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Show Talue of Band Reading. I am acquainted with a sculptor who declined an important commission for a statue solely because he did riot trust the hand of the man who gave the order. At the time the artist was considered little less than a crank. But his hand judgment turned out to be corroct after all, for another sculptor, having undertaken under-taken the statue, had to carry his case into the courts in order to get payment. One of these hand readers fell in love with a young and beautiful girl. He became be-came betrothed to her, although there were some peculiar characteristics in the shape and touch of her fingers that he disliked. The matter weighed on his mind. He was a queer sort of fellow and plain spoken. "My dear," he said to her one day, "you are a very lovely, estimable estima-ble girl, and I hold you in the highest affection. But the more I study your hand the Icsb I like it. I am afraid we cannot be happy together. Let us break the engagement." They did. She married mar-ried another man and eloped with a third in less than four years. Ralph Edmunds in Kate Field's Washington. |