1939-02-01 — Page 19

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

CHARACTER READING

How

Graphology Reveals Men

They Really Are

As

The science of reading character from handwriting, was scued by Rotarian R. A. D. Forrest at yesterday's meeting of the Hongkong Rotary Club, when specimens were analysed as a brief indicatlen of the precise nature of this flttle-known art. The Hon. Dr. Li Shu-fan presided, and welcomed the following guests: Rotarians Ngim Wee-chno, Malacca; J. J. Welring, Canton; J. C. Hutchison, Pelping; E. L. Pan, Tsinan; T. K. Z. Loch. Nanking; Chaucer Wu, Chungking; P. Kwok, Shanghai.

trace of shaping facts to it theories and an abundance of illustrations to Lupport the asserted facts.

that much of what I say now must be taken on trust until you have an opportunity to confirm or correct my conclusion by experiments on their unsuspecting friends.

ST. PAUL'S COLLEGE Girls to Take Part In Chinese Play

A modern Chinese patriotle play, "The Provious Night," will be staged by past and prezent students of St. Paulo, Girls' College in the College Hall on March 10 and 11 at 8 pm. Proceeds will be in aid of the South, China Refugee Workshop, M. C, L. and other cliarities.

February 1, 1939.

7

A Look Through MACKINTOSH'S

The "Telegraph"

50 YEARS ACO

BOILING and PREPARING OPIUM The Exclusive PRIVILEGE of SELLING and RETAILING OPIUM so Boiled or Prepared will CEASE

Dr. F. C. Woo, Headmistress, wan on the 28th day of February, 1880, host at a dinner at the College last. No bolled or prepared Opium pur- night when final arrangements were chased from us or our Licences con mode.

be used after the 3rd day of March, 1880. nt Noon, without the consent of The performances will be given the New Holder of such exclusive under the nusplecs of the Y's Men's privilege

aforesaid, KHOO Club of Hongkong and the St. Paul's TEONG POH, and CHEAK TEK Girls' College..

SOON, Optum Farmers.

Mr. Lee Muk-long and Mrs. David Cheng will direct the performances, We are informed by the agent of and Atel Lan-fang, noted Chinese the Austro-Hungarian Lloyd's S. N. actor, will be honorary advisor.

Co. that the Company's steamer Marla Teresa from Trieste, left Among those who are taking part Singapore for Hongkong this mor- are Mrs. Fung Kwok-wa. Misses Leening-(Trieste is now Italian.-Ed.) Soo Man-moo, Helen Pul-ling, Mok Wai-ching, Elleen Wu, Tsu Lut-wal, Sau-wah, Mok Sau-lin, Leung Sal- Lau-aim, Tong Yee-lin, and Kwok Elizabeth arrived in Hongkong this

Chi.

25 YEARS AGO

Powers of Concentration Look first at that numbered 3; the book from which I have copied it says merely that the writer has fine powers of concentration and refined tastes, he being in fact engaged in Non-Rotarian guests were Mesara

scientifle research. The general type P. F. Witham, F. M. Harden, Rev.

la, la iny small experience, that used J. E. Sandbach, Dr. L. Little, Dr.

Jy successful

lawyers and scine H. F. Sommers, Dr. K. C. Yes, W. The properly sceptical part of my administrators, though both of these A. Zimmern, M. McDonall.

audience is doubtless already be- classes tend on the whole to more Mr. T. C. Yu, former member of coming impatient with my failure to connected writing, being, as against the Tientsin Rotary Club,

deal before now with what at frat the writer of specimen 3, more logical fin, Ng Wal-que, Wong Kon-lin. Lo Win mimited as member of the Hongkong sight must seem a fatal objection to and less intuitive. The letter "" in Rotary Club. Dr. J. Montgomery, the

the whole idea that any science of

of that specimen, dotted as it la shortly going on leave, was wished handwriting

very exist. Everyone precisely, shown how this reliance on bon voyage, and Professor L. Forster, knows that his own writing varies

rles insight is complimented by recently returned, was welcomed back from time to time, with the state of habit, and the climination of wining or the degree to which

