Radio Digest (Nov 1930-Apr 1931)

75 Evangeline Adams'* Fingers Undergo Character Analysis Hands ,/. Zsistrologer By GRACE STONE HALL Special analysis for Radio Digest STARRING three evenings a week in the New York studios of the Columbia Broadcasting System, Evangeline Adams conveys in her talks much of her individuality. Charm of her personality is carried over to her Radio audience in a picture televisioned by the sound of her voice. Impression is felt of her modesty, her distinction of ancestry, her wealth of knowledge, her clear thinking, her fairness and her firmness. Were it possible for her great audience to see Miss Adams as she broadcasts it would be noted by her listeners how gracefully she uses her hands. Her decisiveness would also be noted as she adjusts her copy to time, and how definitely her hands quite as much as her voice record a picture of her very self. Touch of her handclasp is warm, friendly, sure, like the handshake of a great surgeon. It is comforting, this handclasp of hers, even though she must behead you, astronomically speaking, and show you that one by one your pet deficiencies must go on the block for good of your horoscope. In shape her hand is square with slight conic trend of outline. This makes it similar to the hand of Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink and somewhat similar to that of Jane Addams. Full padding of tips of Miss Adams' hand, high mounting of the side of her hand, fulness of the saddle of her thumb, combined with fine-grained, pink texture of skin shows that she is by temperament markedly sensitive to vibration, harmony, momentum. Squareness of her hand indicates that this sensitiveness is balanced by systematic exactness, orderliness, and mathematical thoroughness. "Divine heredity," the something of intuition that cannot be exactly defined probably wings her finger tips with their idealism while definite forces background her thumb. It's a very practical thumb, aggressive, squarejawed and of pioneer type jutting out from her hand, firmly socketed and but slightly indented between the joints. Inspirational qualities of her finger tips with their indulgent tolerance are given balance and dependability by her thumb. Thumbs of this type command by sheer force of executive ability. What smoothness and other trimmings must follow up on a job they leave to other characteristics of their hands. Her thumb is quite similar to that of Mme. Schumann-Heink. It contrasts with that of the great philanthropist, Jane Addams, in that hers is somewhat less decisive, less straight to the grindstone. tt .AD the stars not given Miss Adams precedence as the greatest astrologer of the day with outstanding ability to interpret the humanism of astral forces, she might easily, according to record of her hand, have added stars to her crown in a number of other professions. Warm fulness of her hand indicates mothering qualities. Home and its ideals will always have the protection of her hands. This combined with thoroughness Shape and fulness of her hands are infallible proof of Miss Adams' great capabilities and power as an astrologer. of the square type of hand, exactitude and scientific turn of mind, might easily have given her prominence as the judge of a court of domestic relations, a research lawyer, builder of a subdivision of carefully planned homes, a congresswoman, or writer on subjects of political science and history. And as the director of children's institutions she would have combined sentiment and sense in fashion to have added to her crown of success two. or three, or one comet, at least. "But what about feminine frills and things," asks the feminine chorus of Radio listeners. "Would her hands thrill to possession of a new jewel, and what does the ham] of her husband look like?" Answering these breathless inquiries without even waiting for time signals, it may be said that the rounded molding of Miss Adams' hands tells her admirers that she does love beautiful things and that whenever her staunch upstanding, con(Continued on page I