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diff --git a/26339.txt b/26339.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0e66986 --- /dev/null +++ b/26339.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2880 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Cupology, by Clara + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Cupology + How to Be Entertaining + +Author: Clara + +Release Date: August 17, 2008 [EBook #26339] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CUPOLOGY *** + + + + +Produced by Ruth Hart + + + + + + + +[Transcriber's note: for this online edition I have added a Table of +Contents and have indicated section breaks with three asterisks. +Also I have made the following spelling changes: Chapter II: +"shapened like a shephard's" to "sharpened like a shepherd's"; +"course in leaves" to "coarse in leaves". Also the sentence +beginning "This is a retrospective day for your soul" is incomplete. +Chapter IV: "agrandizement" to "aggrandizement"; "repoductions" to +"reproductions". Chapter VI: "sitting ud" to "sitting up". Chapter +VII: "Chapter V" to "Chapter VII". A Few Toasts: "murmer" to "murmur". +Three Great Commanders: "Owen Meridith" to "Owen Meredith". +Entertainment Suggestion: "calender" to "calendar". Characters +in Finger Nails: "strickly" to "strictly". Strange Wills: "There +have been many" to "There have not been many", and "MacCaig" to +MacCraig". Something to Remember: "Spender Percival" to "Spencer +Perceval".] + + +CUPOLOGY. +HOW TO BE ENTERTAINING. +INTERESTING FACTS FOR BOTH YOUNG AND OLD. +TOASTS -- GEMS. +HOW TO TELL AGE. + + +PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR, CLARA. + + +CINCINNATI, OHIO: +PRINTED BY FRANK H. VEHR. +1904. + + +Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1904, by CLARA, in +the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. + + +TABLE OF CONTENTS + + Inspired Cup-Reading. +Chapter I. Helpful Hints for Friendly Social Gatherings. +Chapter II. One Year Later. +Chapter III. The Woman's Era of National Import. +Chapter IV. Mystical Cup. +Chapter V. The Acquisitive Adept. +Chapter VI. Three Coquettes. +Chapter VII. Superstition. + +Cupology +Popular Toasts +Three Great Commanders +A Hint on Entertaining +Look at Your Cup +Entertainment Suggestion +Have a Peanut +What the Eyes Tell +Revealed by the Thumb +Characters in Finger Nails +Beauty's Seven Nurses +To Discover a Woman's Age +How He May Be Won +Dew Drops +Birth Stones for Luck +Kruger's Unlucky Diamond +Strange Wills +Laughagraphs +The Man Who Can Make Us Laugh +Queer Blunders +A Mysterious Telegram +Fortune +Dead Easy +A Bad Spell of Weather +For An Evening Game +Something to Remember +The Four Leaved Shamrock + + +INSPIRED CUP-READING. + +Not Mere Fortune Telling. + +[_From Sun-Flower_.] + + +PROPHECY. + +"Prophecy is the science of being able to sense the casual +influences or vibrations governing the person or subject on +which the consciousness is centered, and knowing the purport +or meaning of these influences. To the non-sensitive this has no +existence, and he must judge the future by surface effects +entirely--his knowledge of human character or of the subject to +which he is devoted. A feeling of peace or quietude; that which +disturbs or irritates; animates or enervates; engenders joy or +gloom; that which attracts or repels without visible effects, are +some of the sensations experienced and have their specific +meanings, which must be grouped, counter-effects considered, +and conclusions drawn from this to make the forecast or outline +of the subject's future. To avert mistakes, however, the reader of +destinies must have sufficient self-knowledge to distinguish his +own influences or vibrations from those sensed in others and +not combine them as coming from one source. Every individual +is governed by this 'cause upon him,' and if he studies himself +he can become his own prophet." + +[Illustration: horseshoe] + + + THE FOUR-LEAF CLOVER. + + ELLA HIGGINSON. + + I know a place where the sun is like gold, + And the cherry blooms burst with snow, + And down underneath is the loveliest nook, + Where the four-leaf clovers grow. + + One leaf is for hope, and one is faith, + And one is for love, you know; + And God put another one in for luck-- + If you search you will find where they grow. + + But you must have hope and you must have faith. + You must love and be strong, and so, + If you work, if you wait, you will find the place + Where the four-leaf clovers grow. + + +OMENS IN THE TEA CUPS. + +When, after making the tea, you forget to replace the lid of the +teapot, expect a caller to drop in and share with you the cup that +cheers. + + +SENSING OF ATMOSPHERES. + +HOW TO BE ENTERTAINING. + +READING FROM TEA OR COFFEE CUPS. + +As delineated by a Cincinnati lady on different occasions, +for the pleasure of guests, both young and old, who became +desirous of acquiring this fine art, this character reading gift. + +[Illustration: calligraphy flourish 1] + + + THE GRACE WE SAY TO GOD. + + [JEAN INGELOW.] + + So take joy home, + And make a place in thy great heart for her, + And give her time to grow and cherish her; + Then will she come and oft will sing to thee + When thou art working in the furrows; ay, + Or weeding in the sacred hour of dawn. + It is a comely fashion to be glad-- + Joy is the grace we say to God. + + +LOVE'S SECRETS READ. + +These revelations are honestly dedicated to bright folks, who +study human needs, and to such as possess and inspire a bit of +high-soul, creative imagination, as well as to humanitarians, +who become capable of knowing, advising and showing the +better sides of life by lofty mental concentration, which ever +lifts the thinker into the special soul atmosphere of each +separate mentality, by the power of attraction and repulsion, +verily, by the cosmic law of life, gaining thereby deeper insight +into what seemeth best to think and to do for self and for others. + +Believing that these, my life-long experiences, will prove both +instructive and highly entertaining, I am happy to send forth +these _talismanic_ best thoughts, which may indeed become +noble and satisfying possessions to many active and wisely +applying minds, for the healthful enjoyment of their friends and +associates. + +[Illustration: fan] + + +CHAPTER I. + +HELPFUL HINTS FOR FRIENDLY SOCIAL GATHERINGS. + +First cup turned was by a tall, handsome girl, who, herself, +possesses keen imagination with true power for character-reading, +and with love for the study of the occult sciences. + +In her very first turn, the sky with misty scenes and an _airship_ +were traced well up in the lines surrounding the lady. + +High, sailing hopes, said the reader. You are gifted beyond the +ordinary. You love books, study and art; do not yet care for any +domestic duties. You are in cloud-lands. + +In her second toss, the reading was as follows: + +You are a little more practical. Here is formed a dusting-brush, +also a _kitchen_ and yard with a happy family of _chickens_, +meaning cares and pets; also a _horse_ and _sleigh_. You love +luxuries. You have traveled over land and seas. The _ferry-boat_ +is here. + +I read now in your third, the certainty, though not fully, noting +some of the minor events. Everything has changed from your +present thinking. You have climbed the ladder to some public +recognition by the influence of friends. You have yet much to +achieve--will become a real benefactress. So I read by the +people before you. The two _stars_ yet beyond, and the _sword_ +which belongs to your family, represent some hero in wars yet to be. + +The national bird, either an _eagle_ or _turkey_, promises good +results. + +The trials of others will fall upon you, all through life. Your +views here are full of the different objects. A tall visitor will +give you a surprise, attended by coming pleasure, and a new +friend; also a _foe_--a _spider_. You have been disappointed in +three different forms, one is yet to entail a financial loss_--fish_, +you see, have their heads and tails cut off; and the _rings_ are +broken for some past and present enterprise. You are learning +mental philosophy, also, from a male relative to whom you are +very dear. + +How truly and wonderfully you have read! I have also gained an +idea how to trace and to hold the mind in other special desires. +Thanks to you for this lesson. + + * * * + +The next was a dainty, little, self-conscious lady, who is +desirous of some special, social accomplishment, aside from her +sisters. She is very cunning. See the little head of the _fox_ near +her, though vexations are with her now, yet the three similar +little straight forms, or lines, are realizations, as in this cup, of +some pleasant event. The _road_ here in view, a short and +agreeable journey, upon which you meet a lady friend who is to +visit you soon. These upper _dots_ are letters and small +packages near at hand, with two little _hearts_--love secrets. + +You will, said the reader, receive many. One, that is in present +expectation, containing an invitation affording pleasure. The +_flowers_ bespeak it, being near the edge of the cup, with the +formation of letters. H will be the initial of one of the writers. +Now, you have a _little man_ who is to be cut off from some +desire--a broken _road_ is near him--with a period of indecision +and anxiety. Two male forms are holding his desires by their +neglect, not by malice. The wish is in their power, you see, yet +they are looking away from it. + +Your third is with tears for a friend, though no death symbol is +near. Ah, here it is! You are to wed with a fair gentleman, not +your slight form--first love. You will be fairly happy. Confusion +is shown by the various objects in crooked and wavy lines, with +those tiny _crosses_, many little cares, and yet the _tree_ shades +the _house_. Your _castle_ on the highway with the little child's +_crib_ and the _parrot_, an imitative, impudent inmate of the +home. + +Now, let your own fancy roam over these formations. Set them +in your mind. I have reserved this gift of love for the last sitting. +Do you see the _jeweled ring_ with the light flashing for you? +That will come when years have flown. You will be a widow. +That event will benefit your entire family, as the _wavy lines_ +and _tears_ indicate, so do not lose heart. This late blessing is +enough to inspire courage and patience. Yes, it is for your +household. Do you see the broad sky-scenes? That is good. + + * * * + +Next: _A hay-mound_ and a _field_. You love rural life, young +man. + +I do, said he, as a retreat and recreation. This _square_ promises +you a business house in a commercial city. See the stacks of +letters and the figures 3, 7, 10,--and the many heads of men in +calculation. + +Now you stand by an open grave. Your dearest friend has died. +The dark cloak enfolds your form and your wish--_the circle_-- +is in doubt. _Spears_ and _weeds_ are near it, also a crude +_cross_. A time of dissatisfaction will come to you before three +years have passed, yet there are promises beyond. Cast, now, +for the better times for certainty. + + * * * + +Third: _Friends, horses, dogs, birds, trees_. + +In touch with life's blessings you possess a kind, social nature-- +a _stream_ of clear water. Health and friends in plenty, great +activity. You are to rise above many ills. + +A broken _bridge_ is at the far end of this _road_, but your face +is turned away, in this you are spared an evil, be wise. The +South will offer you last and final protection. See, the light is +shading in that direction. An _old lady_ will be your faithful +friend. There will be also a trusty _colored man_--see how he +stands in _line?