exactitude

ekimsiness or deftness, one's speed of one's nerves, with the temperature,

ure strales

really

superfluous from the with position of

point the paper in

of Your Will the

of intelligibility the writing in deformed by speed, Independence Honourable Chairman skilfully took writing, and according an one has indicates

one's carefulness or carelessness, and one's own accustomed pen or the post Compare and contrast the next perhaps a few more points? To secured my promise to deliver a talkice nib to write with. One does line, specimen 4. It is at the

does the

this, I must in the first place not write the address of to the Rotary Club, and Inter while letter in quite the same way as one pendability is, to use in colloquins, much from the formidability of the Jarrow to-day, there rose a cry "Let

of an important i writing of

Above the cheers of the people afe" man; de-

that this substantial list of thronging round the Prince of Wales already detracted in one of the long mean streets of I was vainly hoping that he might makes one's rough notes-unless ones trodden patlis, and, though Jection, for are have forgotten that I had promised. Is

name. His thoughts run pressed me for the title of my lecture can produce a

one of the fortunate-persons who as he elected to call it, I might have under all

legible script

atticely th

upward trend shows his energy, excepted chosen to tell him that I

conditions. If then the proposed to

aame person produced vitally different comparatively

to the Club.

The speaker sald:

When

advantage of

weakness

my

and

can

view

at mind.

*Par excellence

has

polnis

The Austrian crulser Kaiserin

morning, the customary salutea being fred. (This was the last Austrian Great War-probably the last in Cruiser to visit longkong before the history-Ed.)

10 YEARS ACO

the originally is not in his line. The character and term any of these me just touch him."

and

The bounds of one

talk on the science of graphology. 1ihandwriting at different times. It is leons slanu upper strokes (educational system we in the majority was entering a cottage to visit the

more

and

thinn

others. In gulfcance in the phenomenon, for. man of

Unsubstantiated Claims

current

of

Detailed Comparison

purposes

a capacity

or

Lastly imong specimens there

་

5

and

And

Judging Character

of

*

5. YEARS AGO

points

The speaker was a blind woman, temperament? Within

or of one and she called out just as the Prince lly to control and preferred

systems country the lcss pretentious easy to see that this would be fatal take it out of the category of merely are were taught much the same on, who had been employed for fifty

which it has been not only to exaggerated claime but clerical serinia: it is, in fact, says formation

learnt--or it is perhaps description by

better to say bedside of a bed-ridden septuagenarl- announced, for various reasons, some to

Any possibility of scientite my book, the writing of a practical

of letters

is years in a shipyard where there are obvious

words; particular, I did not wish to appear while one's nood may alter, it is the moniness. It's closest parallel not the degree to which we have now only 3,000 workers compared

preserved these formations in after with a normal 12,000. before

examples in number you propounding a dogmalit essential feature of a character that 16, the writer of which has many of docility or of our fooling for sls- raised his hat and asked the crowd to

а asure either of our

measure scheme for your acceptance, but it remain substantially unchanged the qualities of number 4, plus

of years

The Prince heard the cry, stopped, rather to tell a few interesting facts for long periods if not for life.

wider sphere

interests

de! from my personal experience which

all, a selfish or egotistical nature,

and, above in

our make way for him. On reaching the re, departure there farm the measure of old lady, he shook her hand and talk- may cntice others towards in-

shown in the great height of the our forte of character or of oured kindly to her for several minutes. vestigation of the possible betrayal It will reassure anyone who has letters as against their width. I unteachability? Here I of one's

have given mental traits one's thought of such an objection to make should not give much either for the other traits in

in

he alternative explanations of the facts; This was one of the many incidents peamanship.

