The Saint Paul globe., 1904-06-04
TO READ CHARACTER
HOW YOU HOLD A BOOK WILL
TELL ABOUT YOU
The Absurd Ways in Which People
Earn Money-The farmers Get
Rich h-Quie< Scheme

On almost the same level as COM
plexion experts, spoken of on this page
yesterday, are the persons who claim
they can read character from the way
you do your hair, or the manner in
which you hold book when reading.
1t is hardly believable that people will
part with hard earned money to such
folk, but the game goes on constantly,
particularly in large cities. Although
palmistry is the same sort of thing, it
may be placed just a notch higher
than others of a like kind, as now and
then there is a scientific palmiSt who
tells most wonderful things. But the
persons who claim to read character
from other indications are numerous,
and, strange to say, have no difficulty
in earning a living. They read it from
the shape of ears, from handwriting,
from the way man puts his foot
down, his way of parting his hair,
manner of getting on a car and thou
sand other absurdities.
They will tell you that if a woman
fans herself with the left hand she is
sure to be cross or evil-minded; if she
fans with the right hand she is charm
ing and even-tempered. If she sticks
out her little finger when she holds her
fork, she is deceitful, and it is we'll to
watch her. Likewise if her right foot
turns in she is not likely to come to
any good end. And women will pay q
dollar to be told these important items!
How their husbands will laugh at them
for 1t, but If you only knew the truth
you would discover that the very man
who will smile at his wife for being
so easily taken in, Will go quietly to the
professor and have his fortune told
by the shape of his fingernails Round
fngernailS are a sign of long life and
nails and flee far from the man who
has them! Terrible things are limited
at for the latter, and he goes away
thinking that he must be a murderer at
heart without knowing it. The man
who will smoke cigar to the very last
bit is a person of thrift; how much
acumen it takes to discover that! But
the man who will throw away a half
smoked cigar is of extravagant habits.
The other day country boy in New
Jersey who read the yellow journals
and saw how easy it was to become
wealthy by the "get-rich- quick" meth
DDS, decided that he was very foolish
to continue to drive a plow at SO per
week. So he took his entire savings
$5-purchased stationery of a defunct
company-plentT of stamps and a list
of 500 names. He wrote letters offer
ing to sell certain stocks very cheap.
He gave no references, and sent the
letters at random here and there, ask
ing for fifty or hundred dollars. He
hardly thought himself that it would
work. But it did. Large sums began
rolling in, and the farmer boy became
a magnate in his own estimation. Now
he is reposing in a New Jersey Jail, and
says he didn't have a very good time
after all, and has decided that after
his time is out he will return to the
farm and .''live. honest" The people
who sent him their money deserve to
lose it, and no sensible person could
have any sympathy for them. If a man
is starving, or wants money for some
legitimate business, he often finds it
very hard to get. And yet the world
is full of misguided fools who will meet
a man on a train-or get a letter from
him-and confide the savings of life
time to him. The man who will place
$4,000 in box offered him by a stran-
ger who claims he has three thousand
in the same box, as was done here the
other day-well that man should be in
FaribauIt, where there is a refuge for
the feeble minded.
But the gullible are born every min
ute, and the man who can tell you what
your future will be from the way your
eyebrows curve is sure of good living.