St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-01
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I fear that I am not believer in
palmistry. Nobody can doubt that the
hand tells great deal about the person.
but it isn't the lines, it is the shape and
the way it is used. Fanny Davenport,
in "Cleopatra, used her hands most
eXpressively. and in one scene-the one
where she listened to Marc Antony
while he made love to his wife-her
hands told the story of her emotions as
we'll as did her face. You knew that
the long slender fingers were aching to
choke him as he said each loving word.
pressed each other with delight as she
heard him defend her. You knew that
as they were drawn up they
meant war, fierce war, and as she
clutched the side of the couch that it
was to aid her in keeping quiet when
her anger grew too great. At times. she
seemed to beckon to him to come to her,
although curtain was between them,
and at others those beautiful. cruel
white hands fell despairingly, and you
knew how she suffered. There are
hands, long. slender, nervous ones that
nature meant to hold the brush or the
pen; there are others little shorter,
but with very slender tips that can
touch the keys of a piano or do anything
that requires. quicknesS of motion.
There is the fat, dimpled hand that is
eXpressionless, though it may be atfec-
Tomato; and there is the short, square
one that beSpeakS determination OF will,
faint of coarSeneSS and temper that
will shoulder like dull fire and break
out and rage someday.
Trust woman who sits with her
thumbs :She may be determined, but
she is not liar. The one who concealS
her thumbs is apt to be deceitful and
untruthful. Look at the thumb if you
want to judge of peoples intellectual
strength, for the longer it is, proportion
ateIy, the stronger the brain, We for
get the individuality of the thumb, we
forget that in days gone by, when men
did not write, they made their marks by
imprinting their thumbs in soft sealing
wax: that was mans sign manual.
And just remember too that Sir Isaac
Newton said. ''If any one ever doubted
the existence Of God, he has only to
watch the action of the thumb of a
man."
Mrs. Kendall and Mrs. Langtry have
hands very much alike, large, white,
firm, well shaped and betokening strong
wills. Ada Rehan has an ugly, ILL
formed, decidedly coarse-looking hand.
Lillian Russell has a white, slender
small hand that affects you first as eS-
Sentally the hand of woman and after
ward as the hand of musician. Mrs.
BroWn-Potter has slender, nervous
hands, that seem to be certain of every
thing, but never suggest success i'll any
thing.
If you want to see collection of
curious hands, interesting hands, you
should see those belonging TO the mem
bers of the Woman's Press club-hands
made to hold pens, hands that have
taught themselves to hold pens, hands
over with mentality, and
hands that have gathered mental
strength wherever they went. You
need only sit and look at them to get at
the brain histories of the women, and /
can assure you some of them are very
interesting.
That is good hand which is put out
to help some one who has fallen by the
wayside.
That is a good hand which knows
HOW ~ hldhC pam anu ACtlodCACo
vanish.
That is good hand that knows how
to give heartily and freely.
That is good hand which is put out
to help you or me as we walk along in
life when we feel that we need some
body to protect us.
That is a good hand which never
wrote anything of which it was ashamed
and which never put it's name to fraud
or dishonesty.
That is good hand which helps
along the sick and weak, the helpless
and the poor.
That is a good hand which does its
work well; whatever it may be, where
ever it may be, it doth not grow weary
and it does its work so that it is worth
its wage.
That is a good hand which, after hav-
ing gossiped and babbled, suddenly dis
covers that it is time to say goodbye
and sign its chatter by the name of the
writer hereof, Bah.