THE FINGERS

THE FINGERS

III. Shape.
1. Outside of Tips and Knots.
Inside puffiness of the third phalanges—Selfishness; laziness; love of good living, often carried to excess.
Third phalanges wasped or waist shaped—Daintiness in food and raiment; delicacy of mind.
2. The Finger Types.
In palmistry, in the department called Chirognomy, to which this Part Second of my present book is devoted, paramount importance is given to two distinct features in each finger:
First—the shape of the Tip of the first (or nailed) phalanx.
Second—The Existence or Absence of more or less visible Knots at the joints of the Phalanges.
Four kinds of tips—pointed. Conical, Square. Spatulate, in Connection with Smooth joints, first joint knotted, second joint knotted, both joints knotted.
Pointed—the finger tapers from the root to the tip, where it ends in decided point.
Conical—the finger tapers from the root to the tip, where it ends in a rounded, thimble-like cone.
Square—the finger preserves very nearly the same width from root to tip where it ends sometimes in a decided square, but more generally in a semi rounded square.
Spatulate—the finger continues the same width from the root to after the upper joint, where it widens and Ends in the form of a druggist’s spatula, more or less pronounced.