The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-26
WITH FORTUNE TELLERS.
ADVENTURES OF A WOMAN WHO
TRIED 70 LIE RN HER FATE.


for the Picture OF Ter Future Hus-
band-Good Advios About a Sigma
ture 80 The Hunbug Of tho Entire
Fortune Telling Business.
From the NeD York Sun.
She was q very small woman and not at
all an athletic one, which made her bravery
all the more remarkable. She never knew
exactly how it came about. She partly
attributed it to the sulphur and molasses
which she had been taking for two weeks,
and partly to that charming Inheritance
that came to her from her mother Eve-cu-
riosity. She made up her mind-and, though
it was little mind, it was a positive one
that she would like to dip into the future,
and, having defrauded the men Of the fam
lily OF their ducats, she had the where
withal to do it, and she felt that women were
not such abused creatures as they we're rep
resented to be. Her dearest enemy went
with her when she took the plunge. She
was afraid to meet the sp Ioks and the mind
readers and the palm readers and the star
readers alone. and as her enemy could WELD
the tennis racket and mad praoticed once or
twice on the trapezs or the horizontal bar,
or whatever it is they have at the Berkeley
Lycsum, she chose her as a protector.
The first lady who possessed the ability to
look into the future and also to give a few
tips about the past, resided over a grocery
snop There is no absolute harm in this,
but 1t Is material, and does take away
from your respect for spooks. Spooks and
sugar do not seem somehow to 60 together
The lady who looked into the future prob
ably did 1t with her nose, for it was very
long, and she told the curious one this:
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ment, and, though you are not quick
tempered, you wouldn't suffer anybody to
sit upon you. You are highly musical, aud
II ever you need to earn your own living
you had better sing in grand opera. Into
your life has come a dark woman, OF whom
you had better beware. This was probably
the dearest enemy.] She loves the man you
love, and she will make trouble for you.
You are going to get letter that will give
you pleasure, and you are going to hear of
the death of an old person. To your house
will come great wealth, and no matter how
much money you have in your pocketbook
now You will never have less. Does your
husband give you any trouDlsF'
AT this the curious one looked slightly
abashed, for her husband had been away
from this world six years, but she sum
moned up courage enough to say:
Not very much"
"Olls COuLlhuSu Luc
all, "he will give you great deal more.
aud then he will divorce YOU, and when
you are forty-hve years old you will marry
very old man, who will die three months
afterWard and leave you n enormous for
tune. Beware Of very blonde man VIII m
you will meet within SIX months"
Thus ended the first chapter When thew
got past the grocery shop again the curious
one ard her dearest foe laughed audbly.
orhl
Tray" but when she does her old special
and devoted fox terrier is frightened out OF
his wits and retreats to the darkest corner
OF the establishment aid walls loudly, so it
would etm little odd for her to sing in
grand opera.
But" she said, "lets consult somebody
else. They can't know all from your
hand"
The next reader of fates was the exact o.
mad been left behind. She had no nose, at
least none to speak of. and all the courage
OF two young womea was required to face
her. She broke an egg in glass, aud she
told the curious one, first of oil, that she
would never marry; then she said that she
saw her sailing on a ship over the sea las if
she could sail on a ship down Broadway \,
ana ABOUT her were a numerous throng of
admirers, one of whom would fall overheard
and leave her large fortune. It would
have been interesting to know whether
the fortune was to be willed before he fell
overheard or after, but the pc pie to whom
the fortune is an op5n book object to having
questions Of that sort asked them. She gave
her an impressive warning about a fair
woman, and told her to believe in dark men
whenever she met them. She limited at the
possibility of sad love affair, and an
nounced that the end would be awful, and
she pronounced awful as if the second syl-
liable were spelled 'fulen She was asked ::
what would you advise me to do If had
to earn my own livingp and she glibly an
swered: 20, you must paint. You will
probably do that and your reputation will
be world wden
Once away from the noseless lady the two
friends st red at each other, and the one
who was advised to paint announced:
why, never could put on even dab OF
rouge correctly, and when | was a little one
my drawing master came to my mother and
said it was waste Of time and was running
his temper to let me have drawing lessons.
And as for my brothers. they don't think l
can even draw check properly"
On and on went the seekers, and this time
they found an astro'ogist. 1t must be said
for the stars that they took a very good
looking woman to be taeir mouthpiece, for
she had a well-shaped nose, clear eyes,
pretty hair, and she talked we'll The Gu
rious one tod her the day and hour of her
bi til, and the horoscope was drawn, Hers
the dreadful announcemenuwas made:
Madam, it is just possible that you came
here to hear pleasant things. shall be un.
lie to toll them. You are standing il
the midst Of a circle of liars-friendly enc
mics who deceive and delude you-aud you
have not to-day tire, friends; that is, three
unseltish ones. Every human being neal
| you is trying to make something out of you
| In 1888 you had some throat trouble, and il
| '5S man ough5 to have married you, if he
| didn't THE friendly enemy said he did
and the star reader looked relieved Then,
went on the lady who knew the ways Of
the skies. you met a dark man ii
! 1890. He has caused you mucL
| trouble; but do not fear him. Or
the first day Of July, 1891, you will
either go to Southern California or to Eu>
rope, and until next September your life
| you will excuse me for saying it, will bt
hell. After next September prosperity
will come to you, and you will be driving
your own horses, and DO a very rich woman
10 1892. You will inherit money, but un
der no circumstances permit yourself t,
sign your own name to any psper thi
summer. You are physically generally
clogged up; like the kitchen sink, you neeC
a thorough cleansing. BY the by, will
give you a sample of medicines that have
made myself, and you can Try and see how
i5 works; it may help you. Remember
madam, do not sign your own name to an,
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