Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-10-26
PLEASE SHOW YOUR HAND
TROUBLES IN THE WAY OF APPLY
 ING RULES IN PALMlSTRY.

Hard to Get tho Subject to Say "T Am Like That"-What Is Indicated by the
 'Iine of Saturn'-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 it's 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 a guide to much that is to be found ill the nature of their owners. As an actual fact, however, find that the 1 leading lines of the hand are never eceen- trically deformed, broken or deficient in persons who have not some gaps or queer places in their characters, to 1 match.
 THE LINE OF SATURN
 If the lines are long, clear, red, gently curved, except the upright ones, few in
 
 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 'line 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 own 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 littlo finger often goes with a sweetness, a readiness to repent of evil and of anger, and sometimes even cheerful abnegation- Both kinds are consistent with permanence of mega tive wishes. or, as it is usually called, obstinacy, as this is a quality capable of drawing strength from many sources. A large ended thumb is very good in good man, and helps him to fight the battle of life. In dull and selfish man it enables him to be extra oppressive ct home, and to make lis opinions of much more effect than their value warrants A thumb whose end is large and it's shaft poor, as though it were door handle with weak neck and could be twisted off the hand, is not an advantage. This leads to many evils, and, though often found in good man, gives tendency to change the reasons for his good deeds or good opinions, even after he has been emphatic in choosing or defending them. Such change will usually be rather of the nature of a reversal than drifting away.
 BLUNT FINGERS AND THUMBS.
 Blunt ended thumbs seldom go with natural tendency to politeness of address or polished approach, except when, as in persons much before the world, this has been learned as a part. But ill good types it goes with gentleness and kind ness of manner bred by self knowledge which has taught the owner to counter l., f,,, l,0f1 Nl1rx hurt innocent people. It follows as a matter of course that among women those whose fingers and thumbs are pointed are generally the more super ficially charming. Those with large, blunt ended fingers are Gf intellectual and educated) more valued and more impressive, and even commanding. But command, like melancholy. has more than one origin, viewed as an expression of constitutional tendency.
 Pointed fingered people have no excuse If they are not agreeable, for 1t costs them little to seem so. If large ended blunt fingered people show delicate dis cernment, self abnegation in mental matters, indulgence to shallow weak ness, patience with anger and folly, they are either entirely uninterested person. ally in the occasions that bring such qualities before them, or have bought 2 their good nature at a price, like the Centurion his freedom.
 When a student of the hand has read and applied for himself all the volumes that have been written on the subject, and when he has also discovered how to discount the bias of his different authors by guessing at their hands and account ing for their predilections, and when he has achieved such proficiency in looking at hand and adding up all the conflict ing forces suggested by its balance oi , lines and segments that he can at once tell how to classify the owner and what to expect of him, yet the greatest of al difficulties will remain to be surmounted This hard hill to climb is nothing les! 3 than to describe a character in sucl 3 terms that the owner of the same mus : confess his portrait and say, 'Yes, it Ii = true; am like that. Edwin Ellis 1T : Univ ersal Review.
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