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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
How About the
Shape of Your Head?

AS to the shape of mans head as af-
fected by geographical surroundings, it is
enough to say here that the dark-eyed
Southerner will show in his head and face
the force of thoughtful reverie, while the
driving forces of physical endeavor will
appear more markedly in the head and face
of the blond man of the North. In chart
ing various types of facial shape and color
ing found myself obliged to conclude that
if facial shape and color did not actually
determine the conduct of man, they at
least reflected the force within him. This
was the basis of my studies in plotting the
adaptability Of the individual to his work
and surroundings.
The pure Northern forehead is distinctly
receding forehead, while the equatorial
forehead, where it is pure in type, has
always been prominent and bullying. In
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
EngIand's Struggle
With the Heat

On the other hand, England disco cred
rather late in the control of her Indian
dominions that her soldiers, and even her
high officials, became lazy if allowed to
stay too long in that hot climate. Why?
At first the reason was not suspected, yet
this was noticeable: that uprisngs among
the natives were periodic, largely because
of this growing lazinees and laxness on the
part of the officials and soldiers. Finally,
the British government decided to adopt
a system of rotation among the troops and
officeholders. This solved the problem of
control. Why? The responsible heads were
removed after q short fixed period, before
they became victims to the laziness and
laxness induced by the hot climate
Curiously enough, it was the X-ray that
shed light upon this subject. In constant
use of the X-ray two important facts came
to notice The Xray, it was found, had a
terrific power to in ure the human being, in
ternally well externally. Also, it was
learned that certain substances, like glass,
water and metals, served to block this pen
etrating force. Most curious of all, it was
soon learned that blond patients, when sub
jected to the X-ray, received far more seri-
JUS TURNS ana internal injuries than did
brunettes This led to the discovery that
the brunette contained in his tissue a pig
ment, known as meanin, which served to
block the X-ray we'll as did metal, glass
or water This meant that the white race,
not so fully supplied with this protecting
pigment, could not long endure the steady
force of the suns actinic rays The blond
man had never acquired this pigment, be-
cause his life for ages had been spent un-
der the moist cloudbanks of the northern
sea zones His dark skinned brother, on the
other hand, dwelling in the hot equatorial
climate, had acquired this blocking material
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
A Hero In His Realm a
Decade Ago. Now
His Subjects Would
Cast Him Down

bit depressing. The heroine, as his maj
esty assured me, was suggested by his
spouse-a most gracious and, when young,
a handsome lady.
King Nicolas had acquired his French in
Paris. There he had been impressed by the
romantic charm not only of Chateaubrand
but also of Lamartine. Ibsen and Shaw were
PROBABLY unknown to him, though as to that
may be mistaken. l doubt if he had heard
of David Belasco.
Before long we were on such agreeable
terms that / had suggested to the King
whom treated carefully not as king bat
as distinguished dramatist-the POSSIBLE
ity of his intrusting me with the honor Of
adapting his work in English But either
he felt uncertain as to my worthiness for
such a task or he was troubled by the re-
membrane of his ministers, Cor at this
point he branched off into Balkan politics.
and, shaking hands with me, went off to
head that council.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
French FIuency
I'm the Balkans

found, to my surprise, that he smoke
French, not only with fiuency, but with cor
RICHNESS. No professor of the Sorbonne
could have improved on his well-balanced
phrases. For twenty minutes he discussed
not peace and war, but drama and litera-
ture, with me- I learned that he admired
Chateaubriand, and later, when had
read his play, of which he gave me n conv
together with his photograph, saw that he
knew his Schiller.
The play, an historic drama in three acts
entitled "The Empress of the Balkans y
had, as he informed me, been acted NJ Cat
''h'e ana believe in Russia. 1t was not
masterpiece, maybe, but it had merit
though, to Broadway audience, it might be
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02

talk of upsetting him, like mere Wilhelm
or foxy Ferdinand.
TO be sure, in Italy. where his daughter
Is Queen Consort, he has been suspected,
as hear, of having intrigued with the de-
tested Austrians. And, to be frank, there
was something queer about the too meek
surrender of Mount Lovchen, the rampant
Of Cettinje. From that natural fortress,
looking down on Cattaro, with ten cannon
and a hundred gunners, he might have re-
sisted hosts, sunk the big Austrian feet
and saved his kingdom. But were the can
non there? If not, why not? These ques-
tons will be answered in good time, no
doubt. Till then we might have faith in
Nicolas
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
Important TO the
Soldier

