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 165
ind the hardy Norseman andthe sensuous Southerner, the working, 140 HOW TO READ THE HAND. energetic Northerner, and the siesta-lovingSoutherner? In the one case we have theworker, in the other the delicate ; themanly qualities as a rule in one, the femi-nine or easy-going attributes in the… … FiG. 9. firm the testimony of the Creator—nothingis in vain. The most casual observer of his handwill notice that at the base of each fingerin the palm of the hand is a mound orrising, or a depression. (Fig. 9.) Each ofthese corresponds to a planet, and the starmay be fortunate or unfortunate…
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