The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-01-01
LOOK INTO THE FUTURE
One Of The Scribes Has His Life Lines
Carefully Examined.
Going to Be Married Twice and Papa
Of Two Children.
He Will Live Until He Is FiftY-Five
Years of Age.
Two Unknown Enemies Will Give Him
Considerable Annoyance.
From Tuesdays Daily.

Any Mankatonian or transient in the
city who has any desire of peering into
the dim and distant future and is at all
credulous as to the prophetic utterances
of those who claim to be able to foretell
something of ones fate from the form of
ones hand and the lines and creases ON
the palms thereof, may obtain a measure
of satisfaction by going down to the blue
railway car sidetracked behind the glass
block. Here the Baker Palmistry COM
pany employs lady who knows the hui
man palm as matchmaker knows the
interior of the tickers he handles and
she is familiar with the supposed mean
ing of every rise or hollow that is visi-.
BILE to the naked eye.
A representative of The Free Press
entered the car yesterday afternoon. On
stepping inside the door he found himself
in little square waiting room in which
sat six young ladies, all eagerly listen
ing to what the chiromancer in the next
compartment was saying to lady whose
palms she was examining. Anxious
credulity was depicted on every one. of
their faces, and their conversation con-
corning the fate each was soon to know
concerning herself turned ever and anon
to the subject of marriage
After the ladies had all been waited
upon and dismissed, the reporter was
ushered by the palmist into the little
sanctuary where his hands were laid
out on table palms upward and studi-
ed The lines of life, head, heart and
fate as well as the various other forma-
tions of the hands were pointed out and
their peculiarities noted. The line of
life was found to be short and uncom-
monty dim and broken, especially ON the
left hand. The best that the clairyoyant
could make ous Of it was sptn CT lie
reaching to the .age of fifty five years.
Two horizontal lines below the base
of the little finger and running at right
angles to it indicated that two women
would enter into his life 81 didn't say
that you are going to marry either of
them," she said, "but it is plain that
they will have something to do with
your life. One Of these lines indicates
the one that you will take if you
marry at about the age of twenty six
or twenty-seven. The other is the one
you will have if you wait until you are
thirty two. The latter is very well edu-
Gated and indeed highly intellectual. The
first is nearer to the level of your own
intelligence, perhaps even below it."
Passing from the left hand to the right
she observed two similar lines on that
hand. eyes; you are going to marry
them BOTH" she said. "And here are two
children" she continued, pointing out two
tiny creases running between these lines
and the little finger on both hands.
"Only one of the children, however, will
survive you"
Showing long and unbroken course
of the line of fate running from the
head line to the line of life, she said that
indicated an unbroken career of success
and prosperity between the ages of thir-
ty and forty-fve. He would become
more than moderately well off, though
he would never make himself a million
aire.
Two faint lines running across the
head line on the right hand she said in
dicated two enemies with whom he
would he associated. The doing of these
foes would indeed cause some annoyance
but would fail to do any real harm as
they did not quite touch the heart line.
Other peculiarities of the hands de-
noted persistency when once his mind
was made up but there were also indica-
tions that he would often unfortunately
fail to make up his mind to do certain
things on account of want of self con-
fidence. And thus the story of the flu
ture of the newsgatherer was related.
As the past was familiar to him he did
not care to have it related.