1t seems to me, too, that in reconstruct
ton work on behalf of the returning SOL
dler knowledge of these principles would
score Indeed the Importance of this knowl-
edge can hardly be overestimated if we are
ever to wipe out the tragedy in our daily
life enacted by the man who fails as the
proverblal square peg in the round hole.
have found a very interesting proof of
the Importance of this in daily occurrence
at well-known shipyard on Staten Island.
AT 4:3o, when the whistle blows at the
end of days work, there is a wild
yell and a rush on the part of the
men. They drop their tools and take
on the conduct of the primitive. The
windows of the boat which the COM
pany furnishes for their TRANSPORTATION
to New York City are no longer windows.
They are mere holes in the sides of the ship
and the men literally dive throue,. them.
10 me this is nothing but an instructive
outbreak of an inward force that has not
been exercised. 1t is blondness having IFS
fling.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
The Importance of Giving the Blond Man Blond
Job, Seen in Fascinating New Dis
covery of Science

fact, l have been much impressed by the
constant relationship between the shape of
a mans head and his character Even
though marriage and intermarriage have
blurred pureness of type, this relationship
between shape and conduct holds true
through all the notifications resulting from
mixtures of type. Among civilized nations
people are neither pronouncedly light nor
pronouncedly dark in color. Individually
are both blond and brunette, and the
blond and brunette elements in US must
have each an outlet
Some two years ago | drew up chart
intended to distinguish these differences of
features. In making this chart / figured
both bondness and brunetteness on per-
centage lines, that l might follow mans
differing conducts in the terms of his blond
ness and brunetteness. I had observed that
a man would undertake a line of conduct,
regardless of the fact of his being blond
or brunette. found that for a. period of
time he would endeavor to stick to his con-
duct. But inevitably he would reach a
quitting point
had also begun to observe that this quit
ting point was only the beginning of an
other line Of conduct. The desk worker I
found, would suddenly take to playing golf
Or the laborer would take to lolling on the
grass. But after time each of these men
would go back to his original task. Ny
observations also showed me that both che
time spent on job and the time spent in
the new line Of occupation varied in individ-
uals. Some men stayed longer on the job;
some kept longer to the new line of conduct.
In short, found that with the regularity
of mathematical precision Nature herself
would take in hand this question of quitting,
or change of conduct, if the man remained
at job beyond the percentage of time indi-
Gated by his blondness or brunetteness.
Nature either bowled the man over at his
job with sickness reduced him to such a
mental state that nobody could get on with
him. | learned from my chart that Nature
thus holds the human being to a rigid bal
ance sheet of conduct according to these
facts of blondness and brunetteness. This
balance, however, seemed always to be in
dictated in advance by the color and facial
shape of the individual.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02

The palace (Which, it seems. the Aus
erlans burned when they invaded Monte
negro was an unpretending, yellow white
washed structure, in little square. to
which one had access by a simple portico.
On presenting my credentials I was shown
into bare square room, and asked to wait.
as his majesty presiding over q
state council. I had not long to wait. In
few minutes a fine old man, with scant
white hair and strong, rugged face, strobe
in--Nikita. His eyes were bright and keen.
His mouth and lips, trife coarse. spoke
of decision, character He looked evactIu
what he was, soldier. A man used n
command and have his will. He had q
heavy white mustache and a. broad fore
head. de wore the flowing, national cos
tune, which he loved; the long. open coat.
reaching to the ankles, bright wastcoat
aid many-colored scarf around the waist.
His head was topped by flat soldiers can
not unlike that once dear to British Tom
mics.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
The Blond and
The Factory

