COARSENESS
More hairy the body of a human being is = more physical strength + the
existence of a coarser element.
The use of the hands keeps the hair on them worn off to a considerable extent
thus a liberal growth of it on the hand shows that the vitality of the person
is very strong indeed. This vigorous nature stands much fatigue, and goes
through even severe illnesses without fatal results. In the examination of
most hands you will have little to do with, especially on the hands of women.
When, however, it is seen on a women's hand, it tells you of an approach to
masculinity, that you must weigh well in your estimate of her, On the hands
of men you will more often encounter hair, because men are more robust than
women, but it is not true that the absence of hair on a han's hand in any way
shows effemincacy. If shows a finer-strung person, weak in character.
All hair you examine will be found either coarse or fine.
This at once speaks of the nature of the person, for coarse hairs do not
grew form the finest textured people.
They grow from STRONG persons, but not necessarily FINE
persons, and no matter how brilliant the glitter of costly jewelery, or how
much the clothing may tell or wealth, if you find a woman with coarse hair on
her hands, she is, under all of it, by nature common. In all readings what you
are trying to discover is the material from which you subject is made. Thus,
to prove fineness or coarseness, or physical vitality by hair on the hands,
is well worth the effort.
Physically considered, hairs grow out through the
pores of the skin, from bulbs or sacs which feed and supply nourishment to
them. These sacs, firmly imbedded in the skin, partake of and draw their
nourishment from the vitality of the subject. All the hair sacs do not have
hairs growing grom them; some never produce any at all. If the vitality of
the subject is not very strong, hair do not start; if the vitality is
impoverished AFTER the hair HAVE STARTED, these hairs become dry and stop
growing. Thus the heat in severe fevers injures the hair sacs, and the hairs
fall out. In severe nervous troubles the nervous fluid burns up the vitality
of the hair sacs, and the hair becomes brittle and lifeless. This condition
corresponds to the brittle finger nail of nervousness.

IRON IN BLOOD
It is well known that
iron in the blood is a source of great strength, therefore various forms of
iron are prescribed by physicians when patients lack a sufficient spply of
it. The hairs themselves are colorless in their natural state, and the fact
that hair is of many shades is due to the amount of iron pigment absorbed
from the body by the hair sacs and fed out by them. This is the explanation
of white, gray, black, blond, red, or auburn colored hair.
It is an intersting fact that the prevailing color of the hair of people of
northern latitudes is what we call blond (this is the Norse and Saxon color),
and the color belonging to the Ltin races living in southern climates is
black. It is not possible for you to draw the distinction in this way with
all the people you neet, because the races have so intermarried that all
shades of hair are the result, and we find blond and black ahir hopelessly
mingling. But you can remember that the hardy Norsemen, Swedes, and Danes
belon to the blond-haired types, and that the French, Italian, and Oriental
nations are black-haired, When we know how much fatigue, cold and exposure
the Northmen can endure, and remember that iron gives strength, we find it
hard to understand why blond hair belongs to them. It is explained, however,
by the fact that their bodies are so exposed to cold that they need all the
vital force possible, and so consume in their sustenance most of the iron,
leaving little color hair.

BLONDE HAIR = a person who is even in temper, unexcitable, cool,
phlegmatic, not overamorous, constant, less sensual, intensely practical
energetic, common-sense, more frequently honest, and matter of fact.

These Northmen are called cold by nature; they
love with frigidity, and have no heat or fire of passion. They do not burn
with ardor and consume if their desired are not gratified, as do the
black-haired Latins. The men and women live together that they may help each
other work; there is little of the sofness or ardor of love between them.
These people are call phlegmatic. The fact is, that there is so much vitality
necessary to SUSTAIN LIFE with them in their frigid climates, that the
heat-producing iron is thus used up, leaving little behind to fire the
passions. A passionate nature needs excess of health and vitality.
This
apples to the blond color belonging to the Swede and Norwegian, which is a
STRAW COLORED YELLOW. You must not class ALL blond hair as having the above
qualities, for it you find it TINGES WITH A REDDISH HUE or drifting toward
black in shade, you must modify your opinion accordingly. Take the Swede as
one side of your blond type.

