1939-02-01 — Page 7

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

CHARACTER READING

How Graphology Reveals Men As They Really Are

The science of reading character from handwriting, was discussed by Rotarian R. A. D. Forrest at yesterday's meeting of the Hongkong Rotary Club, when specimens were analysed as a brief indication of the preciso nature of this little-known art. The Hon. Dr. LI Shu-fgn prealded, and welcomed the following guests: Rotarians Ngim Wee-chau, Malacca; J. J. Weiring, Canton; J. C. Hutchison, Pelping: E. L. Pan, Twinan: T. K. Z. Loch, Nanking; Chaucer Wu, Chungking; P. Kwok, Shanghai,

Non-Retarian guests were Messrs. P. E. Witham, F. M. Harden, Rev. J. E. Sandbach, Dr. L. Latte, Dr. H. F. Sommers, Dr. K. C. Yeo, W. A. Zimmern, M. McDonali.

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Unsubstantiated Claims

The current

"Britannica"

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Inadequate unencouraging on this subject.

one's

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have

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

Powers of Concentration Look first at that numbered 3; the book from which I have copied it says merely that the writer has ano powers of concentration and refined tastes, he being in fact engaged in scientific research. The general type

trace of shaping facts to it theories and an abundance of illustrations to. In my support the asserted facts.

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Detailed Comparison

It will reassure anyone who has thought of such an objection to make

Orcases where the

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ST. PAUL'S COLLEGE

Girls to Take Part In Chinese Play

A modern Chinese patriotic play, "The Previous Night," will be staged by past and present students of St. Faul's Girls' College in the College Hall on March 10 and 11 at B p.m. Proceeds will be in aid of the South China Refugee Workshop, M. C. L. and other charities.

Dr. F. C. Woo, Headmistress, was host at a dinner at the College last night when final arrangements were made,

The performances will be given under the auspices of the Y's Men's Girls College. Club of Hongkong and the St. Paul's

February 1, 1939.

A Look Through The Telegraph"

of

50 YEARS AGO

The Exclusivo BOILING and PREPARING OPIUM

PRIVILEGE SELLING and RETAILING OPIUM so Bolted or Prepared will CEASE on the 28th day of February, 1880. chased from us or our Licences can No boiled or prepared Opium pur. be used after the 3rd day of March, 1880, at Noon, without the consent of the New Holder of such exclusive privilege ກະ aforesaid. KHOO TEONG POII, and CHEAK TEK SOON, Oplum. Farmers.

Mr. Lee Muk-long and Mrs. David Cheng will direct the performances,

We re informed by the agent of and Mel 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 Mra, Fung Kwok-wn, Misses Leening-(Trieste is, now Italian.---Ed.) Soo Man-gnoo, Helen Pui-ling, Mok Wal-ching, Eileen Wu, Tau Lut-wai, Sau-wah, Mote Sati-lin, Leung Sai- in, Ng Wai-que, Wong Kam-lin, Lo Lau-sim, Tong Yee-lan, and Kwok Chi.

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25 YEARS AGO

The Austrian eruiser Kniseriu

10 YEARS AGO

Above the cheers of the people

Jace of the long mean streets of co-day, there rose a ery "Let

me just touch him."

The speaker was a blind woman, and she called out just as the Prince was entering a cottage to visit the bedside of a bed-ridden septuagenari- an, who had been employed for fifty years in a shipyard where there are now only 3,000 workers compared with a normal 12,000.

The Prince heard the cry, stopped, raised his hat and asked the crowd to make way for him. old lady, he shook her hand and talk- On reaching the

el.kindly to her for several minutes. This was one of the many incidents betokening the affection for the Prince of folks living in appalling conditions in the North of England.

Today was the third in succession that the Prince of Wales has spent in investigating for himself the conditions in the distressed areas in the Northern coalfields.

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5 YEARS AGO

lawyers and Komo The properly sceptical part of my administrators, though both of these 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 Chub,

was deal before now with what at first the writer of specimen 3, more logical admitted a member of the Hongkong right must seem a fatal objection to and less intuitive. The letter "i" in

Elizabeth arrived in Hongkong this Rotary Club. Dr. J. Montgomery, the whole idea that any science of that specimen, dolled as it is very shortly going on teave, was wished | Handwelling can exist. Everyone precisely, shows how this reliance on

morning, the customary salutes being bon voyage, and Professor L. Forster, knows that his own writing varies insight is complimented by exactitude

fred. (This was the last Austrian recently returned, was welcomed back from time to time, with the state of habit, and the elimination of clumsiness or defincas, one's speed Cruiser to visit Hongkong before the to the Club.

