Very Faithfully yours, CheiroPALMISTRY
FOR ALL
CONTAINING NEW INFORMATION
ON THE STUDY OF THE
HAND NEVER BEFORE
PUBLISHED
BY
CHEIRO
WITH A PREFACE TO AMERICAN READERS
AND
WITH UPWARDS OF SIXTY ILLUSTRATIONS
G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS
NEW YORK LONDON
COPYRIGHT, 1916
BY
G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS
Published, May, 1916
Twenty-second Impression
Made in the United States of America
PREFACE
TO THE AMERICAN EDITION
There is no country in the world where the "study of character" is moreindulged in than in the United States of America. During my many visitsthere I could not help remarking how even the "hardest headed" businessmen used any form of this study that they could get hold of to help themin their business dealings with other men and also in endeavouring toascertain the character of their clerks and employees.
In looking over the records of my career I find that in the course of myvisits to America I gave private lessons to the heads of two hundred andseventy business establishments in New York, one hundred and thirty-fivein Boston, and three hundred and forty-two in Chicago.
All these men were large employers of labour and what they principallywanted was, to have some help beyond that of their own judgment indealing with those with whom they came in contact in the regular courseof their business careers. In no other country did I find the sameinterest taken in the study of character from a practical standpoint.
It is for this reason that I write a special Preface for this Edition,believing as I do that my American[Pg iv] readers will appreciate the addedinformation I may be able to give regarding the obtaining by a mereglance at a hand a quick grasp of the leading characteristics of thepersons with whom they are thrown into contact, or for whatever reasonthey choose to make use of this study.
Everyone knows that "the face can wear a mask," that a person may be agood actor and put on a certain expression that may deceive even the bestjudgment.
But hands cannot change as the result of a mere effort to please; thecharacter they express is the real nature of the individual—the truecharacter that has been formed by heredity or that has grown up with theperson by long years of habit.
The characteristics alluded to below are those which may be easilyobserved and which are aids to a rapid judgment of character and which Ihave never before been able to give to the public in such a concise way.
The more elaborate details concerning the ultimate success of the personone is talking to, their more intimate character and their futu