THE TELL-TALE FIST

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 145, 16 December 1933, Page 22

THE TELL-TALE FIST

( Graphology is becoming more of a practical science than is generally known, and it will-probably come as a surprise that many leading commercial and banking firms consult an expert •when considering applications for important appointments. During his early experiments in handwriting, Dr. Robert Saudek acquired his proficiency by practising on the employees of his business friends. After a while he found that his tentative forecasts of intelligence and other traits were almost invariably correct. Dr. Saudek's latest book "Anonymous Letters" discusses in particular blackmailers' letter* and the question of handwriting in the Dreyfus case. The author once looked casually at a bill in a restaurant and noticed tho peculiar formation of the lower loop of the figure live. This was enough for him; he checked the bill vevy carefully, and, as he suspected, found it wrong. On being -challenged, tile waiter ' admitted his dishonesty, and a whole series of petty embezzlements was traced to him. Dr. Saudek draws the moral that all writing should be done on the type-machine, which 'is less indiscreetly informative, '