Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1910 — LOMBROSO ABSENT-MINDED. [ARTICLE]

LOMBROSO ABSENT-MINDED.

Cntmlnolowtat Took No Thought of Moner —Amnalnar Adventure*. One Mde of the late Prof. Lombroso’s character little' known to outsiders made him adored by his children, especially his two daughters, who looked after him as though he were a child. His two greatest domestic characteristics were disregard of appearances and absent-mindedness, says a London letter to the New York Sun. When he was invited out in the evening it was the work of two or three days to get him keyed up to putting on his dress clothes, and even then he was capable of weakening at the last moment and going out just as he happened to find himself. Once when going to Rome he lost his overcoat, but was not in the least discouraged, as he entered the first shop of ready-made clothing and bought the top-most warm thing which came to hand without even looking.at It. It proved to be a long, bright, bottle-green cloak, which came down to his heels and in which he looked, with his broad-brimmed felt hat, like a figure attired for the cjffnival. His absent-mindedness was so great that when under the care of the horns circle he never attempted to look after the money and would even leave the house to go shopping without ever looking to see if he had his purse with him. Naturally when he traveled the consequences for his pocket were disastrous. He invariably arrived home without a penny, no matter how much he had taken with him, having either lost it or had it stolen. In Vienpa once he lost his purse, which frightened him so that when he recovered it he resorted to the expedient of dividing his funda into various small sums, which he concealed about his person in all kinds of unlikely places, so that at least he vfbuld not lose it all at one time. There was a note in the lining of his hat, another in his boot, several pinned to his shirt, and so on, but, notwithstanding this, he arrived home In his usual penniless condition.