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t TnE SUNDAY OREGONTAX. PORTLAND. FEBRUARY 33, 1914, Po YC U OLOG IS T It 1 II JT' A, e ' , - - mrkrjj - W ' v. 7A ----c--' --XV ' ; x XX V - x XX U Yk X . v ' - XX ; .- J X X - - - ni v h . x X- x k" V 4 - " t '?$r - -i v - - V r 1' - A'W ? v '.-4, y y i?- lv " V't' a - . ? k-- . vl : i ix-7 yp''' v J 1 i I I: Li 1 , . Xx tz&y XL; J G' " , ' : " SfeMgT"'.- HR . PTErSlOENT VOOPROW VllSON THE M&N'TAU Type THE CONSLKV-ING.- 'THOUCHTP-UU. ANXIOUS MINP .sfiglNT&bbECT.- NOTE HIS KICK FoKfX.sf Atsc project irte JW BY rE3LA MACLEOD. HE tragredy of "life as I see It." said Miss Jessie A. Fowler. phrenologist, as her eyes fol lowed a seedy - looking young- man who passed out of her office back to a wintry walk. "Is that so many men and women are square pegs in round holes. That's the whole answer to the general criticism that a man finds himself in the commercial world la ratio as he is efficient to handle his Job. "This isn't true at all," she continued. "For instance, take the derelicts who drift In here, flotsam and Jetsam from the sea of Hfe. One sees them any where there Is a place where the dis couragd may find a free seat or where he may warm his hands and try to thaw cut a spirit still more frozen from dis couragement and failure. Down-and-Outers Renraa Wrong;. "And I find one thins nearly always the foundation of the trouble of the man who is 'down and out.' He started out in life doing the thing for which he was least fitted. And when the pro fession Is one for which a man has no natural aptitude he may work twice as hard as the man adapted to It has to work and yet in spite of all his ef forts make no headway in it and ends up as s failure. He may tl'ink it is his own fault. "We, whose lives are spent In the study of vocational guidance, know that he was frightfully handi capped from the start and that he had one chance in a thousand to make a success of what he undertook. "There are two branches in New York of a certain organization that are inter ested In helping men who are down and out," said Miss Fowler. '"The up town branch attempts to analyze a man's character and gauge his effi ciency by what he has done. The sub ject is called upon to state how long he was employed In each place and endless other details of personal his tory. The downtown branch, in which I am interested, sets about its work jrbody' Con "A NYBODY," said Paul Arm strong, the successful drama tist, the other afternoon when I caught him alone and not particularly busy, "anybody can write One play. The majority of persons hare only one one and no more." Mr. Armstrong pounded thd table as If to break it. "Walter had one; Vell ler had one; Manners has just One. To keep turning out play after play the way I do, to be expected to write a popular Tilt' every year that Is a dif ferent story. Then you have to have fertility of Invention that Is my stock In trade. Invention of situation, I mean, more than invention of charac ters, for hundreds of novelists, who can Invent just as good characters as I do, couldn't write plays to save them selves from eternal hell-fire. I don't think you can teach anybody to write plays. If one Is going to keep turning- out Tiits.' year after year, one must possess a kind of instinct for dialogue, exactly as Jack London possesses an Instinct for narrative. The natural playwright (and no other kind ever gains any sort of permanent success) thinks in terms of two or three people talking to each other. , Mwtnt Use Old Subject. "Another thing the successful play wright has to keep watch upon," Mr. Armstrong continued with a wink. "Is not to permit any subject to grow cold. I mean, when a thing is dead, he ought to know It and write his next play on something that's alive. I made my first big hit with The Heir to the Hoorah,' a Western play. I followed It up with a couple more Western farces. Then I saw that the Western subject, to put it In this fashion, was dead, and I turned to the 'crook play. First I wrote A Romance of the Underworld,' orig- inally as a one-act piece, and later I expanded it into a long play. Close on the heels of 'A Romance of the Under world' came 'Alias Jimmy Valentine," one of my biggest successes, and The Deep Purple.' Almost two years ago aow I wrote The Escape,' the first of the so-called sex or 'white slave' plays. I had a big Idea In that play, I believe, and I was sincere in writing it. The piece was a big success on the Pacific Coast. Do you know how 'Damaged Goods' really came to be produced las Spring? Richard Bennett telegraphed td L,os Angeles to find out whether or not It was true that 'The Escape was doing all the business that had been said of it. When he found that It was, he decided to produce Brieux's play. "Of course when I brought ..The Es 1 cape' out last Fall It was most unmer cifully 'panned' by the critics. But, be lieve me, if I had brought that play in two years ago it would have been the sensation of the year. What could you expect after New York had had three OF CHOOSING VOfATTOM? TUAT placing the man in an altogether dif ferent manner. If he had been fitted for the things ne has been dging, we argue, he wouldn't be in the position of dependence that he now is. Bo what he has been doing must have been the wrong thing. We begin by making a cranial examination of him; psycholo gizing him to see for what he is best fitted and to help him