The morning times., 1896-12-06

the girl with the serious dark eyes and
never a smile on her lips, will draw from
her oig nun andiay out possibly charming
set of cards decorated a la Aubrey Boards
ley. Not one OF the twelve face cards Will
be alike, nor the two heads of the royal
ladies on the same card dressed in the same
fashion. If she is girl with a preference
for French taste her cards will be OF the
empire period.
The king and queen are sureto show heads
OF Napoleon and Josephine, wreathed in
in viClets, the knave heads ofthelittle Prince
OF Rome, and the aces suspended from EN-
pire wreaths swung between couple Of
torches. She who is u bit of an Anglo
maniac has the Prnceand Princess OF Wales
and the Duke OF York on her pack, with the
aces right IN the center OF oftheroyal arms and
the three feathers ornamenting the cor
aers of every square. Another girl, bent IN
originality, will deal out strange cards
Of tinted linen, the spots grouped very small
in the center, floral border about the four
sides, and the aces ensnared in ribbon aops
with fluttering bows. One trait In COM
mon every pack shows Is the use Of Roman
Ia place OF A Arabic hume raj s, and these signs
only appear In one corner; again every new
pack measures exactly square and smaller
than the ordinary card that retails at 20
cents In a paper cave.
The Roman numerals are undoubtedly
DECORATIVE Wfhlii, uuI Tue huIuDtElHS III
one corner means everything when you are
telling a fortune. For example, II an eight
OF clubs comes from the pack right side up.
that, is, with the nuileral to the top there
is dark young man, with world OF devo-
ton to offer, lowering somewhere in the
near future. Let that same card be re-
versed and it is likely that a fair woman
and a widow is coming forward as dan
gerous and a malicious rival.
nj t,c CHI hat ava rvthinp in
fortune telling by cards counts. Andi isn't
the least important fact, as the girl with
the dark eyes and the big chinchilla Huff
can tell you, that no single reading OF the
future by cards sufrices for all time.
The cards at best can only reveal the
future a week ahead at most, sometimes
they only ennghten for a day, SO the fun
OF the habit is that you must work away
at their revelations constantly. This side
OF the question accounts Tor the phc nome
ma that wherever you find two or three
women gathered together, at afternoon
tea, luncheon, committee meetings and
lectures, there you viii soon discover a
group covertly drawn about layout OF
carus. So profound is tine Influence their
decisions are allowed to denote, that Il girl
won't hesitate to send her regrets to a DIN
ncr, IL She has seen il in the cards that
her modiste is going 10 fail in sending home
n new gown. Worse yet, she wont un-
derIake any classes, Join any theatcr club
or accept an engageme Mt without first cul-
suiting her pack.
Whatever IT may decide is final and she
Is cheerful or serious in proportion as to
what were the last antics OF the nine Of
diamonds. or whether three queens insisted
on coming up reversed every time.
IL is only fair 10 say that there are
girls who go in for card fortune telling as
they do for pet dogs and other funny little
fashions, because the rest Of their set do,
but most of them believe what the cards
say right down to the depths OF heir crcdui-
Gus little hearts. Even skeptical man, too,
when some pretty sorceress takes him in
hand and after reading his fate by eights,
fiiteens, twebties, threes, sevens, the ltai-
ian method. and the star. finds a dark
widow still pursues, u lignt man is prepared
to give him trouble and letter is soon to
be received, telling of danger, is likely
enough not ttoren, 'nunmovedbythis N hnIsi.
cal superstitition that has wound its way So
I'll mly into smart society.