St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-10
AMATEUR GRAPHoLoGY.
A Young Woman's Smattering of
a Delicate Art Causes Many a

A Young Woman's Smattering of
Heartache.
| Illustrated American.
Speaking of the present widespread
| interest in the art of graphology. an
amusing story is being told, clever
enough to bear repetition. 1t appears
! that a certain nervous and imp ession-
able Boston girl visited England this
! spring, and while there became infatu-
ated 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 renowned Eng
! liSh graphOlOgiSt, who, at the young
Americans earnest request. gave her
an hour or more's coaching On the sub
ject.
This smattering of knowledge turned
the pretty Bostonese7S head. In a few
weeks she became nuisance TO her
friends, and fiend for applying this
new test to every person OF her acqualn-
lance. With fearful regret she aban-
doned two of her very best girl friends.
assigning as cause the discrimination
and want of truth discovered in wildly
No one escaped.
Oaly after very sharply administered
reproof did she even desist from appeal
ing to her parents, begging them to
overcome certain serious failingS be-
trayed to her by their handwriting.
Several months ago couple OF very
ardent lovers, whose cOurtShip has con-
tinued over season or more, began to
importune the amateur graphologlst for
some answer to their suits. GirliSh CO.
quetry Oh her part had hitherto pre-
vented personal declarations. so, pre-
ciSely at the same time, both men sent
impassioned appeals, requesting on
their smartest note paper to be an
Swered yes or no.
Now. as for the girl herself, no posi-
bic doubt existed as to which one pos
Sessed her heart, but, in the face OF so
serious question, Sinking could no
longer be INDUCED. With sinking spir-
its the ill-informed little creature pre-
pared to put both applicants through
the crucible of her limited knowledge,
and with closed door and beating heart
turned her critical eye OH the familiar
handWritingS. DeSOlatiOn of deSola-
tiOnS, Charley. her souls delight. was
proved villain of the deepest dye. A
despotic will, untruthfulnesS, egotism,
avarlce and SeltiShuesS were few of
his pleasing characteristics, while the
punctuation evinced 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 despised,
through the irony OF fate, came on with
fiving coiOrS, miracle of virtue Love
conquered, however, and Charles was
accepted with many mlSglylngs. A
very checkered career began for the
suspected sweetheart. The girl mis-
trusted some latent ngliness in his every
action, and was never tired of laudlng
the established character of the man |
she had rejected.
About two weeks ago the tension be-
tween the two had reached 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 be-
trothed couples way. Talk, OF course,
drifted around to the girls fad, and her
pleasure may be imagined to learn
that the monsieur was Able Mlchaud'S
intimate friend and an expert III the art
of chiromancy.
An immediate seance took place, and
when flood of genuine knowledge was
poured on the matter the poor little
Boston girl was proved misguided
goose, Charley a hero, and the Partisan
was promptly engaged to give the
fiancee 4 few essons-enOugh to save
her from errors of purblindness on a
delicate and discriminating art.