The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-14

A1 SAIL LAM aNIOtA-
you interpret the opposing lines or
marks as inherited qualities. For, to
the eye of the keen observer, each hand
is a record not only of itself, but of its
forbears.
A careful examination of the general
form. the consistency of the flesh and
skin. gives you an idea of the admix-
ture of nationality in a person. If
/ there has been Latin blood. by which
1 mean French, Italian, Spanish or the
/ Southern races, with Angio-SaXon, il
betrays itself in a certain difference il
texture. hard to explain, but easy Of
| detection to one who knows It. There
| is sickness of the skin. and the flesh
| lies under it like the inside of ripe
peach. 1t is more sensuous hand to
hold, or to look at. OF such a type is
the soft but firm wonlan's hand that
slides slowly out of your clasp, like a
white kitten. hand suggestive of Ro-
meo's words:
/ For palm to palm is holy palmer's
kiss
The Turk, the Egyptian, the Greek,
have these qualities TO still more
marked degree, and a deeper shade Of
color that helps the novice to recog-
nize the trace of such blood more cas-
/ lily. 1t is extraordinary how one drop
of foreign blood inherited from an an
| tagonistic race, will endure and show
! itself after generations of pure breed
ing. AS an example of this let me tell
you the story of an artist. very well
know American artist whose hand
read last winter, before I knew his
name.
you have Oriental blood in your
veins; southern, at least said. He
gave me a quick glance and said:
How do you know that?"
1 smiled l was not at the moment
unravelling the mystery of the art, as
l am now doingi
81 have been American born and bred
ever since the battle of Bunker Hill,''
he said. ION both sides, but my ances-
tor who fought there--a mere boy-had
Spanish Moorish name. inherited from
father. came over to New Orleans as 2
refugee, about the time when poor
Manon Lescant made her tragic jour
ney to the same place. This ancestor
found his way Bostonwards. There he
met, married a Puritan maiden, and
their boy, at the age Of thirteen, fought
at the great battle;-the Yankee boy
with the Moorish name. In each gen.
Grafton ever since there has been Yam
kee boy, with that same name, and
am the last of them"
So here was the strange Oriental
blood showing itself in this mans hand
after five generations, as it showed it
self in his name and fame, too. perhaps,
for he sees and depicts things as the
descendant of dweller on the Mediter-
ranean shores do.
INDICATIONS OF TASTES AND
HABITS.
IT,.
hand following the hand-shake will tell
you, too, much about the tastes, the
habits of the individual. The hand OF
the athlete is known at once; the hand
of the sportsman, of the surgeon are
most easy Of detection, and every trade
sets its seal upon the hand
that practices it, only that it
requires experience and observa-
ton, which in this art, as in every
other, are worth all the learning of the
schools. There is a certain precision,
firmness, yet deiicacy of touch that
makes it almost impossible for one to
be deceived about a hand that is in
the habit of working with the eye, or
mind.
1 have never seen Buffalo Bills hand,
but I should not guess at it if fifty
hands were put through a hole in the
wall at me, and knew that one of
them was Mr.. Cody's. His hand
should be long, brown, firm prehensile
almost, with eyes in the finger-tips like
ia blind mans, and the clasp Of it should
be like iron behind velvet.
The typical surgeons hand-and it is
very generally typical, I find,-suggests
the scalpel at once to the keen prac-
tised eye; the turn of the wrist, its dex-
ferrous play and freedom, the develop
ment of muscle at the base of the
thumb; the machine-like precision of
movement, make it, of all hands, the
most capable, the most human, the fur
Their removed from the elementary
type with its short, thick fingers and
infiexible hard palm.
Look at your friends hands and try,
if after a little feeling and gazing, you
are not able to tell which girl is the
girl who embroiders, who draws, which
one is musical which one goes in for
tennis and padding. The easiest hand
to detect is the natural horsewoman's
hand-a hand like Mrs. Beach's-the
teacher at one of our fashionable rid
ing schools in New York, and who has
ridden many a stubborn, frightened,
green hunter to a safe victory in the
light as eider-down, but with whip-cord
nerves below.
The sweetest type of woman's hand
is the born nurses hand, the palm and
fingers that soothe with a touch, that
brush away with their magic aches and
pains and griefs. Happy indeed the
woman who has the blessed gift of the
laying on of hands.
All this is prologue and preface to
your study of palnlistry proper, TO the
lines and fingers, the joints, the stars,
the crosses, the Mount of Venus, the
Plain Of Mars, all of the pretty secrets
Of chiromancy, with their hidden and
Significant meanings.
NJ. NJ. NJ.