Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-04-12

denote love, kindness, family affet
tions, pleasure, and the genialitie
and beauties of life, but, they may b
tempered by relative cards and ur
toward situations.
Diamonds signify quarreling or
position, hindrance and every DOS
sible drawback of a militant char
acter.
Spades preSage sadness, illness
loss of money and reputation, an
death.
These are the general characters
tics of the four suits; it must b
clearly understood that the best card
may be modified by the circumstance
OF their positions. Happily too, tn
worst cards are capable of improve
ment in the same way. For example
the king of hearts may be cited as /;
man OF good fortune, open-heartet
and open-handed, and endowed will
plentiful means to indulge his gener
Gus qualities, but if be placed (il
dealing out the cards. between two
lesser cards of the same suit, he ma,
loose his source of income. his friends
or his reputation, according to theil
individual significance. 1t is neces
sary, therefore, to weigh very care
fully the juxtaposition of the card.
as they drop from the dealers hand.
Having marked your cards as di
rected now proceed to shuttle the
cards, and either cut them or hav,
them cut for you according to wheth
er you are acting for yourself Or an
other person., taking care to use the
left hand. That done, turn them ur
by threes, and every time you find
in these triplets two of the same suit
such as two hearts, two clubs, etc.
the highest card and place
it on the table before you. If the
trlplet should chance to be all of the
same suit, the highest card is Still
to be the only one withdrawn; but
should it consist of three of the same
value but different suits, such as
three kings, etc, they are to be all
We will suppose that,
after having turned up the cards
three by three, you have been able to
eight, leaving forty-four
cards, which you shuttle and cut,
and again turn up by threes, acting
precisely as you did before, until
you have obtained either thirteen,
fifteen or seventeen cards. Remem-
Der that the number must always be
uneven, and that the card represent.
ing the person for whom the essay is
made must make one of it. Even if
the requisite thirteen, fifteen or
have been obtained. and
this one has not made its appearance,
the operation must be gone through
Ill over again.
The card chosen to represent either
yourself or the person whose fortune
you are telling, must be selected ac-
,ording to complexion OF the chooser,
King or Queen of Diamonds for q
very fair person, ditto of Hearts for
)ne rather darker, Clubs for one
darker still, and Spades for one very
lark indeed. The card chosen also
oses its signification, and simply be-
'omes the representative of a dark
'r fair man, or woman, as the case
nay be.
Arrange the cards you have just
tealt out in half-circle in front of
you, and from the card that repre-
'ents yourself or the person whose
'ortune you are telling, you proceed
10 count seven, and thus light
IN the first card to influence your
'ortune; you must consider first
It's simple significance, and then it's
relative significance as influenced by
the cards on either side of it. When
The meaning of this card has been
thoroughly investigated you can
count on the next seventh card, al
ways remembering to count from
eft to right; it is rather a good plan
TO draw card that has been investi-
gated little above the exact line of
your semi-circle-Or you may use
counters or scraps of paper to show
which cards have already been treat
I'd as seventh cards-in the latter
case do not put the counters on the
cards, but opposite them, on the
outer edge of the table, for though
the card as simple seventh card has
been investigated, it still has its
and relative effect on the
others,
For example, let us take the Queen
of Hearts as the representative; she
stands for loving and attractive
but her position at the mo-
ment beside the Knave of Diamonds
signifies that she ought to beware of
an unfaithful servant or inferior, who
has it in his power to give her an
fortunately the Ten of
Clubs on her other side points at un-
money resources which may
her from her difficulty.
Counting seven cards from the Queen
Of Hearts we reach the Ten of Dia-
monds-this is a journey; the Seven
Of Clubs and the Eight of Hearts on
either side denote special prosperity
both in money matters and the affec-
tions - the journey will be both
profitable and pleasant. The next
seventh card is the Queen of Spades,
q widow. or elderly woman-her in
Iluence is not likely to be friendly,
but it is, in this case, cOunteracted
by the Ten and Knave of Hearts (the
suit of the representative and conse-
4uently sympathetic); the Ten signi-
fies satisfaction after annoyance, the
Knave of Hearts. We may conclude
that mischief or hindrance contem-
plated by the elderly widow woman
is put a stop to by the young man, a
blond person, by the bye, and that
great relief and satisfaction ensues.
In the next seventh card the Ace of
Clubs, we have good news; but the
Seven and Ten of Spades proclaim it
to be transitory, and soon turned to
mOurning-there is even q suspicion
of shame in the transaction, but luck
lily, this will be found to be a false
alarm. The King of Hearts and the
Knave of Clubs side by side are two
persons who play a strong part in
the fate of the representative-the
King is blond and probably a rela-
ton, or perhaps an old and intimate
friend; the Knave is dark, energetic,