Lawyer (examining 1 witness): "Where was your maid at the time';"' Lady: "In my boudoir arranging- my hair." Lawyer: "And were you there also?" Lady (indignantly) : " Sir I" —•" Glossomaney " is the name which haa been .given to the newest. " science," which consists in reading people's characters by the shape and size of their tongues. Thus, according to glassomancists, a long tongue shows frankness; a short one, dissimulation; a broad one, unreservedncss; a narrow one, concentration. When the tongueand broad it is a sign that its i is inclined to be a gossip; when it is long and narrow, that lie is moderately frank and open. Those who possess shore and broad tongues are untruthful; those. whose tongues are short and narrow arc sly as well a~. bad tempered.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3275, 20 December 1916, Page 59
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128Page 59 Advertisements Column 1 Otago Witness, Issue 3275, 20 December 1916, Page 59
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