The record-union., 1896-04-05
IT Is A REIGNING FAD.
Reading Character From Eand-Writ-
ing and Palmistry.

ing and Palmistry.
Especial Correspondence of Record-Union.)
PORTLAND orr, April 2.-Some
sort of harmless amusement must be
devised for the fair devotees who wor-
ship at fashions shrine to pass the
tedious days of Lent away acceptingly,
so somebody has introduced fortune
telling. 1t has taken like wildfire and
has become reigning fad. Its awfully
fetching, too, if you know how to go
about it in the right way. These ways
are various, but the two most impress
sive are by paanistry and the cards. If
you have a nice well-shaped hand the
cards are preferable If the hands are
large I would advise the wearing of
Only a single jewel upon it; more are
apt to call attention to its size and dis
tract the attention of your subject. If
your hand is small sport as many jewels
as you wish; small hands can never
look too conspicuous.
Palmistry is particularly effective If
your subject is someone who thinks
great deal of you. You can roll your
eyes heavenward with fine effect, if
your eyes are large and soulful
| wouldn't advise the rolling act if they
! moments she holds your hands and
gazes upon its lines with charmingly
perplexed frown upon her face. No
| man can Withstand such picture un-
| moved, and if that girl doesn't wear a
diamond on her left hand and have the
announcement in the papers of her
marriage, to take place Immediately
after Easter, then am all wrong in my
| observations.
| Fashionable horoscope casters, phre-
| nologists and sibyls have sprung up
| like mushrooms; even the magazines
| have caught the craze, and whole pages
| are devoted to answers to correspond
| ents who wish to know all about their
| character from their handwriting, their
| photographs, or even by lock of their
| hair. Since Du Maurier wrote ''Trilby"
| pedology, or the delineation of charac-
| ter by the foot, has come much into
vogue. Even the old nursery rhymes of
| Wear on the heel, you'll spend a good
deal; wear on the toe, you'll spend as
you go; wear on the side, you'll soon
be a BRIDE is looked upon with super
| StitiouS awe by many.
Lately 'graphology, or telling the
| fortune by handwriting, has received an
|
| philosopher of Milan, taking 1T up.
| would not, however, advise amateurs
| to dabble unadvisedly in the art of
| graphology. 1t wouldn't be kind or
just to our friends to dissect their hand
writing from a distance. 1t must also
be borne in mind that the greatest of
men have from all time written the
worst of FISTS Take, for instance,
| 80 - fs, n he
couldn't read his own handwriting after
| it was cold. Dean Stanley is another
example of bad handwriting, and there
are some very excellent men of my ac-
| quaintance who write such poor hands
| that were their writing to fall in the
| hands of one not acquainted with it
would be strangely tempted to deduce
bad character from the bad writing,
| but this much / will say: These bad
writer's are the cleverest men.
| ! know, of course, there is no more
certainty of graphology affording sure
/ index to character than any of the
other sciences of a like nature. That
there is something in it" everyone ad-
mits. If it could be divested of the
| clouds of quackery and mysticism,
fanaticism and foolish nonsense with
| which it is surrounded one might be
better able to make research and come
to some lucid conclusion. In the forma-
tion of certain letters in the treatment
of their loops and curves, character
| may be discerned and pretty correctly,
too. If this could be proven beyond the
| question of a doubt people would have
| to pay more attention to their Fps and
/ cs" than they do to-day; in fact think
universal typewriter would be adopt
| al RESET ,ENA