The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-08-06
Fate lD a Teacup.
40 An1usips, if SepseIess,
Diversion For SurDmer
afternoons.

throw light on the intentions Of the TO-
mantle ones who are objects OF gossip
is apt to become popular.
If the seeress is a nice girl, and OF
course all summer girls are nice, she
can help her chumS considerably by
the righteousness with which she deals
out her oracles to the fair ones and
their attendUt SWANS. Then, If there
is an unpopular woman at the hotel,
what a chance the fortune teller has to
make her ridiculousI Widows are gem
orally the most unpopular type at sum-
mer resorts, for they have a way Of
calmly appropriating all the men in
sight, even though their allegiance is
elsewhere pledged. Then the widow
has such superior way of talking to
the eligible damsels and such an infe-
rior way of sowing trouble between
men and maids whenever 1t Is to her
own advantage. The girl who can tell
fortunes has revenge in her own hands
Now. to tell fortunes with teacups
is very simple, but the girl who is
shrewd will pretend. that it is not, for,
like the flower that grew in the poets
garden, much admired when rare, when
every one could raise IL, il was regard
ed only as a weed.
Suppose the group is sitting, slipping
its cups of Oolong on Young Hyson on
the veranda. The girl who reads the
future tips her cup up little when the
last drop of tea has disappeared from
the fragile shell and remarks: Dear
me! I'm going on a Journey"
"Ohl Are your somebody will say.
Yes; 1 read 1t in the teacup," should
will be general chorus:
"Oh, can you tell fortunes with tea
cups?" And every woman who is pres
ent and a large proportion of the men
will poke their cups under the eyes of
the gifted girl.
or course a cup in which there has
been coffee or chocolate or cocoa will
do just as we'll, but the summer girl
is divining for her own benefit as much
as for that of those about her. and she
prefers the easiest and most satisfac-
tory way. 1t is more comfortable and
more picturesque to pose in the great
wicker chair at the end of the veranda,
with a romantic background of hills or
sea than to sit at a prosaic breakfast
or dinner table. doing out the future
when people are anxious to get away
To their various TecredllOnS.
In selecting first victim always take
some one who will be generally inter-
esting-the prettiest girl, the popular
heiress. the principal in the most ar
dent Irritation. The consulting victim
must hand to the seeress the cup from
which she has been drinking. The best
cup for fortune telling is a white china
one. If IT does not contain enough
grounds, let the questioner Of fate pour
some more in from the teapot. When
enough grounds have been added, the
fortune teller must take 1t up and
swing It three times around her head;
this is to spread the grounds into
picture. The cup should then be in
verted on the saucer to drain away
superfluous moisture.
The first thing likely to be noticed in
the picture will be lines. A number of
straight lines, long or short. indicate a
long life and happy old sge. Straight.
long lines always prognosticate trim
guilty, while wavy lines denote veNR.
tions and losses in proportion to their
length Shall circles prophesy engage
ment rings; if initials can be made out
near the ring. they are the initials of
the future husband or wife. Larger
circular nSureS relaIe 10 money. III
angles, large or small. typify towns,
villages or places of residence, an
initial near them indicating the name.
Squares betoken protection from dan
ger, peace and happiness; oblong fig
ures signify family quarrels. II only
one oblong figure appears 1t announces
the arrival of a letter. II the oblong
is in the clear part of the cup. 1t
presages the arrival of good news; in
the clouded part it. means bad news. !
If dots surround the oblong, II will |
bring money. A love letter is antici- |
pated by the proximity to 1t OF a |
heart or a single dot.
Two circles connected by a line ad- |
vises one that expected money will be |
delayed: if this line be broken, 1t por- |
tends treachery in money matters. |
Flowers, a trefOil or a bouquet are |
lucky signs; they are suspicious of the |.
speedy accomplishment of wishes.
An anchor or chain brings good luck, |
success in business; the higher in the
cup they are the sooner the good for
tune will arrive. the tower down the |
longer 1t viii be delayed.