Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-01-18
BY PALMTSTRY.

and | find they are very reliable guides
TO character The way you shake hands
shows you to be nervous, self willed, irri-
table and obstinate"
Great scott! Suzcttc, am nothing of
the sort"
"Oh, there is no use denying it. When
one has studied palmistry"-
"Palmistry What nonsensel Why,
fuzcttc, you are too pretty to take up that
fad"
Pretty! What has that TO do with itS"
Everything. 1t is generally the homely
and antiquatcd girls who study it,.
GLOW absurd! Why not tho pretty
oncsy"
"Thcy have so many avenues for flirta-
ton that they haven't time to study the
rudimcnts."
ooh, Mr.. Allen, how you bclittle the
science"
Don't call it "A science. What's the use
of learning the stuff"
"Why, wouldn't you ike to know a
good hand when you see itg'
II do Held n good hand of three aces
the other night and played 1t for all it was
worth. If you could teach me to know
good hand when I couldn't SEQ it, the les
sun Woulu provo Ol value.
ITS no uso talking to- You, ] see"
"Oh, yes, IL is Come, tell me all about
the mysterious science. How do you begin
the actE DO you have to have photo
graph of the hnnd?"
Photograph? No. l study the hand
itself. hold it so that good light
You hold it, do your Say. Suzotte,
read my hand, won't you. pleascg"
She sat down and took his hand II
trcnblcd little in her clasp, but she did
not notice it because she was saving smil-
ingy:
1--WE have been friends so long that
think | must know your character pretty
thoroughly already"
This is the opportunity of your life,
then, to find out few things you didn't
suspect"
"Oh, Nod, here's terrible signr'
What up"
"Your palm is longer than your fin
gers"
Doesn't hurt, 7 assure you"
at does--it hurts drcadfully; 1t is q
sign Of brutaityl'
Get better light on It., he urged,
cdging up closer.
But there is n slightly counterncting
value III the largcncss Of the thumb and
in the unlined mount of Mars. "
You don't tell me? What does all this
show"
THAT you can keep command OF your
self even under great provOcation."
well. that's true, at all events"
Dear, dear, dear
"What 5 to pay now"
"Obstnacy and bad temper"
"Whcrc?"
"In the broad part of your thumb"
"Wcll, so long as l keep them there no
harm 5 done"
Let me look at the quadrangle. Oh,
good It's nice and broad and smooth
and well defined. That means loyalty,
Ned. am SO glad you have it," In her
pretty carnostncss she clasped his hand in
both of hers and talked deliciotsly straight
into his eyes.
"Do you see that? That means con-
iugal misery, and lots of it, because it's
long, long line" With interested pity she
traced it with her soft forcflngcr, and the
carcssing touch sent an answering thrill
from his toes to his hair roots.
do that again, he whispered That's
perfectly dclicious.'
"Dclicious? \ life of conjugal misery?"
"Dcplorable, perfectly dcplorablc. But
do it again, to be sure you haven 3 made
mistake. "
No mistake, and II / read things twice
IL never get through. Aunt Mary Will
De calling to me from over the baiusters.
Nherc was |; On, yes! Heres another
long onc-the line OF the heart. That
means jealousy Of the most pronounced
and unrcasoning type"
zee mere, 9uZette' II mere Is particle
OF goou III my hand, l wish you would
l.. A
MAKE strong effort to una 1t.
" DO you sec this bump It's the mount
OF the moon. see the eros on it? That
means hato TO say 1t, Ned but luust
1T means that you are THAT you tell
Hes, Ncd
do not'
ION, you must! believe now that 10
was you who sent those lovely howers,
though you swore not. Now, didn't YOU
Nhy-Why
And l hrnly believe 1t was you gave
all my poor people money, though when
asked about 1t you ,ald that you wouldn't
give beegars milky -dink nicke!'-thoSc
were your very words. | see by your face
that am right Oh, 1t makes me miser-
aDle TO ma that you np. why dld NouE'
because you would think me generous
and thank me for 1t when was giving
simply for your sake, for your dear
n'"a'ou ioo lIlc iooh ior generosity 1eS,