uf one's nerves, with the temperature, tro

strokes really superfluous from the

of writing or the degree to which Great War-probably the fast in The speaker said:

with the position of the paper in point of view When

or intelligibility

the writing is deformed by speed,

history-Ex.) your writing, and according as one has indicates independence of mind. Honourable Chairman skilfully took one's

one's carefulness or carelessness, and advantage of my

one's own accustomed pen or the post Compare and contrast the

perhaps next

few "

more points? To weakness and office nib to write with. One does line, specimen 4. It is par excel secured my promise to deliver a talk not write the address of an important

this,

must in the first place to the Rotary Club, and later while letter in quite the same way as one periodonty ls, to use a colloquialism, { exceptions has already detracted thronging round the Prince of Wales

writing of a "put excellence | unswer

man; de-eman

remark that this substantial list of I was vainly hoping that he might makes one's rough notes-unless one his middle name. His thoughts run have forgotten that I had promised. is

much from the formidability of the pressed me for the title of my lecture ease of the fortunate persons who along well-trodden paths, and, though objection, for are not many of these

the upward trend shows ng he elected to call it, I might have a produce a legible script quickly the

energy, excepted points also

points chosen to tell him that I proposed to same person produced vitally deres loops show a capacity to control under

under all conditions. If then the originality is not in his line. The character and temperament? Within talk on the science of graphology. Inntwelling at different times, it

different comparatively high upper strokes and

the bounds of one country er of one

preferred

educational system we in the majority pretentious easy to see that this would be fotal take out of the catch tard, anya

learnt-or It is perhaps better to say description by which it has been not only to

merely elerical scripts; it exaggerated elaints but:

that we were taught much the same announced, for various reasons, some to any

of possibility

ny scientific

book, the obvious

formation of letters and words; is writin others. Insignificance in the phenomenon; for,min of business. than

closeat parallel at the

at the degree to which we have particular, I did not wish to appear while une's mood may aller, it is the among these examples is in number preserved these formations in after before you propounding dogmatic entlat feature of a character that the writer of which has many of ears A measure either of scheme for your acceptance, but it remains substantially unchanged the qualities of number 4, plus &

plus & doellity or of our feeling for dis- rather to tell a few Interesting facts for long periods if not for life.

wider sphere of Interests and,

cipline, above

degree of and the from my personal experience which

ou all, a selfish or egotistical nature,

departure thereform the measure of may entice others towards

shown in the great height of the nur force of character

or of our vestigation of the possible betrayal

our letters 16

against their width. I unteachability? Here I have of one's mental

given traits 171

should not give much either for the alternative explanations of the facts; penmanship.

detailed comparison of two food temper of the person who wrote other traits in the waiting must specimens of one person's writing 6: there is too much angularity. decide which applies to the Individual made for widely different purposes

But not even this is the main Lastly among these

ese specimens there the and under widely different conditions; remain numbers 5

line of defence of the graphologist. and 7. } this

is done, scripts which inwriters agree in the two It re

qualities of

Judging Character tells us little except that excessive as the saying is, as chalk from cheese, by the frequent breaks in the writing

Reneral

appearance look as different, intuitiveness and restraint, as shown zund unsubstantiated claims

We do, he will say, in point of fact been made for this science; and one characteristics.in their essential strales comparative absence of final Judge character from men's per- aska oneself: What

even applies to strokes: but otherwise they have formance of habitual actions, by their science or art would not be damned,

walk, their facial expresalons in exaggerations of irresponsible en- the leopard cannot change his spots.

if the ly disguised in writing is deliberate little in common.

urder to mislead, for

Timid and Retiring

repose and in action, by their tones thusiasts

condemn

of voice. Surely, then, writing is to would

A Look now at the first two specimens it? familiar example of what I

The restraint of No. 5, accentuated

The first offering of Kowloon's the educated person as much latest talkie theatre, The Alhambra, mean

is on the leaflets which have been by the bacftward slope, is that of ifte babitual mode of expression as speech attracted the history 10

of medical

something passed round the tables: believe it naturally timid and retiring person, or resture, and to dismiss the theory crowds at every performance yester

like discovery. Every fresh method of or not, in the words of Ripley, they or of the sensitive person who has

record treatment is over-advertised, ex- are from the same hand, and can be, found the bitterness of beim "let condems the very matter of fact tains such a high standard of enter- unworthy of attention is today, and whilst the theatre main- gerated hopes of miraculous cures from their own internal

fostered, disappointment in

evidence, dow

down" by friends on whom he de-

cobbler in "Chu Chin Chowns an tainment, a continual repetition of a proved to be from the same hand, nended; it is a more personal quality. of cases discredita it before Some of the points on which this as one might expect in the writing clay number

