Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-11-15
Unusual Perplexities of
Dancer Nance Guyn, Who
Hos Just Taken Her Fifth
7luo g Destiraed'' Reseruisfs

young husband flew into & rage. Even
though was just married TO him and
. deeply i'll love, | thought he cut Il ridicu-
lous figure. His face was red as all angry
turkeys and he shook his fist at the old
witch, who only smiled with her eyes and
turned to read the fortune OF fat Eng
lish woman of fifty.
That fortune made trouble from the
first. My young husband fretted and
swore about it. | laughed at him and
joked about it, but J behave the idea took
hold upon him and Slapped his life. I'D
like to see you have any other husband
than me. Il would never divorce you, no
matter what happened Poor Davy. He
never thought of the highest divorce
court. Two months after | heard that
prophecy i'll Hong Kong my boy husband
died. was a widow before was seven
teen.
81 might have remained a widow for a
long time, or always, had it not been for
that fortune teller. My husband had told
his chum, Eric Trafforlwyr, about it, and
Eric believed it. He took ii seriously
When Davy had been dead for six months
Eric said to ME: You are young and
pretty and alone in the world. You ought
10 have someone to take caro- OF YOU"
but don't want To marry. | should
like to be free said You can't really
help it, reminded Eric, who was super
teller told you. You haven't anything To
do with it. 1t is Kismet.' | began to
think so myself. We were married Eric
didn't live long either. ] was for the
second time widow before was twenty
Both my husbands had served in the Boer
II Ns,tNI hnt hor l-l,; I, Il
them to early death.
II determined TO shake off the spell OF
the old prophets words and stay single.
Tut on shipboard on my way to Australia
| met Thomas Caffrey, a witty, enter
tanning lrishman. We talked OF our
travels and in foolish moment in a gay
little .party at cabin dinner warned
everybody against Hndoo fakirs.
Don't let Que OF them tell your
fortune l said. They seem to cast n
spell over. YOU
1T is the power of suggestion, said a
man who was going to Australia to give
lectures OH psychology. Some of the best
physicians treat their patients by means
OF suggestive Therapeutics They put
The thought Of health into their patients
minds. The Hindoo has put into your
mind the thought that you will marry
seven times
"And you think will?' l flashed at
him.
IF the power of the thought is strong
enough in you,' he said
Nonsense, l have seven husbandso
Two have been more than enough.
snail enjoy my freedom as long as live
But, somehow, that very night, Tom CAT.
Trey and |, while leaning on the deckrail,
grew sentimental. He proposed;
warered.
Come, me darln',' he said, with his
delicious .Chauncey Olcott brogue 'you'd
better take me. Aftler all, there's 10
escapin' me. You know what the ould
witch said
In short while il befell that Mrs
Stuart-1'ratfordwyr became Mrs. Stuart.
Iratfordwyr-Caffrey That marriage lasted
longer than the others. Caffrey hadn't
served in the Boer war. But he lacked
philosophy. What he had quite deserted
hin when Charles Gilpin, i'll, of the
wealthy and exclusive Philadelphia fam.
ny. manifested strong admiration for
Mrs. Caftrey's dancing. and deep regard
Tor the dancer. Her irish husband spoke
with bitter fnality when Mrs. Charles
Giipin, Ill. named his wife in her suit for
divorce.
Il might as we'll make off and lave We
Tree, Nance lie said. Sure it's only a
matter OF time. Yc raymimber what the
ilindoo fortune teller said" He divorced
her. Her precipitation might have been
regarded as Gilpin's opportunity. Perhaps
the Philadelphia might in time have
availed himself of it. But upon the
matrimonial horizon simultaneously an.
peared Charles Romer Williams, once an
OFFICER OF the British army.
Copyright, 1914, by the Star Gonna