The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-15
| WHAT WOMEN FALKLAND THINK ABOUT
SCIENTIFIC CLAIMS
OF PALM READING
Aspiring Readers Fail in Drawing the Correct Conclusions
Combination Signs and characteristics
s a Fascinating One.

clearly Not long ago she was visited by
professional palmist and the caller seemed
surprised when the discoveries We're not di-
yulged.
In consequence of her labor and persever-
ance Mrs. HURT has twenty-five charts which
c1ntan many araTngs and IN addition sx
pronounced them unique when he saw them
and placed their value at 5000 at least Mr..
eadn the SM rs aorn MS I'D
hand. They are colored plates and differ
greatly from the figures usually found in
manuals of cherosophy
The chief difficulty experienced by young
palm readers Is their inability to make COM
binations even after they know perfectly the
tiles indicated on one portion of the hand
may be mitigated by strength in another part.
The shape of the hands, the fingers, the main
lines, are not to be considered alone. Chance
lines and signs play an important part In the
readings, the portions where they appear mod
flying their meaning still further, The text
considered. So it is that a person perfectly
familiar with shapes in their pure forms, with
the lines alone, with the signs, texture and
size. all we'll known to him. may fail as a
illusions to draw when a number of signs
appear, somewhat contradictory in meaning.
In Winnireg at one time there were several
skeptcs at an evening party who held that
it was only because she knew them that she
was able to tell their characteristics. In
order to show her real knowledge she offered
to read the palm of anyone whom they wished
to bring to her. They selected an old man of
eighty, whose life had been filled with many
experiences and strange happenings. She told
him OF number of events in his youth and
even located several scars which had resulted
from injuries received In wars. After the
reading he showed the company some of the
she had located. At the same time
she told woman her husband would not live
long. The woman was much moved and Mrs
Burt, in order to spare her forsock ner art
enough to say that 1t might not happen But
be died as predicted, six months after the
time. Acting upon the encouragement re-
her dramatic tour. She foretold Colonel
John T. West death Not long ago a. young
woman, fearing that some mystery hung
around. her birth, went to Mrs HURT, who
verified her lear. At present she is trying
to pierce the otscurity heng1ng over her
early days.
1t is remarkable that a good palmist is
able to tell what the parents have been from.
the appearance Of a child's hand, what in
fuences have been potent in the life. It is
possible to tell an abduction from the hand
the hand registers cohabitation, altho it does
not recognize the marriage service. A tend
ency suicide has its mark on the palm
criminals are quickly known by their hands,
and insane persons carry their secret in their
palms. But these things need not discourage
one who fears to know the truth about him
SELF Many have been given new hope, new
lease Of life and labor and may modify
his character, If one first understands ones
needs.
The science of palmistry is mysterious tc
1t is looked upon askance by those who dc
not see its reasonings and its accuracy, and
fear It's dmon:tions, but in spite of all that,
interest in 1t Is spreading rapidly.