The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-14
PHYS|OGNOMY IN
 CRAFTSMANSHIP Study of Portraits of Fa-
 nous Men POMPADOUR IS FATAL Arguments Produced to Show That Men of LaFollette Type
 Will Never Become
 President

fTOn the New OFK ENen1HS f,Osl. Looking down upon the floor of the United States Senate recently a financier watched thoughtfully the senator from Wisconsin propounding one of his pet theories.
 There" said Moneybags," is a revo- lutionaire. He will never be President The pompadour will not carry one too far"
 Only a short time afterward another man who had made careful study of physiognomical and chronological char acteristics of statesmen said the same thing, in a different way-of the same man, Senator JaFollette. And, upon re- f1ection one recalls that Webster, Clay Calhoun and Bryan stirred and moved their countrymen, took prominent part in the settlement or unsettlement of the questions of their day: were popular be- roes up to the time of election-but were always pushed aside for some one more Conservative, for the physiognonically more placid the phrenologically more rounded and non-pompadoured.
 Study of portraits bears out the fact that the pompadour statesmen, with the exception of Jackson. has rarely been winner. Bryan. with his oratorlcal dome and flowing locks, the hero and the idol of every place where a crowd congre- gated went down to defeat. first before the placid serene Mckinley, and again before the even more placid and even less stirring Taft. Blaine, the brilliant, was pushed aside for the slow-thinking, careful Cleveland. Shave the beard from Garfield and another Mckinley would be revealed Conservatism reached its high est point in the selection of Rutherford B. Hayes, who looks out from his steel engraving with an indifference to the projects of the fire eater that is excep- tonal, ever in a long line of conservative Presidents.
 Lincoln was the last man with long, narrow face to be elected to the White House. All of his successors, whether elected or inherited the presidency, have been men inclined to be portly. All. not excepting the nervous, energetic Roose- welt, have been prepared phrenologically to accept disappointments and discom- forts of their position with good nature.
 George. Washington was tall, six feet two inches and although said to some what fiat chested, weighed between 210 and 20 pounds Unlike Taft, he had no difficulty in reducing his waist measure. He was fair-skinned and fiorid. had deep sunken eyes of a light grayish hue. Adams, his successor, also had a gray blue eye. but his pink cheeks and fat, well-fed face were typical of the case with which he viewed the world. Jeffer- son weighed 20 pounds. had bright hazel
 
 which he preserved intact until he died at the age of s4 Madison was said to be the first lightweight of the Presidents, he standing five feet seven and a half inches, and not weighing more than 15O pounds. pale little man, his life was a struggle for health After him came another six footer, Monroe. square-shouldered and weighing 200 pounds. He had the large mouth and the square head and cold blue x.yhy yNh ,ityet faa axrn aY.f enunciator of the American doctrine.
 Like his father, John Quincy Adams was just fat, but, unlike his father, he was an irascble person. and his blue eyes, instead of sending out good humor, snapped in sometimes so undgnified manner as to move the members of his cabinet to laughter. With Andrew Jack son big men came back again. 'Old Hickory stood six feet one in his stock ings and. although he was thin man, weighed 195 pounds. The high forehead. wrinkled with mental care and overtooped by fiery hair, accented the one point oi beauty in his face. deep violet blue eyes burning with intensity. Martin Van Bu- ren was another squat president. about five feet seven inches and a. half Tn height, and weighed about 175 pounds. William Henry Harrison weighed 200 pounds and was six feet tall. Good na- tured. blue eyes and general nhTsieal characteristics suggested Taft, possibly more than any of the other Presidents: Tyler was also tall man, but he weighed only 1S5 pounds, and had the thin shallow face of the dyspeptic. Polk was another thin man. weighing 150 pounds, whiie General Zachary Taylor stood six rect and weighed 195 pounds and had black piercing eyes.
 With Taylor came an era of dark-eyed Presidents, Fillmore, Pierce and Bucnan- an all having brown eyes, Fillmore being the only heavyweight of the four, weigh ing 200 pounds and being five feet II and one half inches. The fact that Lin- coln, with his six feet four inches, was the tallest of Presidents. has been pretty thoroughly impressed upon the puphc rind slthourh not so much the fact that he was the first of the Residents to wear whiskers. Johnson, weighed 1so pounds.