How to Analyze People on Sight

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Cerebrals very few reforms could have started or have lived to finish.


The Social Nonconformist

Ask any small-bodied, large-headed man if he believes in the double
standard of morals, anti-suffrage, eternal punishment, saloons, or the
"four hundred!" This little man with the big head may not openly
challenge you or argue with you when you stand up for "things as they
are," for he is a peaceable chap--but he inwardly smiles or sneers at
what he considers your troglodyte ideas. He sees a day coming when
babies will be named for their fathers whether the minister officiated
or not; when the man who now talks about the "good old days of a wide
open saloon on every corner" will himself be a hazy myth; and when
society idlers will not be considered better than people who earn their
livings.