Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1911 — Unreliable Physiognomy. [ARTICLE]

Unreliable Physiognomy.

I am a profound disbeliever in physiognomy. Features are falße witnesses. Stupidity frequently wears a mask of intelligence I know business men who look like poets and poets who look like business men. Men of genius invariably look like Idiots, and )f you pick out the man who looks most eminent in a party you are sure to find be Is a nobody. I always distrust men who look mag nlflcent. Nature is a stingy creature. She seldom gives a man the double gift of being great and looking great. She took care to lame Byron and deform Pope and disfigure Johnson. But the crowning example of her jealous parsimony Is Shakespeare. I have al ways been disappointed with Shakespeare s face. It does not live up to his poetry. It is dull, heavy and commonplace—Adventures in London.