"Phrenological Character of Miss C. Hannah, given at Fowler & Wells' Phrenological Cabinet, April 26th, 1886"

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"Phrenological Character of Miss C. Hannah, given at Fowler & Wells' Phrenological Cabinet, April 26th, 1886"

Subject

Phrenology.; Gardner, Claribel (Hannah), 1864-1938.

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Top-stapled document of 19 pages detailing a phrenological exam performed on Claribel Hannah (later Gardner) by the Fowler & Wells Phrenological Cabinet on April 26th, 1886, at No. 27 East 21st Street, New York. The Practical Phrenologist who performed the exam is Nelson Sizer.

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Fowler & Wells Phrenological Cabinet

Source

Gardner-Hannah Family.

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Traverse Area District Library, Traverse City (Mich.)

Date

April 26, 1886

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Part of the Gardner-Hannah Family Collection.

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English.

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Document

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ph0077

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New York, New York

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H A N N A H.

You have sorie of the signs of excellent

constitutional power.

hair is strong.

Jn the first place your

Ladies like t,o talk about

fine, sot.t hair, and it, may b© nice to look .at

and nice to handle, but yours indicates
endurance. power.

In the second place,your

constit,uti®nal power is indicated by a broad
head.

You have the, orgar}s which Cluster around

the

capital of. the spinal cord; we call it, in

ananomy, the medul.Ia oDlonga:ta.

A person with

a narrowr head lacks vitality: a cat has a
wide heELd,and i t is said they have nine lives,

it i§ hard to kill then.
head,

A rat>bit has a narrowt

and one blow with the ends of a manJ§

_ _ uaidRE:£rfai::aEck r+<

finf3ers will Set,tl® him,

buJu it doesnJt s©ttl®:a

cat; a wide headed person has a better hold on

life.
You have the indications of Capital

vitality in another direction, especially in
I.egard to the lungs. they are strong; the
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section of the face from the corner of the
mouth to the corner of the ®y®,is massive, that

moans lung pow€3r; life, air. capacity to revit,alize the blood by means of oxygen; you

like plenty of fresh air, and if `you were in a
close roomAyou TJould feel it a good dea,I more
t, ham most poq]l e.

Then yo{] have the signs or pretty good

digestion. that is fullness fron the mouth
outv7ard; it isnlt quite equal tct the breathing
power, and you have fair Circulat.i.on.

Now

these lay the foundation ror any kind of hard
work which y(tu may feel

called upon to do,

as scmetimes a lady is of fered prospcots
that s®em prcmi§ing,and the only question is

" have I the

instance

endurance?"

If youwant©d for

to go on the dramatic stage,

the question is whet,her you could stand the
drudgery.

If youwanted

t,o

studymusic,if

you wanted to study,and if you wanted t,o

to be a physician, 'can I stand the tug and

learn



Da.`ttle; we say . yes, you have the 8igz]s..."

and i.f. you wanted to take care of a home and

family,and did not have a million dollars to
back you up, and you have got to begin as you
grandmother did,

p®rhap8, you need not b®

afraid that you

will not be sole to do as

much as most people d{'.i who turn the scales at

the same figi]re that `you do.

When you were

a child,you wore a good rmny shoes out, and

were a driver; active,

earnest, thorough, and

were willing to grapple with that which nt3edo
to b© donej

you were t,borough,

you w®r®

®xecutiv®, you thought you could do almos

anything that you hat strength to accomplish;

Sun dy rise

I

and you felt you had more stren{:th than

you

had; because you wore willing to try.

You have the ability to thi.nk wisely in the
direction of mechahism. aLnd anything you wish

to I earn that requires mechanical and artist,ic
skill,

facility, manipulation,

you

may g6

at it with a consciousness of your ability to
{Jo it.

