New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-02-13

boliDg women With compls1ion the color Il cd
parchment with Eight brown eyes and hight hair; bsisg
alfred in handsome delsine dress OF hs'fnoIming
and decorated with costly cameo pm and e1.dOpe,
she look not unlike servant out for holiday max
ing q sensation in her MISTRESS 6nery.
She led our lovely reporter into hrle clceethke ROOM
in which was bureau, two chairs stsbls and . anal
stand covered with number OF her business handouts
and pack Of cards. She asked frst: What modth
wss you bonn :" On receiving the answer, the Aaor'
isher took book from the bureau and read as follows
person born in this month of smable and frank
disposition, benevolent and amisble and desirable
partner IN the marriage relation Your locky days are
Tuesdays and Thursdays, which days you may
enter on any undertaking, attempt any enterprise
with good prospect Of success" Then che took up
the cards sgain and after the usual shlfns and cut
ting the Astonisher fred away follows You face
luck you face prosperity you face true love and dsn
terested affection you face speedy marriage, you
face letter which will come in three days and vii
ccntsin pleasant news-you face a ring, you fsce
present Of jewelry done up in small package; the
latter viii como within two hours, two days, two
weeks or two morths-you face an agreeable surpnse
you face the death Of friend You fee the seven Of
clubs which is the luckiest card in the packyou face
two gentlemen with view to matrmony, one Of whom
has brown hair and brown eyes, and the other has
lighter hair and blue eyes-they are both thinking Of
You at the present time but the nearest you face
the one with light eyes-your marriage runs within
s1 or pine months There was very much more 20 the
ame effect, but reporter was pnUg ali this time
or lock at his future husband, he did not pay the
stctest attention to it. Finally when she had finished
alkpg che said, "Step this way and see your future
husband"
This was tie eventual moment.
Our reporter went TO the table, and there beheld
pine box about the size of ordinary csDde-boI,
bough shsllower; il was implanted, and decidedly
urornsme1 tai as an article Of furniture. In one end
Of was an aperture about the size of the eyehols of
telescope; this was carefully covered with small
black curtain. This mystic coutrivance was placed
upon table 20 low that our reporter compelled
to 20 on bis knees to get his eye down low enough to
see through. He accomplished this feat without gruui-
bling although his knees scarihed by the whale.
bones which surrounded h1n. The Astonsher then
drew asde the little curt ain Nth grand flourish, and
our delegate behed ndistinct figure of bloated
face with mustache wi h black eyes and black hair;
| il WAS a bapg-dog thetlike face, and one that our
weDposted reporter would not have passed in the
street without Involuntary putting his hands on his
pcckets TO assure himself that all was right Bat he
felt that be had no hope of future husband if he did
not accept this one and he made up his mind 10 be
| recoucied to the match.
This coprivance for showing the failure husband
| is sometimes called the Magic Mirror and may be
procured at any opticians for dollar and quarter
The future husband may of course be varied 10 suit
circumstances, by merely shifting the pictures as one
end of the instrument; horse or dog might be sob
stituted with equal propriety and probability.
Madame Morrow receives many visitors al, OF
course, females; sometimes as many as twenty pre-
stntipg themselves in single dsy The average q
perhaps fifteen, which is however, low estimate.