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Title: Perin's science of palmistry; a complete and authentic treatise
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Perin, Carl Louis
Subjects: Palmistry
Publisher: Chicago : Star publishing co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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re brilliant in conversation,and are adepts in diplomacy. They are alwiays doing something, if it is nothingmore than inventing some plan to do away with phys-ical labor. They take life easy, while, at the sametime, they are a valuable acquisition to society. Asthey never have the blues they dispel the gloom fromall with whom they associate, making life, at least fora season, bearable to them. Persons having this round-ed developed hand can adapt themselves readily to anypeople and adjust themselves without any trouble tonew conditions and environments. Such people fit in the niche of life which was in-tended for them without creating any sensation. Because they do not apply themselves to any one 62 PERINS SCIENCE OF PALMISTRY. 63 of their various talents exclusively they never becomenoted. If, however, the chiromancy of the hand differsessentially from the general contour of the hand, theindividual having such a hand is likely to becomenoted for some special intellectual development.
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PLATE VII.THE HARMONIC OR SOLAR HAND. CHAPTER IX. X THE EPIDERMIS OP THE HAND. The color and texture of the epidermis, or outer skin,of the hand is a great indicator of the health and dis-position of the individual. If the skin is dry and roughto the touch and is yellow, it indicates a bad circula-tion, poor digestion and frequent attacks of bilious-ness. Such a person is despondent and melancholy.He looks at life through colored glasses. He casts agloom over all with whom he comes in contact. If the epidermis is thick and coarse it indicatescoarseness in speech and action. Such a person is alsopenurious and loud. If the epidermis is thick and of a red color the per-son has a good circulation and is inclined to be op-timistic in his views of life. They are the philosopherswho make life bearable. If the epidermis is thin and fine, at the same timepink-white, it indicates refinement of feeling, a modest,shrinking person, who has nevertheless a philosophicalmind. Persons whose skin is fi

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