to follow out the natural aptitude indicated. Age and Poverty Handicap. N"The tragedy inherent in such cases," she continued, "comes from the fact that many who seek aid In finding themselves are handicapped by age -and poverty. Sometimes a man has worked in one groove so long that one might say he is almost wedged in by his cir cumstances. But when a man has the means to give up what he is doing and make "a fresh beginning, even a late start is better than keeping at work that is distasteful to him. "I had an Instance of this. A man of 50 came to me for a cranial examina tion. I made It and told him he was by nature formed to be a lawyer. There was the fullness of the upper central forehead, which gives us our critics and lawyers. He told me that it had always been his dream to be a lawyer, but that his people early in life had Insisted on him adopting another profession. Now, he questioned, was It tod late for him to take up the law? "I advised him to do so," said Miss Fowler, "as he was in a position to -afford the time for the study. He did so and Is now a happy and successful lawyer. . He will have maybe 20 years of satisfaction that comes of doing the thing he wanted to do. More Vital Than Divorce. "Professor Munsterberg once said that divorce between a man and his occupation often is more urgently needed than divorce between a man and his wife. It is very true, as he said, that a man and his vocation are sel dom one, as they ought to be, and that plays with brothels for the scene and one play about disease? There's what I mean by dropping a subject when it's dead. Sex theatrically speaking is certainly dead for this season and next. I yanked 'The Escape' out as soon as I saw that, recast it and sent It to the Middle West, where it's making me a lot of money." ' "You asked me some few minutes ago," continued Mr. Armstrong, "what I thought Would help the young dramatist most. Well, let's put it this way: 1 Suppose you stand at a corner and watch the crowd go by thousands and thousands of people, all with dif ferent purposes, different plans, dif ferent schemes. Try to figure out what is- the personal life history of even four or five of those people and the prob lem almost drives you insane. Yon feel that you're in a mad world. Life, Love and Ambition. "But reflect for a moment oh the common motives of all that crowd and all those people. Then the problem be comes easy. The actuating forces driving all those people on can be only three to live, to love and to achieve. Sometimes one force is stronger than another; more often all three are com bined. What more in iife is there than that? Every man wants to live and to live in freedom; every man wants his particular woman; every man wants to, get somewhere In the world. "There's the whole thing in a nut shell. Write a play in .which these mo tives, in the leading, characters, reach a successful issue and the play simply cannot be a failure. Have one or all of those three life, love and ambition threatened. Then have the threat re moved and you have a successful play." "How about tragedy, then?" it was impossible to refrain from asking. Mr. Armstrong made, it seems to us, a very sensible answer. "Tragedy is different," he said. 'The achievement may be won, but it will be a mental or spiritual achievement won at the cost of physical life. Yet even a masterpiece of tragedy will never be genuinely popular." Again he pounded the table. "I once wrote a fine trag edy. The Renegade,' in many respects my best bit of work, and It failed beau tifully. I said to myself at that time, 'Never again!' The American public doesn't want that kind of thing. Shall I write - serious plays and go. broke, like other playwrights I know of? No, sir," I'll try to give the public what it likes and enjoys. The Renegade,' a tragedy, was a flat failure, but 'Alias Jimmy Valentine,' a play chockful of theatrical tricks, was one of my big gest successes and it is still making money for me. For all that, I really be lieve the taste of the public is a great deal higher than it was 20 or 30 years MAYOR - KEfSTAU TEHPCRAMEW- &XEGUTWE. XUGHTPTUU FAK5EEIISG T'f . SELF" CONTAINER WRJ. od ANALYTIC MirC the waste of energy In the lives of those , who have merely drifted Into their occupations is a great national misfortune. ' ' 'A vocation, Professor Munster berg, said, 'should be the greatest source of happiness. But it is more usually the first cause of unhappiness. The boy who shifts from one line of work to another Is wasting national labor and energy. Did he know before he started out to earn his living Just what sort of work would best suit is mental and physical make-up he would be able to find his place at the outset' "This is very true," asid Miss Fowler. "This is what is at the bottom of the so-called inefficiency. To be truly ef ficient a person must love the work by which 'he earns his living. And no person can be thoroughly efficient and successful doing something for which he has no natural aptitude. The 'drifters,' so-called, are those who are reaching out, often blindly, but none the less pathetically, for the thing which, if found,' they could do best. "With Professor Munsterberg, I be lieve that a great awakening Is com ing. I prophesy the time will soon come when we will not be so careless about choosing a profession for the children given us. Then we, as a na tion, will get rid of the American idea