The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1921-04-14
Beware Scaphoid Scapula.

The palm readers tell me that one
question patrons want to know about
II the length Of the life line. How Ions
Win ive?" is . question that the
phrenclogist Is called on TO anss er. Life
b great adventure and death is ranged
Is the great adventure
Some men glory in adventu.s whtlt
others cling TO the beaten patti. But
all. bold and timid, some openly, sonae
coyertly. are anxious to pull back the
curtain little and steal a look into
the future. Witness the wave OF spirit
ualism that 10 sweeping over the land
just now.
In the Osled memorial volume md
contribution by DIR. w. w. Graves, OF
st. Louis. which lays down sign of
longevity or its opposite which has more
scientffe foundation than the life line
q the, palm, the knotsrin the sksil or the
imagesydn5 q crystal. se' eti.ss.s {
Do you remember Katisha andss her
wonderful shoulder blade? Had KA-
ttsha been around DR.. Graves he might
have robbed her famous bone of its ro-
nance and he even might have gone
further and predicted long life for its
possessor. The shoulder blade. known
to the PSYCHOLOGISTS as the scapula, Is
the heavy triangular bone lying on the
upper part of the back of the ribs. One
corner of the triangle co-operates with
two other bones to make the shoulder
joint. The edge OF the scapula which
runs north and south lies not far from
the backbone and nearly parallel with it.
In stopped shoulders the chest is bar
relied and the fat shoulder blade slips
forward on the sharply curved ribs. In
such people the shoulder blades stand
out SO THAI they are sometimes called
winged scspula." 1t is easy to feel the
backbone edge OF the shoulder blade in
such people. 1t is not even difficult in
dat-backed. heavily muscled people.
Now for the sign. In vigorous,
strong person this backbone edge of the
shoulder blade is arched toward the
backbone. In people without much VII
tally this edge is straight or 1t curves
in the other directfon-the concavity
points toward the backbone. The sign
of weak constitution and, therefore. of
tendency toward short life is the sea
phoid scapula." The name sounds trou-
bleSome and maybe the description also
Is, but how about the life line of the
palm or the knots on the skull?
Tho expert skill OF the palmist, the
phrenologist and the fortune teller
sometimes commands diamonds, auto
mobiles and liveried servants. Dr.
Graves bases his opinions on the follow
ing observations:
Old people who have successfully
weathered the storms of life were found
to have convex edged scapulas.
In children the scaphoid scapula was
frequently found.
A very large part of the sickly chill.
dren had scaphoid scapulas.
Children with certain inherited dis
eases and defects generally had sea .
phoid scapulas.
DR.. Graves has had some people III
der observation for more than a doz n
years and he observes that the sca-
phoids have n greater average tendency
to sccumb to the vicissitudes of life.
Even the most sheltered life is full Of
adventure. The venturesome have more
hazards. DR.. Graves point is that the
scaphoid scapula shows inferior physi-
cal constitution and that those who have
1t succulnb to the hazards Of life on an
average at considerably greater ratio
than do the members Of other groups