_ Your last years will be in rural life, with a +family and an income with fair surroundings. The space is clear. +You see light is over your last scenes. See the young girl--no +doubt your daughter--under the beautiful fruit trees? + +Orange groves in the sunny South, said he, smiling. + +Most important for yon appears a distant battle-scene with deep +sorrows. Some great personal honors in life for a son. Yes, an +American battle scene with the _eagle_ distant, yet sure to gain +the day. + + +SOME NATIONAL CRISIS. + +NEXT READING. + +_Key_ to the situation. See, it is within a short time, only a little +way from the edge of the cup. + +Good, said the recipient, I know what that is now, am glad of it. + +Well, you are, however, to weep over the matter soon, as +speaking to some friend of this affair. There is much to it. See +the _cross_ and _tears_, as holding up the cup. Yet you would +not now dream that there are complications in this affair. Three +factions, yet all in positive expectations, though fight is coming. +See the little _dog_, how angry, and the _cat_, with her back up, +and the other animal with a spring? Why here. Can't you see it! +Of course it's not quite as distinct as a real dog and cat fight. +One of the animals is retreating from the scene in fear. Your +faces are all turned in the same direction, you know each other. + +Well, the _crescent_ is in the lower part of the cup. Some later +news--also the fine _horse_, a _friend_ with some testimonial of +appreciation. A _wreath_ and victory. Here are several _letters, +_one containing news of death. The _coffin_ is here for the little +child. Many tears are shed by two women--each looks into the +grave. + +Ah, the spite lines! See them, there are little jealousies, too. We +all have these to content with, said the reader, especially if we +ever rise above the common level of life and as independent +thinkers. + +An illness of importance is now developing an event long ago +foretold to your family. A fine steed comes from another city +through a church-yard, much resembling Trinity E of New York +City. Some _letters_ follow--see the succession of _dots_ and +_squares. Houses_ of _smoke, news_ and _trailing objects_, +representing deep-laid intrigues. + +Now you are aboard a steamer on the broad ocean. A tall, +military looking man is with you, also a young man and woman. +Something of importance has taken place in your national +life and in your financial position, as well as in political +and church affairs. See the crowing _cock_ and the _stork_, a +change that is to play its part for the tall man. _Flags_ are +waving. You will all return to a new life in America. The +surprising change is for a public man. + +NEXT READING. + +An enemy is for you, sir, in your present conditions of duty. +Some spoil is here. A _ditch_, a _wasp_, and _serpents_ at the +top with tongues out. If you are now in politics or litigation +defeats await you, for the _briars_ are thick and a blind man at a +desk holds some document. You appear to be very expectant, +though fearing something. A woman is also against you. See, +her head is up. She is fair in appearance and influential, yet +false. Some men are back of her acts. + +Dark complexioned people are, at present, your better allies and +friends. Some doctor stands by your side, see his medicine +chest, he is of fine mind. A straight path lies between you, +though some road is cut in two; you are to be disappointed in an +enterprise. _Wheels _are broken. This is connected with cars, +engines and automobiles--have care. + +Your mind is often too ready to speed forward. Things are so +confusing. + +Now concentrate on the future. You are enmeshed by others. +Your social affairs, too, are meddled with by your family and +pseudo friends. See the quacking _duck_ and the distant +_goose_, with dots, letters, etc. See the heads put together, with +mixture of objects before them. No symbol of peace is in this +realm, no light nor clean spots are as yet seen as results to you. + +Ah! here. It is a _long road_ into new conditions. Anger and +loss cause you to turn away from the dark and vexing things. +One true friend will follow. See the _straight form_ and the +_dog_ and _wheat_--that signifies great good as in clean +sheaves. That will be your best destiny in a new life-deal--far +westward--some treasure in minerals, too. See the rocks shining +forth. + + * * * + +Next: The _monkey_ and the _skunk_! For a moment the +hostess and the reader exchanged words. "I wonder if there is +such an object now in our midst! I am full of laugh, though not +in the belief of such a fact. Oh, it is too amusing how these +objects will form. I wish some one else to see this strange cup." + +This gentleman has need to be most cautious in some of his +undertakings. Do not deal with uncertain characters--see the +_monkey_ and the _cat-tiger_ or _skunk_ looking object--lest +some vile scandal becomes your lot. _Cross-roads, hollows_, +and _eels_--slippery things--are near your _present wishes_. +The _keys, circles, anchor, squares, links_--these represent +realizations. Yours are in other lines, yet a _bell_ is traced near +you. A belated wish lies under cover. It is in a field not yet in +your thoughts, though an _anchor_, a human form and a crooked, +broken path lie yet beyond that. + +THIRD TOSS. + +Now is revealed some disaster to friends, confusion and a large +family _whirlwind_, also, some obstinate man--see the _rickety +team_ with the _mule_ in the lead, as running away--a woman +in black as the outcome. See how she climbs the steep, jagged +hill. Your face is turning towards her in mutual friendship. The +_moon_ shines on the top of the mountain--your destination. +You will no doubt wed with the widow--this woman in black. + +Some of the first lines hit very close to facts, said he. + +I know it, said the lady, and there is very much to read. I do not +know all that may transpire before this occurs, yet you will have +a numerous progeny--many relatives. See the people and the +letters from the different localities, again true. You will live to +advanced age--see the grand _old tree_. You will ever have care +over others. The man-mule is to meet his natural death. His +respected widow and household are to become your high possessions. + +The mules and the whole team? said he. Thank you, there is +happiness in store. + +No doubt as elevated step-father to this numerous family. You +are a genius in this art reading, so fanciful. + + * * * + +Next expectant:--A Civil Engineer with fondness for travel and +_inventions_. Perhaps you will also write books on some new +methods in heating houses--an _oven_ and _tubes_ are in +formation; so also a tall man at his desk with pencils. I do like +to get something worth reading, but here is a break-down, +something really thrilling--the mountain topples over on the +road. You are soon to be, or have been, in great peril. I also see +a _fireman_. Do you see his hat? + +The man smiled, yet confessed, as I read on. + +You carry an atmosphere that aids the reading. You have had an +escape by not being at the "Windsor" that special afternoon. + +He was surprised. "She is a fine guesser," said the young man, +highly pleased. + +Again, you cherish a happy hope in an elderly couple. They are +your true friends. You are now all in the same lines of thought. +Oh, there is a modest, young lady coming to the elderly folks. +She is now away in some large building--a school, I think. You +will _love her_. She has a lover who writes to her--you do not-- +yet the signs are to be favorable to both of you. Now for the last +toss. + +I am disappointed in your efforts. Oh, how it storms! See the +snow-flakes and the great stream of water! I really feel its cold +currents now. Something is to be destroyed by it ere you meet +the lady. She is in the bottom of the cup. Why have you left her +so long. I can hardly find her. You will need to strive for your +good fate. + +She is to pass out of your life I think some years before you do, +yet you will live an active life. Many artistic _new roads_ and +the _plough. _You will create something truly beautiful--see the +_pedestal_ amid the landscape--the _swing _and _gardening_. +How _restful_ it makes me feel! You will be so, sometime, +young man. + +OBJECT LESSONS. + +Now, young ladies, concentrate your minds and let us note the +symbols, if your wish really to have views and comprehensive +enjoyment, so that what is shown in each cup may be at the +close interestingly connected. Like in a Primer, let us go +straight through. You have heard other readings, develop your +descriptive faculties. Do not stop till done to discuss in detail, +thereby losing the best effects, and you will thus find some +interesting results. You see how most persons like to lift the veil +to revelations. Much progress lies before us all. + +SURPRISED. + +Just look here, Florence, said the amateur, _rings_ and a +_sunrise_, not out of the clouds either. Look, too, at the oval +forms like _eggs. _At home we can't get such cups. Here we are +in the higher waves. We are determined to read something to +inspire others, as you read to us, said the girls with eagerness. + +But, which one of you ladies turned the cup? I ought to have +directed my occult forces on one at a time. Now, you need to +divide honors and loss. + +The one who is herein represented is in a most happy frame of +mind. I wish it were the test cup--the third and certainty--for the +sake of the fortunate lady and her family, then your destiny +were assured and your mentality would advance into lofty +channels by the influence of an elderly couple and their +progressive _sons_, for here is a _tower_ of moral strength. +_Hearts, circles, Bible_ and _clovers_ are in the life-path. The +skies, too, are clear and every thing is high up you see in +optimism. + +Let us now to business. Ah! here it is--gains. A large _goose +egg_ is in shape, also a _nest_. That is the home, though a great +care has fallen into it. See the rain and these many little crosses +here together so near the _nest_, which, in this turn, is the +home, as there is no other symbol for it; now you can trace the +square as the home-hearts also. + +You are kind and come from sympathetic people who love +truth, books and progress, as does this Bible family. An old man +who is in another city will write. See the _M._, the _letters _and +the _road_. There being no form of a man you take the initial. +He may be _sixty-one _years of age; see, the numbers are +touching the _M_.--man--in the midst of the dots. _Sticks _and +_crossties_ with _wavy lines--_common vexations. + +Do not worry. Though you are now apprised of a large theft +which may come into your home. See the sly _rat_--a thief or +burglar hovers nigh, have care. You have a few events in Jupiter +still left. + +How is it to be read? + +Each reader must speak as the momentary inspirations come to +suit occasions: We must promise the best, to stimulate _all_ +good efforts, not only for self. + +Well, you are really good and correct. I feel elevated by this +interesting reading. + +We are delighted and shall share together this life-reading. Our +families are very dear to each other and may be still further +united. Then she blushed slightly, as whispering confidentially. + +Oh, it's lovely, said the two girls, as others said the fates had +favored them most of all. + + * * * + +Several of the readings were too ordinary, just as many people +are in truth, who contribute nothing for the benefit of higher +thought and action, while others were not in good mental states +nor in their lucky days, as they said, and as is partly true. + +One young man, a news-gatherer, could get nothing as all things +lay distant and for others. "My life is to be forever blocked," +said he though feigning total scepticism, yet a tone of +disappointment was quite apparent when told that six months +hence he should have a comprehensive word with new hopes. + +You are in the wrong world, and somehow I felt that he would +be fairly driven into his real vocation by a lucky circumstance, +for Mother Nature is ever kind to her children, though needing +all honest co-operation. Those keen eyes with fine perceptives +and vivacious mentality would direct his impulses eventually, +for the power of reason and resource lay within his then, +somewhat undecided, brain, so have faith in your higher +destiny, friends. + +[Illustration: calligraphy flourish 2] + + +CHAPTER II. + +ONE YEAR LATER. + +Being patient and obliging, said a young lady, has cheated me +out of my rights so many times. I was to have a reading that +night at the home of Mrs. M. C. for I served with hopes and +glad expectations into each dainty cup of aromatic coffee that I +poured, yet, as usual, did not get my reading. Never have. I had +either palm reading, cup or solar biology forecast, though +promised each. Oh, I was so disappointed, for it was my desire +to learn your special, catchy methods, and to note the sensations +cast upon me as under the magic spell. I cannot formulate the +things you do, though my friends praise me unstintingly. + +You shall not be longer denied, said the adept. Get a cup of +coffee or tea, if not too coarse in leaves, after we lunch. I will +read them, as we can be alone with our atmospheric thought +advisers and our higher selves. I know that your life and labors +will abound in good. Many excellent things await your efforts, +yet do not now think that my auto thoughts will be my full +guides. + +Oh, thank you. How nice the conditions are to be alone with +one's future expectations. No one can then pervert what is +promised. I am now most expectant, am glad I have waited for +this propitious time. I love this little room with its dainty +furnishings. + +FIRST READING. + +You possess fine spiritual gifts; are morally high-toned; you +build many castles--just see the _mountains_ and _balloons_, +the _tower_ in the distance. You could study palmistry and +occult laws to fine advantage. It has become so respectable, too, +you know. Yet few do excel, though many attempts are made. +Try it, you are very susceptible to every personality; you have a +very retentive memory with large formative powers. Just the +requisites with your mentality for doing good to poor humanity. +As a wise teacher you could excel. + +SECOND CUP. + +Flurries of wind and storms--confusion in your home and heart-- +_crooked lines_ with a _crude cross_ and a _sodden log_, out +of which will rise a _broken anchor_--lost hopes or wishes. +Now, an ugly thing is discerned. See the _spitting_ of _cats_ +and the _angry dog_. That is some disagreeable quarrel between +friends of yours. A gentleman will pass through cruel loss and +change. Nothing good is yet promised to present wishes. +_Serpents_ are lying low in the grass--see their heads, you will +suffer thereby--your head now lays low in some severe illness. +Fate is silent and sad for a time, as in mourning for the sorrows +of the good and true. See you the _shaft_, draped like a funeral +pall across the cup? You are also to bury a friend, a worthy +minister. The people mourn. Now let us invoke the kindly +powers to a solution of the many evils cast by contending +conditions of jealousies and spite. Let your soul be possessed +and purified, for now I know that you are truly one of the +chosen few who are tried by the fierce fires and floods of life. +This is a retrospective day for your soul--growth beyond your +realization of [sentence is unfinished]. + +FINAL INFLOW. + +A seriousness had fallen over both of them as touching on the +live issues of frail, human hopes and fears, so that each felt the +need of that great unseen, yet ever-living power divine. What a +strange cup-reading it was in the end! Wonderful to both of +them, yet they somehow tarried, as though fearing to reveal the +certainty chapters, as you now know the third is designated, yet +the soul was sated. + +Wealth, in some physical form, I find is the great desire, more +even than love or friendship, so that I repeat the golden words +of the poet, though knowing the need of money for worthy +purposes. There will be for us just enough of the pure coin, not +this "God of greed." + + + THE GOLDEN GOD. + + [THOMAS HOOD.] + + Gold! gold! gold! gold! + Bright and yellow, hard and cold; + Molten, graven, hammered and rolled; + Heavy to get and light to hold; + Hoarded, bartered, bought and sold, + Stolen, borrowed, squandered, doled; + Spurned by the young, but hugged by the old + To the very verge of church-yard mould, + Price of many a crime untold; + Gold! gold! gold! gold! + + +Then said the psychometrist: Now, look with me into this cup. +Let us, together, trace the final symbols, now that we are united +as true friends. + +The form of a woman--see her head and her garments blown +forward, the wind is at her back. She goes now with some +strong, public tide. That is well. In this clear field there is +recognition for you. An _electric street light_--that, too, is some +public good in process for your sharing;--and here is like a +flowing stream. The mountains are, also, again in view. Each +effort holds in a life-reading like this. Some rubbish before +reaching the heights. + +But look! Oh, behold the _moon_ behind the hills. See, it is +surely beginning to rise. Let your mind now concentrate on its +sublime glory. It is the best kind of promise. Honors await +yourself and another member of your family. A full moon +signifies that other events have poured their treasures into +conditions which have required time. Your moon is not yet over +the full scenes of your life. The sunrise, too, appears! How +sublime! Here is the stout man--your future husband with a +child at his side. A man of affairs, with the _triangle_ and a +_ship_ of _state_, and here are the roses growing. You will be +greatly beloved. The _key_ and the _ring_ are in the bottom of +the cup. You will become equal to your high social duties as +mistress of the _castle_, and mother of two well endowed +children, who will bless and survive you. The latter years of +your life will be the most richly frought. See, the bottom of the +third cup, also, has the clear streams. + +I shall expect you to wed with this stout, dark complexioned +man, whose wife lies in the little grave that was in the second +toss of the cup. We can now join the parts fittingly together, by +noting first, second and this final. We may now attach other +straying symbols as holding them in mind. + +Thank you, ah, so much. I have gained real knowledge from this +very interesting object-lesson reading, which stimulates my +higher mental action with courage and purpose. Some things +delineated I now believe as true. The first _cups_ were a +veritable marvel, yet too sadly comprehensive. I am greatly +indebted to you for this most infatuating pleasure, proving the +old adage, that the last do sometimes come first, by their +patience. We all need just such talks sometimes. These are +beyond the mere realms of pastime, said the reader, who was +then inspired of God. + +HALLOWEEN REVELATIONS. + +THE ENERGETIC MAN OF HIGH PURPOSE POLITICALLY. + +Here is an important cup. A long bridge. You are now in +comprehensive touch with a subject-matter that ought to lead +you with your family into ease and prominence. Have patient +care after you have reached the seeming goal, for, see here still +the danger signal from the broken cart of past obstruction with +the cross-ties. Do not retreat in dismay. A bridge is of good +significance unless you fall between, or it is broken while you +are facing it or are thereon. You must be strong. In your trials, +being magnetic, your forces will bring help to aid you by mental +suggestions. + +But see this elephant, tossing about at the end of the bridge-- +some imposition upon your family. See, the house being in +touch, you will lose by the elephant, as letters with many lines +mean vexation--strayed or stolen letters--and dead birds are on +the ground. The rabbit is some coward. Do not mind this, you +will yet gain significant prestige by the aid of an old man on the +new path. See him nearing the _trees_ in luxurious foliage--a +true friend. + +Now we sum up gains. You have striven. See the three rings or +wreaths, the sunburst, and the distant tower clearly defined in +the light. Victory over loss and cowardice of friends. You are +happy and secure. + +The summing up represents the home several years hence. +Many scattered objects have cleared away the defeats belonging +to your life, in order to round it out symmetrically. There is +good cheer. Think of the toiling masses as becomes a true +disciple of the Christ. You will be in position to manifest +to the world some vital principle. Be not then enslaved by +time-serving, selfish man. Stand by the flag of your nation in +honest and worth. Your star shines high. + +WOMAN OUT OF THE SHADOWS. + +FACTS FORETOLD. + +Many streams--mental changes. Though here is a great symbol, +that of the ancients--the serpent--being wisdom. This one is of +different significance. See how its long body has taken up +space. The tail is three-forked and downward, the head being +turned around, sharpened like a shepherd's crook, lower than the +body. Deception--intrigue--house of sickness--see the crosses +and losses? The one tossing such a cup has been assailed in +various ways. Look now well to the above outlines which still +hold a splendid promise. Arches overhead--cannot be vanquished. + +SYMBOLS FOR A JUDGESHIP. + +FATEFUL SPITE-LINES WITH WOMAN. + +Appearances do oft deceive, good reader, though the cup figures +hit my case correctly, beyond words of mine, as to past and +some present events. May the future be as well verified, and I +somehow believe it will be. You say the flame is now on after +twenty-two long years of defeat; I also cross the water often, as +you read, am soon to locate in a large eastern city. May this +flame you describe possess my mind and heart as now. + +And your conscience, sir, the Holy Spirit within the higher self. +Your symbols urge you to noble deeds, yet you will never be +blessed by woman's love, nor aid. Do you see the standing +well-poised form of a woman? Rising power--creative force. See she +has her feet firm on the back of the monster snake. You will +soon become master of your higher destiny. I feel inspired by a +mighty impulse. You will stand before many people--see the +tall, straight ladder of fame--I should say that you are holding +some still-cherished, mighty plans, despite many of life's +defeats. + +Now, as this is all free play, will you please tell me if this +leading figure defines any of your conditions truthfully, as to +politics? You deeply impress me with the ideas of large affairs. + +Will see you later, madam. + +Thank you cordially. + + +CHAPTER III. + +THE WOMAN'S ERA OF NATIONAL IMPORT. + +AN UNUSUAL KALEIDOSCOPE----HUSBAND AND WIFE. + +As the symbols are in uniting conjunction, you may both remain +to formulate ideas and to delineate. You are no doubt desirous +of the full enfranchisement of the human race. You seem just +and liberal, as read by these various lights, amid contentions, +yet with one central apex--the lighted lamp. + +NEXT TOSS. + +No taxation, without due representation. Now, look into this +remarkable cup, with our Uncle Sam large as American life, one +foot raised in forward move, as firmly holding the grand flag of +the nation. See, upon it sails in earnestness a tall woman of high +modern import. See you these faces? They are no milk and +water characters. They come close together, Uncle Sam and the +woman, as though to embrace in true love and lasting equality. +Now, behold the bird ascending the mountain, and the large hen +and cockrell. Behold the dove still higher up. Justice, wisdom +and peace must go hand in hand by all the people and for all the +people. There is a fine sky scene besides. + +How remarkable are the strong outlines as interestingly touched +up by creative imagery! Oh, yes, we believe in true freedom as +well as in all human rights. I tell you, you are destined to wield +political influence. Fear not, though there is to be very great +commotion and strife, as to some bodies of beliefs joining +forces, There is in evidence a serious national gulf, for a period, +See the _seething mass_ below? Yet the large, waving flag is in +the midst of it all. See how its ample folds cover the little +people! Woman comes into full evidence with man and victory +squares these and banners. Now, see you the large moon-faced +man from over the deep water? Behold the many little people. +These represent, without doubt, the toiling masses. See them +look to our great flag, Uncle Sam and America. See the guns +they leave behind, though they appear well armed by some firm +revolves. Some power crowned is near death's gates. There is +some peril on the other shores and on this, yet the links for +chains of co-operation come later on. First, there are spears, +guns, rasping files; secret orders, too, which shall in due time +become fully known to Uncle Sam, for, see you the boxes and +the broken lines, like a serpent yet, living cables with its +intricate workings. I am stirred by its forces, now international. +Oh, yes, you could learn to read by concentration of mind. This +is the first time this great combination has been presented to me. +Your special auras and the cosmic direction in present era of +human action have aided in portraying these objects. Life is full +of signs of the times. You are thinkers. + +No doubt the reader is, at times, largely dominated by the +enquirer, though you now prefer to learn of finances. The large +fish is in evidence, however, not yet at hand. Clouds obscure +desires. You will be thrust into this exciting national and more +equal-rights work, with several men of distinction. See +the breast-plates and medallions. This is a suggestive and +interesting chapter to me and requires study to apply. + +Do you grasp some of the leading ideas? Hold them fast, to +appropriate as you advance into the vortex of deeper action. See +how the steepled church is in evidence. Not so wonderful. Many +things photograph themselves for further reading by observation. +We are yet in the very infancy of comprehending cause and effect. + +_Kismet!