that every one Is fitted to undertake anything." Advocates Study of Child. Miss Fowler, who comes of a long line of famous psychologists and phre nologists, advocates a scientific study of child life according to a new sys tem; she is confident that this new system would double the success in re lation to the child product. "The system that. has been tried In other parts of the world, where teach ers have made a study of It, Is based on an analysis of the child mentally and physically, which In the early days of the Greeks was suggested by Aris ago. We're improving all the time. Why, at the revival of 'Arizona' last Spring, excellent play that It is, the piece seemed a century old. And "Lib erty Hall' made us laugh." Here was a good opportunity to dis cover Mr. Armstrong's opinion of the work of the man who is often called "the dean of American playwrights." Say Thomas "W All Right." "Thomas was all right," replied Mr. Armstrong to your question, "as long as he was content to be a playwright. 'Arizona was a bully play in its time and so was 'Alabama.' But lately Thomas has got all tangled and tied up with himself. A whole lot of the ories and philosophies have got him all mixed. The more he .tries to untangle himself tl)e worse he gets tied up. I don't think he'll ever get untangled. Sheldon, on the other hand, I never ad mired very much. He's too academic; writes too much like a book. What does he know about the life of the un derworld? To be a truly great writer an author must know both sides of life. I can't say that I think we have any young writer of great promise. But we have had a great many fine In dividual plays, and I do not go around, as a smart young writer once said of me, 'knocking every play I see. "Isn't It rather a pity," questioned Mr. Armstrong with , the sudden fe rocity so characteristic of him, "that ffi. EXPLAIN J" totle, who believed that the brain was capable of analyzation. But Aristotle did not go far in the study and left his students to work out a more per fect system of mentation." Miss Fowler explained Just here that phrenology as a science has been grossly misjudged by people ignorant of Its true character. "People think of phrenology as the science of bumps," she- said, "when in reality It has nothing to do with such malformations. A perfect head shows no protuberances. It Is without pro jections that may be 'read' glibly by the "phrenologists' so-called that flour ish wherever fakers congregate. Science of Measurements, "Real phrenology Is the science of measurements," she explained, "as re lated to the dead; by the development of a given portion of the cranium we deduce certain facts that have come to us from a long line of distinguished scholars and psychologists who have made his. their life study. "The first phrenologist was Dr. Gall, with whom, later, Spurztaeim, the dis tinguished German psychologist, was associated. This was about 1796. George Combe In Kdinborough did con siderable work among the schools and commenced a still more perfect system there. "Horace Mann, here In New York, gave up a lucrative law practice to press forward by his efforts a more perfect form of education and thor oughly indorsed the system worked out by George Combe In 1840. "Herbert Spencer In 1844-45 wrote favorably of this method of psyeholo-H glzing a child and later absorbed much of Its principles in his exhaustive writ ings on phychology. "Ijuther Burbank, the wizard of plant life, declares that it has long been his dream to apply to the training of chil dren the scientific idea the has so suc It's Different Though Good PIo6 Turn Out One Every Year, Says Play wright, Who Tells How He Does It - L '-x w-X- ' I IsX JXT , 1 a few critics, a few managers and a playwright can't get together before a play is produced and talk it over? Among them- all they ought to know something and. be able to make some Improvements. But no, they stand off one another and are ready to fight on eight. It's too bad, this lack of spirit of co-operation. Let's take one of the most recent plays produced as an ex ample. The Yellow Ticket.' Now every critic spoke of the weakness of the second act and of Its relation to Tosca." Surely a thing like that could have been changed in advance. Suppose the American newspaper man had killed the Baron instead of the Jewess her self. Then wouldn't you have had a fine situation In the third act. with the American reporter trying to con vince the Russian police who, even If they wanted to punish him, would prefer to believe the girl guilty that he was the real perpetrator of the crime? The point of the story and the idea of Mr. Morton's is a very fine one would not have been lost and the whole story wouldn't have been toJd at the end. of the first act. I believe in cessfully employed in transforming and perfecting plant life. Mr. Burbank has alwa-ys Insisted that children are more responsive to Influence than plants, and as he has been so success ful in plant life he is anxious to see similar principles applied to child cul ture. "One of the curious facts of phrenol ogy Is that the measurements of the head of a week-old cftild Indicates as clearly as the same head 20 years later In life the natural aptitude of the child, indicating what profession he would find most congenial." Miss Fowler cited the case of a mother who decided that her son should study the languages. Even at an early age the distaste