Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1908 — CHARACTER IN THE TONGUE. [ARTICLE]

CHARACTER IN THE TONGUE.

Germany's Way of Sizing People Up Available Chiefly to Doctors. ' Germany has taken up the pastime Of reading character and telling fortunes by the tongue. Somebody has been making a study of the organ of speech and has discovered that it is full of indications. a* A long tongue is said to denote openness of character. It suggests generosity and free handedness. Us possessor makes friends and enemies easily but doesn’t save money. When the tongue is long and thick the openness degenerates into a tendency to gossip and scandal. The future of the owner is beset with troubles of his own making. It also indicates flightiness and inconstancy. Short tongues indicate secretiveness and dissimulation. Their owners make good detectives and attorneys. The owner may acquire some money by economy and guile but hus not largeness of spirit to make a great fortune. Thin pointed tongues are found in diflident people wh 0 do not succeed in lifeShort and broad ones accompany •raft and falsehood; the person who has such a tongue is compelled by it to deceive and betray, whatever effort he may make to keep straight. The vibrant, quavering tongue de~ notes the artistic temperament. Brilliant carmine hue is a sign of long life, pale pink tongue denotes weakness of character and delicacy of constitution. “If it's all true,” says a German newspaper, “it is lucky that it is only at the doctor and not at our friends that we stick out our tongues."