Conduct of this sort we have been too
ready to set down as mere deviltry or
brutism. To me such words are too vague.
The conduct is primitive, of course, but
so is appetite primitive. 1t seems to me
that better explanation is to be found
IL we examine the way we handle labor.
Labor has become so specialized that man
performs only in routine way. That is,
he is rlveted to one spot, saving or stand
ing at lathe, and no longer doing the
mixed work of the original man, hewing
his own lumber and the like, thus balancing
the two ingredients in his makeup, his
mental and his physical activity In the
absence of this mixed work for the worker
suppression is set up in him which seek:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
You Failure?-N1aybe the Climate Is to Blan

Harvard University. The article is headed:
"HARVARD MEN PAYING TO BE MADE
Failures"
In this article Professor Holt goes on to
say
Eight out of every ten Harvard grad
yates fail to attain prominence in the life
work for which they are trained Either
they chained hopelessly by the neces-
sites of the pocketbook and family to
profession which they detcst, or they wan
der helplessly from one calling to another,
driven by feeling of dissatisfaction with
the present. and longing for the future.
Eight out of ten graduates so into the world
from college without definite purpose, and
without definite purpose waste their lives.
To me this is of the most terrible facts
in life, that college men, educated men, the
men upon whom the world depends for lead
ership, never reach in life the position for
which their own nature intended them"
For number of years l have been seek
ing the reason why some men are "suc-
cessful,' while others are, as we say, "fail-
ures"; why some men happy in their
work, while others drag out lifetime of
discomfort. Let cite a few cases in
point. Here is navy, which, as we all
know, has been recruited by the volunteer
system. That means that fit men for the
navy have been drawn from all over the
country. After two years of obser-
walton and careful percentage count of
more than a thousand sailors in various
parts of the country, l find that more
than 90 per cent of them have light or blue
eyes We know that the high efficiency
of the navy cannot be explained on other
grounds than as the result of successful
adaptability on the part of the individual
to his work. We also know that the per-
centage of light eyes in navy men is far
too high to be left out as a factor in the
matter. In other words, the light-eyed man
is drawn to navy service in obedience to an
instinct for his rightful work and environ
ment
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
By Dr.. David Orr Edison

u KNOW of case of 81 great, big, blond
4 Swede who had been sent to Arizona
e. for spot on his lungs. He remained
in Arizona too long. When l saw him
ia was lying ON o cot in the shade of his
veranda, moving his head from side to side,
and was necessarily crying: 81 want to lie
out in the rain, l want to lie out in the
rain" I ordered him moved to his natural
habitat, to his home in upper California,
with instructions to let him lie out in the
rain, if it was necessary to his happiness.
That was four years ago. and he is still
alive and vigorous. His cry, 81 want to lie
out in the rain." was the unconscious call
of his internal mechanism to get away from
an unsuitable climate of fierce sunlight
which was destroying him.
l once knew another man who was I'M
ouestionably dying of typhoid fever When
the doctors left his bedside his parting
request to his wife was to be given
pickle She complied with his wish He is
still alive. To ME it was the cry-the un-
conscious cry-of an unbalanced physical
mechanism.
Either of these two men would have
given everything he had, one for pickle
and the other to lie out in the rain. Such
is the everlasting demand of our internal
mechanisms for complete harmony with
their environment, the climatic environment
in particular. For a number of years l
have been seeking an explanation of the
reason why some men are happy in their
work, while others are victims Of discom-
fort and discomfort Some conclusions,
which / have reached slowly and cautiously,
I wish to present here. They may appear
quite arbitrary and dog1natic. They seemed
so to me in the beginning. These conclusions
deal with the close relation between
mentaIties, our dispositions" and some
of our more striking physical needs and
characteristics The blond man has too
seldom a blond job.
The earliest observers must have noted to
what large extent a mans character, and,
in lesser way, his capabilities, area writ
ten in his face. How Familiarity we re-
mark of man that he has "scholarly face"
Or that he looks like a fox" or wolf or
a sheep The instant we meet man we be
gin more or less to "size him up from his
looks, his manner. his mode OF speech, his
general air He is smooth, ingratiating,
kindly; or rough, brutal, offending. In ten
minutes conversation we have, more or less,
made an estimate of the man. His person
atty is agreeable or repelling. We decide
whether he is keen and intelligent or slow
and a duliard
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
an outlet along the line of least resissanc.

