The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1910-06-21

The lower crease Is the headline.
indicates the inclination OF thu
nature"
Other lines are the lines Of Apollo
of marriage. Of travel, Of the liver o.
health, and Of intuition. Then there
Is the ring or girdle Of Venus.
curved line sometimes found running
between the first and fourth fingers
This we are told has been the sub
ject Of great disagreement amont
various authors" According to one
1t gives energy to either good Or ba'
occupations
This Is a very bald outline Il tn
nearly infinite material of palnistry
C. vanlair. in the Revue de Beigiqus
published a series OF articles. Ia
Main Psychologique." IN which hi
states that in hands still young there
are hardly more than twa kinds Of
lines Age gradually develops other
more fine. short. superficial. Then d
nally appear the lines Of senil'ty
which are nothing but the wrinkles o.
the hand
He quotes Fere's recent observation
of the gradual development in q pi
anist OF those little curved folds EN-
bracfng the base Of the 'hngers which
chiromancers designate as the ring
Of Venus" The wrinkles in question
were marked little BY little as a re
suit Of the very assiduous exercise
meant to perfect the individual pla
Of the fingers.
He notes that the superior monkeys
the gibb0n and the orang. have tire
folds across the palm: the chimpar
zee. more akin to US. has two Some
times criminals. idiots. and degenel
ates have only one transverse folt
while normal human palms carry two
As for prophecy by palmistry Var
lair exclAims: Are there not alread
in the most simple hypothesis relativ
to the slow evolution of inAnimAt
things, enough unknown terms? Hs
the science OF nature predicted Wit
. complete enough gertrude the II
finite transformations of the mediul
which surrounds US that one shoul
| dare to breach that imbecile audacit
; the problem of the future Of = hums
. creature? Can one forget that II theI
) is one mystery more insoluble than Z
others, 1t il surely that of the innuE
: cradle contingencies presiding ov'
; our destinies?-
Prof Stirling. professor of phys
ology at Victoria university. Englan
stated In the course OF 4 lecture
the royal institution:
, "Palmistry is an absolute absurdit,
, the whole thing Is beneath contemT
Look at your palms. and you win III
certain classical lines. These lines
the so-called lines Of life.. heart n
head. and the girdle Of Venus and Il
bracelets of life around your wrists
" what do you suppose they really ar
l. They are nothing more nor less tn,
Q creases or folds produced by the .
d ton Of the muscles. The line
, heart. for instance, Is the Aexure
>. the four fingers The line Of life
b the result of the action OF the thum
All these lines that have been Civ
o astronomical names by palmists a
;. characteristic flexures. You will d.
. the same lines on the palm OF I
:. Barbary ape. Humanity Is cal
=. gulled through its extraordinary igr
!. rance of the elementary facts Of ply
;. ology"
e Prof. Stirling placed finger prints
Ie very different category. The pr
Of of the thumb alone" he said. rs .
ficient to identify = person for
). time" But this Is because of
~ physical. not its psychical indivis
a ality.
n There is. in short. no scientist
x any standing whatsoever who CIV
" palmistry any rating whatsoever.
n the testimony OF its own adopts II
10 in a state of hopeless contradict
ID and dispute. Its character-analysis
% false. its prophecies do not come tr,
Is The hand Is 4 marvellous mecl
lie nism, and 1t has slowly evolved n,
Of the foot Of the padded type. Its .
,e sitiveness and dexterity have ca
n cided with Intellectual progress, /
70 1t Is no primer Of psychology, NO t
a. let of mental and spiritual mysteri
ae Its lines and bulges have no more q
ID entific Significance than the ~rick
:" In an old coat sleeve.