The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1910-04-21

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indicates "the inclination Of the
nature"
Other lines are the lines OF Apollo.
Of marriage. Of travel. OF the liver or
health, and Of intuition Then there
IS the ring or girdle Of Venus. q
curved line sometimes found running
between the FIRST and fourth fingers
This we are told has been the sub
feet Of great disagreement among
various authors" According 20 one.
Il gives energy" 70 either good or bad
occupations.
This Is a very bald outline o. the
nearly. infinite material Of palmistry
C. vRnlair. in the Revae de Beigique
published a series Of articles, Ia
Main Psychologique." in which he
states that in hands still young there
are hardly more than two kinds OF
lines. Age gradually develops others
more fine. short. superficial Then g
nRlly appear the lines Of senility,
which are nothing but the wrinkles Of
the hand
He quotes Fere's recent observation
Of the gradual development "a . II
anist Of those little curved folds en-
hracing the base OF the fingers which
chiromanccTS designate as the rings
OF Venus. The wrinkles In question
were marked little by little as 4 re
suit OF the very n~ssidnous exercises
meant 90 perfect the individual play
Of the fingers
lie notes that the superior monkeys.
the gibbon and the orang. have three
folds GRO the palm; the chimpan-
zee. more akin 90 as. has two. Some
times criminals. idiots. and degener
ates have only one transverse fold
while normal human palms carry two
AZ for prophecy by palmistry Van.
lair eXcisims: Are there not already
IN the most simple hypothesis relative
20 the slow evolution OF inanimate
things, enough unknown terms' Has
the science OF nature predicted with
a complete enough gertrude the IN.
finite transformations OF the medium
which surrounds us that enc should
dare TO breach that imbeciie audacity.
the problem Of the future Of a human
creaturef Can n forget that n there
IS n mystery more insolublo than all
others, q is surely that Of the innum
cradle contingencies presiding over
our destinics--
Prof stirling. professor Of physi-
ology az Victoria university, England.
stated IN the course Of a lecture at
the royal institution;
"Palmistry Is an absolute absurdity
the whole thing Is beneath contempt
Look &C your palms. and you will and
certain classical lines These lines
the c~ocalled lines az Nfc. heart and
head. and the Eirdie Of Venus and the
bracelets ot iifc around your wrists
What DO you suppose they really are'
They are nothing morc nor less than
crvanca or folds produced by the &C
uon 81 the muscles The line Of
heart, for instance a. the rc1ure OF
the four fingers The line OF iifo Is
the result of the action 90 the thumb
An these lines that have been given
astronomical namoa by pslmists are
characteristic textures You will dud
the same lines on the palm Of the
barhary ape Humanity Is daily
quilted through It's extraordinary iguo.
n OF the elementary facts Of physi
ology"
Prof stirling placed finger prints IN
q very different category The print
o. the thumb alone" he said. rs sui.
ncient TO identity a person for ali
time" Hut this h because % its
physical, not It's psychical indlyidu
Glity.
There ts, in short no scientist Of
any standing whatsoever Who gives
pnlmistry any rating whatsoever. ny
the testimony Of It's own adopts q IL
IN a state OF hopeless contradiction
and dispute, It's charaotcranalysis o.
false, its prophecies do not come true
Tho hand o. a marvellous mecha
nism. and Il has slowly evolved from
the foot of the padded type It's sen
siuvoness ana dextority have coin.
cidod with intellectual progress but
Il Is no primer 81 Psychology. no tab
let Of mental and spiritual mysteries
lie lines and buigos have no more sci
cntinc Significance than ths Wrinkies
In an Oh coat,sleeva