Character from your Tongue.

Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 3 August 1932, Page 7

Character from your Tongue.

" Put out your tongue," is a phrase associated in most people's minds with doctors, and is usually reminiscent of minor ailments and nasty medicines ; spoken by a glossomancist, however, the curt command takes on an altogether different significance. A glossomancist, it may be as well to explain, is a professor of glossomancy, a new science which consists in reading people's characters by the shape and size of their tongues.

Thus, according to its votaries, the possessor of a short and broad tongue-is apt to be untruthful as to words, and unreliable, as to deeds. A long tongue, moderately pointed, denotes frankness, and a loving, trustful, affectionate disposition. When the tongue is long and broad, however, it is a sign that the owner is shallow and superficial, and also a great talker. The typical woman gossip, say glossomancists, almost always shows this shape in tongues.- I-, •■..■.■,.;.'■ v

The small round tongue, plump, and in shape like an oyster, denotes mediocre _, abilities and a nature that is commonplace and colourless. A short, narrow tongue goes with a nature that is at once quick tempered and yet affectionate, strong and sudden in hate as in love.

The worst type of tongue is the long, narrow, sinuous kind, what glossomancists call the " snake tongue," its possessors are likely to be eruei, sly, vindictive, and very deceitful.