The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-06-25

4An palmist to read the lines on her
hand. In the early part of the sixteenth
century learned French Jesuit publish
ed small work ON the subject. And at
est man of the name of D'Arpentigny,
Frenchman, after exhaustive studies
in ancient and modern treatises on those
subjects, put forth book which defined
the seven forms Of hand. Said old Isaac
Newton vehemently, SIN default of 9TH
er proofs, the thumb alone would con-
vince me of the existence of God.
In common with animals, we have
an instructive will, reasoning logic
and reasoning decision. The superior
animal is in the hand; the man is in
the thumb. 1t is strange but startling
truth that at the beginning and end of
our life our thumb is weak, powerless.
The baby doesn't know what to do with
his thumbs. In perky attitude it is
aloft, but unlit. The light of power
thrills but gradually as the days round
out into top spinning, when the thumb
begins to be of use in whirling the mini
allure ball Of life. The thumb Of the dy-
ing, as taken with some great fear, takes
refuge under the fingers. 1t is power
less. Yes, the hand is a token of the
man. Said old, thoughtful Job, "He
sealed up the hand of every man, that
all men may know his work"
Now there are seven kinds of hands
1. The hand elementary or hand with
large palm. g. The hand necessary or
spatuled. 8. The hand artistic or COMIC
al. 4. The useful or squared hand. 5.
The philosophical or knotty hand 6.
The psychological or pointed hand. 7.
The mixed hand. The elementary hand
includes thick, unpliant fingers, the
thumb truncated and the palm large,
thick and hard. 1t is the hand of the
working classes of Europe, Of the dull,
unimaginative lives The spatuled hand
is the fat hand, bullying at the end !;
square fingers. This kind Of hand is a
native of regions where the sterile soil
renders motion and action necessary.
The artistic hand has pointed fingers.
The lines on the left hand are as God
made you, the life you were born with.
The right hand is the life you hew out
for yourself by your own will. pluck,
and a little word that rules all the big
fellows-go! 99YA W &wtH
Hold open your right hand. :You will
observe a little mound at the base of
each finger; the thumb, mount Of We
nus, love; the forefnger, Jupiter, sue
cess; second finger, Saturn, melancholy;
third finger. Apollo, brilliancy in art,
fame; fourth finger, Mercury, science.
The life line encircles the thumb and
mount Of Venus The head line cuts
the center of the hand. The heart line
is the nearest to the fingers Good luck
to man if it extends across the whole
palm! 1t indicates gloriously loving
nature. The line of brilliancy, success,
fame, starts from Apollo (third finger)
A star on Jupiter is success and happy
love.
Now, as l have said, these palm-y
truths are the farthest removed from
being "new." Yet we must wait with
open, frank, alert eyes to seize any
new" (old) truth that may swim into
the sky of our present. Do you recall an
old moonlit platform of Elsinore castle?
Between glimpses of the light the face
of Shakespeare gazes. The night is very
still. There is a sense and throb of ex-
pectancy upon the pallid air. Some
thing is coming, inevitably coming
along the tick tick of time. The bell,
tolling l, seems to announce one new
something coming and coming tonight
There are three men walking on this
midnight-Hamlet. the Dane; Horatio,
his friend; Marcellus, an officer. Lol
suddenly the dread living spirit of the
majesty of buried Denmark stalks into
the silence The ghost has just declared
new" and awful truth. Horatio,
half skeptical, cries. "Oh, day and night,
but this is wondrous strange!" The re-
ceptive mind Of Hamlet answers:
And therefore a stranger give 1t welcome.
There are more things in heaven and earth
Than are dreamt Of in our philosophy.
Lucy CLEVELAND.