Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1896 — HANDS TELL A STORY. [ARTICLE]

HANDS TELL A STORY.

Palmistry Will Reveal Many Secret* of Character. "A person has but to open his band and be opens the history of his life to a persop well versed In palmistry',” sald a professor of the art “The palm reveals more of a person’s true character and disposition than conld he learned In a life-long friendship. A. person’s peculiarities are written there as plainly as if in a book; each line la full, of meaning. Chronic diseases as well as acute ailments leave their marks upon the palm. I have known instances where diseases that hare nonplussed learned doctors have been correctly diagnosed by persons knowing nothing of medicine or physiology, who formed their opinion from the appearance and condition of the hand alone. The moisture, color and Condition of the cuticle! and nails-are just as important to the palmist In determining disease and condition of the system as the lines upon the hand?., “Malformations Of the body are. reflected In the hand. So far Is this true that Rice, the promoter of so many spectacular productions, selects his chorus girls who are to appear in tiights by looking at their hands, and that his system, is not a faulty one is evidenced—by the appearance of the girls on the stage., I have' never known a case where the hand of a criminal or thief has not shown just what he was. In examining the of people who come to me just for the sport of the thing I have frequently seen the line of the thief well developed in hands whose owners are away up in the social world. Naturally,, I watch with interest the careers of such people, but only in one instance have I ever discovered a.proof of what the palm revealed. I have no doubt the thief existed in the life of the others just as in this man’S*life, but undiscovered. “The case I refer to was a bright society man of Gotham who moved in ■the best circles. About three years after 1 examined his hand i a theft of tena of thousands of dollars from a bank in lie was employed was hushed up, but not before rumor had given it to the winds among ~ his friends. “So firm is my faith in the psychometry of the hand that I believe suspicious characters could be judged by a well-informed palmist so that crimes could be prevented by-the detection of such parties. Bankers selecting their clerks and business men their trusted men would have a test for honesty as sure as any acid in the requirements of chemistry. The life of the street car ‘spotter’ would be at an end, for none but honest men would obtain positions. If the science of palmistry develops in coming years as it has in the past ten, the time may not be very far distant when every well regulated business house will have a palmist in its employ as it now has a typewriter.”