The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-18
FORTUNES IN TEA CUPS.

"Fortune-Teller to the Four Hundred" it
wouldn't be a bad sign, and really there is a
woman who might almost lay claim to the
distinction, for In the revolution of fads and
fashions in their orbits that which is Oldest
comes round again. OF course not girl of
them would own to being superstitIous, but
to put on ones ''swagger" spring suit aud
pay swagger price for a visit to dark
eyed woman with a red turban marked with
Egyptian characters about her head lends a
mild flavor of interest to an afternoon The
woman is clever, for she really Keeps an owl.
It's great mistake for sorceress to grudge
little additions like that to her parapher-
MALTA. She wears broad, heavy bracelets on
her wrists and wraps something red about
her shoulders. Otherwise her environment
is prosaic, and, she being for the moment in
luck, quite unmysteriously and Enthusiastically
comfortable.
She hos taught all fashionable New York
that to dream you see poet is a sign you
will lose money. 1t Is supposed that this will
widen the gap between Bohemia and Meal
listervile. A girl who was going abroad
for the London season dreamed duke was
in love with her and was very much cast
down on learning that she would be apt to
marry needy and shiftless fellow We all
dread nowadays to dream of stockings, I'M
less they are cotton ones, or of broken para
soils. The dream we long for is of pots of
jelly, for long life and good fortune, or of
picking violets, for happiness in love.
At May party in a country house on
Long Island last week colored auntie was
called in to tell fortunes by tea grounds.
She was very black and she had a most
lively and mischievous pickaninny whom
she called Alphonso. When the prettiest
girl in the party had handed her cup the
seeress shook the grounds well about in it
and then reversed it for a few minutes into
thn hn or rrtrI I..1A IL
when Alphonso grinned in her face like an
imp from the lower regions, and Alphonso's
mamma showed proper gratitude by an
nouncing a clover leaf and a ring | am
afraid scowled on the little rascal, for in
my cup she discovered snake, thereby
sending me of course, for my own peace Of
mind, into the ranks of them that scott and
disbelieve.
WHERE ONE NOVELS GETS HER MATERIAL
Mrs. Mary E. Bryan says that she projects
any story she may be writing before her
mind in a series of pictures, which she ap-
proves if they seem natural and well COM
posed, re-sketches if in any part they appear
| out of line. She looks for material to the
people she meets every day, to the man who
fetches milk or fills the icebox, to the con-
ducpor OF a street car or the boy in a
| grocery store. Sometimes she goes into a
| shop for no reason but that glimpse of an
| interesting face has prompted a desire for
conversation. Mrs. Bryan is an assidu-
| Gus reader of newspapers for Incl
dents and skeletons of plots, and to
| shoot folly as it flies and catch manners
| living as they rise" One source of her
material is unique. She conducts the CORE
spondence column of one of Munro's publ
| cations, and refuses to give it up, though
| pressed for time and frequently offered re-
lief. The food of letters with which 10 is
thus deluged makes her kind of mother
| confessor for girls from Maine to Mexico,
| and in smoothing out their little senti-
mental and other difficulties she learns a
good deal about average human nature,
which is useful to a story teller.