The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-17

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palmist, II believe there is nothing better
than palmistry. As far as character read
ing is concerned, it is perfect, but when
you come to fortune telling-well, when
people ask me to tell their fortunes. ad-
visa them I'd go to a fortune teller and
listen to what the cards have to say.
| Eyes, I read palms at fairs and afternoon
| teas, or anywhere 1 am asked to go by my
| friends, or that they send me word from
| the woman's exchange that 1 am wanted,
| for they have my name down there.
You seea took it up in the first place
/ just for fun. 1 was studying art, and the
| other girls had quite a fad for it, and l
| decided would see what there was in it.
| Studying? Oh. have been studying for
| four or five years, perhaps, off and on,
Palmistry is something that requires great
| deal of study. The beginner simply doesn't
! know anything about it. One thing de-
ponds so much upon another.
MEMS hands are easier, almost always,
| than women's to read, though American
hands are not as distinctly lined as people
| of other nationalities. Men are not as i'm
questionable as women, as rule, and their
hands show 1t. They have usually a few
strong lines. A successful business man
will have hand of that kind. Perhaps
that is the secret of a mans success. He
has given his concentrated attention to only
few things, and has succeeded in them. 1
have seen mems hands that were marked
like a womans, but think they were usu-
ally men of great sensibility, perhaps men
who might be called effeminate-
"There are some women whose hands
seem to be network of feeble lines and
which really do not mean anything but
worry 1t shows in their hands as it does
in their faces. The things that make the
strongest impression upon person are apt,
believe to make the strongest lines upon
the hand One woman whose hand ex-
amined told me afterward that she had
Travelled all over the world I could not I'M
derstand'it, for there were no signs of travel
to be seen on her palms.
81 don't see it and 1 can't explain why
do not I said.
Perhaps it is because it did not make
any impression on me- she answered, and
think that must have been the reason.
at is interesting to watch lines develop
in the hand, though 1t is slow work. I have
seen them grow in my own hand, but it
takes six months or a year to notice much
change. 1t is not at all satisfactory to tell
the hands of the people you know or to
study your own hand. You find yourself
so much influenced by what you already
| know about person. never try to study
a persons face in connection with the hand.
1 do not think it can be trusted.
at has always seemed to me that per-
sons with frank, open character will show
their traits of character in the hand more
plainly than persons who are reticent.
Evapts Of great irnDOrtance will leaye
mark in the hand. A death which has &C.
Cured affecting the person whose hand you
are reading will always show in the hand.
Some hands are a great revelation. I read
the hand of young man at the house of
friend one day, and in 1t I saw that a great
change was coming to him. 1t looked to
me as If in about year his life was going
all lowell, smash. I told him so. He was
a broker. I can't remember his name now,
but anyone would be likely to know it, for
1t appeared in the papers about the time of
which had warned him, for he was con-
victed of some crime-embezzling think
and was sent to prison.
| 81 don't always tell all the disagreeable
things 1 see in hands. Perhaps I ought to.
I remember once reading the hand of a
| girl with whom I was acquainted, and find
| ing there that she was very deceitful. I
| didn't like to tell her exactly that. L don't
| think you would hesitate to tell flb if you
were in a tight place. said. I learned
afterward that she was in the habit of do
| ing a number of things that an honorable
person would not do-reading other peo-
pies private correspondence and things of
that kind.
"About telling anything of the future. l