Because females naturally have more instinct than males, and their feelings are more inclined to religion. It is a well-known fact that females are more impressionable than males, thoughless practical: woman imagines things whilst man, ever practical, carries out the more practical part of her ideas and imaginations. Personally, I think that in the case of English women, there have been so many generations in which she has been content with domestic love and duties, until practical, scientific, and intellectual pursuits are now looked upon as outside her "sphere"; consequently the hand indicates an idealistic, or dreamy and imaginative nature than otherwise, and when some female with Knotty and Square fingers or a Spatulate hand and large thumb, appears before the world to demonstrate other themes than those connected with home duties, she is regarded as violating the laws of society or trespassing into the domains of the "lords of creation'. It is different, however, with our ulsters in America, who are more active, scientific and pushing in their habits, and consequently possess hands more akin to those of the male sex. The only thing to be regretted concerning the tendency of the female type of hand to change thus, is that the world would doubtless lose much inspiration, grace, gentle­ness and pleasure, attendant upon the manifestation of the more idealistic type of hand.