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each planet is always the same, and forehead reading is 

 thus philosophically allied to the science of palmistry, 

 already discussed. Jerome presents head after head, 

 marked upon the forehead with every combination of 

 lines that had occurred to him, and under each writes the 

 character and fortune which, by his system, he discovers 

 such a combination to betray. Thus, if a woman has a 

 straight line running horizontally across the forehead, just 

 above the middle in the region of Mars she will be 

 fortunate in life, and get the better of her husband 1 ; but 

 if the same line be crooked, it betokens that she is to die 

 by violence 2 . A waving line, like Hogarth's line of 

 beauty, over one eye in the region of the Moon assures 

 to the possessor good fortune upon water and in mer- 

 chandise; women with this line will be fortunate in 

 marriage and in all their undertakings 3 . It is also excel- 

 lent for a man to have a perpendicular line running from 

 the nose half-way up to form a T, with a line not quite 

 horizontal, but running obliquely, so that it begins in the 

 region of Mars, on the left, and ends on the right hand, 

 in the region of the Sun. He will be brave, strenuous, 

 and noble victor in all his undertakings; and a woman 

 with such lines will be generous and fortunate 4 . Con- 

 figurations that by no means flatter their possessor form 



1 Metoposcopia, p. 34, - Ibid. p. 37, 3 Ibid. p. 11, 4 Ibid. p. 33. 



