TREATING OF MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.
=The Human Temperaments.=--By these are meant certain types, forms or
conformations of the human body, each known and distinguished from the
other by certain characteristics, which enable those who are familiar
with these peculiarities to readily distinguish one temperament from
the others. The existence of the temperaments is believed to depend
upon the development of certain parts or systems in the body, and each
is accompanied by different degrees of activity of the brain, and
corresponding difference in the talents and manifestations of the
individual. They are four in number, viz.: Nervous, Sanguine, Bilious,
and Lymphatic. When the brain and nerves are predominant, it is termed
the _nervous_ temperament; if the lungs and blood vessels
constitutionally predominate, the _sanguine_; if the muscular and
fibrous systems are in the ascendency, the _bilious_; and when the
glands and assimilating organs are in the ascendency, it is termed the
_lymphatic_ or _phlegmatic_.
First: The nervous is indicated by fine, thin hair, small muscles,
thin skin, pale countenance, brilliant eyes, with great quickness and
sensitiveness to impressions, and is really the mental or intellectual
temperament.
Second: The sanguine is known by a stout, well-defined form, a full
face, florid complexion, moderate plumpness, firm flesh, chestnut or
sandy hair, and blue eyes. This is the tough, hardy, working
temperament, excessively fond of exercise and activity, and a great
aversion to muscular quiescence and inactivity, and consequently
averse to books and close literary pursuits.
Third: The bilious is indicated by a thin, spare face, dark skin,
black hair, firm flesh, moderate stoutness, with rough, harsh, and
strongly marked features. This temperament gives great will,
elasticity, and powers of endurance, and, when combined with the
nervous, is the great, efficient, moving temperament in the great
events of the world.
Fourth: The lymphatic is indicated by paleness, roundness of the form,
softness of muscle, fair hair, sleepy, half-closed eyes, and a dull,
sluggish, inexpressive face. In this temperament the brain and all
other parts of the body appear to be slow, dull, and languid, and the
whole body little else than one great manufactory of fat. These
temperaments, however, are rarely found pure, but mixed or blended in
an almost endless variety of ways, producing the ever-varying
peculiarities of human character and intellect.
THE FORTUNATE AND UNFORTUNATE DAYS OF EACH MONTH.
FORTUNATE.
In January, six days--the 1st, 2nd, 15th, 26th, 27th, and 28th.
In February, four days--the 11th, 21st, 25th, and 26th.
In March, two days--the 10th and 24th.
In April, five days--the 6th, 15th, 16th, 20th, and 28th.
In May, three days--the 3rd, 18th, and 31st.
In June, five days--the 10th, 11th, 15th, 22nd, and 25th.
In July, three days--the 9th, 15th, and 28th.
In August, six days--the 6th, 7th, 10th, 11th, 19th, and 25th.
In September, five days--the 4th, 8th, 17th, 18th, and 23rd.
In October, five days--the 3rd, 7th, 16th, 21st, and 22nd.
In November, three days--the 5th, 14th, and 20th.
In December, six days--the 15th, 19th, 20th, 22nd, 23rd, and 25th.
UNFORTUNATE.
In January, seven days--the 3rd, 4th, 6th, 13th, 14th, 20th, and 21st.
In February, seven days--the 3rd, 7th, 9th, 12th, 16th, 17th, and 23rd.
In March, eight days--the 1st, 2nd, 5th, 8th, 12th, 16th, 28th, and 29th.
In April, two days--the 24th and 25th.
In May, five days--the 17th, 20th, 27th, 29th, and 30th.
In June, eight days--the 1st, 5th, 6th, 9th, 12th, 16th, 18th, and 24th.
In July, four days--the 3rd, 10th, 17th, and 18th.
In August, two days--the 15th and 16th.
In September, two days--the 9th and 16th.
In October, six days--the 4th, 9th, 11th, 17th, 27th, and 31st
In November, four days--the 3rd, 9th, 10th, and 21st.
In December, two days--the 14th and 21st.
DAYS OF THE WEEK--THEIR IMPORTANCE AT THE NATAL HOUR.
A child born on Sunday shall be of long life and obtain riches.
A child born on Monday will be weak and effeminate.
Tuesday is more unfortunate still, though a child born on this day
may, by extraordinary vigilance, conquer the inordinate desires to
which he will be subject; still, in his violent attempts to gratify
them, he will be in danger of a violent death.
The child born on Wednesday will be given to a studious life, and
shall reap great profit therefrom.
A child born on Thursday shall attain great honor and dignity.
He who calls Friday his natal day shall be of a strong constitution,
and perhaps addicted to the pleasures of love.
Saturday is another ill-omened day; most children born on this day
will be of heavy, dull, and dogged disposition.
IMPORTANT ADVICE TO FEMALES.
