Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-11-07
THE SCIENCE OF CHIROMANCY,
And Indications Of Character Nhica
1t Is Supposed TO Reveal.

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If the palm of the hand is too meager
and narrow it shows feeble DISPOSE
tiOn, wanting in versatility or fertility
OF conception, a nature of weak passions
and without power; if it is supple and
of thickness and size in proport on
with the fingers and the rest of the
body, it denotes aptitude and bright
ness of idea-that is, people with
well formed hands are apt to have well
formed bodies, and the roughncss or
smoothness of the hands indicate
roughness or smoothness of character.
Even animals can Ee known by the
delicacy or clumsiness of their paws
and feet. If your second Joints"
those nearest the nails, are developed,
you have well ordered mind; ii both
joints are developed you have very
well ordered mind. And the same
law applies to the toes. But it is use
less to fret if your fingers are more or
less knotted than you would like them
to be. The fates are fixed.
The fingers, whether knotted or
smooth, have the third phalange, that
which bears the nails, either pointed,
conlcal, square or spatulated. Take
two hands, both spatulated, but one
smooth and the other knotty. Both
subjects that is people will be active,
will have an aptitude for physical ac-
tivity and an inclination to regard
things from their usual practical side.
Both will appreciate things real, physi-
cal force, calculation. sciences natural,
experimental and physical, and so on,
Just like some people with conical fin
ger-ends. But the subject with the
smooth spatulated fingers will succeed
In these arts by inspiration, spontane
ity, locomOtion. whilst the one with
io nted or knotty fingers will succeed
by calculation, reasoning and proba-
bility. A smooth hand with the third
phalange very pointed and drawn out,
indicates ideality, religion and contem-
plation in their highest development
But it is useless to pull at the third
phalange unless nature has made it that
way. If you have it you may call it
the psychic hand, which is absolutely
ideal and impractical.
A hand which is hard and stiff and
has difficulty in opening to its full
extension indicates obstinacy. A large
hand indicates love of minutia and de-
tail. The most correct and learned
musicians have square fingers, whilst
singers-that is, the impartial idealists
-ha e nearly always the third pha-
lange pointed. Tie thumb is the most
essential part of the human hand. 1t
is the thumb which constitutes the
great difference between the hand OF
man and the paw of quadrupeds. The
monkeys thumb is short and almost
immOb.le. A man with his thumb cut
off stood for coward among the
anc' ent Romans. The thumb is the
indicator of the will and the intellect.
A baby closes its fingers over its thumb
and so takes good care of it, And when
grown man has made up his mind to
thing and is fixed he is apt to close
his thumb over his fingers, especially if.
he is pugnac;ous, while epileptic pa
tients during fits fold their thumbs in
side their hands, like a baby. If the
second or outer phalange of your thumb
be narrow, mean and short your will is
q weak one.
Born idiots come into the world
0ltner without thumbs or with their
thumbs quite abortive and useless. An
artist with hard hand will choose and
paint practical subjects. showing manly
occupations, while an artist with soft
hands will be apt to paint SUBJ ;ects that
are ideal and with more delicate fancy.
People with soft hands always have the
little fieshy ball on the face of the outer
phalanges more developed, and this
gives them better taste and tact. The
tips of the fingers are intellig, mt. Peo-
pie with hard hands are seldom if ever
polished in their manners, though they
are often goo l-natured and sensitive and
capable of tue and ardent love. The
beau ideal of hand is that which is
firm Wi. hout being hard and supple
without beng soft.