The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-07-20
AMATEUR GRAPHOLOGY.
A Young WOman's Smaltering Of a
Delicate Art Causes Many
a Heartache.

interest in the art OF Qraphology, an
amusing story is being told, clever
enough to bear repetition. 1t appears
that a certain nervous and impress
| sionable Boston girl visited England
this spring, and while there became
infatuated with the new craze for
character reading by the handwriting.
Not only did she submit her own
chirography for ~delineation, but the
day before sailing for home fell in
with q renowned English grapholo-
gist, who, at the Young Americans
earnest request, gave her an hour or
more's coaching on the subject.
This smattering Of information
turned the pretty Bostonese head. In
n few weeks she became a nuisance to
her friends. and a fiend for applying
this new test to every person OF her
aeuuaintance. With fearful regret
she abandoned two of her very best
| girl friends, assigning as a cause the
discrimination and want of truth dis
| covered in wildly pencilled notes OF a
confidential nature. No one escaped.
Only after very sharply administered
reproof did she even desist from ap-
pealing to her parents, begging them
to overcome certain serious falllngs
BETRAYED to her by their handwriting.
Several months ago a couple OF ardent
lovers, whose courtship a continued
over a season or more, began to i'm
perfume the amateur graphologlst Tor
some answer to their suits. Glrlish
coquetry on her part had ither
prevented personal declarations, SO,
precisely at the same time, both men
- z.~eta.a1 onnnaie ~rQnnnafFnW
on their smartest note paper, TO De
answered yes or no.
Now. as for the girl herself, no pos
sible doubt existed as to which one
possessed her heart, but, in the face
Of so serious q question, skirking
could be no longer INDUCED. With
sinking spirits the ill-formed little
creature prepared to put both appli-
cants through the crucible OF her
limited knowledge, and with closed
door and beating heart turned her
critical eye on the familiar hand
writings. Desolation of desolations,
Charley, her souls delight, was proven
a villain of the deepest dye. A des-
potic will, untruthfulness, egotlsm,
ayarice and selfishness were a few OF
his pleasing characteristics, while the
punctuation evidenced brutality, and,
worse than all the rest, influence OF
the opposite sex was dominant.
Tears-and she shed showers OF
them-were unable to wash away the
| cruel characters, and John, the de-
spised, through the irony of fate,
came off with flying colors, a miracle
of virtue. Love conquered, however,
and Charles was accepted with many
misgivings. A very checkered career
began for the suspected sweetheart.
The girl mistrusted some latent ugli-
ness in his every action, and was
never tired of landing the established
character of the man she had rejected.
About two weeks ago the tension
between the two had reached a point
where rupture was imminent at
any moment. Then, as luck would
have it, a very clever Frenchman,
on his way back to Paris, was thrown
into the betrothed couples way.
Talk, of curse, drifted around TO the
girls fad, and her pleasure may be
imagined to learn that the monsieur
/ was Able Michaud's intimate friend,
and an expert in the art oil chirom-
ancy.
An immediate seance took place,
and when a flood Of genuine know
ledge was poured on the matter the
poor little Boston girl was proven a
misguided goose, Charley a hero,
and the Partisan was promptly an
| gagged to give the fiancee a few lessons
enough to save her from errors of
purblindness on a delicate n dis
eliminating act. ~HIustrated Amer
ican.
Incident In the Life of jenny Lind.
1t was the grandmother who was
the first to detect the musical gifts of
the child, and this detection left
a profound impression on the child
herself, as if she, too, then first made
a discovery of what was in her. The
| story formed her earliest distinct
memory. Coming up from he
country to the town she was struck
by the music of the military bugles
that daily passed through the street;
and one day, when she fancied herself
alone in the house, she crept to the
piano on which her half sister used to
practice her music, and, with n
finger, strummed out for herself the
fanfare which she had caught from
the soldiers. But the grandmother
was at hand, and hearing rhe
music called out the name of the
half sister, whom she supposed it to
! be, and little Jenny, in terror OF being
found out, hid under the square
piano; she was so small that she fitted
in perfectly, and the grandmother,
getting no answer to her calls, came
in to look and presently discovered
her, and dragged her out and was as
uonished and said. ''Child, was that
your And Jenny, in tears at her
crime, confessed; but the grandmother
looked at her deeply and in silence,
and when the mother came back she
told her and said:-'Mark my words,
that child will bring you help And
after that the neighbors used to be-
called in to hear her play. As she
told the story in later years she would
reproduce most wildly the frightened
look OF the child creeping away tC
hide, and the significant look of the
thunderstruck grandmother as SD
took in that it was indeed the TIM
creature of three years old who haz
PLAYED the tune. She never forgot
the historic fanfare.
Thorough Workers Needed.
The following is an extract from tn
address of Mrs. Ewing at Chautauqua
NJ Y Iafora tho NaffopaI Taachars