You would learn to bo a dentist, you

could I eEirn to be an ophthalmic surgeon; you

could learn to play any musical instrument,
you could learn to run any machinery,you

could learn to Cut,and fit,and build

dresses,

you could learn to draw and sketch, you would

make a good architect,if you had a brother or
LJE

husband that wanted your help,it would not, be

a year be.rare you would want to do all the
vyork of some house and`,have it built after your
drawings,

and

then when it was:finished,say

own ham hath gotten this.t'

Tf you, wanted

to study medicine,you would learn the arratomy

and surgery.

in

You would bo a first rate scholar

those branches in passing through the

school.

You would understand it sowell,

few have so good a natural talent t,o comprehend
the mechanism of anything so well as you.

Tf

ou were a man,and asked " could I bo a physi_

physi.gan? surgeon? could I De an engineer, an

architect, a machinist?

we would say,

yes,you have the talent to do anything of that
sort that demands`,ingermity.
doun

You never sit

and CUS with a pair of scissors and chip

up, you cut the form of a house or a face,
or Cut it square, or scme other specific f orm,
you do scmething with it; whf3ro pe¢plo chip

up anything,and make
thought;

waste of it,

they heve no

you mate s®n®thing whenever 'you work,

Your Order ought to bo good; your music

ought to b® good; and wi thmusical training,wo

think you woultl excel in musical manipulation.

Then you have the organ of Form largo, you
wciuld learn to cut,

draw,

sketch,

model,

build,

and you judge of nagnitudo and also of color.

Your reasoning intellect gives your
mind that solid:comon sense.

You are more

knc]wing and sound than `you are brilliant.
There are sone p{3rscns who v/ill dash

into

society, eit her personal ly or in toll ec tual|-y,
and for half an hour, they will astonish poaple

with their style or their brilliancy of
thought, and than it like ice_cream, does not
stand time;

they wilt down.

Now you have

the kind of organization whic,h is more likely

in gchng into society to take a survey and See
hov7 tto land lios, and tlo like a

clock,

run a while before you strike, and tton strike
one, and then str.ike two,+
and keep on.

the next time.

Th®r© are those who work on

society as a clock might be supposed to that
strikes twelve to begin witrb and then eleven,

and finally strik es one, and then donlt strike

anymore.

There are other ladies that

can not live opt an evening and maintain their
level.

improve

There are others that will Degin and

till

the evening

is over,and the

next evor]ing they will start where they have

left off,ar]d Dy the time the vacation season

is ended,the reputation is fairly settled
and estat}1ich®d.

You grow upon acquaintance,

like a winter apple, you a.re b®tt,er for keeping;

themtjro people

to8t, you,the better

whicTL belongs to you appc3arg,

that

and yet we

think you are not dull nor unintf3resting
at the beginning;

according

Out it so s®ens

to De

to temperanent and Constitution,that

you do not show.your brightest and best

the f irst ten minuto§.

Chin(ap

Sone peaples brilliancy

is exhanst©d with the soup; you save yours till

the dessert.
In point of fact,`you have inherited a

masculine form of head, and that is the

luckiest thing a girl

can have occur

to h(3r, to take on eT]ough of €hema§ctilin®

to havt3 the

Stalwart strength,and what the

English call pluck, and not be gossamer, to

wilt in the glare of duty,and on the other hand,

it is f ortunate f or the boy in th® same family
to resonbl© the mother, and two children so

resembling,crcss-wise,will

be worth

twice as

much as two other children r©s{3mDling direct;
hence a Doy waELts as much gentleness and sum-

pathy as:he can inherit frcm the mother, and

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and oy virtue of the fact that h® is a boy,he
will have ®rough of Adam and Old Wick in

him f or all ordinary us®8; and if the girl
can inherit the courage aLnd

fortitude which

may t>e doriv®d fron the father, by virtue or sex

she is likely to b©

sup ficiently cireunspect,

and sensitive,and sus=C®ptible;

a boy inheriting

from his father for',two or tir®e generations,

his hand is all knucnos; a gi rl r©sombling
her mother for two or:throe generations,her
hand is all palm; where they can inherit cross~
wise,

one si {le is palm and the other isntt,

and both ought tgbavo knucklgs, that i§ ,

st].©ngth, .positiveness.

