The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-09-07
THE DOT ON THE l.
Character Reading from the Insignificant
Mark Over q Small Letter.

Character Reading from the Insignificant
Mark Over a Small Letter.
"Do you put the dot high above the
letter i? Do you put it close to the let.
ter? Do you send it flying before? Is il
fat, round, irregular? These are the
questions which a master in the art
of deeiphering character from hand
writing asks. In each case your pc
culiarity is the outward and visible sign
of some idiosyncrasy. Look at the dots
of your j; try to make them different
smaller, larger, rounder, more oblong-
you cannot do it. The dot above the
only changes with your character.
If you often forget to dot your l, you
will also forget other things which seem
unimportant to you, but which for the
comfort of everyday life are as necessary
as the dot is to the i. If you have often
to look in vain for the dot, you will also
look often in vain for other things, because
you have not put them in their proper
place. For instance, you put the fifth
knitting needle into your book because
you were suddenly called away, and no
better bookmark was at hand. You are
anxious to finish your sock-where is the
fifth needle? The servant girl must have
mislaid it while busting. Servants are
such a trouble!
In order to practice patience and self
control you knit on with your four
needles, gently ~pardoning," and pres
emily turn back to your interesting novel.
The book opens Immediately, and there
and then the glittering needle breaches a
silent sermon to you. The knitting needle
story is nothing new; it occurs in infinite
variations, and happens especially to
those who forget to dot their i.
If the dot flies high above and far
away from the letter to which it belongs
your hopes, thoughts, wishes and aspi-
rations are apt to fly about in far off re-
gions, and instead of making practical
use Of the present day you dream of the
ideals of the future. If this "high
flown" dot is Of an oblong shape, and if,
in conjunction with it, the loops of your
|, h, 6, f, etc., are loose and long, then
goodby symmetry and calm, for you
AVE very little self control.
IF your husbands dots are heavy,
shapeless and blotchy you will have a
hard time Of it where food is concerned.
He will not be satisfied with a cold sup
per, al aesthetic tea, or a meal Of beef
and vegetables. On the other hand, you
have in his favorite dishes a means to
pacify the grumbler, and to incline him
to listen to your wishes.
Your request for q new gown, for the
alter tickets, which was peremptorily re-
fused before dinner, is listened to with
much more interest after the man Of the
heavy dots has had a good meal. Never
ask such a man to grant you a favor
when he is waiting for his dinner. The
larger the dots appear, the more critically
a dish will be attacked and judged.
Carlsbad, during the time when the pa
tents go to drink the waters, is full Of
people who dot their is heavily.
The dainty dot, on the other hand, if
it goes together with a handwriting that
consists of thin strokes only, denotes a
mind above "these things"
Such a dainty dot" husband will be
easily satisfied with his meals. He will
hardly know what he is eating. You can
get nothing "out of him" by giving him
a dainty dish. He may even offend you
by scant praise, when you happen to
have prepared a dish with your own
hands. 1t may even happen-if other
psychological signs ~agree-that such a
dainty dotter" forgets his meal times
altogether, allows everything to get cold,
does not eat, nor praise, nor blame, and
spoils the pleasures of the table for him
self and others.-Edelweiss in Won Fels
yum Nicer.