| Show 10UTIM3 TELLING How well people In general like to be humbugged frequently 1 a subject of saicaptle comment Ono or the most popular and well patronized methods of humbugging public ls I fortune telling Then observations appl with peculiar force to the United states I where fort line telling humbugs In remarkable re-markable variety flourish and become wraith In the largo cities of America the dime museum has multiplied with ex truoidluary rapidity duilng reeent years and In each one Is I found one ore or-e female Rpny fortunetellers lho likely all nut are hrwd Irish or YDnke girl with their faces talred n tawlY hue and their garb fantasti clily ornamented Multitudes of people peo-ple pay those Poisons good money for which the vurlest twaddle U I returned Then there are the elalrvoants the palm readers the card readers the astrologers as-trologers and various other fnluds WHOM livelihood Is I derived torn the I credulity pf the public A morbid desire to get a peep Into I the future has i boomo almost II i craze I I 0111 < 1 onterprImIng powppnp I rm tire InkIng Ink-Ing advantage of It to In < toM their clreulaUon Graphology In I the science to hlch Mine or hem rMI for thin purpose They InNite the gon Oral 1 public In torwat pdmn ot handn riling and nn expert wijlfrom an examination of each specimen describe de-scribe the character and tell the fortune for-tune of tile writer The paper Is I cagcrl bought and read because eif this feature The New York World goes solar so-lar as to reproduce In file simile the rumple ot penmnFhlp each blns accompanied ac-companied by a l1etflptlon or the per sonal traits and a forecast of the fortune for-tune of the writer The Troy Press has n regular department de-partment under the head of Oranholo trY and silly people In astonishing numbers send to this department specimens speci-mens of their handwriting from which to have their fortunes told In nBln fle copy of that paper of recent date us many as twentyseven samples of chirography are treated Here la I the Information Impartovto One Inquirer L 1 O IA lltttlc discontented and dissatisfied with your life at times licKtless and seldom quiet very long I at n time lave a Dllhe nature I but too five much pride tu let a term a ee till A little melancholy nt limo but the strong will should master thin tendency beloro It Ioome chronic You have tenacity oC purpose l and your will 111 orten master your phjslcal condition uur Indileates Your fate line Indlrateo changes In your 94rrV an Intermingling ot Joy and oorrow The sex of the correspondent Is I not Indicated but probably It was tjie weaker No doubt the was surprised to be told that there would bo changes In her life and un Intermingling of Joy and sorrow Here Is I another example ex-ample orgetmenotYDu are rattiez reserved re-served In manner and shy In making friends You have a strong tendency lobe lo-be lefthanded Are not a fluent talker u nless NNIth those hDm ybu know well fastidlZue01111d Are In many things very 10Udlou and you have IIIlomallo secretiveness You hDV a little unity aUlt lave to dress well DUll make a gond Impression upon Uloe horn you admire You will ren on from cause to effect Will have few changes In your life The guess that the writer had a tendency to be lefthanded was perhaps per-haps a little venturesome but If entirely en-tirely unfounded could do no harm Fo with other remarks hazarded but the unqualified declaration that the Inquirer In-quirer would reason from cause to effect won certainly a bold one The Peoria Journal has what It no doubt thinks Is I something better than Graphology by means of which to tell Its readers fortunes Its plan In valves no correspondence and comparatively com-paratively little typesetting A single paragraph each day does the business for every human being born on that day and In the course of the sear all mankind have had their fortunes told by this enterprising paper Following Fol-lowing Is I a simple of the dally Installment Install-ment Tuesday Jan 23 Persons born on tills day show a strong love of nature arc over zealous and easily led by sympathy or Psychological control The coin ng year shows favorable for all money and lomlly matters but beware or ome accident Weather todaySnow or raln11 The casual reader cannot but notice that the prognostlcatory paragraphs above quoted are so worded that they will fit one Person about as well as all other while nil attempt at specific statement Is I carefully avoided Yet these paragraphs are fair samples of the rigmaroles that fortune tellers gen el ally whatever their peculiar kidney She to their dupes except that when the Prognosticator Is I face to face with the victim a much larger number of words may be employed with which to express the name meaningless generalIties general-Ities Persons who pay money to fortune I tellers In the confident expectation of being told something of real value relative rela-tive to the future arc to be commiserated commiser-ated for their feeblemlndedness while permons who Incur the expense just for fun are capable of being Interested Interest-ed In a very Billy species of amusement amuse-ment Those who place nny depend once In the fortunes told by newspapers news-papers will generally be found to have low retreating foreheads and a corresponding cor-responding poverty of brains und purse Torlunelelllng like the vices of drinking and smoking seems tit flourish by being exposed and condemned con-demned |