_ I detest war, yet mankind is destined to thus make +the annals of future history more complete in equity and in +fraternal justice to humanity. Let us prove that the world is +really advancing. This is the fierce and fermenting time, the +entire world's chemicalizing process. We may all learn from the +great book of life. + +Though many noble souls seem vanquished, each actor shall be +his own, yet united historian. + +Thank you. Readings of this character are instructive, even to +skeptics. Wish we could all read and retain each helpful part. As +one thinks on these lines the fuller atmospheric waves become +laden with blessings. The Good Book says, "Ask and ye shall +receive," so, ask in wisdom and in faith. You are now charged +with the desires. Perhaps I do inspire inquiry. Look at these +lines of chairs in this fine toss, also men. + +Birds again--rows of singing birds, and flowers, too--joyous +expectations. Man with baton--musical matters, attended by +audiences. You either are in full touch with singers, or certainly +will be. The swing up high is a fine sign. Follow it up with +courage, The double triangle, the long road and the unobscured +star are before you. These promise you honors and fame. You +will know the art of growing old sweetly. + +See the gallery of pictures you have collected. The park and the +people, too! + +Heaven has blessed you with mental gifts and spiritual graces in +the glorious, ever present, because of your doing things with no +dreaded to-morrow. This is a superb final, for the light lines are +within your daily duties. You will travel together in close +relationship--husband and wife, and begin anew very nearly at +the same time. It is really an inspiring text. Thus do we learn to +know each other in one little hour of life as fulfilling worthy +purposes by every act divine. + + +CHAPTER IV. + +MYSTICAL CUP. + +Touching, no doubt, on the death of Pope Leo, as also on some +one of the present party somehow connected with nobility. See +you the ocean? + +Here is a kingly form, robed and crowned, yet standing with +arms and hands filled, symbolizing someone with great plenty +in foreign lands. At the feet, a severed circle, some disordered +boxes, a pair of large, closed shears pointing toward another +commanding form, though obstacles lie between them. Also a +crouching form, in part human, with large eyes, and now, on his +back a weighty something, facing the less pretentious forms, +one of whom is bowed by some new disappointment, being near +a fallen wall. Some one in mental suffering, as thorns crown one +of the lesser heads, facing a distant city. Some hidden wrongs +are to become manifest. + +See the army of men in disorder! Soldiers are in line, too, with +horsemen from all sides of the land and waters. Dread dismay, +yet with keen-edged expectancy in evidence. Behind the kingly +form there is a tower--strength--though there is the unlighted +torch at the top. Some large bird in the back scene will venture +into peril. Near the shaft at its base are caverns. On closer +inspection you can see the vapors arising. You see the entire +world appears interested--so many heads of men. + +One of the party had expected some special news from distant +lands, saying: "Verily, the atmosphere is filled with these +things,"--Auto thought or otherwise. Secrets after all are not so +hidden, though I believe this reading to pertain largely to the +city of Rome, the Vatican palace and famed historical Tiber. + +You see, we have all been reading the news. We are in this +floating ether of thoughts, no matter what little wishes we have +of our own. Our untutored minds cannot yet apply some of +these lessons. Everything is in form atmospheric, to be +photographed for tangibleness to our crude senses. How then +can we be held in blame for the committal of even some desperate +acts? Are we not at the perpetual mercy of evil men and +powers, which blind fair reason? + +Listen, friends, are there not better objects everywhere? Yet +modest things are apt to be overlooked. Are we not dazzled by +pomp and show? Did we not all cry out, "Oh, what a wonderful +cup--a king, a king with a crown?" We must not allow our +morals to thus easily hang like conventional cowards. This cup +of the king's is full of strife. Numerous virtues are not observed. + +See the little tables and the tender vines so choked by grasses, +even modest flowers by the fallen walls! Let us note these, yet +glory and pomp are man's highest aim in life. I say we should +all become a freer people, but we are flattered by show and even +despotism. I behold wonderful promises. + +This strong trail is for a long time. See the cutting instruments +again. The rasp and the little scissors shadowed beneath the +larger symbols. Behold the bed-rock, with crevices to catch the +feet, and here, a small road comes near a tunnel, looking +ambitiously towards the large avenue where splendor, prestige +and power are seen. See modern fashion so careless of the rights +of others--these poor little people. Yes, I will describe some of +these figures, to teach, if so we may, a bit of entertaining, +benevolent sense. + +Again, look at this upper row of soldiers, machine-made men. +See the trumpets, I can almost hear their blast, and see the dust +and life-blood of degrading, cruel wars, which impoverish and +grind into filth the entire afflicted human race, though there +are very excellent people of wealth, were there to wisely +co-operate. There is some promise in this reading. If rich men +could become active benefactors--see the little banners--wars +would at once end, and the Christ would live with mankind. + +MINISTER'S SPEECH. + +I cannot believe that a loving, merciful God bids man to further +wars, strife and blood-shed for mere aggrandizement. It is really +a libel on all progress, grace and moral justice. The God and +dear Saviors whom I love and honor are not monsters of cruel +vengeance. There exist so many excellent signs of the good time +to dawn on the human race, when the tidal wave once really sets +into combined, perpetual motion. Let us all desire to thus aid the +race along these lines, or in whatsoever ways we can. + +I am forever indebted to a dear, high-souled lady, who loved +young folks, for my first deep moral thought-lessons in +cupology, and in character readings. Life-long impressions and +aids have these brought to many others, in this high-art sensing +of human needs, therefore let us supply an atmosphere in which +good thoughts can germinate, believing that nature has a bank +which is a sure one that can never break. A bank of full justice; +life's worthy inheritance; your acts. + +Now friends, this collection may end my readings briefly. In +order to learn one must teach. No, I have not added some of +those special past verifications. I try to study the lesser forms as +well as the prominent ones to cultivate patient sensing. Observe +your feelings towards your friends or pupils. Be honest, sincere, +and sympathetic in heart to heart talks. Hold confidence reposed +as a sacred gift. That is one of the secrets of friendship and +success in every walk through life. Let us believe it so. + +FIRE IN VATICAN. + +BURNS PART OF LIBRARY WITH BARE AND ANCIENT BOOKS. + +That portion of the Vatican containing the hall of the +inscriptions, where the Pope gives his audiences, and which is +adjacent to the famous and precious pinacoteca, or gallery of +pictures, was burned Sunday. The smoke and flames were seen +from a mile distant. + +The first intimation of fire was had when smoke was seen +issuing from the apartment of M. Mario, which is located above +that of Father Earl, the librarian, who lives over the library. M. +Mario is a celebrated French restorer of ancient manuscripts and +illuminated books. He has been engaged in copying work, and +his first reproductions have been selected for part of the +Vatican's exhibit at the St. Louis exposition. It is supposed that +M. Mario forgot to take proper precautions with his kitchen fire, +which probably blazed up and ignited some nearby hangings. + +The entire museum of inscriptions, the rooms of Father Earl, +part of the library and the printing houses were entirely flooded +with water. + +It is impossible to reach even an approximate idea of the extent +of damage. Many articles were saved, including some ancient +and very valuable arms which were recently moved to the +library from the Borgia apartment in order to make room for the +new residence of the papal secretary of state. + +Many things that escaped the flames were injured by water, +especially the precious private library of Pope Leo. + +The above clipping verifies the reading of the King's cup. + + +CHAPTER V. + +THE ACQUISITIVE ADEPT. + +BY A BRIGHT GIRL OF SEVENTEEN. + +Dear lady, this is not as I should like to promise. You have +suffered deeply. Here are dark caverns, crosses, confusion and +wavy, broken and crooked lines. No good luck to be foretold. +So it appears on the surface. You are overcast by sorrow and +losses, with death to many present hopes. As holding up the +cup, gravestones, tears--heart-tears--seems an ill-omened cup, +yet no one need to be discouraged. + +I can now reveal to you, even in this conclusive reading, one +fair remaining sky-scene, with a little sun-burst, and a distant +square. Examine, also, below the tangled rubbish. See you the +head of the little anchor, like some friend in need. Trust still in +the good, and such will come to you. + +Let no one say they are doomed. This lady is well along in +years, therefore, this one fair spot of sky-scene is large enough +to fill in the remaining periods with joy and hope. I am not +content to skim over the mere surface. Helpful revelations need +the deeper, mental searchlight. + +By turning this cup from left to right, the symbols shadow forth +a peaceful old age, up near the sky-light and the evening star. +The dots, with little rings--some kindly aid until the close, with +loving, retrospective hope in the final All Good. + +I feel your deep enthusiasms, my friend. God's blessings on +you, dear child. You thrill my soul with expectant gladness. + +It proved that a benevolent Boston family opened their +hospitable doors to this lovely old lady amid her deepest +dilemmas. Also, a small inheritance came to this star-lit dome +of her declining life's protection. + +A WOMAN'S WINNING CARD. + +A woman's winning card is cheerfulness. + +She may be capable of countless self-sacrifices, infinite +tenderness and endless resources of wisdom, but if she cloaks +these very excellent possessions under a garb of melancholy she +may almost as well not have them, so far as the ordinary world +is concerned. + + +CHAPTER VI. + +THREE COQUETTES. + +THE FICKLE TRIO--SOCIAL WHIRLWINDS. + +You say, "Tell us all you see." Young ladies, there is a +mixed-up state of affairs, yet one must use good judgment, so +steady your minds for correct appreciation of the kindness of your +near associates and friends. These Fourths of July mental +pyrotechnics are not safe playthings, my dear young friends. +Here are outlined so many love gifts, with pleasures too +short-lived. You are pain-giving iconoclasts. + +Heart-breakers, said the three, laughing. + +You have spoken correctly, for here are broken, also incomplete +circles and squares. These imperfect lines so near the life +symbols _key and wish_ with shattered urns and crushed flowers. +Ah! and here are some blighted trees! This is both the spring +time of your lives as of the seasons, so have care for the sad +heart tears you cause and will reap. Lives are oft thus crushed. +You are acting your funny parts as now you think. + +"Know thyself," young man. Trifle not with the happy, little +blonde lady, whose widowed mother passes sleepless nights +thinking of her two pretty daughters. Neither be too attentive to +the young matron, whose master carries the dagger by his side. +L. and H. seem not good letters of names nor localities for you. +Yet, you possess some fine mental gifts. Good books are near. + +You girls will soon drift apart by a stolen letter and some dark +cloud of distrust, though you will need each other. See you the +separate roads, with the harsh wind blowing the leafless +branches of the trees? and yet near by shines the beautiful +meadow, just beyond your present thoughts. Strive to cultivate +more of the duties of needed practical life and hopes. These +high