The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-08
a TEXAS GIRL IN NEW YORK.
She Has an Experience With a Fort
une-Teller.
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NEW DIRK, June 6.-Jim came up TO the
house the day before be left for Texas, aud
addressed Mrs. Cameo and me very SOL
EMMY as follows:
NOW, I've taken care Of you women at
all the outlandish places you wanted to go
TO. l think you might do something for
me.n
When we assured him, almost with tears,
OF our anxiety to serve him he rather hung
back, and 1t was only after considerable
beating about the bush, and several spas
modic starts and more spasmodic stops
on his part that we finally made out what
he wanted jim is as superstitious as a
plantation darby or a gambler and denies
It with an indignant energy that
would at once convince you of the fact;
and he wanted US to go with him to some
"clairvoyanSs," mediums" and ''astrolo-
gers, to have his fortune told. He added
that he would "set upn fortunes for the
whole crowd, and went on to explain:
Women, strange women, are about the
only things I'm much afraid Of All these
mediums, and olairvoyants and astrologers
are women, and can't muster up the cour-
age to go and tackle 'em alone. Wen all
go together, and I'll tell 'em l just came
along to look after you women. but don't
mind having mine told to be obliging."
Jim failed to see anything amusing in
this old trick of a great stalwart man
shielding himself behind the alleged weak
nesses OF femininity, so we restrained our
laughter, and he produced a number Of adj
vertisements clipped from the Comet, set
ting forth the supernatural powers of Mad
anne Wunderlich, the seventh daughter of a
seventh daughter of Sonora Valdez, the
Spanish astrologer, mind reader, etc., and a
number of others. Our first venture was
at place on Fourth avenue. We went in,
Mrs. Cameo looking cool and unconcerned,
I sheepish and would-be nonchalant, and
Jim visibly weakening.
This was Mime. Wunderlich, and a pref
tier or more strikingly attractive looking
woman one does not often see. She was
apparently about SO or IS, with fine brown
eyes, great mass Of wavy white hair and
the fresh color of girl She swept a scru-
tinizing glance of the brown eyes over our
party, opened a door and said loftily, walk
in here. one OF you"
Cant we all go in togetherm faltered
Jim.
NO." said the woman, '.you hear what 1
have to tell you alone"
Jim hurried to the window and glared
out abstractedly, l looked down and FUN
bled my gloves-Mrs Cameo walked through
the mystic portal.
Mrs. Ca meo is 80 years old. She has been
married thirteen years, and has boy as
tall as herself; but she is the most ravish-
AbSAys 0oobA ASbANSlJ PASebJ AAbbAO Cl01bui0
ever saw, within great wealth of gold-red
hair, down-looking blue eyes, with soft
little black shadows under them, and cheeks
of a wonderful shrimp pink tint whose
beauty and singular charm, in connection
with the shy blue eyes and Titan hair is
indescribable. She looks like a girl of 90,
and our sybil read her horoscope and pre-
dicted her future in accordance with her
very evident beauty, her supposed age and
condition in life.
When Mrs. Cameo came out Jim again
fed to the window, and l had to go for
ward and confront my fate. AS the door
closed behind me the woman glanced at me
with a sort Of smile, and remarked. point
ing to chair opposite her own at a little
table:
''Nobody's going to eat you, you know. -
started and bridled a little to cover the
look of infantile apprehension that l felt
must have been on my guileless counte-
nance.
She opened a book, looked. at it q few
moments, glancing occasionally at me; re-
marked upon the weather, the climate and
other indifferent topics, not seeming to take
much note of my replies.
Right here l will say that l am not
| smart. l am distracted, often obtuse and
unobserving, and unlike everybody ever
met In the course of my life and a mod
erately quick reader of character. But l
learned enough and to spare. from this
woman, in twenty minutes, to make a re-
spectacle living at fortune telling for the
rest of my days.
Slowly shutting deck of cards, and re-
gerding me from time to time, she said !:
| Take that pencil and card and write your
| name, his name, and your most important
question"
"Must there certainly be 'he'g" asked.
with an attempt at cynical GOODNESS. but
succeeding only in blushing like a guilty
child.
You'd better be honest" she remarked,
well get on much easier" so l meekly
wrote my name, Ibis" name. and, for lack
| of another, the question "when shall see
HIM" l folded the card together at her di-
rection, without her having seen it, and she
placed it under a paper. weight between US.
And now l began to learn how easy a
thing it is to tell fortunes with little ad-
dress and Judgment, some knowledge of the
human heart which beats so much the same
beneath shabby exterior or veneer OF
breeding, and the most ordinary skill at
reading faces.
She started out with sort of harangue
or grafton, the body work, take it, of each
fortune, changing and fitting it to the char
acter, needs, hopes and expectations she de-
duces from the personality before her-the
face, head, dress, bearing. etc.
"You are unmarried" she said; "you are
away from home, away from your fathers
house in one of the southern states, but you
will return there"-and l realized that
had indirectly told her all these things in
our desultory conversation when l entered
the room. Then she launched forth into the
safe body of her discourse, the elastic gar
ment that can be adjusted to fit every case.
"You have had some trouble and heartache
in your life"-who that has outlived his
childhood has not or at least does not think
he hass ''You make very warm friends
those about you love you"-does not every
one think this or want to be told ita
''You"-looking long at my big eyes and
Ingenious features, which I endeavored in
vain to command to an expression Of
phlegmatic unconcern-''are oversensitive
both to happiness and sorrow, impulsive,
warm-hearted and affectionate, etc., etc."
Turning around end spreading out the
cards she summarized: go on, follow
the course you have marked out. True, you
have had griefs and disappointments. but
the way lies straight and clear before you
Il never saw the cards run prettier. Your
future will be much happier than your
past. Do not be discouraged or frightened
you have more courage and resources than
you yourself think. You are bound to sue
ceed-there isn't single obstacle in your
way"
Blessed assurance! Who would not cheer
fully gay paltry dollar for such a copper
fastened warranty, such a pledge Of safe
/ conduct through all dangers and
vicissitudesl