The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-03
SIGNS In THE THUMB.
WHAT THEY MEAN AND HOW YOU
MAY LEARN TO READ THEM.

lisa "Thumb Center" In the Brain -Gyp-
~ Fortune TeIlers often Confine Their
Investigations to the Thumb.
The gypsies have always recognized
| that the thumb is the most important
factor in delineating special tendencies.
These nomadic people are the most in
tuitive on earth, and the fact that in
their fortune telling they often confne
their representations TO the thumb
alone is worth more than a passing no.
/ tioe.
The fact that there is what is known
/ as the thumb center" in the brain, rec
ognized by all surgeons, demonstrates
/ the immense importance attached TO it
! by medical science. II there is tend
ency toward paralysis, the physician
notes it in the thumbs long before the
malady shows itself in other directions.
An operation 70 avert the calamity, if
possible, is frequently performed on the
thumb center of the brain, and the
thumb itself is watched for results favor
able or otherwise 1t is matter of
record that the thumbs of idiots and
those mentally weak are understood,
characterless and usually cling closely
10 the side of the hand. There have been
books written ON signs in the thumbs as
denoting criminal instincts, and detect
ives have been often moved TO consider
seriously this phase of the hand in max
ing their deductions i'll puzzling cases.
The position of the thumb with refer
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for or against favorable tendencies. If it
is bound to the first finger at close
angle, lying nearly parallel, it indicates
weak and cowardly nature. People
with such thumbs are not open and
frank i'll character, preferring to creep
| along i'll the shadow and profit by an
( other 5 enterprise. Ii, in connection with
this position, it should be very small,
with vacillating, almost invisible joints,
it indicates mental weakness IT, on the
contrary, it flies out at right angles or
even farther, it shows want of balance
! i'll another direction. The person will
rush TO extremes and is independent and
I aggressive almost to foolhardiness. Such
people are disagreeable to associate with
! in any enterprise, as they always want
their own way and are not subservient
| to authority. The well balanced thumb
lies at an agile of about 40 degrees from
the first finger. The joints of the thumb
also tell their story. The Timber jointed
thumb which turns back from the
hand is a misfortune to its owner He
will never be rich by saving his earn
! ings, and if fortune should be left
| him it is likely TO be soon dissipated
He is spendthrift by nature, not only
| in money, but in thought. If he gets
! hobby, he rides it to death, and his pol
! icy in all the affairs of life will be, IF
"a little is good, more is better. And if
he does not actually live out all his inn
pulses, he will always fret in the spirit
and grow rebellious in resisting his nat
ural tendencies. The stable jointed
thumb is everything that is the opposite
to the first type. And, while the people
| with these thumbs are not so compan-
| ionable or so helpful to others, they sue
( coed by concentration and a certain
! amount of selfishness. They have the
| directness of purpose and the tenacity to
carry TO successful issue great enter
prises. They are stubborn, material,
stolid, resistless. The chimpanzee,
which has the hand most nearly resem-
bling the human, shows the greatest
weakness and want Of intelligence in its
understood short thumb. And in the
human race the long thumb may be
taken as indicating the more intellectual
nature The shorter the thumbs the
more brutal and passion governed the
nature.
The relative length Of the joints also
plays an important part The first indi-
Gates the will power; the second denotes
Judgment, reason and logic, and the
third, which controls the mount of We
nus, indicates the affections and love of
fellow beings In well balanced ma
ture the first and second joints are about
of equal length. This indicates whole
some adjustment between the judgment
and the will. If, however, the first joint
is longer than the second, the will ex-
ceeds the judgment and the person is
likely to be stubborn and often acts
without reason. When the second joint
is the longer, person plans better than
he executes. III this way he often gets
the reputation of being visionary, and is
frequently full of schemes which he
lacks the will to carry out. The third
. joint, or cham, of the hand, when too
thick indicates ungovernable passions
and an inordinate love of the opposite
sex. Such person will be ''hail fellow
well met" boon companion, but is
likely to neglect the intellectual de-
mands both of his home and his other
, self. TO this abnormal indication may
be traced many matrimcnial infelici-
, ties. When the second joint is thin and
small in circumference as compared
with the first, it is said to indicate great
tact and niceties in judgment, even to
the splitting of hair. Whether the
hand is firm or flabby has a modifying
, influence in all cases Chicago Tribune.
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