Character.

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 265, 27 October 1874, Page 6

Character.

A lecture was recently given on " Hats." The speaker, who was a prhenologist, argued in favour of a man betraying a character by the way in which he wore his head-gear, and, doing so, he demonstrated that those of a bellicose turn of mind placed their hats on one side of their heads (the soldier for instance), in order that the hat might touch the most actively developed part of the brain—namely, that of combativeness. The proud man too, he continued, would naturally wear his hat well on his forehead, resting it thus upon the apex of the parietal bones, beneath which lay the organ of self-esteem. And, continued he, the benevolent man, the person who loves his fellow-creatures, the being who delights in acts of kindliness, wears his hat on the back of his head in order that it may rest on the upper portion of the frontal sinus, where is situate the organ of benevolence and generosity! When the audience left the hall, two-thirds of them had suddenly betaken themselves to wearing their hats on the extreme back of the head. Scarcely a man was present who had not set up for a generous, benevolent, high-minded individual on the spot.