GRAPHOLOGY OR PEN PORTRAITS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXI, Issue III, 16 July 1898, Page 80

GRAPHOLOGY OR PEN PORTRAITS.

Any reader of the “ New Zealand Graphic ” can have his or her character sketched by sending a specimen of handwriting with signature or “ nom de plume ” to

MADAME MARCELLA, “Graphic” Office, Auckland. The coupon appearing on the first page ot cover of the “Graphic’’and twenty-four penny stamps must accompany each letter. SAPHO.—A very strong character is displayed in your specimen of handwriting. You possess great mental and physical energy, a vigorous intellect, determination, ambition and spirited independence. Observation and foresight are both indicated, and so is promptness in decision and action. Impatience and a dislike to be fettered by coercion or restraint are visible in many of the crosses to the t’s; yet, in contradiction to these traits some of the terminals betoken both caution and discreet reserve. I infer that your temper, if naturally warm and impatient, is subordinate to your forcible will. Passionately strong affection is betokened by the black and sloping writing. Your love is self-sacrificing and constant. It will endure through evil and good report; but it is tinged with jealousy, which, however, would never make you unjust, and although impressionable, your mind is too strong to be fanciful or capricious. You are devoted to flowers, have much fondness for children, and also admire beauty in art. You ‘write’ well and have good literary taste. Your standard of perfection is high and you are never contented with moderate success. Your views are liberal and, without sharing the proclivities of the new woman, you dislike the ‘gene’ of conventionality. Perseverance is well represented, but method and order are deficient and you take things too much en masse to pay attention to trifling detaiIs.—MARCELLA.