Hand Reading.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 130, 26 February 1887, Page 2

Hand Reading.

Socilty in New York is at the present moment turning attention to its hand?, ior an exponent of the science of the hand is th-je who is believed in ;>s infallible, and who undertake? to initiate ladies and gentJmen into the reading of their hinds. He is much i.i vogue ; is invited to soireeti 3nd parties, where hand* of all sizes mid shape* are thruet under his notice that he may tell the character of the respective owners thereof. He averts the hand to bean essential member of the b«»dy, which i<? perfectly true ; ho callB it the mirror of the mind, which may or not be so, and alleges that it indicates the character, habit?, and d«"»giee of intelligence of ita po?pcf^or. He ca*e* le-« about the lines in the palm than he doe* about the phapo of the inerubers. Smooth fingers, he says, indicate tact ; knotty ones taste in actions ; long fingers show a power of reasoning in detail ; short one-* a tendency to jumpat conclusions ; very short fingers cruelty ; thick fingers, love of luxury ; fcti 11 fingers, avarice ; supple joints generosity. We should be corry to think that there are people of gentle breeding who are in the habit of telling lie", other than what may be called society lies, not admitted a«i genuine false hood*, which are told to escape from a vi-itur v/ho oalla ufc an inconvenient hour or frooi a dinner party which there is a He^ire to decline without giving offence. Bat to anyone who is in the habit of telling what aro real downnght lies, the American exponent of Ch-irosophy says, " Try to tell one with your hand open ; you will find it an impossibility."