for this line of study was apparent, but the mother was determined and kept him at it. All of his inclination to work and study ran in a channel .altogether dif ferent. When the boy was nearly grown the fight between him and his mother grew more bitter. Finally his health broke under the strain and for a long time he hovered near the brink of the grave. . It was during these uncertain hours that the mother began to wonder if, after all, she had been wise in thrust ing her choice of a profession on her son. As he grew better she become more open to conviction, and finally to satisfy herself she asked Miss Fowler to examine the boy's head and tell her what career she found indicated. Miss Fowler did so and found that architec ture was the portion of his head show ing the best development. There was only a slight development In the por tion where a natural aptitude for lan guage resides. So when the boy recovered the mother gave up her dream and let the boy follow his own tastes. He studied to be an architect and made more progress along' this line In two years than he had in all the other years that he washed studying foreign, languages which did not Interest him. When You Come to this kind of co-operation. I think It's helpful." HAROLD E. STEARNS. Morganatic Marriages. . London Tld Bits. Cupid's power is strikingly Illustrat ed by the sacrifices willingly made by royalty, who defy the laws of kingdoms and marry for love. Often in the. case of a Prince who marries "beneath him," It means deprivation of rank, privil eges of an ordinary wife, both she and her offspring are debarred from the special rights of the husband and fath er as a royal personage. At the same time, however, a Prince who marries for love cannot, except on sufficfent ground for divorce, have that marriage set aside to marry a royal lady. Furthermore, his morganatic children are legitimate and can inherit hia private property. The romantic love story of the Arch duke Francis Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, the Duchess of Hohenberg, who recently visited King George and Queen Mary at Windsor, , provides a striking illustration of what a woman of inferior rank may have to suffer for WTEM "The ideal conditions under which it will be possible for those engaged In industrial pursuits to work will come about when a general efficiency agent is on hand to determine in what depart ment the employer will get the best re turns by setting the applicant to work. "Recently a large department store in New England employed a man whose business, I believe, Is classified as a re adjuster or something like that. This man set to work and began to reorgan ize the business departments in a wholesale manner. His idea was to cut down the expense. To this end he dis charged old and valuable employes and for these substituted young men and women with less experience who would work for less money. When he had completed his proposed reorganization the president of the store soon saw that his business under the new regime would soon go to ruin. So he In turn discharged all the new ones and took back the people who had worked for him for years, and also dismissed the 'readjuster "No man can intelligently classify men and women without making a per sonal study of each. The wise business man is the one who knows the value of each person in iiis employ and who keeps each one for the reason that that one can do the thing which he does better than others can do it. Business organized on this basis is foreordained to succeed. Just as business organized on the other hit-and-miss classification is foredoomed to failure." How Typea Are Manifested. The temperamental types are the square or enduring, the round or so cial, the triangular or intellectual, con vex or quick, the concave or slow, dark or conserving, the light or scattering, the angular or independent, and the tapering or clinging. And these invari ably run true to type. When'a woman has a tapering face her shoulders also are tapering, her waist tapers, also her fingers. And the characteristics that marrying a royal personage. The Arch duke, who is heir to the Austrian throne, declined to marry any of the royal ladies offered for his choice, for he had fallen in love with a maid of honor, the beautiful woman who Is now his wife. Although the Emperor at last gave his sanction to the marriage. Imperial honors were denied the bride, and it was only after some years that she and her husband wore down the prejudice which existed against her, and she was created Duchess by the Emperor a title which conferred upon 'her privil eges more in harmony with her dignity as the lawful wife of the future sov ereign. By the terms of the marriage set tlements, however, the Archduke's wife cannot become Empress, nor even her children succeed, to the imperial crown, although It is pointed out that royal marriage settlements have, before now, been set aside. In this country the royal marriage What the Royal Rulers of Europe Smoke NG GEORGE has the distinction of I 1 being the only European sovereign who smokes a pipe. All the others are ardent devotees of the cigar or the cigarette. The Emperor Francis Joseph, of Austria-Hungary, at the venerable age of 83, is reputed to be the heaviest royal smoker, his favorite being a cigar so cheap and so common that it is smoked by almost every peasant in the country. It is a long, black cigar, tapering at