Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-12-06

and the progress made in the modifica-
ton of original tendencies and abilities
into actual character. tr
1.-The left hand indexes the persons
natural inclinations and peculiarities,
which, in greater, or less degree, has
been modified in the direction shown by
the right hand.
sIn case of left-handed people this
rule is reversed. In short the passive
hand exhibits the character from which
the person is growing; while the active
hand indexes the character as devel-
oped." ''-
As to hands themselves:
s'Minutia, finish, elegance, work, be-
long to large hands. Magnitude. grace.
generalities are the characteristics of
small hands. Persons with small hands
see the whole, the mass, and work for
the grand effect, and hence with long,
free, graceful stroke and with independ-
ent, rapid motion. The person with
large hands sees the parts, the factors,
and works with an eye to the perfection
Of each one, with an exact and calcu-
lated stroke and careful, steady mo-
ton.
.sThe medium-sized hand, the one in
fair proportion with the body, is the one
that will naturally do or delegate the
doing, as judgment or necessity may
designate as best. Hsfso Esl
''James Il. Eads, who originated the
great tubular steel bridge over the Mis-
sissippi at st. Louis, and who secured
the aid of capitalists TO build it, has very
small hands
Henry Flad, who worked out the de-
tails OF construction, and who calculated
the details of strain and tension, has
very large and very effective hands.
The former conceived the grand idea,
and, both as an engineer and as an or
ganizer, dealt in comprehensive state
ments made up OF golden generalities,
while the latter filed these general plans
full of the needed sinews and nerves of
detail.''
Coming from the general to the par
ticular, we leave the hand and arrive at
the most important element therein, the
thumb:
/ In idiots, who are guided by impulse
only, the thumbs are small and often
withered or deformed, and are usually
beneath the Overclasping fin
gers. Infants and feeble-minded per-
sons in closing the hand double the
fingers over the thumb. In both cases,
however, as intelligence dawns and as
there is any exhibition of will or choice,
the thumb asserts its supremacy by
doubling over the fingers. When the
of an epileptic fit comes on,
fl,sa
spasm the thumb is unusually hid in the
palm, under the fingers. When the
great darkness of death settles about the
glazing eye, the fingers shut over the
thumb and bury it. One thing may al
ways be certified, the person with the
three phalanges of the thumb full and
strong. and equally developed, will be
no ordinary individual. Such a one will
always be forcibly intelligent and effect
vie Rarely, however, will such a one
bear character of unmiXed good or
evil. Such thumb always belongs to
one of marked power, and usually to one
who, whatever his general character,
has great physical strength, sensuous
keenness, and dominating tendencies
great temptations. clear and decided
plans, indomitable perseverance"
As to the fingers:
"Short fingers appreciate and love
grace, generalities; they see
the mass, judge of the whole, and af-
perceive, examine or appre-
ciate the parts or particulars.
''Long fingers, on the contrary, are
by minutia, elegance, fin
ish; they perceive the details, under
stand the parts individually, and from
them appreciate or estimate the mass or
general effect.
"Smooth fingers signify perception,
intuition and rapid determination. They
want clear statement, illustration, testi- /
mony and metaphor.
8. knnfted fingers tell of lnoic. arpIl- |