Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-21

president of France about which there
still exists a mystery, and foretold the
San Francisco earthquake. She warned
Chavez not to tempt the Alps and Col.
Astor not to tempt the. ocean. 1t is con
sjdered very striking that, year ago
she should have predicted 1.-The unheard-
of rise of Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria
Less the unexpected stop his course
Nine. de Thebes has her apartment in
the fashionable Avenue Wagram. Sh
lives like a princess. Her salons are full
OF modern paintings, valuable tapestries.
expensive furniture and carpets, and no
end of elephants and human hands. There
are plaster hands. bronze hands, hands
in bisque and hands in porcelain. There
are ebony elephants. bronze elephants
white elephants in chinaware, brass ele-
plants, iron elephants and elephants in
boXWood
She swept in. most imposing. in an en-
broidered ack chiffon gown by Paquin.
hair undulated, fingers beieweled, ele-
CANT, perfumed by Guerlain, nothing of
the witch Of Endor-the Parisienne i'll
obvious good luck.
Il love perfumes, she said .'All great
perfumes stimulate my gifts.
! glanced round the walls.
The hands, she said. They are part
of my trade. The elephants protect me.
| have :sear hundred. l would like To
have 200 The elephant is strong, and
good and wise. II you are in bad luck
surround yourse by elephantsr'
As a background 10 this assortment Of
elephants and human hands are innumer-
able portraits of those who have come
TO consult the prophecies. Here are kings
and princes with initials, dates and I,
word of exclamation. Some of them ar,
of persons known to two continents. Or
the upright piano is a photograph of the
infaNta Eulala. aunt of the King OF
Spain. and it hears this dedication III
French: To Nine. de Thebes in souve-
mir of her remarkable and true prophecy
What secret was revealed to the aunt of
the Spanish king | do not know ana
shall never know. unless the gracious in
fanta confides il herself. for Mime. d.
Thebes guards her secrets as jealous!s
as any priestess of old
Il sometimes think at il my furnitur
Is ever Sold she said, the one who
buys the chair in my office will hav,
as possession an article of furnitur
Where more kings and queens, more IA
NOUS men and women have sat than iii
any other chair I'm the world, for il some
times seems to me that all the promi-
nent Iersons of Europe have passeo,
through this little office. I late King
Edward, en- he was Prince of Wales.
used to ceme TO see me just to gossip.
King Leopold followed my advice. King
George of Greece neglected to do so.
King Alfonso-but, l have no need to tell
these things.
In enc corner of the office is a little
Ii rary at r-gnt angles. the shelves lock-
ed with heavy iron netting. What seems
TO be books are really boxes full OF royal
secrets.
consultations of crowned heads
princes, minister's, ambassadors ana
statesmen, she said. For twenty years
/ have kept all such No one else as
seen them. They are the locked shelves
of Nine de Thebes."
And as Nine. de Thebes is famous for
learning as much from each client as
she tells him, or her. and has all her life
collected secrets of state and good fam
lilies. l could not help wondering how
much her predictions gained in detail and
precision from e locked Shelves of
the Pythoness of Paris.
What will happen to the United States
in 1914?' l asked.
Il have seen many American hands,
but especially OF American women" said