It has often been observed, and experience has shown the observation
to be a true one, that some event of importance is sure to happen to a
woman in her thirty-first year, whether it prove for her good or it be
some evil or temptation; therefore we advise her to be circumspect in
all her actions. If she is a maiden or widow, it is probable she will
marry this year. If a wife, that she will lose her children or
husband. She will either receive riches or travel into a foreign land;
at all events, some circumstance or other will take place during this
remarkable year of her life that will have great effect on her future
fortunes and existence.
THE MAGIC RING.
=To know whom you will marry, and what kind of a fate you will have
with them.=--Borrow a wedding ring, concealing the purpose for which
you borrow it; but no widow's or pretended marriage ring will do--it
spoils the charm; wear it for three hours at least before you retire
to rest, and then suspend it, by a hair off your head, over your
pillow; write within a circle resembling a ring, the sentence from the
matrimonial service beginning with, "_with this ring I thee wed_," and
round the circle write your own name at full length, and the figures
that stand for your age; place it under your pillow, and your dream
will fully explain whom you are to marry, and what kind of a fate you
will have with them. If your dream is too confused to remember it, or
you do not dream at all, it is a certain sign that you will never be
married.
PHYSIOGNOMICAL SIGNS OF A GOOD GENIUS.
A straight, erect body, neither over tall nor short, between fat and
thin. The flesh naturally soft. The skin neither soft nor rough, but a
medium between. The complexion white, verging to a blush of redness.
The hair between hard and soft, usually of a brown color. The head and
face of a moderate size. The forehead rather high. The eyes manly,
big, and clear, of a blue or hazel color. The aspect mild and humane.
The teeth so mixed that some are broad and some narrow. A subtle
tongue, and the voice between intense and remiss. The neck comely and
smooth. The channel-bone of the throat appearing and moving. The back
and ribs not over fleshy. The shoulders plain and slender. The hands
indifferently long and smooth. The fingers long, smooth, and equally
distant. The nails white, mixed with red, and shining. The carriage of
the body erect in walking.
ELECTRICAL PSYCHOLOGY, OR PSYCHOLOGICAL FASCINATION.
The most easy, sure and direct mode to produce electro-psychological
communication is to take the individual by the hand, in the same
manner as though you were going to shake hands. Press your thumb with
moderate force upon the _ulnar nerve_, which spreads its branches to
the ring and little finger. The pressure should be nearly one inch
above the knuckle, and in range of the ring finger. Lay the ball of
the thumb flat and particularly crosswise so as to cover the minute
branches of this nerve of motion and sensation. When you first take
your subject by the hand, request him to place his eyes upon yours,
and to keep them fixed, so that he may see every emotion of your mind
expressed in the countenance. Continue this pressure for half a minute
or more, then request him to close his eyes, and with your fingers
gently brush downward several times over the eyelids, as though
fastening them firmly together. Throughout the whole process feel
within yourself a fixed determination to close them, so as to express
that determination fully in your countenance and manner. Having done
this, place your hand on the top of his head and press your thumb
firmly on the organ of individuality, bearing partially downward, and
with the other thumb still pressing the _ulnar nerve_, tell him, _You
cannot open your eyes!_ Remember that your manner, your expression of
countenance, your motions, and your language must all be of the same
positive character. If he succeed in opening his eyes, try it once or
twice more, because impressions, whether physical or mental, continue
to deepen by repetition. In case, however, that you cannot close his
eyes, nor see any effect produced upon them, you should cease making
any further efforts, because you have now fairly tested that his mind
and body both stand in a positive relation as regards the doctrine of
impressions. If you succeed in closing the subject's eyes by the above
mode, you may then request him to put his hands on his head, or in any
other position you choose, and tell him, _You cannot stir them!_ In
case you succeed, request him to be seated, and tell him, _You cannot
rise!_ If you are successful in this, request him to put his hands in
motion, and tell him, _You cannot stop them!_ If you succeed, request
him to walk on the floor, and tell him, _You cannot cease walking!_ As
so you may continue to perform experiments, involving muscular motion
and paralysis of any kind that may recur to your mind, till you can
completely control him in arresting or moving all the voluntary parts
of his system.
MESMERISM.
If you desire to mesmerize a person, who has never been put in that
state, nor in the least affected, the plan is to set him in an easy
posture and request him to be calm and resigned. Take him by both
hands, or else by one hand and place your other gently on his
forehead. But with whatever part of his body you choose to come in
contact, be sure to always touch two points, answering to the
_positive_ and _negative_ forces. Having taken him by both hands, fix
your eyes upon his, and, if possible, let him contentedly and steadily
look you in the face. Remain in this position until his eyes close.
