PALMISTRY’S RIVAL.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 31 December 1901, Page 4

PALMISTRY’S RIVAL.

Character Reading from the Lines on the Foot.

Palmistr} r has been popular as a means of reading the character, and, in the estimation of some credulous persons of prying into the future, for a long while. But a new “ science,” whose exponents claim to be able to read character from the lines on the foot, is to become, so it is predicted, an important rival. The new method of character-reading originated in America. The visitor whose character was to be told placed her delicate foot upon a eusbioned rest, so that the soles came directly under the inspection of a lady versed in the “ science,” who narrowly examined the lines upon it through a magnifying glass.

According to the expert who there purchased her novel vocation, the purpose of the new “ science ” is to assist the mental and moral growth by suggestions which will aid self-reliance, and the expansion of the most worthy faculties of the foot’s possessor. She claims that a true reading of the foot discloses all the natural tendencies of the mind, and shows forth many methods by which deficiencies may be remedied.

The general contour of the foot, the formation of the toes, the heel, and the arch, proclaim the characteristics of the owner, while the lines of the sole, the ankle, and the shape of the nails, all help to elaborate deductions.