Come 



to hit upon the plan of having a wooden form 

 constructed to match the plane of the orbit of 

 that portion of my skull which is designed by 

 nature, besides growing hair, for carrying a hat 

 rim. Both these objects it had previously not 

 fulfilled to my satisfaction. Now I transfer the 

 pressure, discomfort, and headaches to the block 

 of wood, and when this has extracted them com- 

 pletely from the hat, I wear it. 



Could anything be more simple, and why 

 should I have taken thirty years to find it 

 out. 



My cranial protuberances of benevolence, sen- 

 sibility, amiability, etc., as I presume them to 

 be in the absence of expert phrenological opinion 

 to the contrary, are thus no longer constricted 

 as they were before, and can expand more 

 freely. 



I never knew the cause of some of my phys- 

 ical discomforts and moral deficiencies till I made 

 this discovery, which must be sound and not 

 mere theory, as it is evidenced by the practical 

 proof that I feel less evilly disposed toward 

 my neighbor when I have a comfortable hat on 



19 