BLACK = Ardent, restless, sensuous, volatile and less evenly balances than the
colder types. Their
black hair is the mark of persons who have heat and warmth, vitality enough
and to spare, and who love to epxend the excess of health on pleasure.

Its owners live in sunny climates and enjoy balmy breezes. Thus they are not
the hardy, enduring class that we have just considered. They have plenty of
vital energy and strength, the iron in them is abundant, but as it is not
needed to sustain and feed their vital fires as in the case of the Northmen,
it is absorbed by the hair sacs, enters the hair tubes, and makes them back.
The climates of the Latin and Oriental races invite inertia. Theirs are soft,
mild atmospheres which possess enervating qualities, and produce love of
pleasure and ease rather than a desire for work. Thus filled with vital
force, and not having to exert it to keep warm, their strength seeks some
avenuse of escape, and finds it in the indulgence of the pleasures of sense.

Understand now that I am in no wise saying that all the back hair you meet
has the temperament and the failings of the French, Spaniards, and Orientals.
Black hair will show you stong vitality, and a warm, intense nature, but in
our country you will find Saxon qualites behind, making it more practical,
and directing its energy into active channels. Whenever you do find it will
marked on the hands, you will not fail, however, to remember the iron, the
strength, the way the color is produced, and the people form whom it sprang.
With these facts in your mind you will know what black hair means.

You will find gray or white hair on the hands also. White hair is the hair
tube without any of the iron pigment in it at all; gray hair still has some
of the iron present. White hair is produced by the vitality of the subject
falling so far below the normal standard that there is not enough iron
absorbed by the hair sacs to give even a blond color. That all color is
absent, and whiteness present, is because the vital force has gone below the
normal point. There are isolated cases where the hair has turned white from
fright, and also from much headache. In each of these cases, it will be
possible to locate the trouble, however, as indicated later in this chapter.
If you find gray hair on the hands look for the color of the tips; it found
black or red, and the TEXTURE OF THE SKIN YOUTHFUL, you at once look at the
Mount of Venus, and you will find it flat and flabby, much rayed and lined.
With this look for a broad, white Heart line, filled with chains. A
combination like the above will tell you that a worn, out libertine is before
you. When gray hair is found which you think is caused by age, look at the
skin on the back of the hand and see if it has the wrinkled, satiny-brown
color of an old hand, or if it bears the aspect of youth. If you see the aged
skin, you merely conclude that this is the cause of the color of the hair. If
you see youthful skin, and grey hair look for the vitality impaired by
excess. Venus will give you the confirmation of this point.
Where the hair has been made white by shock, you will find a broken or
islanded head line. If the color is produced by headaches, many small rays
cutting the Head line will show it, or many SMALL islands and a similar
combination on the LIfe line. The shock will be a single sign on Head and
Life lines; the frequent headaches will show by the continuous cutting of
small lines.

Red color of hair is produced by the presence of another chemical combination
of iron in excessive quantities in the subject. In examining red hair always
look for its fineness or coarseness; for, a sign of great inflammability at
best, it is much more so if the hair be coarse. It is a color that gives heat
of temper, excitability of disposition, certain predisposition to engage in
quarrels, and liability to "flare up" on the slightest provacation. If the
hair is fine, the fits of temper will be momentary, though violent while they
last. If the hair is coarse, it will indicate brutality, violent temper, and
the tendency to sullenly nurse a fury and seek revenge. Red hair gives you
always exctability, and electric readiness to engage in strife, commonly
called temper, and is not a sign of overrefinement.

What is called auburn hair, and is so mcuh praised and loved, is a
combination of the warmth and passion of balck hair with a shade of added
fire from the red, which combination tinges the hair with a golden auburn
glow, a brilliant combination, but if the possessor happens to have bad
qualities, beware, for a furnace is burning underneath the surface.

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