Judge — August 28, 1920 — page 29: what you’re looking at

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August 28, 1920 “all TUE HUMAN HAND—AN ANATOMICAL STUDY TRIAL SCENE FROM “THE MER- CHANT OF VENICE” By WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE George H. Doran & Co.) produced by permission) Reprinted from an early edition of the works of Noah Webster, Esq. Copyright by Howen Helton Co. THE HAND OF PORTIA—IN THE BIBLICAL HAND “The voice was the voice of Jacob but the hand was the hand of Esau."’ From a Rare Print by Albrecht Durer ten in the Collection of Jess Willard, Esq THE HANDS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE From an old daguerreotype Note: This view of Poe's hands is of peculiar significance in that they sere taken during the period in which Descent Into the Maelstrom” was ‘eri Palmistry students will be in terested in the troubled lifetines H A N D S ANDS are the most important things H in this world. In the whole universe nothing is so valuable. We couldn’t do. without them. Eliminate hands and every- thing would stop. “Hands up, or die!” hollers the bandit, al- ways hoarsely. There’s an example of the high cost of living for you: as a price one is asked to put up his hands, his indispensable posses- sion. Up the hands and they stay up. Not a hand comes down, even to offer the bandit a throat-lozenge. He knows the stage-coach passengers can’t do a thing without hands. And it’s so in everything else. Hands are used in palmistry, wood-carving. love-making, pugilism, drawing and paint Swiss bell-ringing, typewriting, manicuring, deaf-and-dumb conversation—I could fill up this page telling you the trades, professions, sports, activities, in which hands are useful and in many cases almost essential Except in portraits of statesmen. But even here the importance of the hand is shown by the elaborate pains the artist takes to leave the If you are viewing the Southern ast and hands out facade of the diplomatic pile, the west wings are folded around the northern ex- posure. We never saw a statesman painted from the back, but we know the hands would be in front, Sometimes one hand is behind and the other is tucked out of sight in the coat. A friend of ours who takes drawing lessons ex- plains that hands are hard to draw. He made an illustration of a meeting of New York sweat- shop workers and there had to be 266 people Losing Their Lore “These city squirrels don’t know anything about forestry, “Huh? “Some of them think peanuts grow on oak trees.” On His Heels Hokus—lI see Dr. Killercure’s son is follow- ing in his father’s footsteps. Pokus—Then the young fellow’ too? Hokus—No, an undertaker. a doctor, By Orson Loweut talking all at once in the picture, each with both hands, Counting two hands to each talker and five fingers to each hand you can see for yourself that it was quite a task. And then, would you believe it? the art editor wouldn’t pay him the full price because, he said, some of the faces were turned the other way. Most instrumentalists use hands, pianists always; all people shake hands; actors use hands for gestures, ks need hands for climbing; cops could not direct traffic without hands. What do suitors ask for in marriage? You guessed it. In business, too, hands are necessary. A man told me only yesterday (no, it was Tuesday) that the elimination of hands alone would put the whole glove business on the besink—I believe he said. Again, the importance of hands is shown by those of the Venus de Milo. She hasn't any, but even so, they have excited more comment and steeple conjecture than any other part of her. Which reminds me that in museums, candy-stores, power-houses and zoos “Hands ( is the order of the day, and in saw-mills it is the con- stant admonition, lest it become a statement of fact Hands figure in literature from the very earliest times, and in titles: “The Handsome Humes,”’ “The Handsome Brandons,” “ Life’s Handicap “Hans Brinker,” “Hands Across the Sea,” etc. In novels hands are always given a good reference: “He possessed himself of both her hands” and “She withdrew her hand” and “His hand sought hers” and “She Ses er Foiled They studied eugenics together; For eacn had a modernist mind. Determined that all of their offspring Should be of the superman kind. But it was a waste of time, at that, All they could find was a half-room flat. Gleam of Hope “Yes, I'm allowed to have a little liquor to put into pastry.” “Can you bake me a four per cent. pie allowed her hand to lie in his” and “His hot blood leaped as her cool petal-like hand touched his”; hand in hand, hand to mouth, hand over hand, hand in glove, forehanded, beforehand, behindhand Do feet ever get into literature like that? They donot. Well, yes, but poetry is different, and even in poetry they tell me feet are going out. But listen. Lovers never sit and hold fect for hours at a time. No sailor ever climbs a rope foot over foot. Do men ever have foot to foot combats? Well, there you are. That's what we're trying to prove—the absohite supe riority of hands over eyes, chins, ears, hair and all the other human paraphernalia, and we think we're going pretty good. Hand and finger-prints are now used the world over, foot-prints almost never. In all literature they're mentioned only twice, in “Robinson Crusoe” and in Longfellow’s “Psalm of Life,” both old productions and now practically obsolete. ‘To many hands are very necessary in con- versation; tie the hands of most people, and the There’s the story of the Irish dealer in second-hand clothing who the telephone called his son Ikey to hold the receiver to the father’s ear so that he might use both hands to converse—but the editor says you've all heard it. Just why that should bar it out, we can’t see. We're sure he prints lots of —but he remarks coldly that this, too, has been said before. Anyway, a good hand is man’s truest friend, especially at poker. are speechless. Evolution At first H.C.L. meant the high cost of living, but soon it will mean “He ceased living.” The Delinquent Mr, Numkis—Whet was the income tax collector here for? I paid up months ago. Mrs. Numkis—Yes, John; but the cook hasn’t paid. 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