The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-20
HERE IS a NEW PIANIST.
Mile. Cleo PaIkOwsIxa just Now Aston.
ishinE New York Women.
NeW YOrk lIerald.


drawing card at an afternoon reception is
a palmist, who reads the secrets of the
i head ana heart through the palm of the
left hand, and tells the owner of the fair
palm her white sins And the palmist whom
society has taken up and exploits as some
thlng really new is a young woman of
noble birth, whose parents occupy a high
court position in Poland. She is Mile. cleo
Marie de Palkowska, twenty-three years
or age and she has already appeared in
half a dozen of the most exclusive homes
Of New York Her readings of the palm is
who have flourished hitherto, and MANY
fashionable society women have FASTENED
to bring her into their homes for their aft
ernoon receptions and teas.
palmist and. q fine collation. are two of
the most powerful cards for a full house
at an afternoon reception and both are
rarely found together at the same enter
tainment. Mile De Palkowska has created
quite stir both by her hand reading and
the fact that she comes of Il noble Polish
mousse. Her father is a general in the Polish
army and her grandfather was a marshal
III the court of King Augustus of Poland.
Mile. De PalkowSka has been in this coun-
try but three months, but her entree to
society was speedy ON account of her re-
markable talent.
Mile. De PalkoWska was introduced to New
YORK society at a recent reception given by
Mrs. Richard Lounsbery at her home. No.
y East Thirty-fifth street. There Mile
Marie told secrets, not only of the persons
whose hands she read but of their families
as well, and told them what they had to
fear through heredity. An incident occurred
Mile De Palkowska's first hit as it
We're, in creating the palmistry fad. While
she read the palms of many women who
We're curious to know how she did it, a we'll
known society woman approached and said:
Mademo1selle, look at my hand. Cheiro
has told me there is suicide in it. Tell me
Il | shall commit suicide
All, madam. answered the Polish girl
studying the hand intently, there has been
suicide in your family some time long be-
fore you. There is trace of it still. / see
suicidal tendencies in the lines but the will
can overcome Them
Others pressed forward to have their
palms read, and each was told what she
was best fitted for and what talents she
possessed, musical or otherwise. Mile. De
Palkowska speaks in a pretty broken En-
gnsh that lends charm to her palm read
ing. She is very serious with it, however
and says she has advanced it to a science.
Much against the wishes of her relatives
at the Polish capital Mile. De PalkOWska
came to this country three months ago and
Went to live with her married sister at No.
l3z west IWelTth street Through some
distant relatives in this country she was
introduced into the exclusive society set of
Flushing and appeared in a number of
homes there. She first read palms at a re-
ception given by Mrs Howells, of Flush
ing Her attractive face and manners won
her ready recognition. She was soon
heard of in New York and taken up by the
fashionable set. In her home on West
Twelfth street Mile. Marie told me of her
life and her life study of palmistry.
II have studied under the most celebrated
masters IN palmistry she said, but |
found their methods did not agree with
mine. | have studied from nature. and my
methods spring from my own observations.
That is how have been able to tell so
much of people who give me their hands in
your great houses of New York
'Palmistry is as reliable medical science
and may be made as beneficial, for char
acter and future events are pictured in the
hand as plainly as if they. were written in
a book The scientific palmist reads peo-
pies hands and in an instant knows their
character and the forces that shape their
lives.
Large hands, said Mile. Marie, ..particu-
larly if they are hard, are sign of physical
strength. The Greeks admired large hands
for they love strength. Small hands denote
delicacy and delight in art and music
The thumb is the man. Mile. PalkOwska
divides it into three partS-called the will,
logic and passion The tip is that of the
base, passion, or the mound of Venus. A
well formed thumb always denotes q manly
man-one with mind of his own. Idiots
have weak thumbs, and always hold them
beneath the fingers. AT the approach of
death dying man holds his thumb beneath
the fingers. Infants always hold the thumb
beneath the fingers, and in proportion as the
infant mind develops the thumb is with
drawn. Persons with short thumbs said
Mile. Palkowska. are governed by the heart
more than the head, are creatures of i'm
pulse. Large or long thumbs indicate a
person governed more by the mind and one
who never acts on the spur of the moment.
Shakespeare had a short thumb" said
Mile. Marie thence he wrote from the
heart and in an impassioned way Walter
the German philosopher. had an immense
thumb hence he wrote through his tiespot-
ism. The thumb is the only finger that has
the power TO stay upright by itself hence
controls all the others. In Christianity the
thumb represents God and the first pha-
lange Christ, the will of God. In bap-
tism or conservation the sign of the cross
is always made with the thumb. as a sign
that the will of Godvfnay be with the per-
son baptized or consecrated
1T is by this study of-palmistry that I
would show the way to the Improvement of
character and how to spare people unnec-
essary experiences, frictions and some
times DEATH