DeWitt B. Lucas: the man who introduces you to yourself, through your handwriting

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De Witt B. Lucas
THE MAN WHO INTRODUCES YOU TO YOURSELF, THROUGH YOUR HANDWRITING


Author of:

A Man is Known By His Handwriting.
One Hundred Practical Pointers on Personality.
The Ideal Index of Graphological Signs.
The Ideal Graphological Chart.





KNOWING PEOPLE
Why Individuals Are and Have to be Themselves When They Write
The most dependable method of character analysis thoroughly described and illustrated.  How to know those you have never met.  A fascinating subject entertainingly presented.  Distinctively different.  Unique and compelling!  New!  Educational.


CHARACTER—good, bad and indifferent—naturally shines forth for what it is worth, when one puts pen to paper.  Character is the inner man himself.  A man's writing is his own.  It possesses the same individuality, and the same wonderful diversity of characteristics as do the faces and features of men and women.  For the things which control the actions of a person in his daily life, are, in the main, involuntary.

Writing is produced by direct mind impulses recorded with pen and ink, through the medium of the fingers, with the motive power of character behind them.

These mind impulses become immediately visible and remain so, no matter whether the person who wrote the record lives or dies, is near or far—this index to the character remains an open book to those who are able to recognize and interpret the impulses which are preserved in much the same manner as, at the will of the operator, the sound waves on a phonograph disc are recorded, preserved, and reproduced.

Graphology—is the name given to the latest and most dependable system of scientific character analysis.  It is a truthful compilation of classified knowledge—and hence scientific.

When intelligently applied to the handwriting of a person, it enables the man of affairs, captain of industry, psychologist, or the vigilant student of human nature, to determine with precision the mental depth, moral breadth and spiritual height of that person—and so establish the cubic measure of his or her personality.

Mr. Lucas has been an earnest student of character,



SYNOPSIS OF LECTURES

1.
KNOWING PEOPLE
WHY INDIVIDUALS ARE AND HAVE TO BE THEMSELVES WHEN THEY WRITE.
Nothing escapes the universal query of analysis in these days when iron, sun-beams, planets, milk, water, air, blood, sight and mind are being scientifically studied.  It is perfectly natural that character, and the elements that compose it, should be also subjected to the same minute scrutiny and scientific classification.  The Graphic Signs are pointed out, and illustrated in the most intensely interesting and remarkable series of lantern slides ever prepared on this Science.  Mr. Lucas will also analyze several signatures, or scripts, to be submitted by any in the audience.

2.
WHY MEN GO WRONG
PROSPECTING ON CRIMINAL GROUND
This lecture is illustrated chiefly with slides made from the handwriting of convicts.  The causes for social backsliding are intelligently considered and conclusions drawn.

3.
INDIVIDUALLANDMARKS OF HISTORY
AN INTIMATE INTRODUCTION TO THOSE WHO HAVE BECOME FAMOUS IN MEDIEVAL AND MODERN TIMES.
The title explains itself.  The slides used in this discourse are made from the writing of such notable people as Queen Elizabeth, George III, Henry VIII, John Knox, Chas. Dickens, Sir Isaac Newton, Sir Walter Raleigh, Louis XIV, Philip II of Spain, Duke of Wellington, Lord Nelson, and scores of others.


An opportunity will be provided in each of these lectures to answer any specific questions that any in the audience may wish to ask.



A FEW REFERENCES BY PERMISSION

CHARLES W. KIMBALL (Stocks and Bonds)
100 Broadway, New York City.
CHARLES F. BOWER (Chas. Eneu Johnson Co., Printing Inks)
509 South 10th Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
DR. H. J. BOLDT (Gynecologist), New York City.
CHARLES B. SMITH, (Sunday Editor, The North American) Philadelphia, Pa.
JOHN W. HAMER, S.E. Cor. Sixth and Walnut Sts., Philadelphia, Pa.
WILLIAM BRADWAY (Treasurer, Logan Trust Co.)
1431 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
CHAS. L. LYON (The Kenmawr),
Pittsburgh, Pa.
F. J. HEPPE (C. J. Heppe & Son, Pianos, Organs, etc.)
1117 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
McCLURE NEWSPAPER SYNDICATE,
(Mr. P. C. Eastment, Secretary)
120 West Thirty-second St., New York City.
JOHN C. JONES (Harrison Safety Boiler Works)
17th and Allegheny Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa.



disclosed in handwriting, for seventeen years.  He has written books, and many articles on the science, which have been featured in the principal newspapers of the United States and Canada.