thought signs will not serve you, when life's autumn +comes. + +Now listen, little Brunette. Accept the old love in about two +years. He will return to you from a distance. You smile, yet you +will not wed with any one now associated. Do not, then, deceive +him. He is keen of mind and heart. See, his sky is clear, and the +ring of promise is in the light. + +Yes, we can now see these outlines. You are a psychologist. +You make us see them, as you desire, young man. Note you +their forthcoming. I cannot impel these realities. Emma is the +good name of your best friend, young man. She loves you +thoughtfully. Cultivate her rare graces. The mirror is clear that +is near her home. The birds sing and the children are joyful. +Fine symbols. The home-garden, too, is beautiful. Let us trace +the lines. The old, sick lady, inmate of the home will die in the +Autumn. That will be a decisive change for that family. Do not +allow them to pass out of your kindly care, if real friends you +would possess. Lives can be strangely made or unmade oft +times. One must be wise in order to be happy. These pitchers, +with stout handles, as here seen, signify some lucky circumstances. +The supposed wealth of this globe-trotting, dark clothed lady +friend is to have a big fall. See the objects! The trunks are all +upset and she is in ill temper and very self-willed. See the head? +A mule is near her. + +How curiously you read some of these things. I shall note them +more fully, though you do not compliment us three at all. Are +we, then, so soulless in our innocent pleasures? Pray, tell. + +I but delineate some truths as your benefactor, and as I am given +them for each. You all love popularity and excitement. + +Oh, yes, things appear true in part, as to a few simple things, yet +it is very pleasant to hear you read these fanciful figures. I know +the lady Emma, also the worrysome, aged, sick woman. I expect +an upset at her death, yet we hope for good results, though you +promise me irritating labors by this looked-for change. + +How amusing this big frog, the magician or joker, as you term +him. I did not know the tad-pole was so gifted. + +Some months later proves the death, and several of the stated +events more than verified. With the young folks asking eager +questions, the clouds had gathered. The lame man came into +view. The good time not yet. Confusion and discord revealing +some added cares as threaded together by the symbols as +previously shown, and from the note-book of the young man. +The hated lame man of letters having rudely flustrated the game +of their lives, yet he was just, though believed to be the cruel +enemy, from the broken, wavy lines and cutting things about +him, then facing towards them. Mental reason, or impressment +plying its parts as touching these mingled, and confusion +atmospheres, proving that all things affect us, consciously or +otherwise, relating to life. + +These intricate and wonderful relationships--these cosmic laws-- +bind all mankind together for better or, more often, for +needless sorrow and trials. Yet here was some good side to +these life-lines, for their own choosing, had each been more +unselfish and just. Are we, then, arbiters of our own fate? It is +still an open question to many, though there is a time for all +things. + +LET US NOT BE FATALISTS. + +We must seize the handle of the subject, when the door is +waiting to open. Each association makes some conditions, brief +or life-long. We are not bound to be enslaved forever, though +nothing pays but justice, kindness, patience and useful duty, if +peace we would enjoy here or hereafter. + +IN THE CHRIST SPIRIT. + +There is at least one good, guardian angel ever ready to aid in +each life, my dear young friends. One of these ladies did marry +that mentioned first love after many sad disappointments, with +little intrigues, as afterward she said: "Be neither too fickle, too +self-opinionated, nor too _submissive_. Be something useful. +Learn to reason with head, heart and soul." The young man is +still plodding on in pessimism. This best friend Emma is still +alone, yet working out some of the noble purposes of her +helpful, progressive life, knowing that "her own will surely +come to her" some good time, and that this brief school-life is +not the end of anything nobly sought for. Simulating big things +allowed the young man to belittle many noble facts in nature, +thus stunting his manly growth, and overgrowing this chilling +pessimism with smart retorts. + +One really desiring to aid humanity can become inspired into +consistent kindness, well centered in the lines of forecast, as +also in the cup reading pleasure. So observe the figures, point +them out, summing up as these gems of thought come to life. +One too lazy or disobliging cannot grow these many latent +powers. These are as yet but dimly apprehended. All persons +possess some special gift. God meant it so, and that we give +hope and joy in all honest ways. So try your gift in this +mingling of your aspirations for lofty expressions, which +transmit pleasing convictions, strange as at first these may +appear. Each soul, as reading or listening, creates an atmosphere +of either flippancy, depression, courage, trust, or some vital +power. + +Some persons there are, who make us feel happy and well by +simply looking at us, or thinking of us, with that subtle power +that cures one of melancholia, discouragement, or irritability. +Writing a letter with a soul is good. You know there is the soul +of things, a fact in nature. I know of many cases, on turning +backward in memory's pages. One special one of a dear musical +friend, who became very ill from over-work, with nervous +headache and sick stomach, so that all hope of an expected +musical evening had to be abandoned, as she took her bed in +disgust, with sore disappointment. About an hour later, not +entirely unexpected, there called at her home a beloved brother, +whose melodious voice in song proved to the lady better than +any medicine, as he quietly sat down to the piano to sing that +sweetly pathetic song: + + "Only waiting till the shadows + Have a little longer grown." + +Hark? said the sick lady quickly sitting up at hearing the first +notes. Oh, that is my dear brother, Peter--his name signifieth +Lord. Please aid me to dress. I am really better, I am, indeed, do +not fear. I must go down to hear him sing. His charming voice +has lifted me into strength. I will take the tea. Though very pale, +she entertained that evening, and even sang, until midnight. Not +one of the party at that time was a Christian Science believer +either. + +We are only in the kindergarten of life. Some time we shall all +possess the high art of selecting our friends and our life +companions, my dear, eager, anxious inquirers. We have power +in ourselves to grow. This was simply an unadulterated fact, +proving the power of mind, soul and spirit on itself from the +stimulus of the brother; there being also very much efficacy in +the harmony of tones as well as of personality. I wish more +persons could be conscious of the power of the voice on the +actions of all we come in contact with. We are now touching but +slightly on the esoteric, as carnal desires are yet in full evidence. + +I have now in mind a sensitive lad of fourteen, who, after +four trying years ran away from a really good home and a +step-mother, because of her harsh tones. Though a good woman, his +soul-life seemed to suffer. + +"The way she says things," said he, "is awful to something in +me, so that I want to fight. I can't help but shiver. Oh, I don't +know what it is. I want to be good. I know she does some nice +things." + +Though the young philosopher chose for himself a severe +taskmaster, with plenty of added work, yet, with some special +kindliness in trustful tones that proved part-pay, some needed, +minor chord was touched in the soul-life of the lad, that gave +him hope in himself and in his future, which proved very true. +He has long been a kind and useful citizen, in precepts for the +young, and an object lesson to many. A practical, reasoning +benefactor of the race, as was the kindly Charles Dickens in the +interest of child-life. So let us work. These times are infinitely +larger, broader, and more full of promise to the world. + +Our musical friend has left the shadows that were then +gathering about her life. Gone into the more perfect light and +life of her true inheritance, with God the loving parent of all +human and divine joys. + + +CHAPTER VII. + +SUPERSTITION. + +Do not hold to cowardice nor fear of death. The mad bull with +the spade stands near by. Look into this strange cup of figures +and graves. Some recent death and gloom has somehow filled +your mind with renewed horror. You have also felt that you are +about to die. Not a comfortable thought, madam, to be snuffed +out of all earthly hopes! Abandon your cringing fears. Dread +nothing. You must gain mastery over these crude forebodings, +or you will be seriously handicapped. Most discouraging is fear. +The spirit of conscious life cannot be annihilated. Man is +immortal. We should not doubt the word of God nor His prophecies. + +Towers, trees, and large scenes are in evidence to aid you into a +larger life career. + +See you now the rubbish by the grave! enough to hopelessly +entangle you. See the many wild animals in your path near the +dung heap. Again the tears and the fears. You do not stand +erect. Your ideas of the after-life seem to belie your professed +creeds. One of your sincere friends and true helpers requests my +candid service in your behalf as noting your vibrations. Thank +you. + +I will now proceed further with your sanction. Listen well: You +belong to a class who would send dinamic heart-beats to disturb +your entire bodily system on the subject of death. Were it a +necessity to perform even some slight operation, your death in +this state might easily ensue from very fear. + +Madam, how is one to overcome nature? I do not brag on my +heroism as others do. I do fear death, the devil and his imps. I +have often dreamed of him as pursuing me. There must be +something to it, as my father believed likewise. I want the good +time of life here. We don't know of the hereafter as promised. + +Young man, your birth-right, your reason and education are at +fault, if nineteen years of life's action has brought you no +solace. You are not in life's true logic, nor is the profession of +law well chosen for you by your relatives, neither is the +ministry. + +You now think you are in love with a good young girl. How +will you comfort her when sorrows come to you? She, too, fears +death and pain beyond the ordinary. A pair of simple young +folks, indeed, both of you. + +See, in this last cup the flame of destruction has come. You +have both lost your heads. Death and loss have invaded the +home. Everything is scattered about. No reason nor care +remains. Indecision, crosses, and breaks are in promise. The +good symbols are yet distant, though inviting you to their ample +folds. You need first to be whipped into life's truer graces, as oft +we are. Your parents were weak, sympathetic and selfish. + +There were five of you in family. The figure in first cup was +correct, though not an old man there, that is three years past! +and the one-armed man! that was long ago, too. Yes, but his +letters yet lie near your family thoughts. Do not lose them, there +is value attached. Yet there are imprisoned minds who do not +know their real possessions. Now, these bars and unformed +circles bespeak it. Behold the light on the obscure desk in the +old square. + +Oh yes, he was cheated out of his rights, years ago, yet father +keeps the letters. There is nothing in them now. + +Yes there is, several years hence, by the death of a child and a +lost woman from near an ocean city. News sudden will come to +you. Let your fancy concentrate a little on these letters. + +How peculiar! There was one who died by water, that was a +family connection. + +You have now had three readings. Hold your true texts in mind. +Fear nothing but injustice. You will be tested. You will yet love +the ocean, even the lightning's fierce flashes, though after +sudden peril and loss you will make acquaintance with your +higher self--not be so selfish nor material. Eight years of strange +wanderings with indecision and betrayal by a false black hand, +as shown you. Several gravestones and some sickness. After +these experiences you will awaken from some of life's medley +of dreams and fears. You will then meet a strong, true woman, +who will dominate much of your