The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-20
Laughed AtFortune Telling But Had
 His Horoscope Read Just The Same
Very Busy Business Man Declares That He Only Did It to Please His Wife-Somethng Suspicious About Her Superstton-A Reading From the "Ouija Board''
 And What It Meant to the Family
BY DOLLY DALRYMpLE

at his wife because she feared the num- Der 13, and yet he dared not step upon a car track for fear bad luck would pur- sue him." I declared, refuting another islander that had been laid at the door of an unsuspecting wife.
 "Now, I know a certain family in this town if fortune telling should be abol- ished they would die a natural death,' said the man. They'd be delighted if they could revive the ancient witchcraft' laws of New England"
 After he had mentioned the name of the people I said:
 q didn't know they had any fortune telling propensities."
 That's the remarkable part of it," said the man. 'I recall last summer that our neghborhood decided to give all the kids in it a grand picnic. We follow Roose- velt's idea out our way and I'll bet there isn't a neighborhood in town where you can find as many kids. Bright and early we started out for the picnic and just as we were leaving somebody missed the Blanks. Inquiry was made concern ing them and we heard that illness de- tained them and the kids could not come to enjoy the outing with us. Upon deep- CT investigation however, we learned that the night before the family had consulted the cards and they had said if the chill dren went to a picnic that day the youngest would be drowned.'
 Imagine people of their class being a ssuperstitious as that" said 'T won't ,, F,,x. sion or pass a pin with its point to me, or walk under a ladder, but I don't be- lieve I would stay away from a perfectly good picnic because deck of cards said I'd be drowned"
 Fortune me no fortunes," declared the man feelingly, and if had my way wouldn't allow anything of the kind to exist"
 Its sort of different with the 'Ouija Beard though" I suggested. as I re- called rather an amusing thing that hap pened. q had a friend who was enter taining a visiting girl and one evening when they had nothing better to do they decided to play the Ouija Board. The visiting girl was crazy to know if she was going to get married. She was very much in love with young lawyer whom she had met here, and naturally she wanted to know what his intentions were. The Ouija Board very accommodatingly spelled out the name of the delectable young gentlemen, even to the Jr., 10 his name.'
 That ought to have made her happy" said the man, becoming interested ,n my story.
 Tt did," I replied, "but wait and lis ten to what happened A few weeks later another girl arrived to visit my friend-she was the sister of the girl I have just told you about. Naturally, having heard the good news told to her sister, she asked at once to see the fa- nous Ouija Board. The self-same ques- tion was asked about the girl and the Ouija Board being conscientious Ouijd Board at first refused to reveal the namo of the gentleman whom she would marry. Finally, however, after much coaxins, the Ouija Board unblushingly and de- liberately spelled the name of the self same young man it had promised in holy wedlock to the other girl just two weeks before.''
 That. on the face of the case is im- possible, the girls being ssters,'' observed the man, land it/5ouldn't happen unless the man marries 7 e of them and she dies and he marries $ deceased wife's sis ter. That's the fly way the prophecy can be fulfilled!
 None other. solutely, unless they become Mormons.' I suggested. Now, there is the harm of such things.