Perin's science of palmistry; a complete and authentic treatise . (Plate III.) is so named because thefingers spread so far out from the square form thatthey resemble a fan, or shovel, or the spatula, a knifeused in spreading plasters. Usually such hands havepalms which are very broad at the base of the fingers. Such fingers seem to want to push out, get away fromthe hand, to progress, to discover. The common sup-position for fingers being so formed is that a super-abundance of life fluid is found in them. This fluid seems to push the fingers out and directthe person to do what the peculiar ch
Perin's science of palmistry; a complete and authentic treatise . (Plate III.) is so named because thefingers spread so far out from the square form thatthey resemble a fan, or shovel, or the spatula, a knifeused in spreading plasters. Usually such hands havepalms which are very broad at the base of the fingers. Such fingers seem to want to push out, get away fromthe hand, to progress, to discover. The common sup-position for fingers being so formed is that a super-abundance of life fluid is found in them. This fluid seems to push the fingers out and directthe person to do what the peculiar characteristics of thefinger where it is found indicate that its owner is bestfitted to accomplish. The purely spatulated hand (Plate III.) belongs tothose persons who cannot be depended upon to com-plete anything which they begin. They lack patienceand forbearance. They are courageous and desire new scenes, new faces. They are the in-ventive type, not the type, however, who reaps the finan-cial reward of the invention; they are the discoverers PLATE NERVOUS OR SPATULATED HAND. PERINS SCIENCE OF PALMISTRY. 49 but not the type to develop the discovered country andfound a great nation. The owners of the spatulated hand are independentin thought and action. Early in life this independenceasserts itself, and parents who are ignorant of the lawpunish a bright, active child because he does not alwaysdo what the parent thinks he should. America seems to be the home of the Spatulatedhand. It is the discovered country, the home of thefree, where all the oppressed, all those who were perse-cuted on account of religious, political or moral beliefs,fled; where the seekers for gold, for honors, for knowl-edge, planted the flag of liberty, and established ahome. National prejudices and distinct characteristicsas well have been almost obliterated by interminglingand intermarrying, and now the Spatulated hand isfound almost without exception belonging to those peo-ple
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