nobler, latent life, and aid you +into position, if you do not mar your life's course in about three +years. Your hand reads likewise. In this last cup of yours are +spears and weeds, with knives and hidden crosses. Your dangers, +as here read, are very many. + +There are so many small lives filled with idleness, though some +useful objects could oft be reached. Yours is largely among +these. Yet I am pleased to state you could yet become a fine +mind and life trainer by the age of forty, if wise enough to select +your true helpers--good books. No one can work effectively +alone. My mind has traveled with you up to these years, viewed +the field of resource and its possibilities. You should win two +helpful friends. + +Only one comprehensive life-course reading has shown this +entire evening. We do not gain the high art of holding the good +which we gain, so profligate are we. Then we like to blame our +friends or the fates for our poor judgment and our obtuseness. +Until we begin to work as though we belong to and believe in +an immortal life, as an inheritance, the great human family +cannot enjoy that useful cohesion that belongs to mankind as +God designed life's distributives--our higher attributes. + +Again, shun the man with the fire-arms and bottles. Behold the +weapons. The dark pit lies near him with many cross-bars, +cages and clouds. An evil combination--_imprisonment_, though +your sunlight has only been dimmed. If so, your will, patient +labor and strong desire can yet win for you. The flag of +victory is now so limp. This fear of kindly death or hell is the +enemy of mankind. Do not again thus cringe to this fair angel of +life to all men eventually. You can live to old age and follow +streams, fishing as pastime. This old man symbolizes your dear +self now calmed in mind--not so dead as in youth. So, hold +your true texts for ready action, and become a brave man to +enjoy the true life here promised to you. + +If we have stimulated in any heart some lofty resolves, which +will unfold their fragrance for other lives, we are then well +repaid, as trusting in the Infinite All Good. + +A pilgrim on the path. + +CLARA. + +[Illustration: calligraphy flourish 3] + + +CUPOLOGY. + +_Significance similar to Psychic Readings, Clairvoyant +Symbols, or Dreams_. + +If high up in the cup--Early consummation. + +If chained to the bottom--Delayed desires. + +Uncle Sam--American matters. Statesmanship--Waving flags; +Hopeful signs. + +Arm--Proffered aid +Accordion--Primitive talent +Apples--Health, Knowledge +Atlas--Sight, Seeing +Bats--Moral blindness +Bees--Thrift +Bed--Illness or need of rest +Birds--News, Singing, Joys +Bridge--Some event in life +Broom--Industry +Bread--To be sated +Cooks--Learning +Cake--Luxury +Cats--Jealousies +Children--Good omen +Cavern--Near danger +Circles--Fine realizations +Cow--Good nutriment +Crescent--Love token +Cattle--Thrift +Children at play--Universal good +Crosses--Some trials +Chair--To preside +Chicks--Cares +Chickens--Gains +Crowing Cock--Ambitious, Victory +Crows--Intrigues +Ditch--Dangers ahead +Dogs--Friends +Door--Some opening +Dots--Letters, Papers, News +Ears--Listen well +Elephant--Some imposition +Eggs--Gains +Eyes--To observe +Feet--Traveler +Feet, bare--Poverty +Fish--Money, Gains +Fish, headless--Losses +Flowers--Joy, Pleasure +Floods--Sickness, Sorrow +Fountain--Public benefit +Fruit--Health +Forests--Nature loving +Fox--Cunning +Hearts--Artistic love of Unity, Friends, Home +Hand--Friendship +Horse--Much news, Friend +Horse, vicious--Angry friend +Houses--Home building +Jewel-Box--Wealth +Jumping--Vitativeness +Lock and Keys--To be put in trust +Lion--Moral courage +Ledger--In accounts +Lighted Lamp--Great success +Lock--A secret +Moon--Honors +Monkeys--Evolution--Darwin +Medals--Diplomas +News-Boys--Public excitement +Nuts--Problems +Oxen--Patient toil +Palms--Restful victory +Palm-Trees--Tropical scenes +Park--Benevolence +Platform--Oration +Pitcher--To receive +Public seats--People's joy +Quills--Old parchments +Rats--Thieving +Ring--Contract + Near heart, Wedding + With child or flowers, Bliss +Road--An outlook +Rabbit--Timidity, Cowardice +Rainbow--Sublime promise +Saw or Scissors--Vexations +Scales--Love of justice +Star--Hope, Promise +Squares--Realizations +Sunlight--Vital life, Health +Ships--Commerce +Sinking Ships--Perils and loss +Spring--Wisdom, Peace +Snake--Enmity, Lies +Staff--Aid +Sofa--Social or Courtship +Spiders, or-- +Scorpions--Illness, Venom +Sky-scenes--Sublimity and Peace +Tiger--Onslaught +Tall Shaft--Illustrious dead +Table Set--Feasting +Trees--Lofty thoughts +Tower--Strength +Urns--Veneration, Retrospection +Wells--Wisdom and drawing forth good +Wheat--Plenty +Whirlwind--Distraction +Wavy lines--Vexations +Weeds--Petty trials +Window--In a new light +Monks, Nuns, Priests or Ministers--betoken sectarian controversies +Scattered objects--Lack of harmony and no propitious time for action + +Keep the mind well centered in reading. Thus only will the +transmitting powers of soul expand the descriptive faculties. + +[Illustration: calligraphy flourish 4] + + + GIRLHOOD. + + [AMELIA E. BARR.] + + An exquisite incompleteness, + The theme of a song unset; + A waft in the shuttle of life; + A bud with the dew still wet; + The dawn of a day uncertain; + The delicate bloom of fruit; + The plant with some leaves unfolded, + The rest asleep at the root. + + +POPULAR TOASTS. + +[Illustration: American flag] + +_Our Flag:_ The beautiful banner that represents the precious +_mettle_ of America. + + + OUR COUNTRY'S EMBLEM. + + The Lily of France may fade, + The Thistle and Shamrock wither, + The Oak of England may decay, + But the Stars shine on forever. + + * * * + + The standard of Freedom floats proudly on high, + It's the bright waving Banner of Light, + Fair symbol of Liberty born of the sky, + True emblem of Union and Might. + + +WEBSTER'S MOTTO. + +Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable. + + + SHIP OF STATE. + + Nail to the mast her holy flag; + Set every threadbare sail; + And give her to the God of Storms, + The lightning and the gale. + + + A TOAST TO OUR NATIVE LAND. + + Huge and alert, irascible yet strong, + We make our fitful way 'mid right and wrong. + One time we pour out millions to be free, + Then rashly sweep an Empire from the Sea! + One time we pull the shackles from the slaves, + And then, quiescent, we are ruled by knaves, + Often we rudely break restraining bars, + And confidentially reach out toward the stars. + Yet under all there flows a hidden stream, + Sprung from the Rock of Freedom, the great dream + Of Washington and Franklin, men of old, + Who knew that freedom is not bought with gold; + This Land we love, our heritage, + Strange mixture of the gross and fine, yet sage + And full of promise,--destined to be great, + Drink to Our Native Land--God bless the State! + --_Robert Bridges in the Atlantic_. + + * * * + + Here's to the man who loves his wife, + And loves his wife alone, + For many a man loves another man's wife, + When he ought to be loving his own. + + +TOAST TO THE HORSE. + +Dr. Kane, President of the New York Drivers' Association, at a +public dinner recently delivered the following toast to the horse: + +"That bundle of sentient nerves, with the heart of a woman, the +eye of a gazelle, the courage of a gladiator, the docility of a +slave, the proud courage of a king, and the blind obedience of a +good soldier. The companion of the desert and the plain; that +turns the moist furrow in the spring in order that all the world +may have abundant harvests; that furnishes the sport of Kings; +that with blazing eye and distended nostril, fearlessly leads our +greatest Generals through carnage and the smoke of battle to +glory and renown; whose blood forms one of the ingredients +that go to make the ink in which all history is written, and that +finally, mutely and sadly, in black trappings, pulls the humblest +of us all to the newly sodded threshold of eternity." + + +OUR ABSENT FRIENDS. + +Although out of sight we recognize them with our glasses. + + + FALSE FRIENDS. + + Here's champagne for our real friends, + And real pain for our sham friends. + + +OUR INCOMES. + +May we have heads to earn and hearts to spend. + +Here's wishing us all more friends and less heed of them. + +May we ever be able to serve a friend, and noble enough to +conceal it. + + + THE SPHERE OF WOMAN. + + They talk about a woman's sphere as though it had a limit; + There's not a place in earth or heaven, + There's not a task to mankind given, + There's not a blessing or a woe, + There's not a whispered yes or no, + There's not a life, or death, or birth, + That has a feather's weight of worth-- + Without a woman in it. + + * * * + + Here's to the friends we class as old, + And here's to those we class as new, + May the new soon grow; to us old, + And the old ne'er grow to us new. + + +A FEW TOASTS. + +Woman. She needs no eulogy--she speaks for herself. + +May we have the unspeakable good fortune to win a true heart, +and the merit to keep it. + +May we never murmur without cause and never have cause to +murmur. + +Woman. The fairest work of the great Author; the edition is +large and no man should be without a copy. + + Happy are we met, happy have we been, + Happy may we part, and happy meet again. + + May Satan cut the toes of all our foes, + That we may know them by their limping. + +The man we love--he who thinks the most good and speaks the +least ill of his neighbors. + + * * * + + Our National birds-- + The American eagle, the Thanksgiving turkey. + May the one give us peace in all our States-- + And the other a piece for all our plates. + + * * * + + Here's to the girls of the American shore, + I love but one, I love no more, + Since she's not here to drink her part, + I'll drink her share with all my heart. + + A little health, a little wealth, + A little house and freedom, + With some few friends for certain ends, + But little cause to need 'em. + + * * * + +Col. Lovell H. Jerome, who resigned as second lieutenant +Second United States Cavalry, in 1879, and now repels the +invading smuggler in New York City, brought a new toast to the +Hoffman House bar recently: + + To the ladies, + Our arms your defense, + Your arms our recompense, + Fall in! + --_New York Sun_. + + +THREE GREAT COMMANDERS. + +May we always be under the orders of General Peace, General +Plenty and General Prosperity. + +We now toast the superb Electric Flag of the people with every +honorable Elk who has beautified and made memorable these +pleasures of the Queen City.--_Cincinnati, July, 1904_. + + * * * + + Though there's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip, + Yet, while o'er the brim of life's breaker I dip, + While there's life in the lip, while there's warmth in the wine, + One deep health I'll pledge, and that health shall be thine. + --_Owen Meredith_. + + +A HINT ON ENTERTAINING. + +"The most successful social functions are those managed by a +host and hostess," says a society scribe, "not by either alone. +Leave a man to make up a party and he is sure to forget that +Mrs. B. was engaged to C. before she married D., and that Mrs. +C. is aware of the fact, and that the D.s and E.s have long been +at daggers drawn, and he will have no eyes to detect the designs +of Mrs. H. On the other hand, a woman gets nervous and fatigued +with the constant effort to keep the ball rolling, and fails +just where a man would succeed. What is wanted is a division +of labor, and if this were done oftener there would be less +disappointment on the part of entertainers and entertained." + + +LOOK AT YOUR CUP. + +A cup of coffee, farmers assert, makes a pretty accurate +barometer: + +"To make a barometer out of a cup of coffee," a farmer said, +"you must use loaf sugar. You drop a lump of this sugar exactly +into the middle of your cup, and then watch the bubbles rise. It +is by these bubbles that your prognostications are made. + +"If the bubbles rise straight up in the middle, remaining there in +a cluster till they disappear, the weather is to be fair; if they rise +at the sides of the cup, adhering to the china, the weather will be +rainy. If they rise all over the coffee's surface, and move here +and there erratically, changeable conditions are to be looked +for." + + +ENTERTAINMENT SUGGESTION. + +Here are some ideas for an entertainment, which is said to be +both amusing and instructive, as it makes one think, and the +time put into anything that makes men or women think is never +lost. Have an art gallery and invite your friends to it. Each +person is supplied with a catalogue and must pay a forfeit for +every piece of art he fails to find. Here is a sample of the +catalogue: + +1. The Bell of the Season. (A dinner bell.) +2. Saved. (A bank containing a few pennies.) +3. An Absorbing Subject. (A sponge.) +4. A Drawing Subject. (A crayon.) +5. The Skipper's Home. (Cheese.) +6. A Young Man's Horror. (The mitten.) +7. The Light of Other Days. (A candle.) +8. Tears, Idle Tears. (An onion.) +9. Can't be Beat. (A turnip.) +10. The Four Seasons. (Salt, pepper, vinegar and mustard.) +11. A Regular Bore. (A gimlet.) +12. Family Jars. (Mason's fruit jars in three sizes.) +13. True to the Core. (An apple.) +14. A Prison Scene. (A mouse in a trap.) +15. A Switchtender. (A hairpin.) +16. A Bunch of Dates. (A calendar.) + +Of course, no one speaks in the art room. + +Every guest fills in what names he can, hoping that his friends +will miss many more than he does. Have ten or more "pieces of +art" than are on the catalogue. This is to mystify a little. + + +HAVE A PEANUT? + +An original young woman of Lamar has invented a new kind of +social diversion. It is the "progressive peanut party." Four +guests are seated about each table, and on the table is placed a +crock full of peanuts. Each guest is provided with a hatpin, and +when the word is given all begin jabbing for peanuts. The +quartet that empties its crock first wins the game, and then the +sets of players change. It is needless to say that the peanut party +is strictly a "hen" function. A man couldn't jab a crockful of +peanuts with a hatpin in a week, but the young women of Lamar +played thirty games in a single afternoon.