PHRENOLOGY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2590, 9 July 1881, Page 2

PHRENOLOGY.

SECOND EDITION

Professor Simon, the phrenologist, lectured to a moderate audience at the Oddfellows’ Hall, Barnard street, last evening. The Professor is an American, and has evidently devoted a good deal of attention to the “bumps.” After some introductory remarks on the science he invited anyone present who chose to step upon the platform, and six or eight people accepted the invitation. The examination of the heads of these members of the audience created a good deal of amusement. Some of those who submitted themselves to examination had good cause to be pleased with what they heard; while with others the reverse was perhaps the case, for the Professor conducts his examinations in a strictly impartial manner, holding the opinion favored by the school to which he belongs that if a man is lacking in desirable qualities he is not to be blamed for what he can’t help, and, as with Paddy’s blind horse, his defects are his misfortune and not his fault. The Professor had announced that he would delineate character plirenologically while blindfolded, but the comparatively small attendance evidently discouraged him. Such an audience, as he remarked,failed to satisfy his “ approbation ” which quality is with him, it seems, largely developed. And so the blindfolding did not take place. The entertainment will be repeated this evening, however, and if there is a satisfactory attendance the Professor positively promises to perform the teat.

Professor Simon has been consulted private!} at the Oddfellows’ Hall by a great many people during the day since his arrival, and many have had to depart •with their humps unfelt. In eonaequence of this he intends to prolong 'his stay until Monday evening, in order to give all an opportunity of interviewing him.