an outlet along the line of least resistans.
From time to time have visited factor;..
and industrial institutions of various kind,
Tor the purpose of study. During and
since the l have had uncommor
opportunities for looking over the cn,.
duct of men at work in conditions wh,rh
could never have existed, except in time ~
war. Never before has labor been so mar.
unanimously treated as during the period q,
war Yet the effect was disappointing N
those who set UP these model conditions
The workers were treated to clubs. tbe.
tres, Olympic games, concerts, lectures 70
say nothing of unheard-of wages. st;u
with ell these Inducements. labor was nat
inclined to stick on the job This. too. nat.
withstanding the great urge of patriotism
which swept the country.
The question put to me on all sides nv
employers and others was: "Why is it that
the rate of turnover in labor remains 60
high? Here we give the laboring man fres
ali the things for which he tolls and save,
his money, yet his love of change is greater
than ever"
The. answer is interesting and inev;tab,.
though no one seemed to expect an answer
FIRST, man does not labor primarily for
money nor for the things which money will
buy IN the lump. He works for the partic.
ular enjoyments which will help him to
Keep his personal powers and tastes in bar-
mony with his life conditions. Sometimes
these individual tastes that man labors n
crafty will seem outlandish. We coma
back to the man dying of typhoid fever who
wants pickle, TO the consumptive WIN
wanted to lie out in the rain. Such Is ~.
power OF this demand on the part of tho
inner man for satisfaction to his personal
balance with his surroundings.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
Here's the Difference Between
Success and Failure

Right here, it seems to me, have one
great reason for the whole difference be-
tween success and failure But there is
still another great driving force which has
a subtle bearing on the success or failure
of the individual in the various lines Of
work and conditions of living-this is the
shape or form of his face.
The factor of shape, like the factor of
color and augmentation, is best understood
if we look at man and his work from the
geographical standpoint. The blond races
which belong largely in the North have
generally ruled the world. They have &C
quired facial shape quite different from
their darker brothers of the torrd zones.
By reason of living in cold and dry
climate, where the moisture in the air is
generally held in the clouds overhead,
mans nose took upon itself a shape to meet
the demands of his lungs. Through long
generations Of inheritance his nose became
long and his nasal passages extended for
the purpose of warming and moistening
the air he breathed On the other hand,
his darker brother of the South, where
the air on the surface Of the earth about
him is warm and moist, did not acquire
this long nose On the contrary, his
is generally short and shallow.
Again, the blond people of the North by
reason of their rigorous climate and it's
winters of non-productve cold, forced
to greater habitual effort in the guest of
livelihood. This enforced activity led to the
development of lungs of a greater depth,
stouter muscles, and a larger heart. The
Northern man became from necessity
"doer." His darker brother of the equa-
torial zones, on the other hand, loled in
his warm and moist air, with his food
abundant and easily obtained the year
round. He was, rather, forced into
Quieter life which induced thinking and
philosophizing. From the history of the
races we learn Of certainty that most
of the PHILOSOPHERS and religions Of the
world, and all of the basic ideals or con-
ceptions beneath them, originated in the
South. The Northern man was generally
the doer, the Southern man generally the
thinker.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
The Case of a
Misplaced Swede

