
what some one else has to say about
Ms This time it is a phrenologist. BE
runs his fingers through our hair for
a while. feeling first of this bump and
then of that Then the gifts and over
sights (there seldom are any OF the
Gods are announced You are inluisi-
tive or secretive and would, therefore,
rake q good lawyer. The bump Of con-
struction is highly developed You
should be building railroads. II your
ewes are bulging out Of your head
,1o41're sure to be a linguist, and that
development over the ear means tnat
Uof1 should hurry up anu 81 iAA<~AA A'~e-
and have a family your long SUIT VIII
be raising children!
Now. ali these things have been re-
garded as the outward visible signs OF
Inward actual fact for years and years
~,-s- since a certain Dr. Franz Gall. q
vIennese physician, divided the skull
srfo a chart for the convenience and
enlightenment OF his followers.
However, paImistry and phrenolosy
I've had their day. and just as we bad
ebout accepted the dictim that there Is
nothing new under the sun, something
appears TO give it the lie.
a character reading and study by
enlries. DID you ever try it9 It's per-
fectIv Fascinating. II even goes so Tar
es 70 lift IN a measure the ven from
-. f,,trTre- And. of course. that is above
eIl and everything the most interest
Ing and eagerly sought after knowl-
edre IN all the wide universe. any
fhfn1 10 get ahead Of the powers that
be and know today what 1t was intend
"a we should learn tomorrow. And OF