--_Kansas City Journal_. + + +WHAT THE EYES TELL. + +The color of the eyes has hitherto chiefly concerned the novelist +and the poet, but lately the cold-blooded statistician has been +looking into them. It is announced that, taking the average of +Europe and America, 44.6 per cent of men have light eyes, +including blue and gray. The proportion of women having blue +or gray eyes is 32.2 per cent. In other words, blue eyes are +decidedly rarer among women than among men, says the _London Express_. + +Men have light eyes oftener than women, but in the intermediate +shades between light and dark the percentage of the two sexes +is very nearly the same. + +In this intermediate category are brown and hazel eyes. The +percentage of these among men is 43.1, and among women 45.1. + +The percentage of black eyes is larger among women than +among men, being 20.7 per cent for the women, while among +men it is 12.3. + +Blue eyes are considered to possess great attractions. This was +the case among the Greeks and Romans of classic times. Upon +the Goddess of Minerva was bestowed a surname to signify the +blueness of her eyes. + +Gray eyes have ever been the ideal of all great novelists; among +the number Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Wilkie Collins and +Charles Reade. Most of the heroines in up-to-date fiction are +gray-eyed maidens. + +Of the living great, as well as the famous dead, most have eyes +of gray blue. + +Shakespeare had eyes of gray; so had nearly all the English +poets. Coleridge's eyes were large, light gray, prominent and of +liquid brilliancy. Byron's eyes were gray, fringed with long +black lashes. + +Charles Lamb's glittering eyes were strangely dissimilar in +color, one being hazel, the other having specks of gray in the +iris. Chatterton's brilliant gray eyes were his most remarkable +features. Under strong excitement one appeared brighter and +larger than the other. + +As to green eyes they are for glory. The Empress Catherine of +Russia had eyes of this hue. In Don Quixote green eyes are thus +referred to: + +"But, now I think on it, Sancho, thy description of her beauty +was a little absurd in that particular of comparing her eyes to +pearls. Sure, such eyes are more like those of a whiting or a +seabeam than those of a fair lady, and in my opinion, Dulcinea's +eyes are rather like two celestial emeralds, railed in with two +celestial arches, which signify her eyebrows. Therefore, Sancho, +you had better take your pearls from her eyes and apply them to +her teeth." Green eyes are not popular, however. Cervantes +spoke of them as "verdant emeralds," that more usually they are +likened to the optics of the cat. Very few heroines have green +eyes. Jane Eyre and Rose, in Robert Elsmere, are the only two +we can think of at the moment. + + +REVEALED BY THE THUMB. + +The thumb is a great tell-tale where character is concerned. +If nose, eyes and mouth decline to reveal the secrets or +temperament, you need not be at a loss. Notice the hands, and +especially the thumb of the person whom you are seeking to +read. + +A broad and short thumb indicates lack of refinement. Taken in +conjunction with stubby finger tips and a thick wrist, it indicates +coarseness, even positive brutality. + +A tapering thumb gives notice of extreme delicacy of perception +and refinement of character. + +A thumb of medium breadth indicates balance between the +extremes mentioned, and denotes strength of character essential +to success in life. + +If when in repose the thumb curls outward, its owner possesses +a sound constitution, much vitality and cheerfulness. + +On the contrary, if the thumb naturally falls inward towards the +palm, a melancholy, despondent disposition is denoted, also +constitutional delicacy and lack of vitality. + + +CHARACTERS IN FINGER NAILS. + +Broad nails denote a gentle natured person, inclined to be +modest and unassuming. + +Narrow nails denote a studious but not very gentle nature, with +a desire for scientific knowledge. + +White nails denote a fondness for society of opposite sex, not +overstrong in health and subject to fevers. + +Round nails denote a desire for knowledge in general, apt to +take great pride in own accomplishments, rather hasty, yet fairly +good natured and forgiving. + +Long nails denote caution, lacking confidence in human nature, +decided in opinion and strictly virtuous. + +Eyes are cold, enticing, sympathetic or affectionate. The mouth +is kissable (as men say), cynical, cruel, sensuous or indifferent, +and so with all the features. + + +BEAUTY'S SEVEN NURSES. + +Beauty, it is said, has seven nurses, which, if given full charge, +will make of the homeliest woman a picture of charm and +loveliness. + +These magic seven are fresh air, sunshine, warmth, rest, sleep, +food and whatever stirs the blood, be it exercise or enthusiasm. + +Be sure to get plenty of sleep. You can sleep yourself into good +looks. A long nap and a hot bath will make any woman more +attractive, and lift years from her shoulder. + +Don't be afraid of sunshine and fresh air. They offer you bloom +and color. And deep breathing is surely the hand-maid of the +fresh-air nurse. Deep breathing gives a fine figure as well as +clear complexion. + +Don't sit down to table as soon as you come in from work, or a +round of social duties. Lie down, or sit down, for ten minutes, +waiting until you can partake of your dinner with the physical +machinery rested and refreshed. + +Don't bathe in hard water. Soften it with a little powdered +borax, or a handful of oatmeal. + +Don't bathe the face while it is very warm, or very cold. + +Don't wash the face when traveling, unless it is with a little +alcohol and water, or a little cold cream. + +Don't attempt to remove dust with cold water. Give the face a +hot bath with soap, and then rinse thoroughly with clear tepid or +cold water. + +Don't rub the face with too coarse a towel. Treat it as you would +the finest porcelain, tenderly and delicately.--_Philadelphia Telegraph_. + + +TO DISCOVER A WOMAN'S AGE. + +Every man seems to be born with a desire to know the age of +the ladies with whom he comes in contact, and women also +appear to have an innate curiosity concerning the number of +"summers" which have passed over the heads of their female +friends. But there is nothing more difficult to discover than the +exact age of a lady who wishes to keep the fact a secret. + +Now, here is a little scheme by which you can find out the age +of any person. + +Having engaged that person in pleasant conversation, you +proceed something after the following manner--speaking very +innocently, of course:-- + +"There is a very simple problem in arithmetic which very few +people are able to see through, yet it is as easy as possible. I +wonder if you can do it?" + +This sets the person on his dignity, and he or she wants to do it +at once. + +Then you go on: + +"Think of a number corresponding to the numerical order of the +month in which you were born. Oh, no, you need not tell me." + +(To make the explanation clear, we will assume that the figure +is two--standing for February--and that the age is 30.) + +"Now, multiply that figure by 2," you continue, "and add 5. +Done that? Well, multiply that by 50 and add your own age.-- +From the total subtract 365, and to the total add 115. Now, what +figure have you got?" + +"230," replies the person addressed, "Isn't that correct?" + +"Exactly," you exclaim, "You are one of the very few persons +who have managed it." + +And you turn away to hide your smile of satisfaction at having +discovered that your victim was born in February and that he is +thirty years of age. You have arrived at this result by separating +the figures 230 into 2 (February) and 30. And you can do this +with everybody's age. Try it on your sweetheart.--_Tit-Bit_. + + +HOW HE MAY BE WON. + +Some men have been found courageous enough to express +themselves on the subject, "How to win a man." Here are the +requirements from a masculine point of view for winning a man +worth having. The summer girl should cut this out and paste it +on her mirror: + +Be natural, be extremely fastidious in choosing friends, in +conversation, in manners, and in dress. + +Be neat, for the well-groomed woman, though plain, is more +attractive than the slovenly beauty. + +Be cheerful and fun-loving, be kind, unselfish, sympathetic and +affectionate. + +Be interested in everything that will improve your mind and +broaden your views. + +Be orderly, systematic, and industrious, but do not waste time +on non-essentials. Good reading is far better than useless fancy +work. + +Be domestic and home-loving, secure as much knowledge as +possible concerning house-hold affairs, and do not be ashamed +to use it. + +Be athletic enough to keep in fine physical condition and just +manly enough to be self-reliant and courageous, but not so +independent as to forget for one moment that you are a woman. + +Cultivate a liking for children and old people, for you must +remember that you have been the one and will be the other if +you live long enough. + +Do not appear to be superior, even if you know that you are, one +can easily be mistaken on this point. + +Do not be conceited or vain, do not be silly or gushing, or too +eager. + +Do not be late and yet do not waste time in being too early; +study repose of manner, it is so restful to tired nerves. + +Do not nag either before or after he is won; the "I told you so" +has lost many a friend and lover. + +Be frank, and truthful and forgiving, and remember that +forgetting must often go with forgiving. This, of course, is the +ideal woman, but the standard is not too high for any girl to +strive for.