อ detailed comparison of two good temper of the person who wrote

the writing must betokening the affection for the Epecimens of one person's writing 6; there is too

decide which applies to the individunt Prince of folks living in appalling I too much made for widely different puri The

edition the and under widely different conditions; remain

case. But not even this is the main conditions in the North of England. these gularity. remain numbers

line of defence of the graphologist. "Britannica" is inadequate

and 7. The and this is done, scripts which in writers agree in the two qualities of

To-day was the third in succession unencouraging on this subject.

that the Prince of general appearance look as different, intuitiveness and restraint, as shown

Wales has spent tells us little except that excessive as the sayingt is, as chalk from cheese, by the frequent breaks in the writing

In investigating for himself the unsubstantiated

conditions in the distressed areas in claims have been made for this science; and one characteristics.

are seen to retain their essential and the comparative absence of anal

the Northern coalfields, asks oneself: What selence or art cases where the writing is deliberate-little in common.

This even applies to strokes; but otherwise they have would BOL be damned, it thely disguised in crder to mislead, for exaggerations Df irresponsible en- the leopard

Timid and Retiring tlinsiasta would condemn R? Look now at the first two specimens

change his

his spots. familiar example of what

The restraint of No. 5, accentuated mean is on the leaflets which have been by the backward slope, is that of the seen in the history of medical passed round the tables; believe it naturally timid and retiring person, discovery. Every fresh method of or not, in the words of Ripley, they or of the sensitive person who has treatment Is over-advertised, aggerated hopes of miraculous curca from their own internal evidence, down by friends on whom he de- cx- are from the same hand, and can be, found the bitterness of being let number of cases discredits it before Some of the points on which this as one might expect in the the over-expectant public, and in identification can be based, in spite whose general features are short time the new method has of the completely altered slope and than that of 7. No. 7 shows the censed to be "news",

and while

ressure,

follows. continuing to

Both disciplined restraint of the sclentine to hold

૩ modest and

and specimens show an almost complete worker,

combined with ragu- laymen

introductory flourishes which our Inrity of the writing; it is the promised. With this in mind, it will pine both show the letter "g" written/render it impossible to illustrate my excessive and unsubstantiated cars.

of fear or sensitiveness. be seen that it would be bad polley

Considerations of

of space and time carn as well as unscientific to auggest in that, with a manual on this subject has attempted to hide his typical case. I have done enough if I have of the selence

in two different ways. The writer

talk

with further exam

my sho

short, our judgment of examples; in any but in the

any appetites for more, and ly depend on disguised whetted times. This list is far from ex-my indebtedness of the

the begging letter is n between the two which look

arc

Latinol

We do, he will say, in point of fact judge character from men's per- formance of habitual actions, by their walk, their facial expressions in repose and in action, by their tones

voice. Surely, then, writing is to The first offering of Kowloon's habitual mode of expression as speech attracte the educated person

as much a latest talkie theatre, The Alhambra, or gesture, and to dismiss the theory crowds at every performance yester

something ke record

unworthy of attention is

idle dreamer or else to deny the such attendances seems assured. condemn the very matter of fact tains such a high standard of enter

to day, and whilst the theatre main- cobbler

In "Chu Chin Chow" as an tainment, a continual repetition of

of Inductive logic. There can be, can 33 have already hinted, one and one only reason for doubt; the dim eritle, has compiled an interest- Dan Thomas, well-known American may not have been in all

cases

Films of 1933, and local cinemagoers And it is safe to say that will note with interest that lie Includes if any student of the subject is so four films which have already been much

of a charlatan on to deny this shown here as well as "The Power imperfection he has done much to and the Glory," which is a forthcom-

encyclopaedia's stricture on ing attraction.

fostered, disappointment in pproved to be from the same hand. Pended; it is a more person stac

are DS

Yaris

appropriate place in the out of the absence of lower loopa and of thetheted in this case by fe served or correctly, intering list of the Ten Best Hollywood

doctor

is regarded by many

all that its too sanguine champions both show the dot more

an exploded because it failed to fulfill teachers used to call "ha restraint of concentration rather than

and

over the letter than is

at one's side, one is in a position to Greek "e"

select unerringly the best among a

fraud.

I

usual;

the

or art of

Che value

Walt Disney's "Big Bad Wolf" is ranked No. 1, and this will cause but testing character from writing must ultimate little argument, for the creation is

gives true results, Just as has ever seen.

