The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-01-28

your best, and then you have the pleasure
OF thinking what 4 weary time il will be
before they GOMEZ
fear that l am not believer in palm
lstry. Nobody can doubt that the hand
tells great deal about the person, but it
isn't the lines; it is its shape and the way
II Is used. Fanny Davenport, in Gle
spatra, used her hands most expressivelv;
and IN one scene-the one where she lis
tened to Marc Antony while he made love
TO his wife-her hands told the story of
her emotions 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 opened and
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 c!utched 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 him to come to her, although
curtain was between them, aud at others
those beautiful, cruel white hands fell
despairingly, and you knew how she sui
fered. There are hands, long, slender,
nervous ones that nature meant to hold
the brush or the pen there are others a lit
tie shorter, but with very slender tips that
can touch the Neys of piano or do any
thing that requires quickness OF motion.
There Is the fat, dimpled hand that is eX-
pressionless, though it may be afiectiona,e,
and there Is the short, square one that be-
speaks determination of will, a faint If
cOarseness and atemper that will shoulder
like dull fire and break out and rage
some day.
Trust a woman who sits with ner
thumbs up she may be determined, but
she is not liar. The one who conceais
her thumbs is apt to be deceiiful and un-
truthful. Look at the thumb if you want
TO judge OF peoples intellectual strength,
for the longer it is, proportionately, the
stronger the brain. We forget the indi-
viduality OF the thumb; We forget that in
days gone by, when men did not write
they made their marks by imprnting
their thumbs in soft Sealng-waX; chat 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 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, Informed, de-
cidedly coarse-loOking hand. Lillian Rus
sell hasa white, slender, small hand that
y
a woman and aiterWard as the hand of a
musician. Mrs. Brown-Potter has slender,
nervous hands that seem to be certain OF
everything, but never suggest success in
anything.
If you want to see collection of curl
Gus hands, interesting hands, you should
Sc those belonging to the members of
the WOman's press club-hands made TO
hold pens, hands that have taught them
selves 10 hold pens, hands Drumming 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.
But, after |, 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 way
side.
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 ami freely.
That is q good hand which is put out TO
help you or me as We walk along in life
when We feel that We need somebody 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 dis
honesty.
That is a good hand which helps along
the SEX and the weak, the helpless and
the poor.
That is a good hand which does its work
well; whatever it may be, wherever it
may be, 1t doth not grow weary, and it
does its work so that it is worth It's wage.
That is u good hand which, after having
gossiped and babbled, suddenly discovers
that 1t is time to say gOod-by and sign its
chatter by the name OF the writer thereof.
Bah.