LOVE AND CHIROMANCY. Some Suggestions for Those Who Contemplate Matrimony.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 178, 13 November 1886, Page 3

LOVE AND CHIROMANCY. Some Suggestions for Those Who Contemplate Matrimony.

As a rule, though there are many exceptions, a man with a l'»ng nail-joint to his fhutnb, but ehort nails, should marry a woman with a short thumb and long nails. I don't mean " talons," but the pink part of the nails should be long enough to promise graces loal in the mar.'s analytical nature ; these vt>iy short nails d< claie th« diver into hidden recesses ; certainly he often discovers diamonds', but their roughness in usually appalling, and a wife who will yee to their polishing is the one thing needful. Long naila look too much on the outside of things, and judge people by looks, manner and dress ; so this combination should insure "le juste milieu." A girl whose long-pointed fingers and nails, and long, though slanting, line of head, show much mental power, coupled with' strong imagination and a great tendency to judge by outward signs, must be carefully wooed. The man to succeed will be short-fingered ; the first joint of his thumb will be at least as long as his second. He will never quite let her know how much he cares for her, nor will he altogether lift the veil which shrouds him. To her his charm will be that there is always something behind — something more tv Know some day. These longpointed fingers, with the line of head described above, love exploitation, but the mine, once opened and tuliy explored, has no more interest for them. The Bigna of chiromancy vary so much, according to the type of the hand, that it is difficult to cull hard and fast maxims. I can, however, give at least one, which is a thing of oeauty and a joy for ever in any hand. When the line of heart forms a fork, of which both branches are exactly equal, on the mount of Jupiter, which rises at the baEe of the first finger, it declares absolute trucness of heart. In' such a person you may fully confide, for to him or her daceit is impossible. Thin fork also tells of one luvo ouly, for even when the person inspiring it ha 3 turned wholly unworthy, no other love will ever replace it. Other affectionß may attempt to do so, but none will ever hold the place consecrated to the first and last real love, The' person inspiring such love is often indicated by a cross between the lines of heart and head, the invariable sign of an influence ot opposite ccx. These crosses, however, sometimes show irksome influences '; old loves, which refuse to be shelved, and the threadbare friendships, straining at the cords of old affection in well-meant, fatal efforts to advise. Once, when telling the hand of a foreigner, I found ane of the crosses cutting the linos of heart, head and fate, and indicating continued worry and hindrance arising from a woman's influence.' I said: " iour life is crossed and marred by some woman.* Whatever you take up she objectß t6.' ' No matter iin what career you seek success, she crosses your path and bars your way." To my dismay, the fiery foreigner sprang to his feet, and, bunging his clinched fist down on the table with a force all but disastrous to glass and 'china, he exclaimed : " Ah! Ido know her ; ehe is yon fiend. Ido wish she would die. " When, these crosses rest on the head lines only, the influences they indicat'a arise from faacination alone, and the heart is untouched. I know a lady whom palmistry saved from a miserable marriage by warning her how speedilylthe glamour surrounding an influence of thiß kind would wear off. In consequence of this warning ' she took six months to think over matters, and long before their termination' the glamour had vanished, and the engagement was broken off. When the line of heart* is broken into many small pieces it argues 1 ' little luck in love and tells of" in constancy' in friendship. A man who with this line combined l a long line of head, reaching right aqross the hand,, would be a dan gerbu.8 1 rival'; with but little regard to whati'implemehta he employee! to ' cut out 'anyone' 'who interfered with him. The fragmentary line of heart' tolls of' the Wish to do it, while the lengthy line of head 1

/lJteraJly shows the power. .iTfoia Jong hi^d Auie^is aljHj&y'fJa d£p|»erous possession, indicating capabilities for swindling. With h'g'ood' long' line ot heart principle/will strau^l© speculation, wh«a you find this' in ibd f hand of ; &Mriend whoce line' of 'Heart? '& defective, cross quickly to the other aide of the way, especially if you have a'ny't'hiug" of value about you, "In-hund^ blessed with all virtues ttrip line ni ? eiel'y denotes that delightful talent Jon «t.tnng one's money'a ,worth out of , every t\ ing ( M-b,ich.);hoae-whn do not possess it ceasel ,Bif<y envy and admire. Doubtle*B*it is a mocst'^erirable knack, but if everyone bad itno one would oveffoverpay, so, how would am one profic ? It jsijutt as well, therefore, that no two persona' possess hands exactly similar, and - that "a largo ;heart so often overrules a long head. r , lledneaa of the lines shows passion, but ao red as to indicate violence they I think, preferable to the wide white lines declaring egotism. The latter stamp the " Grandcourta " of life Had Gwendolen Hatleth studied palmistry no false hopes of "managing better than mamma" would have lured her into matrimony, Beware, ye finances, of heart lines chained, crossed and harassed by maoy'little lines ; they toll of fickleness.

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