The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-19
A NICKEL;S WORTH OF FORTUNE
With q Postage stamp Photograph OF
Handsome Young Woman mroMn In.

With q Postage stamp photograph or q
Handsome Young woman thrown In
A man who likes now and then TO blow
in a nickel on the little green birds found
yesterday, at that expense, that there IL
a slight new wrinkle In the business
The outfit was Of the familiar sort,
a tripod upon which was supported In front
a long narrow box containing, folded and
laid in close together as 30 many little en-
velopes might be, the little slips Of paper
upon which the fortunes are printed; while
back Of this stood the cage In which the
little green birds are secured when the
outfit moves The birds, three Of them,
little green paroquets not much bigger
than spaTrows, stood In a row on the top Of
their cage ready for business
Some Of these portable fortune telling
equipments are run by men, and some by
women. This one was operated by a woman,
and when the man who likes 10 have his
fortune told had crossed her palm with
a nickel she reached up with a little wand,
such as all these fortune telleaS carry, and
with II ruined gently the back Of the neck
OF one Of the three little green birds stand
ing on the top Of the cage, which, like the
other two, In fact, seemed TO be about half
asleep
The bird woke UP some when thus stirred.
and then when the wand bad been placed
at its feet II stepped upon II 20 be carried
thus perched, down TO the little box Of
folded fortunes, where the fortune teller
gently dislodRed It from the wand, leaving
Il standing on the papers-
But there the little bird seemed 10 20 to
sleep again, until the fortune teller had
once more softly ruffled the back OF its
neck as she had done AZ FIRST; whereupon
the bird shipped down with its tiny beak
at the folded papers in the box at its feet,
and got one by the edge, and lifted IL 80
that Il stoOd up oornerwise above the rest
Then the fortune teller lifted the paper
clear, and handed Il over to the customer,
restoring the little green bird that had
thus picked out a fortune for him TO Its
place on the top Of the cage.
And when the man had come TO open the
fortune which the little green bird had
picked out for him he saw at the first glance
lie novel feature The fortune was in
the form Of the customary little printed
slip, but on the upper left hand corner
an attractive young woman, photograph
very clearly printed but the whole picture
no bigger than a postage stamp
This was the fortune az II was told 10
the print
PLANET OF TIE FORTUNE Ton GENTLEMAN
This planet announces lnat you were Inhhy
| times crossed In the past, do not lose cCuragt
that you will succeed In many things thr-
you will wish: the fortune will be more favos
able 10 you In the future than what IL has
| been 10 the past You have many thing
| cause your trouble but do not despond
| that win be all right soon Yopwl hear sons
| news that will gladden. your heart; then will
happen many thinEs which viii be 20 your
| great ADVANTAGE, You Will have . good
| deal OF profit by hndinE fortune Of gold OF
You win undertake many thinEs II, which
you will be prosperous. You will be be
trayed by person whom you viii believe
true but you will eurmOunt all and reach
! the age Of ~ years,
Play at the lottery, II. 4o II.
Which seemed a full nickels worth; but
! the most interesting thing about the fortune
| after all was the postage stamp photograph
| Of the attractive young woman, the new
| wrinkle which showed that In these modern
! DAYS there Is progress even in the ancient
trade OF fortune t,lisg with tkS aid Of
little green birds.