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number of candidates for employment., No. 2, has slipped into it severn! I have no more to do than to express at the question whether surely the greatest thing the cinema or to say without fail whether the hausting the points of resemblance Oivanovs, and the publishers, Grosset the faith in medicine ought to depend

the writer, Mme

uine hard case or a practised) absurdly different; and, what is even book I have pelected the specimens Practice effects cures or not; in/ which was shown here last week, is A Dunlap of New York, from whose on the practical question whether its "Berkeley Square," Fox's picture need not perhaps elaborate this warning of caution further, chus

more noteworthy. the very style before you.

nelther case should our confidence Through," the great M.G.M. success, accorded second place, "Smilin' chosen by the writer to hide his except to remind ourselves that the normal script is one which

No subject is of so much intellectual interesting these may be in them-Fox achievement fourth,

hang on the theories implied, however auccess of any method depends just lead the student of handwriting to for what we do not know but may

would interest for what is known of it, as selves.

Is third and Cavalcade." another the skill of the diagnose the fundamental character yet discover. Mysteries are the food practitioner as on the correctness of as his natural writing shows.

So for as I am aware, the practi-. ila thearetle foundation.

As I have now cleared my ground, converts into truths. I hope I have elled so, have devoted their attention fessor Fritz Haber, the famous Ger

on which science. feeds and which it oners of this science, if it should be The death has occurred of Pro- I Brst became Interested in this it is time to give a few detalls of the said enough to show that there is to writings in the Roman alphabet man chemist, and the inventor of the matter when, simply for the sake of a whieli one looks for when in legal jargon, a case to answer: only, and it is very interesting to process for generating hydrogen from

studying a specimen of writing from let those who agree killing time, I paid a professional the present point of view. In what interesting enough to delve into of investigation can be applied to the

speculate whether the same method the air.

produced specially for the purpose.ully against the suggestion that I now put their own and their script most commonly used around having been the orginator of the

15 much on

เ

myself care-further

exponent of the science to make what follows, I must guard she could of a scribble which The answer of the oracle, now locked making any attempt to give you see

somehow

"graphology in

J nutshell. 'The

the graphologist had overlooked some of my better but when I put the direct question and not at all as being the

points;

for

that

it

I have been fortunate enough to

He

*

*

15 generally credited with

employment of poison gas in warfare. Notwithstanding his great services to Germany in the war, Haber was

myself have made only one the Chinese script by Union in 1926, he said it would be

writings through the mill and here, the Chinese. away among my most secret personal points with which I shall deal are estimate of the friend's temperament, themselves whether the achives, was not over-flattering, and

writing bears out their

Chinese Writings previous I could not repress the suspicion that introduced simply for the purpose Where the data are of so personal have for examination a small number forced out of his post in 1933 after

of illustration, as being those easiest nature it is of necessity dimcult to to describe in a talk such as this, convey conviction directly from one

of writings in Chinese and English Hitler came into power. The reason most person to another, and I can only say

by persons well acquainted with both was that he was pacifist, though not to some of my very candld friends important.

confirmed the correctness of

that

languages, and my natural belief that an active one.

of the

Angle of Welling

Addressing the Inter-Parliamentary emphasis

bad break, and that very early in my almilar interpretation Is shortcomings revealed which

Interest in the subject. should One of them, however, is important:

the fact that certain peculiarities, a great blessing If the nations would expected from cultured of my enemies.

the more important because it is one in which

such an angulatlly, pen pressure, and at last realise that war was not a "Britannica** In other the

Inclination of article

of the w

writing to the profitable business. already

horizontal appear in there was "something in it"; and, as refer to the angle of the writing, that either the writing has or has not this deals havo, of course, no clear"Is not so much gas war, as war in

The method of interpretation, you written by the same person. Minuter in both scripts

"The monstrous thing." he added, one form of harmless amurement is is to any, the angle between the or that characteristic, there is no counterpart, for instance, in as good as another, I took the advice alignment and the top of the page. third cannot deceive himselfnything analogous to the relationship neither women nor children.