idle dreamer or else to deny the such attendances seems assured. the over-expectant public,

and in a identification can be based, in spite whose general features are artistic,

of inductive logic. There short time the new,

ብጽ . can be, I have method has of the

already hinted, one ceased

to

Dan Thomas, well-known American be "news", and while

completely altered stope and than that of

hat of 7. No. 7 shows the and one only reason for doubt; the Alm critic, has compiled on Interest- continuing to huid

follows. Both disciplined it modest and specimens, show an almost complete worker, accentuated in this case by exactly observed or correctly inter-Films of 1933, and local cinemagoers

restraint

of the scientific Tacls may

have been appropriate place in the outfit of the absence of lower loops and of the the smallness combined with regu- if any student of the subject is to four films which have already been all casca ing list of, the Ten Best Hollywood doctors, la regarded by many laymen introductory flourishes which

preted. And It Is safe to say that will note with interest that he includes an exploded because it failed to full teachers used to call "hair-strokes: restraint of

our larity of the writing: it is the

much of a

a charlatan to dens

deny this promised. With this in mind, It will placed over the letter than in usual;

his shown here as well as "The Power Imperfection he has done much to Considerations of spac

oning attraction, 0:1 excessive and unsubstantiated claims. The writer talk with further examples; in any in short, our judgment of the value Walt Disney's "Big Bad Wolf" is at one's side, one is in a position to contempted to hide his tynical case, I have done enough if I have the science or a ultimate little, argument, for the creation-Is

of "o", but in

ranked No. 1, and this will cause but select unerringly the best among a script,

testing the disc whetted any appetites for

character from welling must number of candidates for employment, times. This Hat is

No. Han slipped into it

it several I

more, and I have no mare to do than to express or

ly depend on

on the

question whether surely the greatest thing the cinema or to sny without fall whether the hausting the points of resemblanceOlyanova, and the publishers, Grosset

far from ex-my indebtedness to the writer, Mme or not it gives true results, just as has ever seen. writer of the

the faith in medicine ought to depend genuine hardging letter is a between the two which look so Dunlap of New York, from whose pro the

"Berkeley Square," Fox's picture practical or a pracused absurdly different; and, what is even book I have selected the specimens Practice effects cures or not; in which was shown here last week, is

question whether its fraud. I need not perhaps elaborate more noteworthy, the very style before you.

accorded warning of caution

neither case should our confidence Through," the great M.G.M. success, second place, "Smilin' except to remind ourselves that the normal script is one which further,

chosen by the writer to hide his No subject is of so much intellectual interesting these may be in them-Fox achievement fourth.

hang on the theories implied, however is third and "Cavalcade," another success 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. 21 much on 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, its theoretic foundation.

As I have now cleared my ground, converts into truths. I hope I have

en which science feeds and which it tioners of this science, if it should be I first became Interested in this!

ave called so, have devoted their attention fessor Fritz Haber, the famous: Ger- matter when, simply for the sake of studying a specimen of writing from let those who

it is time to give a few details of the said enough to show that there is to writings in the Roman alphabet man chemist, and the inventor of the things which one locks for when in legal killing time, I paid a professional

Jargon, a ense to answer; only; and it is very interesting to

process for generating hydrogen from exponent of the science to make what the present point of view. In what interesting enough to

agree that it speculate whether the same method the air. she could of a scribble which follows,

of investigation can be applied to the delve into produced specially for the The answer of the oracle, now locked am making any attempt to give you see for themselves, whether the that friends' writings through the mill and

us here, the Chinese." away among my most secret persona! "graphology in a nutshell". The writing bears out their previous points with which I shall deal are estimate of the friend's temperament. not over-flattering, and 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 1833 after the graphologist

thas of illustration, as being those easiest in nature it is of necessity difficult to of wrlungs in Chinese and English/Hitler came Into power, bad somehow overlooked some of my better points; and not at all as being the most person to another, and I can only say languages, and my natural belief that an active one.

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pressure. are

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alt that is too sanguine champlans both show the f-dot more exactlyot fear of chveness rather than i be seen that it would be bad policy and both show the letter "s" written render it impossible pace and time earn the encyclopaedia's stricture and the Glory," which is a forthcom-

as well as unscientific to suggest in two different ways. that, with a manual on this subject has

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must guard

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is to say.

article

Chinese Writings -

I have been, fortunate enough to

He is generally credited

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

The reason

"The monstrous thing," he added;

general-the war of the future with

script doa cannot find defenceless area which will

Ho unhlogous to the relationship neither women nor children.

