The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-18
DIR. COLA FILLED THE GAP,
hut He Gave n Most Interesting Talk
Gn Hands.


oG Hands.
If Cheiro the exponent of palmiStry, who
was to have spoken here last night at the
Peoples church, is any cleverer or more in
teresting than his colleague. Jehanghier d..
Cola, who took his place, then the st. Paul
people may look forward with much pleas
ure to hearing Cheiro himself in a fortnight.
DR.. Cola, who, by the way, is Parsee, from
Bombay. India. and has for some years been
the colleague of Cheiro in the study OF the
hand. gave most exhaustive and interesting
talk on the history of the study and advanced
medical and scientific reasons for Its sup
port.
After explaining that his friend was pros
trated in Milwaukee, DR.. Cola made apollo
gies for any shortcomings which might be
noted, and Straightway plunged into his sub
istry was first heard of in India many hun
dreds OF years ago, and had been practlced
and taught by Anaxagoras as early as 42S B.
Z. Inc study had found its way into Greece,
and had been translated by monk during
the middle ages. 1t was then study more
OF the shape than the lines CT the hand, and
was opposed by the church owing to the tend
ency toward the encouragement of charla-
tanism. Some Greek philosophers not only
believed in but openly advocated the study
of palmistry. The opinions of such men as
Hispanus, Piiny, Paracesus, Cardimis. can
not, he urged be thrown aside with reason
HlSpanuS, who sent work on cheiromancy
to Alexander the Great, recommended 1t 'as
a study worthy the attention of elevated
and inquiring mind" Tracing down the ad-
vancement made in the science DR.. Cola
quoted Meissner, the German savant, say
ing in 1888: There are in the human hand
tactic corpuscles running in straight rows
in the red lines OF the palm Later this
learned student had demonstrated that these
cOrpuScleS contained the end of the impor-
tant nerve fibre, and during the life of the
body gave forth vibrations and crepitations
distinct and different in every human being
which changed under the influence of every
change in the system and which ceased the
moment life became extinct
Science had proved that there are more
nerves between the brain and the hand than
the action Of the mind affects the acti Of the
body, every thought OF the mind affects the
entire body, every thought of the brain more
Immediately affects the hand and conse-
quently its formation. The lines in the hand
are not, according to DIR. Cola, made by
work. He urged that If this were true the
constantly in her efforts for daily bread
would, at the time she was fifty have
thousand lines and cross lines upon them
while the woman of luxury would have
case, and could be seen by the most casual
observers Rather dropping from the scien-
the abstract treatment Of the subject Dr.
Cola. aided by stereoptican, placed before
his interested listeners exaggerated pictures
OF the palms of a number of prominent peo-
pie, and contrasted the lines and their char
men, such as criminals. idiots, etc. One after
another were shown the pa ms of such psople
as Gladstone, Ingersoll, DR.. Parllhurst Julia
Ward Howe, Joseph Jefferson, Gen. Miles
NordIca Melba, Calve, Sir Frederick Istgh.
ton, w. I. Stead, Sara Bernhard and other
notables. With each he gave a brief talk. in
teresting in the extreme, telling of char
acterlstics possessed by the owners of the
hands.
There was the elementary hand. the comic
hand, the spatulet, the phiosophic the
psychic. the mixed PALM the hand of young
baby OF murderer, suicide, and even Of
the chimpanzee Tess in Chicago. From the
shape OF the nails even the nature of disease
might be determined. Short, thick thumbs
were indicative of low order of intelligence
He talked on about life lines, and heart
lines, and head lines; said this man who was
great war general was at heart fond of
poetry, and that one operate queen who had
rot been so well received in this country as
two OF her rivals, would outshine them both:
that famous actor was self made and had
made wonderful results out Of limited opror-
tunities, and host of other things until his
listeners regretted that they were sitting in
the dark, and could not at the instant see in
which department of life, art literature. the
law, music or the ministry they were to he
one day famous.
In conclusion DR.. Cola admonished the
mothers in the audience that the influences
shown in the palms of children were yery
often pre- natal, and further urged parents to
consult the best interests of their Offspring
by posting themselves as to what their chill
dren's hands point out they were ada1ted to
and following that guide.