general-the war of the future with defenceless area

amosis with

not have

извика

worda,

on the

ther

Objective Interpretation

It was now clear to me that quoted allows real significance. Iniust remember, is entirely objective;

Much Written About

the gator

the

This

at that professional exponent in the One has unly to reflect without blos

so that the in-Chinese script one cannot find de mess operations by aircraft on a selection of a number of books on the to see how natural it is that mental

will Браге subject for further study.

energy will show itself in an upward

between capitals and smali affection or ill-will. True. to the peculiar formations of the deserves to be fought with all the

letters, or different slope, and depression, exhaustion, not agree in the Interpretation of the

writers

on the subject may dividual letters. These and possibly

resources of politics." ambition, a I will say that I was soon astonished

a falling angle. Those are.

observed facts, and in this respect afresh for indeed, their

other details must be worked out Haber considered that the effects And that so much had been and hardly anything is mere en-ns a science and to have a

meanloge, graphology, ir it is entitled to rank

another script, but

ono of gas warfare were exaggerated and to

cannot doubt that, if the variations that explosives were more deadly. the person Interested in study

in handwriting between individuals 10 Dlain matter-of-fact works by these

in no wise from other lines of have any significance among Euro- what accomics of alignment are inquiries. The matter for surprise behaviourists. In

pcana they must scripts

be similarly follows I shall spare you the agony different, by other little otherwise rather the extent of the agreement algalacant in Asia-unless, that 18, of the attempt to understand the same meaning. "But", someone will to the significance of the traits one subscribes to one of the curlous

and put before you, with the say, "It's so easy to fake this, to observed.

racial religions now

to

written about it, from psychic and courage, than to find how constantivame like any other science, d

philosophical disquisitions in German

American

former,

on

usun! ono". Of

DE

coursc

it

Now I must at last face the ambillous la the Purveyed by the

nid of a few examples, some of the write at an angle other than one's inevitable question: What main points to be looked for ridiculously easy, for a short time, handwriting algnifies anything at all. handwriting, owing to the increasing It is the irony of fate that this reason one seeks from the handwriting of

Is,atter all, is there to believe that one's little hobby should begin to attract an unknown person to gather a few and for so long as one keeps one's except the method of writing one

nes attention just At time when facts about the writer. One last attention hard on it. But once forget earnt at school, the extent to which use of mechanical aids, is less com word, however, before i leave the the method of your writing and get one has benefied by ane's Instruc- becoming restricted to cheque forms matter of the literature this interested in the subject on which tion, one's familiarity or otherwise and

monly practised, and is gradually subject: The various works which you are writing, and nature will out, with the pen as an instrument, one's and the more intimate pieces 1 have read do in the main agree-back you slip into your natural among themselves, with just so many way, and the sly graphologist has you

personal

correspondence, and

and one minor difference as one naturally

might speculate whether there is any | Casal connection between the facts.

'I must conclude with three interested that some may be o expressed: that my audience has been interested as to amuse themselves by the hobby, and that I may not be, deluged with. reque

-requests -- for,

tally taped.

Spelling Bee But my time is drawing to a close,

expects among a number of persons T propose next to deal in order who have made Independent in- with the specimens before you, once vestigalions of a subject. When one more with the idea of exemplifying Ande agreement on so inany points the methods of this science or, if you How mu of these words are of detail in works deriving from ilke, pacudoscience. It is to my the others? different

countries where the styles mind a matter for

regret that I

have

.:aubopsey

of handwriting taught in the schools been unable to procure, specimens of widely one is apt to be the calligraphy of a number of well-

differa o

pendence deceptical of the late-known writers and plia simtures,

Investigations, and which would have panitted the

and

up

correct and what is wrong with

A taking autonomou

mortar-bord springbok morguge

auxillary familiar with Enblish: Oxford Dictionary; spells

e'as canidance is restored only aleners to check my results by their ingt of these words will be found on

finds in these booke', no own impressions and it is unfortunate page P

too

character, definebol

the | (Laughter and uppinuse), verberg The Espeaker wax, thanked 3 by Rotarian Dr. G. DR. BECK

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