The Washington times., 1906-09-09
HUNDRED TH0II AND OsL1AEY

hussld you reeI that you had DG5u
cheated by the Egyptian, and vice
versa.
And then if you throw in four
more fortunes. more or less cor
roboratire of or opposed TO the
others, you become mixed, indeed,
as to just what the future holds
for you. and you begin to feel Ike
you had been "fimaanmed" an
around Therefore, the advice given
above Select your fortune teller,
prepare 10 believe what is told you,
and then your dip into the future
viii repay YOU. This item of re-
ceptiyity on the part of the subject
must not be held lightly. II is the
means by which what the seer tells
You is made 10 ft your experience,
and therefore it is important that
you start ont in the proper state
Of mental preparedness.
A Sunday Times reporter has
just concluded dip into the fu-
ture. and took in, or was taken in
by, a Representative list OF Wash
ington soothsayers.
The first visit was made 10 a
professor" who had just brought
TO Washingto1 all the secrets Of
the fortune telIer's art from a re-
mote point in Russia and who
would charge but so cents TO call
the visitor by his or her name.
The professor" was doing some
chores in his shirt sleeves. but
dropped his material duties TO take
up the occult. There was nothing
in his personal appearance 10 slg-
gest intimacy with the supeHaa-
turaI forces he claimed 20 invoke,
as he looked more like the pro-
prietor Of a delicstessen store than
a mystic. 4 small room off the
dining room was used for the sit
ting" On a table covered with
green cloth there stood a glass
cabinet two feet square and foot
high, raised from the table on short
legs On top Of the cabinet burned
dim gas light The professor"
waved the subject TO a seat at the
table.
"How much you want?" he asked.
Fifty cents worth" said the re-
porter. naming the advertised fee.
Pay me the money, please" said
the professor" The coin on the
table. the professor took from
rack a pack of cards of foreiRa
make. three times as large as the
ordinary playing cards and very
thick. They .Ysere covered on one
side with IN Sic emblems. Spread
ing the pack on the table win
deft movement, the professor said:
Take nine cards from the pack"
Taking the nine cards selected,
he began the fortune in a monoto-
nous. staccato tone and the dialect
of his race:
The conditions do not seem 10
be good. Your mind. it is in many
things"
This preface followed the report
er's survey of the room and lit
tings.
''Ah, it is now better" he con-
tinued, consulting the cards. y see
you have interest in some business
thing and soon from this thing $aa
get "a Joyous. onnerstan? Once you
did haf money. but now-some-
times money. sometimes no money
at all. The cards say this year your
enemies try to do You much 10
harm, but YOU follow your viii and
i'm the end o. X, onnerstan? In
the life of your lady is a mystery
and you get a glad from IT. You
work hard and wish TO know viii
it come TO prosper. I say yes. BY
inheritance or trade You come 10
much money. People tell you
things-you believe them. This YOU
must not. onnerstau? You like
the good things of life much. You
make good clairvoyant, for You
read faces good. You are a good
rizzouer and ike TO argument. Nou
have had trouble. but l can tell y0V
it is gone and turned to happy.
This year many things viii nap
pen with your affairs and every
thing will be o. X, onnerstan ."
There was a great deal more like
this. but nothing more specific. end
the professor was asked 10 tell the
subjects name. He took from his
rack a book fully two feet square
Arranged vertically on the margin
OF each page were the given names
OF men and women. Opposite each
name were pasted i'm a horizontal
line a row of eummed slips an inch