GRAPHOLOGY OR PEN PORTRAITS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXI, Issue XI, 10 September 1898, Page 343

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 “ noni de plume ” to MADAME MARCELLA, “ Graphic ” Office, Auckland. The coupon appearing on the first page of cover of the “ Graphic ” and twenty-four penny stamps must accompany each letter.

‘ALICE.’ —Your specimen of caligraphy would have been amply sufficient for delineation if you had selected a name beginning with M or given me my own nom de plume. As it is my information is limited. You possess a most active and energetic temperament, and much determination and perseverance; but your mind is anxious, your organisation nervous and highly- strung, and your temper sligh tly’irritable. You are industrious and even fond of work. Idleness is insupportably irksome to you. You receive impressions quickly, and act upon them without devoting much time to observation. You are not without ambition, as your writing ascends, and your standard of honour and justice is high. Your tastes are economical and refined. You are or will be an excellent and thrifty household manager, with a talent for neat arrangement. Your opinions are decided. but although shrewd and sharp sighted, you do not devote much time tooibservation. Your individuality is distinct, and so far as I can tell without my landmark the capital M, you are much more a lover of practical reality than imaginative dreams.—MARCELLA.

TETROLEUM.’ —• Discretion and prudence are strongly accentuated in

your specimen of handwriting. You possess both courage and boldness in enterprise; but you do nothing rashly. You look before you leap, and when assured the ground is safe, ‘spring and daring’ are not deficient, although you trust nothing at first sight, and rarely judge from appearances. You have a strong will; your manner is frank and open, and you say exactly what you mean, should you deem it advisable to do so; if not, you still adhere to the truth—in silence. Your temper is good, you are warm hearted, but not emotional, and while exceedingly generous to your own, you have no toleration for indiscriminate waste or extravagance. Your judgment is sound and reliable. Your opinions are liberal, and formed on a basis of excellent common sense, as you are not imaginative, neither do you receive impressions readily, or observe with close attention. Your own affairs are more interesting to you than those of your neighbours; and your temperament is too equable to be heedlessly disturbed. You appreciate comfort in your surroundings, converse well, and possess a. happy facility for saying pleasant things when most acceptable. Your business capacities are good, and you enjoy listening to melodious music.—MARCELLA.

‘TlTO.’—Your specimen of handwriting contains all the traits and qualities necessary for constituting a character reader. Your tastes and mind are cultivated. Your powers of observation are acute, and you possess a desire for obtaining knowledge. Your opinions are decided; but they are never formed on the impulse of the moment, and although self-rel-ianee is rather in the back ground, and personal esteem decidedly deficient, you have a predeliction for judging for yourself. Your actions are guarded by forethought and circumspection, and you require solid facts and convincing proofs before you place confidence in a theory or give credence to an argument. You possess more

sympathy and less selfishness than is often pourtrayed in the caligraphy of your sex; but practical sense is so much in evidence, and imagination so conspicuous by its absence, that I infer you prefer reality, and are entirely out of touch with caprice and fickleness. Your sensibilities are keen; your temperament slightly anxious. Firmness is well represented by the thick downstrokes, and caution is visible in the terminals of many letters; but I think you study your own interests too little, and have not enough ambition for yourself. You are economical, without parsimony, and while your affections are deep and of a durable type, you shrink from all vehement emotional display, and express less than you feel, and never indulge in exaggeration.—MAßCELLA.

‘ST. DENIS.’ —Your handwriting displays force of character and selfconsciousness or egotism. Your disposition is most affectionate. Your love is unselfish, but very deep, and you like it to be fully reciprocated, as you become doubtful with very slight cause and suffer acutely, although your self command is too great to permit any display of emotional feeling which would betray jealousy or suspicion. Your temperament is slightly impulsive, and your mind is very active. Great literary ability is shown in the formation of your capital ‘D’s.’ Your ideas flow rapidly from one subject to another. You reason well, and persuasively, and if. as I think, you cultivate your taste for literature, you draw your characters rather from intuition than observation, and paint their traits and features in decided colours. You are impressionable, and sufficiently imaginative, but your mind and will are too strong for flights of fancy. Some love of rule is perceptible, but you are so susceptible to loving influence that you are far removed from any danger of becoming a domestic tyrant: nor are you a severe critic, although you are too reserved to place confidence indiscriminately. Perserverance is well repre-

seated. Energy is visible; but I gather from various indications that it is intermittent, and varies with your spirits, which are sometimes buoyant and at others subject to tits of depression. You are an enthusiastic admirer oi lieauty, and your good taste therein is beyond dispute.—MARCELLA.

‘ANTONIO? — Your specimen of handwriting is written in pencil, which renders it difficult for me to delineate with any chance of accuracy, as so much depends upon the blackness of the writing, thickness of the downstrokes, etc. You appear to possess a happy and cheerful disposition, and to be good tempered, kind and affectionate. You have a pleasant manner and an affectionate temperament; a satisfactory amount of selfreliance and jusrt sufficient personal esteem and confidence in your own [lowers. You neither worry yourself without cause or fret over imaginary troubles. The hopeful side of a picture is the one you always keep in view, and you make the best even of a bad bargain. You are neither acutely sensitive (and what a blessing that is for you), or superfluously energetic; but you comprehend quickly, can see a joke at once, and are quickly in touch with the wishes and peculiarities of your acquaintances. Your capital ‘A’ denotes intelligence, and also that you can appreciate the merits of good poetry. So far as I can tell from pencil caligraphy, you have a decided will, with, perhaps, a thought of obstinacy; but you possess so pleasing a method of obtaining your own way that you generally accomplish it without difficulty.—MAßCELLA.