Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1912 — AUTOGRAPH TELLS A TALE [ARTICLE]

AUTOGRAPH TELLS A TALE

Character of the kaiser Revealed to Expert by Close Analysis of His Signature. There is always a certain amount of interest attached to the deductions drawn by graphologists from the signatures of eminent men. Here, for example, is an illuminating description of ‘the kaiser’s autograph, supplied by an eminent Berlin graphologist: “To begin with, there is a crochet, a sign of pertinacity, followed by a vertical dash, showing audacity, gardless of any obstacle. Then there is an acute angle, a sign of firmness and aggressiveness. . The first stroke of the ‘W’ indicates a feeling of superioritv over the rest of the universe. The termination of the imperial ‘W’ suggests that the sovereign sometimes finds, himself struggling With the multitude of his thoughts, or the power of his instincts. “Theother letter’s Torming the signature show similar characteristics,” the graphologist proceeds. “The final ‘m’ is indicative of great diplomacy, which to the analyist suggests subtlety. The letter also suggests the impossibility of the suppression of the ‘ego.’ The flourish which terminates the imperial subgraph shows a suppleness of spirit, a desire to be loved, also self-es-teem. “The two terminating points indicate defiance and generally the characteristics dare those of an extraordinary imagination.”