Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1896-05-28

lldl lld4lulSt 10 IGlQ llB lllcs on nel
hand Tn the early part IF the sixteenth
century a learned French Jesuit publish
ed a small work on the subject. And at
asst a man Of the name Of D'Arpentigny,
a Frenchman, after exhaustive studies
in ancient and modern treatises on those
subjects, put forth q book which defined
the seven forms Of hand Said old Isaac
Newton vehemently, In default Of 9th
er proofs, the thumb alone would con-
vince me Of the existence Of Cod.
In common with animals, We have
an instructive viii, a reasoning logic
and reasoning decision. The superior
animal il i'll tile hand; the man IL in
the thumb. 1t is a strange but startling
truth that at the beginning and end of
our life our thumb is weak, p0werless.
The baby doesn't know what to do with
his thumbs. Tn q perky attitude it is
aloft, but unlit. The light Of power
thrills but gradually as the days round
out into top spinning, when tile thumb
begins to be Of use i'll whirIing tho mini
ature ball Of life The thumb Of the dy-
ing, as taken with some great fear, takes
refuge under the fingers. 1T ii power
less. Yes, the hand is 4 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 ere seven Kinds of hands
l. The hand elementary 0r hand with
a large palm. 2 The hand necessary or
spatuled- 3. The hand artistic or COMIC
al. 4. The useful Or squared hand. 3.
The philosophical ~ knotty hand. 8.
The psychological or pointed hand. Z.
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 fiat hand, bulging at the end;
square fingers. This kind of hand Il a
native Of regions where the sterile soil
renders motion and action necessary.
The artistic hand has pointed fingers.
The lines Oh 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 little word that rules all the biz
fellows-gol
Hold open your right hand. You viii
observe q little mound at the base Of
each finger; the thumb, mount of Ve-
nus, love; tile forefnger, Jupiter, suc-
cess; second finger, Saturn, melancholy;
third finger, Apollo. brilliancy in art,
fame; fourth finger, Mercury, science.
The life line encircles the thumb ana
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
palml 1t indicates a gloriously loving
nature. The line of brillancy, success,
fame, starts from Apollo (third fngerl.
a star Oh Jupiter IL success and happy
love.
Now, as I have said. these palm-y
truths are the farthest removed from
being "new. Yet Ne must wait with
open, frank, alert eyes to seize ally
"new" (oldl 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 tile face
Of Shakespeare gaz2s. The night ~ very
still. There is a sense and throb Of ex-
pectancy upon the pallid air Some
thing il coming inevitably coming
along the tick tick cf time The bell
tolling 1, seems to announce one new
something coming and coming tonight.
There are three men walking oh this
idnight-Hamlet, the Dane; Horatio,
his friend; Marcellus, an officer. Lot
suddenly the dread living spirit Of the
majesty Of buried Denmark stalks into
the silence. The ghost has Just declared
a new" and awful truth Horatio,
half skeptical, cries, Oh, day and night,
but this is wondrous stranger' The re
ceptive mind of Hamlet answers:
And therefore as a stranger give III welcome.
There are more things in heaven ana earth
Than are dreamt Of in cur philosophy.
Lucy CLEVELAND.
a company of women own entirely
the Bonita mine of Gmnison county,
Colo. The officers Of the company are
women, and women manage an the af-
fairs Of their enterprise They are max.
ing it pay.