The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-10-10
PLEASE SHOW YOUR HAND
TROUBLES IN THE WAY OF APPLY
ING RULES IN PAlMlSTRY.

Hard to Get the suheot to Say II Am
Like That"-what Is Indicated by the
cline OF satarn''-short Little Fingers.
and Thumbs Of Different Kinds.
/ have been twenty years at the study
Of palmistry or chirognomy, and during
that time have not been able to discover
any philosophic reason for believing that
the lines Of the hand and its shape indi-
cate character. The want of a connect
ing theory frequently causes me to lose
all hope and belief in the investigation;
but practice restores confidence. No one
can look at even few hands every
month for years together without being
driven to the conclusion that they really
do contain guide to much that is to be
found IN the nature of their owners. AS
an actual fact, however, find that the
leading lines of the hand are never eccen-
trically deformed, broken or deficient In
persons who have not some gaps or
queer places in their characters, to
match.
HE LINE Or sAIUhN.
If the lines are long, clear, red, gently
curved, except the upright ones, few In
number, and shown in hand that has
fingers with substantial tips and not too
long roots, the best sort Of nature may
be looked for. In the case Of persons of
brilliant original talent and thought, the
upright line from the base of the palm
toward the fingers is never absent and
is sometimes repeated twice or even
thrice. It is called the Zine of Saturn"
and springs from many different places.
In musicians, actors and some others it
usually starts from below the little
finger. When it is joined at the base to
the curved line round the thumb an in
dependence of feeling out of proportion
to the will strength or the pride of the
rest of the character is to be expected.
If the line called that of the head, which
crosses the hand from above the thumb,
usually turning down to the pad below
the little finger, be entirely separate
from the line that surrounds the thumb,
the whole character will be modified,
whether it be good or bad one, by this
separation. AS rule that modification
will tend to make the person seem more
clever when thinking out Of his OWL
head, but less able, however sympathetic
and docile, to adopt the modes of getting
at ideas by which his teachers achieve
their success
A short little finger often goes with
sweetness, readiness to repent of evi
and of anger, and sometimes even 6
cheerful abnegation. Both kinds are
consistent with permanence of mega
tive wishes, or, as it is usually called
obstinacy, as this is quality capable Of
drawing strength from many sources. A
large ended thumb is very good in 1
good man, and helps him to fight thu
battle of life. In dull and selfish maj
it enables him to be extra oppressive a
home, and to make his opinions of mucl
more effect than their value warrants
A thumb whose end is large and its shat
poor, as though it were door handl
with weak neck and could be twisted
off the hand, is not an advantage. Thi
leads to many evils, and, though Otter
found in good man, gives tendenc.
to change the reasons for his good deed
l or good opinions, even after he has bee
emphatic in choosing or defending them
Such change will usually be rather o
the nature of a reversal than driftin
away.
BLUNT FINGERS AND THUMBS.
Blunt ended thumbs seldom go with
natural tendency to politeness Of address
or polished approach, except when, a
in persons much before the world, thi
has been learned as part. But in goo
o types it goes with gentleness and kline
ness of manner bred by self knowledg
; which has taught the owner to counter
e act his faults before they have time
o hurt innocent people. 1t follows as
matter of course that among wome
y those whose fingers and thumbs al
n pointed are generally the more supe
e ficially charming. Those with larg
:, blunt ended fingers are Gf intellectu'
Il and educated) more valued and mol
S impressive, and even commanding. b
command, like melancholy, has MOI
than one origin, viewed as an expressio
of constitutional tendency.
/. Pointed fingered people have no excu'
% if they are not agreeable, for it cos
them little to seem 80. If large ende
o blunt fingered people show delicate di
n cernment, self abnegation in ment
matters, indulgence to shallow wea
ness, patience with anger and folly, the
e are either entirely uninterested perso
n ally in the occasions that bring sue
qualities before them, or have bong
= their good nature at price, like u
is Centurion his freedom.
\ When student of the hand has rea
and applied for himself all the volum
that have been written on the subjec
and when he has also discovered how
" discount the bias of his different autho
= by guessing at their hands and accour
l. ing for their predictions, and when
IN has achieved such proficiency in lookil
n at hand and adding up all the conflit
ing forces suggested by its balance
~ lines and segments that he can at on
ID tell how to classify the owner and VIII
to expect of him, yet the greatest of ,
difficulties will remain to be surmounte
>. This hard hill to climb is nothing le
i than to describe character in SUI
n terms that the owner of the same mt
Q confess his portrait and say, "Yes, it
q true; am like that. Edwin Ellis
l. Universal Review.