Is there a tall, myopic man in your future? Only the palmist knows for sure
By NANCY OLIVER
Staff Writer
Prophets and seers are a dime-a-dozen
today. They come in all shapes,
sizes and colors. Some are believable
and accurate merely because the
"prediction" is well-founded or
scientific in source. These predictions
can range from weather forecasts to
your mother's intuition.
Then there are the other prophets
the palm readers. With them there is a
certain sense of mystery: a way to gain
knowledge of the future, a sense of being
a little bit better prepared, come what
may. Palm reading is kept alive by one
human trait people like hearing
things about themselves whether good
or bad.
Lady Jace, the psychic reader, lives on
the Chapel Hill-Durham Boulevard.
She and her family are new to this area.
As I entered the driveway of her house
with the huge red palm suspended from
the roof, 1 was a little disillusioned.
Maybe I was expecting the sound of
gypsy music, or a covered wagon or
curly-haired men in boleros with
devilish grins.
The young woman's woman's thick
Rumanian accent lends itself to her
occupation. But she does not have the
dark, unruly hair that 1 had imagined
nor does she have a swirling taffeta skirt.
Lady Jace has long reddish-blonde hair
and dressed simply in a skirt and
pullover.
As two hands were nervously held out
to her, she took them in her own, looked
at them briefly and then began.
"You have a very long life line. Did
you know that?"
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I looked. It was true. My life line
almost crawled up under the cuff of my
sleeve.
"You will have no real health
problems."
Well, that's always good to hear.
"1 see you are worried right now. A
relative of your mother's has beeh-in an
accident of some sort up North. Is that
true?"
Gulp. Now that was something. I'd
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". . . . there are the other
prophets the palm readers.
With them there is a certain
sense of mystery: a way to gain
knowledge of the future; a
sense of being a little bit better
prepared comewhat may. Palm
reading is kept alive by one
human trait. people like
hearing things about
themselves, whether good or
bad.
only told my roommate about my
uncle's car accident.
"Your hands say you are contented
right now. You are a very relaxed, easy
going person. You are kind-hearted. Is
that true? Your hands show success."
1 began to glow with admiration for
this woman's obvious gift to see truth in
the hands of others. "How strange that
she could be describing me so perfectly,"
1 thought. 1 began to wish I'd brought a
tape recorder along so I could replay
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"Yes. you will be successful. I see a
large house for you. Yes. a fine grand
house. You will travel a lot in your
w ork. But all of your travels will be safe.
I do not see you, though, in the field you
are studying."
At this point, she paused because I
was beginning to wring me hands.
Surely the world would not lose the next
Woodstein? And Iwas so young.
"But you w ill be very succesful with
your career. You w ill never have a lot of
money but you w ill never want for it. Do
you understand my meaning?"
Not rich, not poor- i.e. middle class.
Got it.
"1 see you signing a document of some
sort which will bring you some money.
It will be soon. Do you have any
knowledge of such a paper?"
This document-signing didn't ring a
bell. Maybe 1 have a long-lost
millionaire uncle who will, while
surveying his vast oil empire, die sa ing.
'I'm going to leave it all to
"You were born in a good sign. In
fact, your sign is at its highest point right
now."
Well, at least she didn't say anything
about Gemini's schisophrenic
tendencies.
"Ah! I see a dark-haired girl w ho is
very jealous of you. She is of medium
height and build. Dark hair. Do you
have anv knowledge of someone like
this?"
Well, frankly no. After all. there were
so many it could be.
"And a tall dark no - brown-haired-person
cares for you very deeply.
Male."
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She paused and looked again.
"Yes. male."
1 looked at my hands. Maybe she was
noticing Hershey bar traces from lunch?
I looked carefully down my heart line.
Nope.
"Really? A tall brown-haired male
person ?"
"Yes. Do you know of someone it
could be?"
I blushed furiously. Of course, 1
knew. Well, wait . . . maybe it's . . . no . . .
maybe it's . . . could be . . .
