Character in T's.
Prom the letter "t" alone oan one read character, says a French graphologist. The vertical line repTeserois the fatality at life, and the hortzonta.l bar the influence human volition exercises upon this fatality. That part of the vertica_ line projecting above the horizontal bar indicates the measure of ideality in tne writer's makeup. The practical and material part of man's character is shown ln the inferior part of this line. Take the poet. He generally crosses his t's ahove the vertical line; his aspirations are high. The practical man invariably crosses his fs midway between the ideal course and the material. He proves himself to be in neither altogether. The optimist crosses his t's with a Rue sloping upward, from earth to ' sky. so to speak. The pessimist, on the other hand, crosses his t's by commencing at the ideal part of the letter, but .' from there he descends with a downward j •tnoke :
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Bruce Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3099, 15 September 1899, Page 6
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157Character in T's. Bruce Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3099, 15 September 1899, Page 6
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