The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-11
PROFIT |S MADE
 IN HISTOLOGY Number of Star Believers Is Rapidly increasing ADEPTS MAKE BIG MONEY One Caster of Horoscopes in New York Clears $1o,ooo Annually. Both Women and Men Are
 Among the Dupes.
ADEPTS MAKE BIG MONEY
From the Washington Post.

puted yearly Income or one whose lux uriously appointed studio is visited con- stantly by men and women of high in- teligence is from $S0O0 to $10,000. The in- come of another, one of the most learned, who prefers written to oral horoscopes and with few exceptions works along that line In small, obscure quarters as bare of adornment as a school room, Is far more substantial, 1t is said, than that of many leading professor. This will give some idea of the growth of the study of astrology here in the last few years-say a decade. In that time the number of merely curious visitors to the leading astrologist has dropped off a lit- tie, but the number asking instruction as a means to self help has increased tenfold Of the latter the percentage which can talk inteligently, almost sci entifcally, on astrology has in the last five years doubled, according to the esti- mate of one New York astrologer, who says also that of late the attitude of the public toward astrology has changed q good deal,
 Boom for Astrology.
 The disrepute brought on astrology by men and women with barely enough superficial Knowledge of the subject to conduct a sort of fortune telling game has nearly disappeared, not because here are fewer of these fakers or be- cause astrology was considered re- spectacle science by the ancients, but simply for the reason that there is more general understanding that as- trology Is a mathematical study re- qurng years of hard work to master, if indeed it is ever mastered, and that in ha n the heavens for explanations of earth phenomena. Nowadays, when ethical, occult and psychic cults of every de- scription are quite the fashion, astrol- ogy Is having Q little boom of Its own, helped along by recent geographical phenomena declared to be the outcome of the conjunction of certain heavenly bodies. There is less talk now about superstition In connection with as- trology than there used to be.
 Tn the time of Napoleon" said an astrologer, "the study and practice of astrology had reach ed its highest point Some years later it had reached it's lowest point. The reaction which re- gently set in. causing the study of as- trology again to rise rapidly in the estimation of intelligent people, prom ises to place astrology on higher vantage ground than ever.
 
 among my clients ventured the opinion not long ago that astrology will some day be taughtsin the New York public schools.
 Lawyers, physicians, clergymen, mu- sicians. playwrights, architects, finan- ciers, business men, including some of the best known in this city, now come here regularly once month to get ad- vice based on a study of the horoscope. Women just as well known come to have, their horoscope cast, afterward consult ing me from time to time about every important move they contemplate, in cluding long journeys, social entertain ments, investments. love affairs and do- nestle jars. Thoughtful mothers now have their chldrens horoscopes cast in order to guard against making mistakes in their early training. Employers occa- sionally ask me to cast the horoscope of a new employe in order to ascertain his fitness for a certain line of work
 A Msconception.
 Tt Is curious what mistaken idea some women have about astrology. Frequently I meet one who expects to be told how to make money, and that I will surely foretell the outcome of busi- ness contracts and schemes in which she is interested. And 1t is not so easy to make these persons understand that hay ing ones horoscope cast does not guar antee an immediate increase of worldly goods, or that domestic tangles will be strengthened out in a jiffy or an i'm pending calamity sidetracked In an honr
 ITO persuade some women not to take certain step they have fully decided to take, and which their horo- scope tells me would be a remarkably unwise proceeding, Is less easy even. In fact, the most difficult feature of my work Is to keep two persons together for another three or four months after the wife has decided to make the break the next day or the next week.
 Having ascertained the planetary configuration of the woman and her husband at this time, I discover per- haps good reason for their mutual anta gonism, one which makes me rea- sonably certain that so soon as the astral conditions then governing change their desire to rush apart will disap- pear, never to return, probably for the reason that the same planetary con- ditions are not likely to occur again in tn cir case. But for me to see all this in a horoscope and to persuade the woman represented to go home and be patient. letting things rest IS they are for while, are two very different things. In cases of this sort I usually meet unfattering incredulity. My ad- vice IS seldom taken.
 "On the other hand, frequently I find women anxious to make the best of an inharmonious domestic situation whose horoscope shows plainly enough that there never will be best to it, that the two were born under an- tagonistic planets and ought never to have paired off. In all proba bility they never will live happily together, al- though, of course, l do not always ex- press this opinion to my client
 Tn the case of women not yet married to the man of their choice I make no reservation Young women and older women when having their own horoscope cast occasionally ask me to make a par tial horoscope of their fiance, giving me the day, date and place of his birth. And when, as has happened several times, I have assured the woman earnestly that to marry the man of her choice would result in almost certain unha ppiness to her, that their stars are not In harmony, my statements were received with in- dignation. It is seldom I can break off an unwise engagement. Hn two cases recall the woman was back in year to ask for some light on the divorce ques- tion. Were more persons to take an as- trologer's advice before getting married, the divorce court lawyers would have a lot more idle time, in my opinion.
 Age Question a Stickler.
 'The age question is an awful sticl<ler in this business to any but young girls; for unless woman is honest on this point, of course, having a horoscope cast is a waste of time and money.
 :" You don't expect me to tall tha exact