--_Philadelphia Telegraph_. + + +DEW DROPS. + +Wisdom is the flower of experience. + +Hope is good, but hustle is better. + +Energy, however, usually follows encouragement. + +A soft answer sootheth, but a wise one shameth. + +The genius never regarded as a crank is yet to be born. + +Do as I say, not as I do: Preaching love with a jealous heart. + +To move through the world without the dissent of others: Be +temperate and pay your debts. + +Happiness is not so difficult to obtain as to retain. + +Who will not work without pay should also be consistent +enough to refuse pay without work. + +Heart and head are two masters who may be served by one +hand. + +Human deification, permitted or self implied, is an offense +against Deity. + + +BIRTH STONES FOR LUCK. + +Do you want that mysterious thing that is called "good luck?" +Of course you do. Then in some form or another you must +always wear your birth stone. This is declared to be, by the +superstitious, a true talisman against all the ills that flesh is heir +to. + +Upon her finger in a handsome ring the very modern girl wears +the stone that means good omen to her, and feels that she is +secure from harm. If it is not in a little golden circlet upon her +hand, then perchance she wears it at her throat, in one of the +little dingle dangles that are so fashionable. But about her neck, +in her fob, or bangle, the lass who wishes to cast a spell of good +fortune about herself, somewhere wears the stone that is +assigned to the month in which she first saw the light of day. + +In what month were you born? Do you know what is your birth +stone? If you do not you better at once discover the stone and +begin to wear it. That is, if you wish good luck, and what +maiden ever lived who does not sigh for it. + +Here is a list of the gems, and the months to which they are +assigned by those soothtellers who know all the signs for luck, +good or ill: For January, garnet; February, amethyst; March, +jasper; April, sapphire; May, chalcedony; June, emerald; July, +onyx; August, carnelian; September, chrysolite; October, +aquamarine; November, topaz; December, ruby. + + +KRUGER'S UNLUCKY DIAMOND. + +When Kruger went to Europe he took with him a famous +diamond, which was said to have brought misfortune and death +to all its possessors. It had a strange history. + +The diamond originally belonged to Meshhesh, a Basuto chief, +from whom it was extorted by T'Chaka, the Zulu King. T'Chaka's brother +killed him and stole the stone. The brother came to grief and the +gem passed into the possession of a Zulu chief, who soon afterward +was assassinated. The natives say that no less than sixteen of the +successive possessors of the diamond were either killed or driven +out of the country for the sake of the gem. + +The diamond was then seen by white men who sought to possess it. +A party of whites attacked the natives who had the stone in their +possession, and a fierce fight ensued, in which 300 lives, mostly +natives, were lost. + +Memela, a native chief, took the gem and concealed it in a +wound which he had received in the battle. Afterward Memela +was caught by the Boers and set to work as a slave. Kruger, +hearing his story, released him, and in gratitude Memela gave +the stone to his liberator. Some years passed, and then Kruger +met his misfortune. + +Where the fatal diamond is now is not certain, though it is +certain that the ex-President of the Transvaal parted with it. +Some say that it is in the coffers of the Vatican, and some that it +was sold to the Emperor of Austria, and is now among the +crown jewels of Vienna. + +The stone is said to be 200 carats in weight, but is not perfect.-- +_Baltimore Sun_. + + +STRANGE WILLS. + +There have not been many will makers more eccentric than Mr. +MacCraig, the Scotch banker, whose last testament will shortly +come under the consideration of the Edinburgh Court of Session. +Mr. MacCraig it may be remembered left instructions in his +will that gigantic statues of himself, his brothers and sisters, +a round dozen in all, should be placed on the summit of a great +tower he had commenced to build on Battery Hill, near Oban--each +statue to cost not less than $5,000. + + * * * + +A much more whimsical testator was a Mr. Sanborn, of Boston, +who left $5,000 to Prof. Agassi, to have his skin converted into +drum-heads and two of his bones into drumsticks, and the +balance of his fortune to his friend, Mr. Simpson, on condition +that on every 17th of June he should repair to the foot of Bunker +Hill, and, as the sun rose, "beat on the drum the spirit stirring +strain of Yankee Doodle." + + * * * + +A Mr. Stow left a sum of money to an eminent King's counsel, +"Wherewith to purchase a picture of a viper stinging his +benefactor," as a perpetual warning against the sin of ingratitude. + + * * * + +It was a rich English brewer who bequeathed $150,000 to his +daughter on condition that on the birth of her first child she +should forfeit $10,000 to a specified hospital, $20,000 on the +birth of the second child, and so on by arithmetical progression +until the $150,000 was exhausted. + + * * * + +Sydney Dickenson left $300,000 to his widow, who appears to +have given him a bad time during his life, on condition that she +should spend two hours a day at his graveside, "in company +with her sister, whom I know she hates worse than she does +myself." + + +LAUGHAGRAPHS. + +It is related of George Clark, the celebrated negro minstrel, that, +being examined as a witness, he was severely interrogated by +the attorney, who wished to break down his evidence. "You are +in the negro minstrel business, I believe?" inquired the lawyer. +"Yes, sir," was the prompt reply. "Isn't that rather a low +calling?" demanded the lawyer. "I don't know but what it is, +sir," replied the minstrel, "but it is so much better than my +father's that I am rather proud of it." "What was your father's +calling?" "He was a lawyer," replied Clark, in a tone of regret +that put the audience in a roar. The lawyer let him alone. + + + THE MAN WHO CAN MAKE US LAUGH. + + God bless the man who can make us laugh. + Who can make us forget for a time, + In the sparkling mirth of a paragraph, + Or a bit of ridiculous rime, + The burden of care that is carried each day, + The thoughts that awaken a sigh, + The sorrows that threaten to darken our way, + God bless the dear man say I. + + +QUEER BLUNDERS. + +Illegible copy has caused innumerable amusing and not a few +serious blunders in print. A speaker quoted these lines: + + O, come, thou goddess fair and free, + In heaven yclept Euphrosyne. + +They were printed as written: + + O, come, thou goddess fair and free, + In heaven she crept and froze her knee. + +The reporter was following sound. Here is another illustration: + + Those lovely eyes bedimmed, + Those lovely eyes be dammed. + +A Congressman advocated grants of public land to "actual +settlers." It got in the paper as "cattle stealers." A reporter tried +to write that "the jury disagreed and were discharged," but the +compositor set it up "the jury disappeared and were disgraced." +The last words in a poorly written sentence, "Alone and +isolated, man would become impotent and perish," were set up +as "impatient and peevish." + + +A MYSTERIOUS TELEGRAM. + +A certain church society in Vermont resolved on a Christmas +festival, and determined to have a scripture motto, handsomely +illuminated, in a space back of the pulpit. One of the deacons, +who had business in Boston, took with him the proposed motto +and the measure of the space to be occupied by it, but unfortunately +lost the memorandum. He therefore sent this telegram to his wife +in Vermont. "Send motto and space." She promptly complied, +but the Boston telegraph girl fell off her chair in a faint +when she read off the message, "Unto us a child is born four +feet wide and eight feet long." The deacon, however, thought +it nothing uncommon. + + * * * + +Mistress: Did the fisherman who stopped here this morning +have frog legs? + +Nora: Sure, mum, I dinnaw. He wore pants.--_Cornell Widow_. + + * * * + +"Goodness," exclaimed the nervous visitor "what vulgar little +hoodlums those noisy boy are out there in the street!" + +"I can't see them," said the hostess, "I'm rather near-sighted, you +know." + +"But surely you can hear how they're shouting and carrying on." + +"Yes, but I can't tell whether they're my children or the +neighbors."--_Philadelphia Press_. + + +FORTUNE. + +A divinity of fools, a helper to the wise. + + +DEAD EASY. + +Funnicus--It's a queer thing, but all the men employed at the +cemetery are historical characters. + +Dullwum--How do you make that out? + +Fennicus--They're mound builders, aren't they? + + +A BAD SPELL OF WEATHER. + +Dear Paw--I am having a luvly time, so do not expeck me home +ontill next week. All are well and send luv. The wethur is brite +and fare. Yure sun, WILL. + + +FOR AN EVENING GAME. + +At a club social the hostess proposed a game of "sobriquets," +offering a prize for the one who would identify the largest +number of the assumed names. + +She gave to each one a slip of paper on which were typewritten +the assumed names of numerous persons, mostly writers, and at +a signal allowed them twenty minutes in which to write the +correct names opposite. A few illustrations are here given, but +others may be added: + +1 Currer Bell -- Charlotte Bronte +2 Mark Twain -- Samuel Clemens +3 Uncle Remus -- Joel Chandler Harris +4 Boz -- Charles Dickens +5 Bard of Avon -- Shakespeare +6 Peasant Bard -- Robert Burns +7 Poet of Nature -- Wordsworth +8 Immortal Dreamer -- Bunyon +9 The Traitor -- Benedict Arnold +10 Little Corporal -- Napoleon Bonaparte +11 Mr. Dooley -- Peter Dunne +12 Oliver Optic -- William T. Adams +13 Gail Hamilton -- Mary A. Dodge +14 Grand Old Man -- Gladstone +15 Poor Richard -- Benjamin Franklin +16 Swedish Nightingale -- Jennie Lind +17 Brother Jonathan -- Jonathan Trumbull +18 Father Endeavor -- Francis Clark +19 Tippecanoe -- General Harrison +20 George Sand -- Mme. Dudevant +21 Ian Maclaren -- John Watson +22 Timothy Titcomb -- J. G. Holland +23 Ik Marvel -- Donald G. Mitchell +24 Mrs. Partington -- B. P. Shillaber +25 The Learned Blacksmith -- Elihu Burritt +26 Peter Parley -- Samuel G. Goodrich +27 Autocrat of the Breakfast Table -- Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes +28 Uncle Sam -- United States + + +SOMETHING TO REMEMBER. +RULERS, PRESIDENTS AND MINISTERS WHO HAVE BEEN SLAIN OR ATTACKED +WITHIN THE CENTURY. + +Napoleon I, attempted, December 24, 1800. +Paul, Czar of Russia, March 24, 1801. +Spencer Perceval, Premier of England, May 11, 1812. +George IV, attempted, January 28, 1817. +Andrew Jackson, President United States, attempted January 30, 1835. +Louis Philippe, of France, many attempts, from 1835 to 1846. +Frederick William, of Prussia, attempt, May 22, 1850. +Francis Joseph, of Austria, February 18, 1853. +Ferdinand, Charles III, Duke of Parma, March 27, 1854. +Isabella II, of Spain, three attempts, from 1847 to 1856. +Napoleon III, three attempts, from 1855 to 1858. +Daniel, Prince of Montenegro, August 13, 1860. +Abraham Lincoln, President United States, April 14, 1865. +Michael, Prince of Servia, June 10, 1868. +Prim, Marshal of Spain, December 28, 1870. +Richard, Earl of Mayo, Governor-General of India, February 8, 1872. +Abdul Aziz, Sultan of Turkey, June 4, 1876. +William I, of Prussia, three attempts, from 1861 to 1876. +Alexander II, Czar of Russia, six attempts and finally killed by + explosion of bomb, March 13, 1881. +Mohammed Ali, Pasha, September 7, 1878. +Humbert I, King of Italy, attempt, November 17, 1878. +Lord Lytton, Viceroy of India, attempt, December 12, 1878. +Alfonso XII, of Spain, two attempts, 1878-79. +Brattiano, Premier of Roumania, attempt, December 14, 1880. +James A. Garfield, President United States, July 2, 1881. +Carter H. Harrison, Mayor of Chicago, October 28, 1893. +Marie Francois Carnot, President of France, June 24, 1894. +Nasr-ed-Din, Shah of Persia, May 1, 1896. +Stanislaus Stambouloff, Premier of Bulgaria, July 25, 1895. +Canovas del Castillo, Prime Minister of Spain, August 8, 1897. +Juan Idarte Borda, President of Uruguay, August 25, 1897. +Jose Maria Reyna Barrios, President of Guatemala, February 18, 1898. +Empress Elizabeth, of Austria, September 10, 1898. +Edward VII, of England, attempt, April 4, 1900. +Humbert, King of Italy, July 29, 1900. +William McKinley, President United States, September 6, 1901. +Alexander, King of Servia, June 11, 1903. +Draga, Queen of Servia, June 11, 1903. +Governor General Bobrikoff, of Finland, June 16, 1904. +Von Plehve, Minister of the Interior, Russia, July 28, 1904. + + + THE FOUR LEAVED SHAMROCK. + + "I'll seek the four leaved shamrock + In all its fairy dells, + And if I find its charmed leaves, + Oh how I'll weave my spells. + I would not waste my magic might + On diamonds, pearls or gold, + Such treasures tire the weary heart, + Their triumphs are but cold. + + But I would play the enchanter's part + In casting bliss around, + And not a tear or aching heart + Should in the world be found." + + * * * * * + + "To wealth I would give honor, + I'd dry the mourner's tears, + And to the pallid cheeks restore + The bloom of happier years; + And friends that had been long estranged, + And hearts that had grown cold, + Should meet again like parted streams + And mingle as of old. + + And thus I'd play the enchanter's part + In casting bliss around, + And not a tear or aching heart + Should in the world be found." + + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Cupology, by Clara + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CUPOLOGY *** + +***** This file should be named 26339.txt or 26339.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/2/6/3/3/26339/ + +Produced by Ruth Hart + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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