Analyzing Character eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 522 pages of information about Analyzing Character.

Analyzing Character eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 522 pages of information about Analyzing Character.

[Illustration:  FIG. 10.  Hon. A.I.  Cutting (same as FIG. 11).  Intellectual, idealistic, yet practical; mild, but very shrewd and persistent; good-natured, friendly, social, sympathetic, kindly, yet with good commercial and financial judgment.  Observe height of head, with dome above temples; moderate width of head; pleasant, but firm-set, mouth; fine texture and fine chiseling of features; strong, prominent chin, and genial, kindly, friendly expression.]

[Illustration:  FIG. 11.  Hon. A.L.  Cutting.  Ambitious, aspiring, hopeful, cheerful, friendly, social.  A good public speaker.  Excellent planner, prudent, far-sighted, and deliberate in speech and action.  Note high head, both at crown and above temples, long behind ears; high forehead; well-formed eyes and nose, and prominent chin.]

[Illustration:  FIG. 12.  The late Melville Fuller, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.  Unusually keen analytical powers, unaffected by sentiment or irrelevant considerations.  Great ability to get down to essentials.  Note fullness of brows and of upper corners of forehead; keen, penetrating eyes, and long nose with depressed tip.]

[Illustration:  FIG. 13.  Frank A. Vanderlip, President of National City Bank, of New York.  A man of both financial and political acumen—­also humanitarian.  Note high, domed head; width across center and lower part of forehead; inclination to stoutness; large, well-formed features; long lines of face.]

[Illustration:  Copyright American Press Association.  FIG. 14.  Hon. Joseph W. Folk, of Missouri.  A keen politician, shrewd lawyer, and hard fighter.  Note height and width of head; large, prominent nose; square, firm jaw; long upper lip; dogged set of mouth; unflinching eyes, and inclination to stoutness.]

[Illustration:  FIG. 15.  The late Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, of Rhode Island.  Keen, practical observation, financial judgment, diplomacy, shrewdness, energy, intellect, industry, courage, determination, and command.  Note well-developed brows; height and width of forehead, especially across center; long, well-developed nose; straight, firm mouth; broad, square, prominent chin; long ears; long line from point of chin to crown of head, and keen, shrewd, alert, penetrating expression of eye.]

[Illustration:  FIG. 16.  Showing large, well-developed base of brain, usually an indication of a tendency to stoutness.  Note fullness of back of head at nape of neck.]

“‘Why, what are you doing here?’ he asked.  I told him Bob and I were just resting after a day of canvassing.

“‘Books!’ he snorted.  ’I guess that won’t make you rich.  Now, how would like to be a reporter, if you have got nothing better to do?  The manager of a news agency downtown asked me to-day to find him a bright young fellow whom he could break in.  It isn’t much—­$10 a week to start with.  But it is better than peddling books, I know,’

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