The Conic tip (53) is found mostly on the hands of women, though it is possessed by many men. In shape it forms a distinct cone on the end of the fingers, and has many degrees of development. Where the cone is not pronounced, it shows less of the conic qualities, tending more to square or spatulate. Conic tips show the artistic, impulsive, quick, intuitive person, one to whom the beautiful and harmonious in all things appeals most strongly, and who is very impressionable. To those having the conic tip with smooth fingers, it matters not so much that things be useful as that they be beautiful, and this side of life is their point of view, consequently they care little for system. To them the regularity of the square tip is burdensome. They greatly love all that attracts the eye or pleases the ear, and life seems less a matter of labor than of enjoyment. They do not care to deal with figures, nor do they have a place for everything; surely they do not always keep everything in its place. The conic tips being talented, quick of mind, and highly intuitive, this faculty of intuition is one of their greatest possessions, and greatest dangers, for they rely on it much more than on methodical systems of reasoning, which take labor to acquire.

They think quickly; the life current does not take as long to enter the conic tips as through the square or spatulate: thus it is quick, instinctive intuition that guides them, rather than slow methods of thought. They are more inclined to idealism than to the actual and real things of life, and with these artistic tendencies they seek occupations where there is a good field for the operation of their intuitive powers, and where their love of beauty and art can find a fuller expression. In all things these conic qualities are shown. The home will be beautiful and artistic, but not systematically arranged. Their dress will be in harmony, but their bureaus at home are probably in confusion. In art they do not like battle scenes so much as pictures which appeal to the imagination. They want inspiration in their paintings rather than actual landscapes. Art, to them, means freedom from conventionality. In books they prefer romance to history; in food they prefer dainties to roast beef, and everywhere artistic, intuitive qualities are theirs. They are sympathetic, emotional, often easily led, consequently are not such constant lovers. Strongly susceptible to impressions, while beauty lasts they love better than after it fades.

The eye, the ear, the senses are all trained to respond to beauty, harmony, and artistic surroundings. Conic tips are a poetic, lovable, attractive class. So when these conic fingers are seen, think of art, beauty, quickness, intuition, grace, harmony, and idealism, and you will find these the ruling forces in the subject, rather than the desire for action, or the common-sense regularity of the square fingers. Pointed tips (54) are an exaggerated form of the conic Their appearance is so characteristic that, once seen, they are never mistaken for any other, as their long, narrow, extremely pointed look will not be forgotten. These pointed tips belong to a class whose realm is entirely mental. They have no part or place in the materialistic operations of business, nor can they be held down to any set way of doing things. They are highly inspirational, idealistic in the extreme, and dwell in cloud land, mentally far from the bustle of a practical money - seeking world. To them beauty is all in all thoughts, dreams, and visions take them through a vista of imaginings, and life is happy or unhappy in proportion to their ability to indulge these beautiful fancies. They are in no sense fitted for hard knocks, but are constructed on a plane too high for usefulness or great happiness on earth.

They are beautiful and refining in their influence, but if they fall into coarse and brutal surroundings, or even those which are too practical, they chafe and suffer from the uncongeniality. Life to them is not real; it is poetic, visionary, and dreamy. Earth is not their sphere; they are the spiritual leaven placed among us, for the purpose of giving a view of the higher planes of existence. They are dreamers, too finely constructed to be practical, too much engrossed by mind to care about matter. Thus the more pointed the tip the more pointed the qualities and the less question that life has only disappointment for them, unless they can be so placed as to be fully at liberty to indulge all of their fancies. The time was when women loved to own such fingers. They did not know the qualities that belonged to pointed tips, and thought only of the beauty of appearance. As they have come to learn that the hands which are real, practical, and useful, the ones which are making the world move, are large, square, and knotty, this preference for pretty pointed fingers is passing away. The very fact that in order to keep these pointed fingers manicured and in their greatest state of beauty, the owner must not labor or use them in harsh employment, shows their practical uselessness.

When you see these pointed tips, think of the visionary dreamer, impractical, but poetical and beautiful. In handling all classes of tips, do not forget to see what is behind their qualities. A soft hand will make the spatulate tip a lover of action, not one who indulges in physical action himself. It will lessen the vigor of the square tip, and add to the idealism of the conic and pointed. A big thumb, Mounts of Jupiter, Saturn, Apollo, and Mars, will show whether their respective qualities are back of the tip qualities as a driving force. Ambition (Jupiter), soberness (Saturn), quickness (Mercury), aggression (Mars), and energy (consistency), are necessary to bring out the greatest possibilities of spatulate, square, conic, or pointed tips. Thus the tips show what kind of a machine you have before you, and you must find out whether there is water in the boiler and fire to turn it into steam, before you can say that the machine is acting in its intended fashion.

No. 53. CONIC FINGER TIPS.

No. 54. POINTED FINGER TIPS.