At age 43, Tom, your enjoyment of mental occupations is lacking. Qualities more material absorb your attention. You want your home neat and well kept, your place of business clean and orderly. In all material matters you are careful and systematic. You are neat in appearance, though your clothing may be old and worn. You are methodical in your daily life and habits.

     You have evolved from having little self-control to someone who is a spendthrift, brilliant, versatile, easily adapting some changes to circumstances. You are at home anywhere, sentimental, generous and sympathetic, will give your last cent to a beggar, are improvident, and do not lay up for a “rainy day.”

    You are emotional, consequently extremist. You are up one day, in the depths the next. This comes from great versatility and from the fact that your almost brilliant qualities enable you to do so many things. You are a plodder but, by brilliant dashes, achieve your successes.

     Never satisfied to be led, you aspire to surpass your brethren and as a rule you find no trouble in doing so. You are talented and versatile. Your hand indicates ambition and a constant awareness of responsibilities.

     You tend to push your plans to the fullest extent, not stopping to consider other people, forcing yourself over and through all opposition, with “hammer and tongs” if necessary. You seek and enjoy strife and are full of aggression. You are a great bluffer, but will back down easily if pressed.

     You express yourself well and enjoy the pleasures of imagination. However, your hand indicates you could become flighty and imaginative to a dangerous degree and, if not careful, even lose control of the mind entirely, possibly becoming insane. You love a good mystery and life is always an adventure for you.

         Your love is ideal and love comes your way even if you live in poverty. You are firm and reliable in your affections and have an unusually high code of honor and morality. You want the person you live with to be great, noble and successful. You seldom marry beneath your station in life and you have fewer love affairs. If you once really love, you love forever.

            You also have a strong will and an ability to consider and deal with things in a cool-headed way. People of this type can be leaders in any occupation and tend to center their lives on their work, in which they usually succeed. Their reliability makes them trusted by their associates. They are often mistakenly criticized for coolness because of their hesitancy to express their emotions.

     Such people are proud and attracted by people of high intellectual ability. They have many friends but, owing to an inability to be sweet and affectionate, marriage sometimes presents a problem. They marry people who were originally only friends and the period of courtship tends to be long. But, once in love, they can become astonishingly bold and passionate in actions.

    You have many big ideas. But you also have a tendency to go around with your head in the clouds. Your standards are high. One of your problems is that you tend to think that everyone else has standards like yours.

     You put your romantic partner on a pedestal. The result is that if you hear rumors or idle gossip about your beloved, you can be plunged into depths of despair. The solution to this problem is to recognize that everyone is human. Make allowances for the frailty of others, and yourself. Relax more. The calmer your attitude, the greater your chances of a happy and lasting romance.

        Your hand at age 18 indicates you were attracted to a person with the qualities of soberness, wisdom, sadness, superstition and gloom, and who was balanced. Also, at age 28, you may have experienced some sort of betrayal or other unpleasantness in human relations. The betrayal may have been by a person on the job you long thought was a trusted associate. A trusting person, you must be careful of being used by others for selfish advantage