Then place both your hands on his head, gently pass them to his
shoulders, down the arms, and off at the ends of his fingers. Throw
your hands outward as you return them to his head, and continue these
passes till he can hear no voice but yours. He is then entirely in the
mesmeric state. When a person is in the mesmeric state, whether put
there by yourself or someone else, you can awake him by the upward
passes, or else do it by an impression, as follows: Tell him, "I will
count _three_, and at the same instant I say _three_ I will slap my
hands together, and you will be wide awake and in your perfect senses.
Are you ready?" If he answers in the affirmative, you will proceed to
count "One, two, three!" The word three should be spoken suddenly, and
in a very loud voice, and at the same instant the palms of the hands
should be smitten together. This will instantly awake him.
HOW TO MAKE PERSONS AT A DISTANCE THINK OF YOU.
Let it be particularly remembered that "faith" and concentration of
thought are positively needful to accomplish aught in drawing others
to you, or making them think of you. If you have not the capacity or
understanding to operate an electric telegraph battery, it is no proof
that an expert and competent person should fail in doing so. Just so
in this case; if faith, meditation, or concentration of thought fail
you, then will you also fail to operate on others. First, you must
have a yearning for the person you wish to make think of you; and,
secondly, you must learn to guess at what time of day or night, he may
be unemployed--passive--so that he may be in a proper state to receive
the thought which you dispatch to him. If he should be occupied in any
way, so that his nervous forces were needed to complete his task, his
"human battery," or thought, would not be in a recipient or passive
condition, therefore your experiment would fail at that moment. Or, if
he were under heavy narcotics, liquors, tobacco, or gluttonous
influences, he could not be reached at such moments. Or, if he were
asleep, and you operated to effect a wakeful mind or thought, you
would fail again at the moment. To make a person at a distance think
of you (whether you are acquainted with him or not, matters not), I
again repeat, find out or guess at what moment he is likely to be
passive--by this I mean easy and careless; then, with the most fervent
prayer or yearning of your entire heart, mind, soul, and strength,
desire he may think of you. And if you wish him to think on any
particular topic in relation to you, it is necessary for you to press
your hands, when operating on him, on such mental faculties of your
head as you wish him to exercise towards you. This demands a meager
knowledge of Phrenology. His "feeling nature," or "propensities," you
cannot reach through these operations, but when he thinks of you (if
he does not know you, he imagines such a being as you are) he can
easily afterwards be controlled by you, and he will feel disposed to
go in the direction where you are, if circumstances permit and he is
his own master, for, remember, circumstances alter cases. I said you
cannot reach his "feeling," but only his "thinking," nature, truly,
but after he thinks of you once his "feeling nature," or propensities,
may become aroused through his own organization. In conclusion on this
topic, let me say that if you wish the person simply to think of you,
one operation may answer; but, on the contrary, if you wish him to
meet you, or go where you are, all you have to do is to persevere, in
a lawful and Christian manner, to operate, and I assure you, in the
course of all natural things--that is, if no accident or very
unfavorable circumstances occur--he will make his way towards you, and
when he comes within sight, or reaching distance of you, it will be
easy to manage him.
HOW TO CHARM THOSE WHOM YOU MEET AND LOVE.
When you desire to make any one "love" you with whom you meet,
although not personally acquainted with him, you can very readily
reach him and make his acquaintance, if you observe the foregoing
instructions in addition to the following directions: Suppose you see
him coming towards you, in an unoccupied mood, or recklessly or
passively walking past you, all that remains for you at that moment is
to concentrate your thought, and send it into him as before explained,
and, to your astonishment, if he was passive, he will look at you, and
now is your time to send a thrill to his heart, by looking him
carelessly, though determinately, in the eyes, and praying him, with
all your heart, mind, soul, and strength, that he may read your
thought and receive your true love, which God designs we should bear
one another. This accomplished, and you need not, and must not, wait
for a cold-hearted, fashionable, and popular Christian introduction;
neither should you hastily run into his arms, but continue operating
in this psychological manner, not losing any convenient opportunity to
meet him at an appropriate place, when an unembarrassed exchange of
words will open the door to the one so magnetized. At this interview,
unless prudence sanction it, do not shake hands, but let your manners
and loving eyes speak with Christian charity and ease. Wherever or
whenever you meet again, at the first opportunity grasp his hand in an
earnest, sincere, and affectionate manner, observing at the same time
the following important directions, viz.: As you take his bare hand in
yours, press your thumb gently, though firmly, between the bones of
the thumb and the forefinger of his hand, and at the very instant when
you press thus on the blood vessels (which you can before ascertain to
pulsate) look him earnestly and lovingly in the eyes, and send all
your heart's, mind's, and soul's strength into his organization, and
he will be your friend, and if you find him not to be congenial, you
have him in your power, and by carefully guarding against evil
influences, you can reform him to suit your own purified, Christian,
and loving taste.