both ends and traversed by a straw. The Emperor's brand, however, is an exceptionally powerful one, possessing a "bite" which would make it extreme ly objectionable to most men. Despite this fact the aged ruler Is able to smoke more than 20 a day without feel ing any ill effects. Turkish cigarettes, exquisitely fla vored and scented, are the passion of the Czar of Russia, who scarcely ever smokes anything else. His cigarettes are made from specially matured to bacco exclusively grown for him in Turkey. Each cigarette, by the time it reaches the Czar, costs almost a penny, and the Russian ruler gets rid of as many as 40 or SO a day. All told, the Czar spends between $750 and $1000 a year on tobacco. Another lover of the fragrant cigar ette Is King Alfonso of Spain, who, however, is more cosmopolitan in his tastes. He smokes all kinds Turkish, Egyptian, Russian, Algerian and ordi nary Virginian, the latter In modera tion. He thoroughly enjoys an expen sive cheroot or cigar now and then. Most 'of his cigarettes are specially made for him by a London tobacco IIT. KUERTA - STRONG MOTIVE TEMPfRA MENT - CONVEX .TyPC. ANP OUICK TO PERCEtve CONCfTviNS IN FACTION FlPM jLf go with the tapering type Is that It Id the clinging or dependent. The cranial types are manifested by width of head, which gives us our busi ness men: length of head, which gives us our teachers and nurses; height of head, which gives us our ministers and reformers; flatness of head, which gives ua our grafters; shortness of head, which gives us travelers and ex plorers; narrowness of head, together with height, which gives us philan thropists; prominence of brow, which gives us our scientists and observers; breadth of the lower temples, which, gives us our engineers and Inventors; breadth of the upper temples, which, gives us onr poets, artists and writers; breadth of the lower forehead, which gives ua our musicians and accountants: breadth of the upper forehead, which gives up our doctors and philosophers; fullness of the upper central forehead, which gives us our lawyers and critics. "When these are combined, which they often are, we have a variation of type which makes the individual all the more Interesting problem. "When we recognize that in the child lies the bope of the man; that a wise direction of the overplus of energy at the time when a boy or girl may be guided into a channel that will lead to a fulfillment of their destiny" through the means of the work to which they are best adapted,, then we will have solved the great problem what to do with the man in the 'bread line,' with the shivering eKizen huddled in the publics park because he has neither work nor a home. "For every individual is good for something," concluded Miss Fowler. "A man may be a dreary failure at one thing, and end his days thinking him self an incompetent, when the truth is he is only one of the great number who come to grief because they get In the wrong boat and start out steering against the tide, trying to do the thing they hate. Instead of with it, doing the thing they love." X act, which came into force when George III was on the throne, reduces to a po sition something like that of morgan atic uniorts abroad every marriage in the royal family of Great Britain not approved by the sovereign and Parlia ment. That is to say, they are not rec ognized in the sense of -oyal marriages. For Instance, peerages and most bio graphical works make no mention of the Duke of Cambridge's marriage with Miss Farebrother, the a-tress, who died In 1890, the children of the marriage bearing the name of FitzGeorge. Again, there is the case of the late Duka of Fife, whose daughter. Princess Arthur of Connaught, would have been heir to the throne had the King been without children. ' At the same time it might be men tioned that in England a royal person age can marry a person of the humblest rank without loss of rights as a mem ber of the royal family, provided they first get the sanction of the King to the marriage. merchant, and his annual outlay in this direction never falls below $800. Kaiser Wllhelm, of Germany, takes a keen delight in smoking huge Havana cigars almost seven Inches long, of which he scarcely ever fails to smoke less than ten a day. He pays about $50 a hundred for these, so that to sat isfy his craving for the "soothing weed" he has annually to foot a bill amounting to more than $1000. This is a very modest estimate, because the German Emperor does not limit his "smokes" to cigars alone, being inor dinately fond of both cheroots and cigarettes. Perhaps the late King Edward pos sessed the most peculiar ideas about smoking of any sovereign. , His cigars were unapproachable for their length and thickness, being exactly 8-g inches long and 1 inches In girth. These prodigious cigars were expressly made for his majesty In Havana and cost 65 cents each. It took more than 75 min utes constant smoking to reduce one of them to the despised stump, but King Edward, nevertheless, managed to consume a fair number each wV. What Me Learned. (Ladies' Home Journal.) "I am glad to see you home, John ny," said the father to his small son, who had been away at school, but who was now home on his vacation. "How are you getting on at school?" "Fine," said Johnny. "1 have learned to say Thank you' and 'If you please' in French." "Good!" said the father. "That's more than you ever learnejd to say in English."
