Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-05-03 | Page 48 | How a Woman's Hands Show Whether She'll Make a Good Wife

How a WOMAN'S HANDS Show Whether She'll Make a GOOD WIFE j I I By WILLIAM LEE HOWARD, M. D. g- ER1IAPS you have noticed that women's Ih- garments button exactly opposite the way a man's button. There is a physiologic and psychologic reason for this difference between be-tween the actions of the hands of the two sexes and the buttons are placed to accommodate this difference. Women and children .have what are called centripetal movements of the hands that is their hands tend t?r move toward a centre. The buttons on a woman's clothes aro on the loft mm vr "Man's clothes button on the right because hl3 arms and hands naturally swing outward; out-ward; woman's button on the left because hers swing Inward." side of tho middle line. She always brings her left hand toward the centre as well as the right, (buttoning with the loft, while the right swings in to hold the buttonholes over the buttons. A man's arm and hand movements are directly the opposite. He is centrifugal; that 1p. hi3 arms and hands have a tendency to swing outward. The buttons on his clothes are on the right of the median line. In buttoning his coat the arm swings outwardly, come3 around in a partial circle, grabs both edges of tho coat with tho riht hand, buttons up and unconsciously swings the arm away from the- centre and down to the side. A woman's hand, after but- toning her jacket, will gently drop down in front; there Is no outward centrifugal motion. Now, you can see that if corkscrews had been invented by woman they would turn from right to left, In toward the body. Being a man's Invention, they turn from left to right, outward and away from tho body. .If a woman without any experience, a young girl, 'for instance, in-stance, is given for the first time a scraw driver to use, her sex characteristic will cause hor to turn It inward and toward her self-centripetally. That is, she will turn it the wrong way, from Dr. Howard says: "Don't marry a girl who ; can hit a nail 3quarely on the head every , time." ! right to left. She will do tho same with a corkscrew. If she tries to drive a nail, tho hammer will swing Inwards toward the 'body, glancing upon the nail when not missing it. Because she does not drive the hammer with an outward swing is why she misses tho nail so often. Handwriting by women being a relatively, new accomplishment, they have not yet learned to develop those motor centres in the brain which control centripetal and centrifugal movements. move-ments. Hence the reascm for women when writing on folded letter paper, skipping from the 'first page to the last, back again to the second page, then turning the paper sideways and writing at right angles to the others, or reversing tho order so that only a 'Chinaman could find start or end. The mixturo of the two Impulses, the one belonging be-longing to hor sex to move tho hand always toward the centre, and the steady male movement move-ment from the centre outward, ibocomo confused, con-fused, and one of those puzzling epistles which you have to read foackward and forward, side- ways and" upside down, is the result. Don't marry a girl who buttons her coat with an outward swing of her right arm. Don't many a girl who gets good results at the first 1 trial with a ccrew driver or corkscrew. Don't 1 marry a girl who can drive straight out at a ' nail and hit it squarely on the head every time. These are purely male accomplishments, and a girl naturally possessing them will in time wear your trousers.