The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-05-16
LANGUAGE OF THE HAND.
Revelation of Character by d'Arpentig
ny's System of ChirOGnOmy.

Revelation of Character by d'Arpentig-
ny's System of ChirOKnOmy.
In dArpentigny's system of chirog-
nomy he divides the hands into seven
classes. The lowest type is the elemen-
tary, or large-palmed hand, in which
the fingers are large and stiff, the thumb
short and generally turned back and the
palm big, thick and hard. Its posses
sors, according to this authority, are
devoid of enthusiasm and wanting in
resources and moral strength. Their
feelings are heavy and sluggish, their
iInaginations dull and their souls inert.
The spatulated type comes next in or
der, and derives it's name from the fact
that the finger ends are fiattened and
broadened out after the manner of
spatula. This variety is rare in south
ern countries, having its origin in lati-
tudes where the severity of the climate
and the comparatively sterile nature
of the soil make movement and locomo-
ton and the practice of those arts
which protect the physical weakness OF
man necessary.
The comic hand has smooth fingers,
terminating in cone or thimble, and
indicates talent for the plastic arts
painting, sculpture and monumental
architecture. 1t also shows poetic
imagination and love of the beauti-
full in the solid and visible form, but 1t
denotes an aversion to rigorous deduc-
ton. It's owners are enthusiastic and
romantic, but are under the subsection
of phantasy. The square type is OF
medium size and has the thumb large,
with the ball well developed, the palm
hollow and rather firm and the finger
tips square. To IL belong prcsevcr-
ance, foresight and conventionahty. It's
owners are endowed with vigorous in
tclligence, but they are denizens of the
earth. They are without wings and
cannot soar.
In the knotty, or philosophic type,
the finger joints are well marked and
their ends terminate in half square,
half comic form. "Have you such a
hand?" says d'Arpcntigny. know,
then, that it proclaims genius, an In
clination toward speculative ideas. a
capacity for the higher philosophical
sciences and for the rigorous deduc-
tions of verbal argument. 1t evinces
love of the absolutely trlie, an inter-
est in things, advanced logic and poetry
of reason and of thought"
The pointed or psychic hand is the
most beautiful of all. 1t has medium
palm and smooth fingers or fingers
with the joints only just perccptible.
Their upper phalange b long, and
drawn out to point, and the thumb Ia
small and elegant. To it belongs a
love of contemplation, idealism, reli-
gious feeling, indifference to material
interests, poetry of soul and of heart,
lyric inspiration, and taste for all
things beautiful by their form and es-
sence, but particularly by the latter.
Should the hand be large, with joints
slightly visible, it indicates force, but
1t also shows a lack of ingenuousness.
The mixed hand is the most confus-
ing, being accumulation of two types.
Like the separate breeds of dogs, how
ever, the different varieties cannot alter
themselves beyond certain point. In
obedience to some occult force they are
continually brought back to their
original purity.-Philadelphia Times.