He is a speaker of engaging appearance, and pleasing address, who knows his subject thoroughly.  He is regarded as the foremost personal efficiency expert through handwriting analysis in the United States.

From February to June, 1915, Mr. Lucas analyzed over ten thousand specimens of handwriting, developed through his newspaper articles, without a single recorded instance of dissatisfaction—a record never before approached either in the United States or abroad.

His experience, study and knowledge of his subject have raised Mr. Lucas to a position of highest authority on character analysis from handwriting.

Nothing but eminent satisfaction, and a permanent personal benefit, from a wider understanding of the psychology of character, can come from hearing him.  Not only has he that rare facility for transmitting his knowledge to the minds of others so that it will stick, but he emphasizes and makes his meaning perfectly clear by scores of interesting lantern slides, prepared from the writing of famous people, with which he illustrates the graphic signs, and makes the entertainment a fascinating diversion, leavened as it is with witty anecdote and a distinctively individual discourse.

His object is to open up, spread and maintain a more thorough understanding of people and character, as well as to stimulate serious thought upon individual capacity, limitations, ability and personal development.




Showing a few of the scores of interesting lantern slides (reduced) with which Mr. Lucas illustrates his lectures.






A VOLUNTARY SYMPOSIUM OF OPINION
From business men, physicians, merchants, manufacturers and private individuals.  All different in expression, but all alike in conclusion.

Allow me to write you a personal letter, telling of my deepest appreciation and thanks for your wonderfully accurate work, and promptness.  You have made analyses of ten letters in all, and I found them absolutely correct to the smallest detail, bad or good.  Your typewritten analysis is more than wonderful.—MRS. C. B. MARRIOTT, Philadelphia, Pa.

I have just received your analysis and have gone over it with much care and interest, in comparing it with another analysis made by a professional Graphologist.  Yours is most remarkable, as every statement you made is correct without any alterations or deviations in any respect.—CAPTAIN EDMUND W. SAYRE, JR., Vancouver Barracks, Wash.

I am much interested therein (a report) and wish to compliment you on the correct word sketch of these characters which you have drawn according to my knowledge of them.  As a whole, they are splendidly done, and I entertain the thought that we may be able to use you commercially in the future.—ROWLAND COMLY, President, Logan Trust Co., of Philadelphia.

Several of the letters were sent to you for business purposes, while others were sent because of my interest in the writers, and in your ability to read character.  Permit me to state that several of your Character Cameos of persons I know most intimately are remarkable for their accuracy and scope.  Your work is immensely interesting to me.  From time to time, I would like to send other specimens for analysis.—ROBERT V. JONES, Kansas City, Missouri.

Upon reading your conclusions, I must be frank to say, that I was more amused than earnestly interested, at first: But after considering your statements, and checking them up with my personal knowledge of them, I became greatly impressed with the truth of your statements.—GEORGE H. JACOBS, Attorney-at-Law, Camden, N. J.

Your analysis of B—hit the nail on the head.  Have had associated interest with him for fifteen years.  None alone.  Have judged him as you do, but, of course, not so much in detail—you've read him like a book.—J. M. BURNELL, Denver, Colorado.

Having seen a specimen of your work, and believing that you show an unusual degree of skill in interpolating character from handwriting, we have decided to try out your art in a practical way, in judging the character, etc., of prospective salesmen to be engaged by this company.—HERBERT ABRAHAM, Manager, Standard Paint Co., New York.

I have been deeply interested in you as a Graphologist, and have been surprised that you could tell so much about me and my friends.  I always supposed one had to live with a person to find out about their peculiarities, but you have proved that theory erroneous.—GEORGE DUFFIELD, M.D., Detroit, Michigan.

Whatever rating I might give you on the 'open' analysis, I feel constrained to mark you 98% plus, on the one entrusted to me in confidence. … I have come to realize its (Graphological analysis) value to young and inexperienced men whose character is just forming.  As it is, your analyses have been of much value to me, and have enabled me to further by personal warning or encouragement, the character delineations which have been more than usually correct.—A College Professor (Name furnished on request).

