Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-06-16
OUR HANDS,
Broad Thumbs-Nutmeg.G Crater Fingers
Steady Bands-nslPful Hands,

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Steady Hnnds-nslPrul Hands.
CazssTs Family Magd=ias.
Hands reveal habits, occupations, and
trades. A crop OF them rises at the
thought, ike the show thrust mp from q
crowd in honor OF q candidate alter an
election speech. There is the carpenters,
With the broad thumb, and Of the (rsterG-
ity of flour, ingrsined, mealy and white;
the musicians, with the powerful wrist and
the fingers delicate, sensitive and agile to
the last degree; the hand Of the seam
stress with an honorable little bit of o
nutmeg crater on the foreinger that works
90 hard; of the scientific man, who lee
lures TO explain mysteries TO lower NOR.
tails, and whose exactitude Of touch IS the
image of his mental precision, while the
nervous stretch OF his Guger corresponds
With the tension of mind.
The sleight.ofhsnd professor is o man
of long fingers. A copjurer with q SLOW
and chubby hand would bstrsy the awful
secrets Of the plum 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 puff bal 6, with their fat
wrists deeply riugsd, appear a. 1t they
never can do anything in this world. let
the girls hand will become a treasure, aud
he bos's hand viii battle with life and
With his fellow Ecp for the mastery. 1t Is
appalling to think Of wat those helpless
IittIe puff balls have before them.
Oh. little hands, that, weak or strong,
Have sHll to Eerye or rule 80 long,
Have still so long to give or ask
who 40 much with book aud pen
Have toied among my i~elo~-msl,
Am weary, thinking OF your task.
bar hands that II is not long since the wed
dino because she cannot let that new ring
lone hint twists it round for its novelty
and sdmires it, with an unconscious KnacA
of csressing it in idle moments. her am
ples disappear, as the children gather 10
make a home circle; it is the Land OF the
voman now, with its very frsme%erh
treaceble. Dimples, bones q Wrinkle
mark the three stages Of lite's progress
With the vrinkled stage the steadinesS o
Vouth often remains in resolute charsctels
When the Duke of Wellington wee Q very
old man, he could still fl q glass OF water
After the first dimpies they become IN
inky hands Of school, then the AWKWARD
hands, thai don't know what TO co VIII
themselves. Years psss by, the boy 8 nsn'
eases to grumble al gloyes-gssy he wear
them in extraVagsnt freshness, IN eoHpsri
son as his collars grow upward n OIL
Sboes tighten within On inch OF his lie I'M
resuIt Of these phenomena IS that arms
beg;ns 10 sSiue with charming strsngenes
on another hand, that seemed a childs 6u
Yesterday. The young wife tells oy 10 tn'
isst possible drop, and hold it up steaGly
brimful. The healthful hands keep Thea
voutbful activity, too, far into the Wither
inc sgs. And in nobly loViBg natures ther'
ia a SORT OF Immortality OF youth; IN
wsrmth of affection hss given more thar
oval prerovstive; the hand - seSpfnui al
vsv, 10 the eye that know it tamiharly
The latter years only stamp Il Win the !%
nress of a longer past Of tenderness fsitn
s~nInsss and bounty. 1t is not the ola
hand but the dear" hand, and 1t neTe
rows older, but only more dear; de wn
| Soubts the truth of this mystery has not ye
found OUT tsst hands, as well as neart'
ave q peculiar place 10 our kno~Ieog
and love Of one another.