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Show HIS JUDGMENT AT FAULT. One Instance Where Balzac Failed as Si a Graphologist. jp If there was one thing upon which W Balzac flattered himself moro than I another It was his skill In reading I character from handwriting. I But he made a sad mistake on one f" occasion. A lady brought him an ex- I tract from the exercise book of a 12- flj' year-old schoolboy, and asked him for 0 an opinion as to tho youngster's character char-acter and prospects. Balzac Inquired whether tho child wns her own. Answered An-swered In the negative, ho examined tho exercise carefully nnd delivered his jndgmnt. "Madame," he said, "this child Is thick-headed and frivolous. Ho will never come to any good. If ho werO , my child I would take him from school and put hi'm to the plow." Then It was explained to tho novelist novel-ist that tho specimen on which ho had pronounced so severely was one of his own which had been discovered hidden away between tho leaves of an old lesson book. |