The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-08-20
soEE sTEAEGE HANDS.
There Is "a Great Deal OF CItaraclerl In Them
II We Only Know 40.

There Is a Great zeal OF Cuaracleri IN Them
II We Only Know IL.
Hands reveal habits occupations, trades,
SAWS writer iu CaSsolls Family Magazine
A crop Of them rises at the thought Ike
the show thrust up from q crowd OF honor
OF a candidate after an elsCtion speech.
There Is the carpenters with the broad
thumb, and those Of the fraternity Of -four
ingrained mealy, and white; the musl-
clans, with the powerful wrist and the
fingers delicate, sensitive, and agile 10 the
last degree; the hand of the semptress,
with an honorable little bit Of nutmeg
crater on the fOreL u-ET that works so
hard of the scientific man, who lectures
to explain mysteries TO lower mortals, and
whose eNactitude Of touch is the image Of
his mental precision, while the nervous
stretch of his fingers corresponds with ms
tension OF mind.
The sleight-of-hand professor is man
Of long fingers A conjuror with slow
and chubby hand would betray the awful
secrets the Ilum-pudding that IS taken
from the depths of your best hat.
But besides character and trade, the
hands tell the age. Soft and round the
baby's pair Of buff balls, with their fat
wrists deeply ringed, appear as II they
never can do anything in this world Yet
the girls hand viii become a treasure,
and the BOYS hand viii battle with life
and with his fellow men for the mastery.
II isappslline 70 think of what those help
less little puff-5aIs have before them
After The first dimples, they become the
inkv hands Of school; then the awkward
hands. that don't know what TO do with
/ themselves. Years pass, the boys hand
I ceases 10 ETumbla at ElOves-yea- he wears
T them IN extravagant freshness in cOmpar-
ison Hs his collars grow upward and his
+ shoes tighten within an inch OF hls HE.
. The result OF these phenomena iS that "a
/ ring begins to shine with charming strange
ness on another hand, that seemed child S
/ hut vest erday. The young wife tells by
/ her hands that II is not long since the wed
ding, because she cannot let that new
ring alone but twists 1t around for the
/ novelty, and admires L, with an uucOu-
scfous knack of CareSsIng II in idle
moments Her dimples disappear, as the
children gather to make a home circle
it is the hand OF the woman now, with
its verv framework traCeable.
DimpIes bones, and wrinkles mark the
three stages of Hfe's progress With the
yyriukIcd stage the staadiness Of youth
7 often remains in resClute characters
When the Duke Of Wellington was very
old man, he could still fill glass Of water
TO the last possible drop, and hold il VI
steadily. brimful. The helpful hand.
keep their youthful activity, too. far int,
the WltneTnS age. anu TIA hollg -ioN li4e
natures there IS. q sort OF Immortality Of
youth: the warmth u affection has giye1
more than royal prerOzatiye; the hant
Is beautiful always 70 the eyes that know
IL fa1niliarly. The latter years only staml
! it with The impress Of a longer past O
| tenderness faithfulness, and bounty. ]
is not the cold" hand. but the 'dear" hand
and it never grows older, but only nor
dear He who doubts the truth of thi
last mystery, has not yet found ont tina
hands as well as hearts have peculo
place in our knowledge and love Of Oh
another.