Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-25
READING FACE.
Referring editorially to his death til
Record Herald says:

| Referring editorially to his death the
Record Herald says:
| Lombroso is known chiefly because of
his theory that unsocial or anti-social
nen-chiminals for example-are de-
generates or reversions to a primitive
type, and by his further theory that de-
generacy has its physical maks by
which it can be detected. The mall
formed ear or nose or hand became
with him a synonym for the existence
Of criminal tendencies. and the con-
clusion was that the only means of inn
proving society lay in getting rid of its
desenerates.
1t was beautiful theory, but over
and over again Lombroso was tricked
in the application of it. He would he
told, for example about particular
case of crime, and sent the photograph
OF some philanthropist to fit the crime
Or he would be sent unlabeied pho
tographs of a William D. Howells aud
of a convictei criminal. AMI he would
pick out Howells for degenerate Of
the lowest type. and classify the Grim
inal as a good citizen. All of which vas
very unfortunate for the reputation of
his theory.
1t may be that Loulbroso would hni
the marks of the degenerate in the face
of William D. Howells as shown BY i
photograph, but the writer respectful y
doubts the statement. Such an asser
ton implies that the great criminoi-
ogist lacked the ordinary insight Of
the 5-year-old child. For what may
be termed face-ology has a thousand
supportive arguments TO one even for
phrenology. Someone may have pur
sued his theory 10 a fanciful extreme
but it requires no special intelligence
to see in the faces of these men thus
the charac ter and reputation Of tue
men. The New England type is dis
! tinct. There's an expression on the
face of Connecticut Yankee that no
one can mistake. This is as true Of the
westerner as Of the Yankee The
Pennsylvania Dutcaman IS in class
by himself but no more so them than
that of the southerner.
When il comes 70 individual types
no more striking illustration was ever
shown in proof of the theories of face
ology, than the two faces of Abraham
Lincoln and the late Governor Johnson,
Of Minnesota. Lincoln, the western
product of down east parentage and
Johnson, the Norwegian full blood. In
1 their homely rugged features any one
can see the same expression. They
thought alike. they were alike both as
politicians and private citizens. And
| their faces We're moulded into like ex-
preston. An interesting study is to
pick up a book with engravings giving
the pictures of all of the presidents of
the United States. Then read the his
tory of their lives and compare the pic
| lures with the accounts OF their lives,
both in public and private acts
1t is generally admitted that man
and wife frequently grow TO resemble
one another, especially when their
lives are heightened out for a long
period of years. Here is proof again
of thought moulding face and express
sion. Man and wife with the same ends
in view, with the same environment of
church, society and locality. come to
! see things alike. Their reading is the
same, their home furnishing is for both.
and if they travel they see the same
places and absorb the same influences.
And out Of all this comes the look like
one another"