Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-01-29


trivial things as love affairs should not
be considered, which is rather mean in
heri She never gives anybody any
children and she always tells you that
your last days are going to be your best
and then you have the pleasure of think
ing what weary time it will be before
they come
fear that
AM NOT BELIEVER IN PALMIsTRy.
Nobody can doubt that tho hand tells
a great deal about the person, but it
isn't the lines, 1t is his shape and the
way it is used. Fanny Davenport, in
Cleopatra, used her hands most ex-
pressively; 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 az
well as did herface. You knew that the
long slender fingers were aching to
choke him as he said each loving word.
Ion knew that they opened and pressed
each other with delight as she heard
him defend her. You knew that as they
were drawn mp they meant war, fierce
war, and as she clutched the side of the
couch that il was to aid her in keeping
| quiet when her anger grew too great. At
times she seemed to bccllon him TO come
10 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 OF do anything that
requires quickness of motion. There is
the fat, dimpled hand that is expression
less, though it may be affectionate, and
there is the short, square one that be.
speaks determination of will, Il faint Of
coarseness and temper that will
shoulder like dull fire and break out
and rage some day.
now TO TELL AN HONEST WOMAN.
Trust woman who sits with h..
thumbs up; She may be determined, ita
she is not q liar. The enc who conceal
her thumbs is apt to be dcccitful III
untrutllful. Look At the thumb ii gGa
want to Judge Of peoples intellec,na
strength, for the longer it is, prDp8i,
tionately, the stronger the brain. We
forget the individuality of the thumb,
we forget that in days gone BY, when
moll did not write, they made their
marks by imprinting their thumbs in
soft scaling wax that was a mans sign
manual And just remember, TOO, that
Sir Isaac Newton said, "If any one ever
doubted the existence Of a God he has
only To watch the action Of the thumb
Of Il man"
HANDS OF wELLKNowN ACTRESSES.
Mrs. Kendall and Mrs Langtry have
hands very much alike, large, white,
firm, well-shaped and bctokening strong
wills. Ada fehan has an ugly, ill.,
formed, decidedly coarse looking hand.
Lillian Russell has white, slender,
small hand that affects you first as
essentially the hand Of woman and
afterward as the hand of musician.
Mrs. Brown-Pottcr has slender, nervous
hands that seem 10 be certain of every
thing but never suggest success in any
thing
INTERESTING FEMININE HANDS.
If you want to see collection Of
curious hands, interesting hands, YOU
should see those belonging to the mem.
hers of the Womans Press Club--hands
made to hold pens, hands trimming
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.
HANDS WHICH MAKE THE WORLD HAPPY
But, after all, the hands that interest
us most are the hands that we love.
That is a good hand which is put out
to help some one who has fallen by the
wayside.
That is a good hand which knows
how to make pain easier and headaches
vanish.
That is a good hand which 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 is ashamed
and which never put its name to fraud
or dishonesty.
That is a good hand which helps
along the sick and the weak, the help.
less and the poor.
That Is good hand which does its
work well; whatever it may be, wher-
ever it may be, it doth not grow weary
and 1t does its work so that ii is worth
its wage.
That is good hand, which after hay-
ing gossiped and babbled, suddenly dis
covers that it is time to say good-by and
sign its chatter by the name of the writer
lilereol' Bah.