"You w ill have two great loves before
you meet the man you will marry."
I wo great loves? Only two? 1 raised a
skeptical eyebrow.
"And I see three children."
THREE CHILDREN!?!? Didn't you
say there was a husband in there
somewhere?
"Yes. a husband. You will marry
someone tall and dark and "
Handsome?
Student Stores, APO Co-Op
only two of several options
for the book-seeking student
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Buying textbooks, like waiting in long
lines and paying parking tickets, is one of the
first essential activities that await the fall
rush of students into Chapel Hill. And like
the others, it can also be one of the most
painful.
Several options lor buying new and used
hooks may help to ease the budgetary pain,
although students can still count on
spending anyw here from 50 to 100 dollars on
textbooks, depending on the courses taken.
I he largest, but not always the most
economical, textbook' inventory in Chapel
H ill is in the V NC Student Stores. This year.
Manager Thomas Shelley expects to sell
over a million dollars worth of texts during
the fall rush.
The Caduceus bookstore, located in the
Pre-Clinical Sciences building, stocks all the
texts for health-related areas such as
dentistry, pharmacy, public health, speech
and hearing, physical therapy, nursing and
medicine.
Student's Bookstore. Inc.. an
independently-owned store that recently
opened in the NCNB plaa. also stocks all
textbooks that will be used at UNC this fall.
New book.s w ill be sold at slightly lower than
retail prices. Kor example. Morgan and
King's Introduction to Psychology, which
retails at $15.95 at the Student Stores, will
sell for 15.70 at Student's Bookstore. Inc.
Used book prices will be at least 25 per cent off at the Student's Bookstore, but may be
lower, depending on the supply and demand lor the book. A used Morgan and King text will
sell for $9.95 at Student's Bookstore. Inc.. and $1 1.95 at the UNC Student Stores.
All new medical texts w ill go for 109 off the suggested retail price at Student's Bookstore,
and used medical texts w ill be reduced W.
The price students may receive on used books that are sold back to these stores is more
difficult to determine. The Student Stores and Caduceus usually will pay 50'c of the retail on
hardbacks and W on paperbacks. If the books are brought back after the end of the exam
period, or if they are not to be reused, the prices may be lower.
Ken Stapleton. owner of Student's Bookstore. Inc.. said that all used books there would be
bought back for 509r of the retail cost during the exam period and 40 to 50 at all other times.
Another alternative to the bigger stores is the Alpha Phi Omega (APO) Book Co-Op.
where students bring in the books they want to sell, set their own prices, and wait for a buyer.
APO operates in Rooms 202-206 in the Carolina Union, and will be open August 24-31.
No matter where the student decides to buy books, the problem of when to buy them is
always present. If they wait until classes start to find out which books will be used most, the
crowds will be thicker and the lines longer. But if they buy now. they may end up with books
they don't need. Waiting too long may result in the book being sold out. The best bet.
according to Student Stores officials is to buy as soon as class schedules are final, and keep
the cash register receipt in case the student finds the book is not needed. Full refunds at the
Student Stores will be granted for two weeks after the start of classes.
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"... has very dark eyes. He will have
intense, penetrating, searching eyes."
Oh. is he nearsighted too?
Palm reading is not illegal in Chapel
Hill or the rest of Orange County. But
just eight miles down the road in
Durham palm reading is illegal and
punishable by a fine.
She said most of her clients come to
her because they need an adviser in their
business, financial and personal affairs.
Most of her clients are also usually
steady customers.
"1 am a person who is not related to
them that they can talk to and confide
in. I try to help them as best I can but
most of them only need somebody to
talk to. 1 give them advice as I read what
their hands say they should do."
1 asked her if she had studied how to
read palms. She said she occasionally
referred to books but that palm reading
w as like her pow er of clairvoyance. She
just knew how.
"1 was born w ith the power."
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Buying textbooks is a necessary task for
students. Student Stores, Caduceus
bookstore, Student's Bookstore, Inc.
and the APO Co-Op are options to
satisfy the demand for books.
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