Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-11-28
HICKS FOR DECEMBER
Horoscope For The Chilly Twelfth
Month By The Seer.
SOME SEISMIC SHAKES
The Magnetic And Electric Crisis Of
Winter-Regular Snow Storm
And Blizzard.

Rev. Irl r. Hicks horoscope for
December is illustrated with scenes
of chilling character. When one
views them, one instinctively COM
mences to shiver and wish to back up
to hearth filled with blazing logs.
Snow banks, snow and then more
snow are the subjects with which he
provides his readers in his almanac
for December, 1911.
His forecasts, also, make any,
thing but cheerful reading, and those
who may have any spare cash after
furnishing the annual outlay for
Christmas presents and the "bird"
which is usually found the centre of
attraction on the table in almost every
American home, may as we'll make up
their minds to hoard the remainder
from the wrecked pocketbook and hand
it over to the coal man. From the
very start of December until its close,
Rev. Mr.. Hicks says we are going to
have blizzardy time, with thunder
and lightning thrown in for extra
frills, but the prophet doesn't ask any
extra compensation for this addition
al information.
There'll be bowling time-that is,
old Boreas will do the vociferous act
from the End to the 7th. The rea-
son assigned by Prophet Hicks for
this is that the moon will be on
the celestial equator on the 1st, when
the barometer will begin to fall by
general winter storms. To get him
correctly, we quote: Rain will
turn to heavy sleet and snow, and
fierce gales and billiards will sweep
most parts of sea and land"
That is the exact representation
of certain event happening to the
exclusion of many other events, all
equally probable. Now, if that hasn't
got the reader going equally as we'll
as Prophet Hicks when he speaks of
apogee, perigee, celestial equators
and other things pertaining to the
etheral world, then We'll not try to
pry loose any more vocabulary, prose
or otherwise. But to resume:
Seismic shakes are also predicted
to take place between the End and
the 9Th, followed by a great cold
wave, which will spread to the South
and East from the 9Th to the 10th.
Get your furnace in trim and shovel
in the black diamonds! The magnetic
and electric crisis of winter solstice
is central on the 11th, 18th and 18th,
which will bring a reactionary storm
period. 1t will be a bad time for
those who go down to the sea in ships,
and will also be perilous for those who
tread terra firma.
We are to have respite, however,
from the severity of winter weather,
for seer Hicks promises that it will
suddenly change to warmer from the
18th to the 18th, when we will possibly
have little display in the way of
lightning, thunder and rain. Then it
will get colder again with sweeping
gales from the rear of storm areas
Renewed rain and snow from the goth
to the 22nd will bring warmer wealth
er. Along about this time the new
neon will be in trouble, for the seer
says that the disturbances will center
about Luna. Then we're going to
have ore snow, "and winters cold will
tighten its grip with the high barom-
eter following the storms.'
Although he doesn't say so, it is
highly probable that We'll not have
"a green Christmas to make a fat
graveyard" Seer Hicks leaves the
date of old Santa's visit a blank as
far as weather conditions are con-
cerned, but the old fellow may feel
pretty safe in donning his furs, for
he'll find plenty of snow left over
from previous storms. Rain, thunder,
lightning, snow and sleet are some of
the things Seer Hicks tells US we NAV
expect as we cross the threshold into
1912, but We'll get rid of the opening
of the "spring election boxes" all the
tumult of the election will have been
a thing of the past, even if we do
have to listen to the squabblings of
the doings at the session of the
proposed extra call of the Legisla.
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