Popular pastimes for amusement and instruction : being a standard work on games, plays, magic, and natural phenomena suitable for all occasions : containing parlor games, charming tableaux, tricks of magic, charades and conundrums, curious puzzles, phrenology and mind reading, palmistry or how to read the hand, humorous and pathetic recitations, dialogues, etc., etc. : including the delightful art of entertaining, the whole forming a charming treasury of pastimes for the home, public schools and academies, lodges, social gatherings, Sunday schools, etc., etc. (1901)
Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · Philadelphia : National Publishing Co. · leaf 157
distinctions in the hand 132 HOW TO READ THE HAND. itself. These are:—(i.) A supple handand a small thumb with a medium palmindicating love of beauty, and particularlyof form, (ii.) Large, short and thick witha large thumb betrays a desire for riches,fortune, and greatness, (iii). Large andvery… … FIG. 3. third by the suggestion of pleasure. Barr-ing these differences of characteristic, thetendencies of these hands are the same,though the most characteristic is thatwhich has the fingers large at the firstphalange and narrowing to a more or lessobtuse cone. The thumb is small and thepalm is…
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