Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1915 — Muted by Measurements. [ARTICLE]

Muted by Measurements.

- Modern psychology has not yet attempted to loose tho bands of Orion, bind the sweet influences of the Pieiades or draw out leviathan with a book, but it has accomplished something almost as difficult, through Dr. Max Bass, of Worcester, who has involved a plan for measuring temperaments with a tapeline. Armed with an accurate measure and instructed by Dr. Bass, the young man in search of a mate, according to the doctor’s theory, may go and infallibly select the right girl to preside over his home. That is, if he finds one that comes up to his plans and specifications, he will be able to identify her with mathematical precision. But there is the rub. These dehumanized professors never allow for the merely human equation. There are not many girls of spirit who will stand without hitching while undergoing a test for dimensions, tensile strength and temperament. Besides, the learned j>rofessor is astray in another hypothesis. Young men do not select, the polite tradition to the contrary notwithstanding; they” are selected. Or, if they do select, it is as the fish selects the alluring bait dangled before its delighted eyes. And no properly brought up young woman is going to select her husband by measuring him with a tapeline. If she were as practical as that she would select I him by his commercial rating.— Chicago News.