The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-01-25

man. 1 asked him to explain it to me, and ne
said What do you remember best?" and said, /
''Things that happened years ago." Very WELL"
he said; had you ever touched crystal between I,
the time you first saw one and the day you helo
the other in your handp You had not Your !,
mind was blank, you have wonderfully re-
tentive memory, and in endeavoring to think
where you had first seen the crystal the mind
photographed the time and place and the eye
saw the mental photograph. IF you had shut
your eyes and laid back on couch you would
have seen just the same. 1t was simply the action
of memory. and you would never see in the crys-
tai anything that hadn't happened So the
magic is explained away.
PALMIsTRY Is SOMETIMES sHAKY.
Nobody gives party nowadays unless they
have specialist in. l don't mean one to cure
the aches and ills of humanity, but one who is
the best among the hanjo-players. the best among
the palmsts, the best among the comic singers or
jugglers. Enormous prices are paid to these peo-
pie, but an immense amount of innocent amuse-
ment IS gotten out of what they do. 1t is inter-
esting to note the opinion the different palmists
have of you. Within the past week have been
told that had violent temper, (and no woman
was ever more easily duped or deluded in the
world,) that should never marry, and If ever
had to earn my living had better paint pictures.
In my early days l took drawing lessons until
my drawing teacher said there was no use in my
mother wasting her money; and as for painting
pictures. 1 can't even put transfer picture on a
vase correctly. If am to start new school and
throw the paint-pot at the wall l. might make a
success, for / am pretty correct in my aim, but
otherwise scarcely think should earn enough
to buy the license for my dog. This same indi-
gent female forgot me and read my hand at an
other party: there she told me that was amia-
BILE. not easily reused, but when was that was
very determined. Q can be persuaded to do any
thing if people go about it in the right way.) She
also said that would marry twice, and that IL
ever needed to earn my own living had better
go on the stage, as had great dramatic ability.
Either che was wrong or the lines in my hand
changed during the intervals that saw her, but
it was all very funny. She tells every man that
he is selfish and conceited, and she announces
that such trivial things as love affairs should not
be considered, which is rather mean in her! She
never gives anybody any children, and she al
ways tells you that your last days are going to
be your best, and then you have the pleasure OF
| thinking what weary time it will be before they
| come! fear that am not a believer in palmls-
| try. Nobody can doubt that the hand tells a
great deal about the person. but it isn't the lines,
it is its shape and the way ii is used. Fanny Dav-
export 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 emo-
| tions as well as did her face You knew that the
| long, slender fingers were aching to choke him as
| he said each loving word. You knew that they
| Openeu dEC pressed eacn OLnef Win ueugnI ds
| 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 il
| was to aid her in keeping quiet when her anger
| grew too great AT times she seemed to beckor
him to come to her, although curtain was be-
| tween them, and at Others those beautiful crue
white hands fell despairingly, and you knew how
she suffered There are hands, long, slender, ner
| Vous ones, that nature meant to hold the brusf
or the pen; there are others a little shorter, bu
| with very slender tips, that can touch the keys o.
piano or do anything that requires quickness o
motion. There is the fat. dimpled hand that i
expressionless though it may be affectionate
and there Is the short, square one that De5peak
determination of will, a taint OF coarseness, ant
temper that will shoulder like dull hre ant
break out and rage some day.
HOW TO TELL AN HONEST WOMAN.
Trust a woman who sits with her thumbs up
she may be determined, but she is not liar
The one who conceals her thumbs is apt to b.
decetful and untruthful. Look at the thum
if you want to judge of peoples intellectual
strength, for the longer it is, proportonately, tn
stronger the brain. We forget the individualit.
of the thumb. we forget that in days gone by
when men did not write, they made their mark
\ by iInprnting their thumbs in soft seaing-wa4
| that was man sign manual. And just remem
| Der, too, that Sir Isaac Newton Said IF any on
ever doubted the existence of God he has Onl
| TO watch the action OF the thumb OF man.
HANDS OF wELL-KGoWE ACTRESSES.
Mrs. Kendall and Mrs. Langtry have hands yer
much alike, large, white, firm, well shaped, an
betokening strong wills. Ada Rehan has a
ugly, ill formed, decidedly coarse. looking hanC
Lillian Russell has a white slender, small han
thas affects you first as essentially the hand of