and powgr; an'J you

ha\re all tfo positiveness that is necessary,
antl you have all the gentleness,and sHsceptibility,and s]mpathy that are n©odful; and you

have strong af fectiong. and wh®n you find the

right one to love,and

the right conditions are

pr®sontod, you will b® hearty and zealous in
your affections,and make common cause with

your liege for Dett,©r or for worse, and h® will
alv7ays know whet.o to find you.

organization like yours,

And with an

if youwere

to

De

left with two or t,hre© children and not much

praperty to mitigate the circumstances, you

,

would manage somehow to got the [iright®st and t>est

that is possible out. of the cireunstances.
because you would have the courage and the

skill to adapt yourself to s®ething that would
bring sunshine and prosperit`/.

Then the quali-

ty as we named f irst,would come to the sul.face,
Yoti have prudential gunrd®dne§s, you

have considerable policy, you do not toll half
as much as you know about a good many things,

and you have the policy to toll something so
as to make a

smooth response,and at the gEime

time not Commit yourself or your cause unduly.
Tf a person were to acme to you with scme sub.i©ct that you knevy all about,and the person

1=
_,

expected you `t`tould tell all about it,you would

hear their story and say ' well, that is a
subject thaLt pr®ably has two sido8 to it,like

most others. and it is a subject that

is

worthy of thought and consid©ratior* I have

thought 8cmething of the subject. and intend
t,o give it a full examina6ion. and when I have

anything positive to Say to you on the subject,

it will give me pleasure to tell you.'

That

looks very gracious and polite. it looks
very honest,

but it koops all t,h® ends corored

up and protected.

You ought to have a little more Self-estet}m,

so that 'you could put w}iat you are and what `you

think,bof ore the world
tive form.

in a litt,l® more po8i~

You have to got wound up a little

bef ore you can bring your energy or your talent
in its best conditions.

You want t,o b® a

little enparrassod by the pres©nc® of
peapl© who are well educated,or well imf ormed,

t,hen all you know

of education and information
iinnh&

will begin to boil and €om® to the surface.

If you were a preacher, and went b®f ore the

congregation,and sac f our or five emnent
persons there that you did not expect,it would
do you a good deal of good, but you would tremble

all ov.or w ith excitenlent, with strength,not
with weakness.

Whom you have scmething im-

portant to do, nature generally codaos to the
I.esetie,

and

when the bt]rden is

heaviest,you are

the steadiest.
You have rortuna,toly pretty good Hope,
and that makes you f®ol that somehow and som®~
when, you will manage to ccm® tc> the surface; art.a

you are not one of. that kind that gives up;

antl if it looks darker and darker, you have

a fashion of saying " it is always drrkest
just bof ore day: " and once in a while,when
the way bocones so dark that you can s©o
=___A

nothing, it breaks away. and you come out
into light and success; an:tyou will r©memb®r

these occasions,and they will s®rv© you a§

something to pry acrces when you get into
another

trouble.

Veneration is fair.
rather Strong.

Benevolence is

Your d®sir® tdrespect whatever

is r®spectabl® will manifest itself 8uffici®nt1y, but you will fe more liberal and kindly
to the poor, than you will bo obsequious towards
the rich and the vain.

called

And when you are

away, the poor will miss you more than

the richwill:

the rich Can dowithout you,

the poor scmetimes can not.

Your. Apprcbativeness makes you sen8itiv®

to the gctod or ill opinion of others, and your
Friendship mck es you ccmdial in your affection,

and gives you a dos.i_re to relate yourself
to others.

You here always b®en popular

with elderly mom, m®n altogether too old

except to think of as accepting as elderly
friends, and somehow they have a liking for

you.

If you wanted to borrow fifty dollars,or

if you want(}d t,a get f ifty dollars for

sen®

cr\aritable purpose, say a ch.irch organ,

you

would be the one

to go to th¢3 white haired

man, and sonchow theywould rool that they

must give it to you ; and though you do not

need to bo potted,you al`Ifays have co®r] pet,ted

Dy

the elderly,

the grandpa woultl

think more

of you than the father would, relatively.
It is because you have Friendship, and you

attach pecple to you thrlough friendship; they
do not know exactly why

it is,bt]t they scmohow

can not shake you off, and they do not; and they
would do f or you what they might not do for

the next one, and thoywill do it for you this
once, and do not mean to do it„ again.

