LINES DENOTING CHILDREN, THEIR SEX, AND OTHER MATTERS CONCERNING THEM  
The Lines relating to children are those finely marked upright lines found immediately above the Line of Marriage (12, Plate XVIII.). A very good plan, in trying to see these Lines, is to press this portion of the hand with the tips of the fingers, and then note which of these small lines stand out the most clearly.
 
Sometimes they are extremely deeply marked, and as a rule much more so on a woman's hand than on a man's. In many cases it is necessary to employ a magnifying glass in order to see them.
 
Broad and deep lines denote male children, fine and narrow lines, females.
 
When they appear as straight lines they denote strong healthy children, but when very faint or crooked, the children indicated are always delicate.
 
When the first part of the little line (taking it upward from the Line o............