Permit me to briefly acknowledge with thanks, a letter received from you a few days ago, and to add that your insight into the individuality of the person who wrote the letter submitted to you, is almost wholly accurate, if an acquaintance of forty years enables me to judge wherein accuracy consists.—HENRY C. LIPPINCOTT, S. E. Cor. Sixth and Walnut Streets, Philadelphia, Pa.

Your analysis amazed me because of the meagerness of material you had at your disposal.  So far as I know the writer—and I have brought him up, so to say, in his profession—you hit the nail on the head.—DR. H. J. BOLDT, New York City.

One thing which surprised me very much in connection with my own analysis submitted by yourself some time ago, was the fact that you said I was very low spirited and despondent at the time and fighting against depressing conditions, both physical and mental.  This was the exact truth.  But the fact that you read in my handwriting the very thing which I was trying to bear bravely and keep from the whole world, gave me such a surprise that I have not ceased thinking of it yet.—MISS E. A. LaDUKE, North Battleford, Sask., Canada.

Thanks for yours of yesterday with 'Walter' analysis.  Your reports are astonishing in their accuracy.  Those points in connection with which I had been inclined to doubt, seem to show that you know him better than I do, though I have had the advantage of thirty years' intimate acquaintance.—JOHN W. HAMER, S. E. Cor. Sixth and Walnut Streets, Philadelphia, Pa.

I shall be glad to have you refer to me at any time to testify to your undoubted ability to read character very thoroughly from any one's natural handwriting.  You may prepare a letter covering the matter, and I will gladly sign it as a testimonial.—F. J. HEPPE (C. J. Heppe & Son, Pianos, etc.), 1117 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

Your profession is in its way a safeguard many times.  And its private and delicate nature is appreciated by people who are at all broadminded and refined.—MISS A. S. KING, Syracuse, N. Y.

It was only by your confirming what I thought, that I was put in a position where I could handle the situation as it deserved to be handled.  If you are helping every one as you have just helped me, I'm sure you must be doing no end of good as a result of it, too.—LAURA E. BURNS, Watertown, N. Y.

Perhaps you will remember having analyzed my handwriting once before—a year ago—and I am curious to see what changes there are in my character.  Since I wrote you last, I have looked into the study of Graphology somewhat, and have profited a good deal by it.—FRANK J. MARCUS, Attorney, Wausau, Wis.

I have read your articles with considerable interest, and incidentally compared the handwriting of two friends with the illustrations.  It certainly hit the nail on the head in both cases.—DAVID HICKLAND, Camden, N. J.

Several of us instructors at the Huntingdon Reformatory are much interested, and so far, have considered the character analyses quite accurate.—ARTHUR C. TELFORD, Huntingdon, Pa.

You are doing a splendid thing to help the public to self-development, for that is what this analysis means to me.—MISS ETHEL E. WHITMORE, Lancaster, Pa.

Merely for sake of curiosity, I wrote three different letters on three different kinds of paper and mailed them to you, one following the other, until all three were sent.  Each specimen was signed with a different name.  I must admit that you have come close to hitting the mark.  In two of your analyses you stated that I was a bit selfish.  I never thought myself selfish before, but after considering the matter, I find that, in a way, I am.—MAURICE F. AARON, Mizpah, N. J.

Your analysis of one 'Mary' sent with your letter of June 14th was a very fine example of accurate character reading.—E. DEMING SMITH, Kenwood, N. Y.

I would suggest that Mr. Lucas seems sufficiently gifted to consult when one wishes to obtain a clearer understanding of those with whom one comes in written contact.—HARRISON G. SEELER, Philadelphia Stock Exchange.

When you were conducting your campaign for the Philadelphia 'North American,' I sent you a sample of my handwriting, and you returned to me an analysis that I thought was exceedingly clever; and I might add, parenthetically, that it was very true.  You mentioned several of my characteristics that some of my friends stated were absolutely correct.—N. W. BAYLESS, Advertising Manager, Conklin Fountain Pen Co., Toledo, Ohio.

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