The morning times., 1896-12-13
PALMISTRY EXPOSED
BY X-RAY SHADOWGRAPH
Time-honored Old Fraud of Line-reading Palm
istry Markings Only Skin Deep.

The newest turn of the X-ray science de-
stroys palmistry and makes it a quack
| art. 1t utterly routs chiromancy. which con-
| Germs the marks upon the hands and leaves
| little for chirognony, which treats of the
external shape The X-ray palInist says
there is something left in chirognomy be-
cause it concerns shape, which depends upon
tissue partly. But there is positively noth-
ing in the lines of the hand.
The markings upon human palm are
found under the X-ray to be hcmOst super
ficial things in existence. A pinscratch Will
line upon the palm indelibly and the deep
creases are caused by trivial things.
The X-ray put through the palm obs it
of the M ystic markings, and leaves, standing
out in fine relief the bones, the arteries,
the muscles and the tissues. These are the
things that make up the hand, and the only
way by which il can be read.
THELINEs VERY SHALLOW.
Until the X-ray palmistry was discovered
| was thought that hand was a hand, IN
muscle and bone 1t was supposed that the
physiology of all hands was the same, and
] that character could be told in the super
ficial wayof examining the marks thereon.
I But the X-ray has surprise for palm
Il
markings disappear and can be traced to
nothing back OF them; while the hand itself
| varies in shape and is different in accord
| ing to temperament, occupation, and char
| acter. This brings it within the scope Of
| the X-ray.
The first person to have the -X-ray cut
| through his hand was Thomas A Edison
| The radiograph was carefully preserved
| and carried to the study of q former palm
| ist. That gentleman sat down and studied
the radiograph OF EdisOn's palm for an
hour Suddenly rising from his desk, he
stepped to his book shelves, and, gathering
up an armful of books on palmistry, walked
to the open CRATE fire and cast them irto
the flames. They are useless now said
he lin the light OF what have Just seen. f"
The pain of Edison, strangeto say, shows
no senSibility. He is the thickest skinned
man. in the sense of being wounded IN ms
| feelings, of anyone you ever saw. The
X-ray palmist, stud yIng his hand caref Ily,
| could find none Of the sensitive arteries
running into his finger tips. He has 10
nerves. This accounts for the rae, that
he can go days without sleeping He IS
a man who can sit in a dentists char
without flinching and enjoys picking a
splinter out OF MS thumb 1t does not nurt-
You may jump at him and you will not
| startle him.
The X-ray also shows drcamIness The
mount OF the moon has in his case, many
little tissues punched This causes lis
hand to bulge out below the little finger
to make a rounding palm. There is a
stubby punching or muscles around the
wrist and a very network OF muscles and
veins there. This shows that the main
artery is well protected and that the life
OF the inventor will be a long one. The
X-ray goes SO closely into anatomy that il
is reliable.
McKINLEY'S SHADOWGRAPH.
Mckinley. who ought to be a thick
skinned man, is, ON the contrary, yerl
| sensitive The abuse which President
gets for a false step will hurt him. H'
is nerves To his finger-tips. He will b.
an old man, sa VS. the XRay palmiSt, whel
he comes out of the Presidential chair
His only support is that coHInon-senS
bulges upon the thumb which is protecte
by very large artery, which keeps hi
: thumbs tingling and conscious. An A-ra.
1 picture with a bloOdless thumb shows tina
{ a man is open to every shaft that may b,
T aimed at him. without the sand" back o
( him 10 protect his feelings.
When the X-ray plate was held over tn
/ hand OF Mckinley the operator turned hi
= head to hide a smile. There is a peculia
y thing about taking an X-ra V picture. Yol
can get a glimpse OF what the radiOgrapl