Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-06-09

| 10 live women, and not one of them could
telI VINO was married and who was not,
WINE they wandered so far from the truth
- regard TO other things that these various
children of destiny made it clear that,
wnl!e they might have intercourse with the
snlrlts, thev did not even have little leaven
OF common sense. | know woman who
goes to fortune teller every week. Size
says II makes her feel easier. | may mem
tion that she is a sind soul who runs
boarding house. and If dose OF fortune
telling is any pleasure to her think She
should be allowed to have it,
by'tho-wHy, in u curious old book that
tGinPled over read Il story Of Louis NV.
hayins his fortune told. lie went with
Nilne. DE Malntenon 10 this man, who was
absolutely Ignorant 1T who the people were
VINO stood before him, but he burned per-
Tunes and offered prayers. aud then in
some awe inspiring invocation he adiured
ihG powers Of he'll Ia answer him. A fright
VI sound lillcd tho whole building and the
KING aud his wife. for she was hia wife then,
were almost fpintng with fright. The
snothsaycr told the King that he would SUE
coed in all his undertakings and that upon
inns very nay one Of his children had been
called to the inheritance Of Il great fortune.
Then he gave him Il Tiny package wrapped
in parchment and said; THE day in which
You form the fatal resolution of acQuaint-
lnE Yourself with the contents of tins pack
age Will he the last one of your prosperity.
VI You desire to carry yonr good fortune 10
the highest pitch be careful upon every
great testival--tliat is to say, Easter. Whit
sunday the Assumption and Chistmas--to
plunge pin into this talisman so that the
point shall pass directly through it. OBJ
serve this and you will be perfectly happy
all your life
The king accepted the fatal present and
sWore never to open the package. Soon
alter lie got news that on that very October
"a. 100, the King Of Spain had died and
left his successor and heir, Phiip OF France,
Just such an enormous inheritance as the
astrolOger had predicted After awhile,
talklDg to the great BossGet about magic
and sorcery, the King told him the story Of
the package and his confessor insisted that
he should show his contempt for the tails
manic properties of the package by opening
1t at once. The king did not fancy doing
tins, but he had got a bit scared. He obeved
the command and opened the magic Parcel.
In 1t was a consecrated wafer that had in il
as many pins as there had been saints dnvs
since u had been received. The king was
hlled with great remorse and underwent
severe penances and long days of fasting be-
lore lie felt relieved OF the crime he had
committed. But this was only the begin
nlnB of the trouble. TO those IN the secret
of this affair IL was known that the king
lost from that time as many male descend
aus as he hau Stuck pms III the holy wafer,
1t seems funny that the stately Maintenon
should have encouraged Louis To take dip
into The future, but | believe from Eve
down to Marie Bashkirtseff, Yvette Gull.
bert and Sarah Bernhard woman has had a
desire for knowing that with which she
would better have mad no acquaintance.
After all what good does il do to know
what is going to happen? Confucius saws
that what woman wills God wills" There
fore the future is in our hands.
And, testing aside, we do make our
futures. They are niirrorlike pictures of
our pasts, Go to the Child of destiny" if
you want her to tell you the same old story
that a handsome man is dying of love for
you; that you will have beautiful children,
a happy home and plenty of money. 1t is
feminine to like this sort of thing, and be-
tween you and me l have even known
masculine somebody to 20 TO a fortune
teller. He always said he went to find out
something about the condition of his liver;
Perhaps he told the truth.
But the fortune teller wanted lust at
present is one who is going to say, with
absolute truth: Our brave BOYS will win
the fight. Columbia will rule the waye.n
And that's the only fortune teller who is
going to get any of the ducats belonging to
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