once interviewed big blond Swea.
who had just fired" himself from ~
ship-building concern He was ~;ro.ss
kept in one place all day. PRESSING b;s nno.
matte hammer on the heads of rivots
round him simple, difiident and polite When
asked him why he was leaving he ss;d
protestlngly: 81 can't make a speecbi
rather dig in my garden or walk in ~.
country when l am through with NV ioh
Tins man was a "doer" of the 90 nov saw.
variety His arms and legs cried ont Fl,
activity. -''
also had an opportunity of ouestionins
brunette Of rather extreme TYNE who MOS
out OF tone with his environment and co
was olscontented. His phrase was: "Tbis
Is mule TOO strenuous for me-" On ones
tloning him further l learned that he bod
been hectored into joining q basebou +oou,
"hlcn played after hours, with the mis-
TAKEN IDEA that it would entertain and rec-
reate him.
These two men seem to me- IN iII,,o4..
the reason for good deal of s,coos~ !,
failure IN our complicated world Tba
doer IS SO often kept stationary. and I'M.
suitable activities are urged upon thoss
for whom they are unnatural. These mis-
hts seem to occur in all grades of life
Professor Holt has observed them among
the graduates of Harvard College itself,
Have we not here an important study which
society commands US to pursue for the
relief of ills which we have ignored too
long? The educated man, if he under
stands these principles of adaptation. will
probably be able to solve for himself the
problem of his personal balance with his
work and environment. He enjoys certain
freedom of choice. The blond man in
stlnctively seeks blond mans Job and
wee versa. The man of limited education
IS not SO fortunate. He needs a helping
hand out of the cruelty which we have
practised upon him too long.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
A Partisan
Gentleman

The most recent published portrait of
King Nicolas gave me shock. 1t showed
him in the banai hat and frock coat Of =
Partisan gentleman. Not riding at the head
of his brave troops playing judge out
side the entrance to his palace, but--at
football game. This age is an iconoclastis
age. No monarch knows this better than
Nikita, who, till the other day, ruled ct
cettinje.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
The Ways of the
Successful

| find also that if a successful business
man be carefully studied it will be found
that he has not only unconsciously de-
signed course of conduct for himself in
keeping with his percentage holdings of
blondness and brunetteness, but that he
sticks to these courses Of conduct for
periods of time regulated by these same
percentages of bondness and brunetteness.
He may not deliberately pursue his blond
and brunette conducts on alternating hours,
but he will attend to them unconsciously;
and their daily, weekly, or even monthly,
output will be found even with the degree.
in which he is blond and brunette. 1t may
be that both his blond and his brunette
conduct will be taken care of in his bust
ness career, or he may have to exercise
one or the other daily after business
hours, or at the end Of business week, or
during vacation period. 1t depends en-
tirely upon the percentage in him Of the
unexercised driving force, be it blond or
brunette.
On the other hand, what about these
shifting lines Of conduct in the so-called
"failure"? They may not appear in the way
of blondness or brunetteness at ALL The
break may come in so-called i'll health, with
out any specific disease 1t may appear in
the form Of mental irritability. 1t may ap-
pear, even in course of conduct, uncon-
sciously chosen, which ends in the uncon-
sciously desired goal Of losing a job
have seen cases of simulated i'll health or
nervous irrtability that were nothing but
an unconscious defence against criticism
for this deliberate loss of a job. On the
contrary, have seen hundreds Of other in
dividuals, living on the smallest of Incomes
so perfectly adapted to their daily labor
that they also fashioned excuses, not for
the loss of job, but for holding on to a
job that did not pay!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02

upon thousands of Albanian refugees had
sought shelter in Montenegro. And at
the moment when l reached Ccttinje the
Turks dispatched an ultmatum to that
capital, calling on Nikita either to abandon
the insurgents or to fight for them. The issue
lay in the Kings hand alone For though
in theory Montenegro was a constitutional
monarchy, as one Of the Kings ministers
had told me privately, it was thought bet
ter in Cettinje not to refer much to the
constitution, as any mention of it seemed
to annoy his majesty. / had letters of
introduction with me for the Royal Cham
berlain; and at another time it would
have been easy to get audience of the King
No airs and nonsense Of the usual kind
divided him from the most humble citizen.
At dusk he used to have a chair placed on
the palace doorsteps, and there he would
chat affably with any who had need
Of counsel or wrong to tell Of. In earlier
times, indeed, he had been simpler still
HcAc WdS a Cicc III bOiue part Ol OeCC1uJc
beneath which, when he was Prince and
not King Nicolas, he sat and listened to
his subjects grievances, dispensing justice
like Eastern cad. Just then though,
as the Chamberlain informed me, his
majesty was busy, very busy. Next day he
might have to choose between peace and
war. And in an hour or two he would be
in bed.