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Mname

My In no wise from other lines or have any significance among Euro-

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Haber considered that the effects

but when I put the direct question to some of my very candld friends i they confirmed the correctness of the

that I myself have made only one

the Chinese script is suscepuble of diagnosis with emphasis on

A dressing the Inter-Parliamentary bad break, and that very early in my similar interpretation is confirmed by Union in 1026, he said it would be Angle of Writing the shortcomings revented which I should

interest in the subject

the One of them, however, is important;

fact that certain peculi

peculiarities, a great blessing if the nations would not have expected from the more important because it is one in which

Objective Interpretation

such an angularity, pen pressure, and at last realise that war was not a cultured of my enemies. In other

inclination of the writing to "Britannica" the

the profitable business. already words, it was now clear to me that quoted allows real significance, must remember, is entirely objective, written by the same person. Minuter "is not so much gas war, as war in The method of interpretation, you

horizontal appear in

botli scripts there was "something In It"; and, no refer to the angle of the writing, that either the writing has or has not this counterpart; for instance, in the its mass operations by aircraft on a one form of harmless amusement is,

the angle between the or that characteristic; there is no

detalls have, of course, no clear as good as another, I took the advice alignment and the top of the page. third possibility; so that the in- Chinese of that professional exponent in the One has only to reflect without blas vestigator cannot deceive himself selection of a number of books on the to see how natural it is that mental through affection or ill-will. True, between capitals and small letters, or deserves to be fought with all the subject for further study,

energy will show itself in an upward different writers on the subject may ividual fetters. These and possibly

to the pecullar formations of in-resources of politics." and depression, exhaustion, not agree in the interpretation of the other details must be worked out slope, lack of ambition, in a falling angle observed facts, and in this respect afresh for another script, but one I will say that I was soon astonished Those are, indeed, their meanings, graphology, it it is entitled to to. And that so much had been and

anything is

of gas warfare were exaggerated and and hardly

ranke written about it, from psychic and couraging to the person interested in as a selence and to have a Greek cannot doubt that, if the variations that explosives were more deadly, philosophicat disquisitions in German this study than to And how constantly

me like any other science, differs have

in handwriting im

between Individuals to plain matter-of-fact works by these peculiarities of alignment are inquiries. The matter for surprise is significant in Asia-unless, that is, American behaviourists. In

they what accompanied, in scripts otherwise rather the extent of the agreement one subscribes to one of the curious must be similarly follows

shall spare you the agony different, by other little traits of the as to the significance of the traits racial religions now purveyed by the of the

attempt to understand the same

"But". former, and put before you, with the say,

meaning.

80turone will

will observed. ald of a few examples, some of the write at an angle other than one's inevitable question: What reason little hobby should begin to attract

BD easy to fake this, to Now I I must at Inst face

ambitious to the guilible. the main polate to be looked for when usual one". Of one pecks from the handwriting of ridiculously easy, for a short time, handwriting signifies anything at all, handwriting, owing to the increasing it in the Irony of fate that this course it 18, after all, is there to believe that one's an unknown person to gather

attention

a time when and for so long as one keeps one's except the method of writing one

Just at facts about the writer. One last attention hard on it. But once forget learnt at school, the extent to which only practised, and is gradually word, however, before I leave the the method of your writing and get one has benefited by one's instruc- becoming restricted to cheque forms of mechanical olds, is less com- matter of the literature on this interested in the subject on which tion, one's familiarity or otherwise and subject:

The various works which you are writing, and nature will out, with the pen as an instrument, one's pers have read do in the main agree

the more intimate places of; personal correspondence, and one might speculate whether there is any causal connection between the facts. But my imo is drawing to a close, and I must concludo with three hopes expressed: that my audience has been

among themselves, with just so

"It's

back you slip into your natural

propose next to deal in order

BO many way, and the sly graphologist han you minor difference us one naturally taped,

persons

expects among a number of

who have made independent in-with the specimens before you, once

vestigations of a

subject.

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one more with the idea of exemplifying When one Anda agreement on so many points the methods of this science or, if you How many of these words are interested, that some may be no of detail in works deriving from like, pseudo-science. It is to my different countries where the styles mind a matter for regret that I have the others?

of handwriting taught in the schools the calligraphy of a number of well- Just a little sceptical of the inde-known wefters

difers so widely, one is

opt to be

been unable to procure specimena of and

public

figured,

correct and what is wrong with interested as to amuse themselves by

autonomous mortar-bord autopsey

springbok morgage

auxilliary English Oxford Dicilonary spell-

pendence of the Investigations; and which would have permitted the one's confidence is restored only listeners to check my results by their ing of these words will be found on when one Anda in these books no own impressions; and it is unfortunate page 9.

taking up the hobby, and that I may. not be detention by any too

with requests for character familiar with the Jaw of llbet.

(Laughter and applause).

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