Show Fortune T Tellers eUers Thriving S I As Utah Boys Go Co to War c By Frank FranI A. A Hunt I y T ILL he return safely from I W W the tho war Desire to know the anI anser an- an I s ser ver cr to this question has hasI I caused a sudden increase in the popularity popularity larity of a fortune telling in Salt Lake Almost every woman has a sweetheart sweetheart sweetheart sweet sweet- heart a husband or a son who has I Joined the ranks of those who will fight for freedom and democracy across the seas and women impelled probably by that strong feminine curiosity are consistent consistent consistent con con- dabblers in occult science Professional fortune tellers have turned the present state of affairs to account and many are making a specialty specialty ape ape- of answering questions regardIng regarding regarding regard- regard ing the welfare of those who have gone to the tile front and those who are soon to leave The ouija board has also become popular and is often brought out by the hostess who meanwhile states that she does not believe a athing athing thing it says but bends over the lit littie little little lit lit- tle tie board as if the Delphian oracle was about to answer to her question The ouija board oard is usually shaped like a heart It is a little flat board supported supported supported sup sup- ported on three legs one composed of ot a sharpened pencil HOW BOARD IS WORKED Two persons lightly rest their fIngers fingers fingers fin fin- gers on toe tile board and ask a question question question ques ques- tion aloud The board begins to move and the pencil makes queer markings on the paper Often questions are answered answered an- an much to the astonishment of the experimenters According to one disciple the o practice the spirits are supposed to guide tho the hands of the I experimenters According to a scientist scientist of local fame psychology 1 easily explains the phenomena by blaming it I all on the subjective mind of ot the ex experimenters experimenters experimenters ex- ex and unconscious muscular contractions But whatever the explanation there is one phenomena that is quickly noted by the astute observer The replies to questions as to the future are always favorable Among the various arts of divination prophecy ne necromancy necromancy necromancy ne- ne caN caM it what you will readIng readIng read- read readIng Ing the tea leaves probably tanks Plinks at atthe atthe atthe the foot of the list and yet there are several aged women who bear reputations reputations reputations rep rep- for remarkable disclosures af after after atter at- at ter scanning the leaves left in the hot bot hot hot- 1 I I I I tom torn of the visitors visitors' te tea cups nn I Reading the cards is regarded with witha a little more respect by the devotees of occult art Of course they assure I the inquisitive the one who deals the cards must possess true clairvoyant ant power or else the r reading is value value- less lese Palmistry is ranked third on the list and many an amateur palmist has discovered discovered discovered dis dis- dis- dis covered the secret of popularity Tell every everyone one they are misunderstood and you make an imm immediate diate hit confided I one of at this talented class The best I that you can foretell for the young Isa is isa a lover a legacy a journey or something something some some- someI thing about a letter The best I I for tor an older woman is some good good fortune fortune for for- r tune to come to husband or child Professional fortune tellers have not d dared red to flaunt Jaunt their advertisements as openly ds' openly as thy before the police poUce made an Investigation of their trade about a year ago in Salt Lake Once the profession was able ablo to surround It Itself Itself Itself It- It self with a picturesque solemnity now fallen Into the lowest repute Many believed that such of the fortune telling breed as ma may have survived survived survived sur sur- the repeated sweeping out of at the indignant broom of the law recruited their patrons only from the grossly illiterate and superstitious STILL FLOURISHES HERE But the ancient desire to tear a aside ide the curtain of time and peer at the secrets of ot tomorrow may be smothered and disguised but it still flourishes in Salt Lake There is indeed a distinctly piquant interest In discovering how generally general this desire is still aflame and in noting even its Wa trivial mani mani- Human beings even fairly enlightened ones still sUll secretly cherIsh cherish cherish cher cher- ish as they probably probably- always will a profound curiosity a as to their personal futures and a belief belief- that it would profit profit profit pro pro- I fit them were this curiosity satisfied Moreover this hunger for the unknowable unknowable un un- un- un knowable is rarely tinged with I hension No normal person is able to believe that his own future is unworthy of the arts of the Sibyl How the shades of and of I all the old soothsayers and sorcerers must wag their heads at the little progress progress progress pro pro- gress we have made away from su su- su I Of course the fair patron of the fortune fortune fortune for for- tune teller always reserves the right to discredit even to flaunt the advice after atter she has received it from the I oracle even when she has parted with good money for the same One patron of these arts recently confided that she did not believe the unpleasant things she was told All laugh over i the prophecies and pretend to take them lightly and perhaps this is well I but the few who entertain the misI mistaken mistaken mis mis- I taken idea that the belief bellef in soothsaying soothsay soothsay- ing is as outgrown as the belief in giants and centaurs are unobserving I I |