The dosira for property with you is fair~
1y indicated, but you have evidently more
skill to do that which

would corn money,and

ror® energy to puck ent©rprise8. out-of which

profit nigh

couo,

th`in you have of the

penurious holding ori spirit in respect to
I,l 0 n e y .

You have more Skill to earn,and tact
to make money,than you have tact and skill to

save it after it is made.

If you wore in

business,it would bo your part to bring
in bi]siness,and get good prices, and make

people like the concern, and like the work,
and Come again; Out you would spend more for

fixtures, arid handsome surroundings, envirorment
than a good mariy others might out of a g iv©n
incon©, who could not make money as well, as
you: so thaLt they would come out about, even

withyouin

the®ndi

but

scale than you woulLd.

liveon anarrowor
Yoti give

the public an

idea thaS you are whole heart®d and liberal,
and

they think you have nor.@ money than you

have,by the way yo`] use it; but if they could
see hov7 you plan and work to got money,i f
you harv® to do that,

¢hey would change their

mi n ds ,

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From another we have the following, written by a fond and anxic)us parent :
`` FOwLER & wELrs :

c.%z.c.cz8it7` /#., July 20.1877.

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S. H.',

All letters of inquiry should contain stamp for postage, and be addressed to

FOWLER &-WELLS CO„ Publishers, 753 Broadway, N. Y.

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i VirATIVHNEss.-Clinging to life, tenacity.
6. CoMBATlvENBSs.~Defence` courage.

7. DErmucrlvENEss.-Executiveness.
8. At.[MgN.r[vENEss.-Appetite for food` etc.
9. ACQUISITIVENBSS.-Frugality` economy.
Io. SECRETIVENESS.-Self-ontTol, policy.

25. FORM.-Memory, fA&;¢c'` looks` persons.

26. SlzE.-Measurement of quantity.
27. WEIGHT.-Control of motion, balancing`
38. CoLOR.-I)iscernment, and love of color.
29. ORDER.-il¢:cfAcar, system` going by r%/c.

in C^unousNBss.-Guardedness` saifety.

3o. C^u:Ul^TION.-Mental arithmcii..
31. Loc^I.Itv.-Memory of place, position.

]gi. AppBOB^TivENBss.~Love or applause

33. EVBNTUALITy.-Memory of facts` events`

13. SHl.F-Esm".~Sc`f-rcspcct, dignity.

33. TIME.-Telling ttiA.#, time of day` dates.
34. TUNE.-Love of music, singing.

]4. FiRMNESs.-Stability , perseverance.
i5. CoNScmTlousNBss.-Sense of right.
16. HopB.-Expcctation` anticipation.
17. SplmTU^l.IT`r.-Intuitiot`. prescienctL
t8, VBNBRATtow.-Worship, adoration.
io. BENE'/ol.BNCB.-Sympathy, kindness.

:a. CoNsmucrmNBsS.-Ingenuity` tools.
2i I DEiulTv.-7ast., love of beauty, poetry.

35. LANGUAGE.-E;rj)r€SSz.o# by words. acts.

36. C^us^Imv.-fya##!.#g` thinking.
37. CoMp^Rtsow.-Analysis` inferring.
C. HUMAN N^TURB.-Sagacity.

D. StJ^v[TV.-P/c¢sa#f#c.., blandness.

For complete definitions of all tbe organs
of the l}RAIN` and all the lcatures of the FACE,
8. Supi.iMIT`r.-Love or the grand` vast.
gee New Physiognomy by S. R. WEi.rs,
qB. IAIIT^TloN.-Copying, aptitude.
•.3. MimEL~Fun. wit, ridicule, facetiousnesg. with I`aoo illustrations. Pricc` post-paid` Ss,
$8 and Slo` according to itylcs of bindinga.

* lNolvlpu^IjTy.cobservatioa, to Bee.

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