Show I r HOW llOY GIRLS CAN GAN TELL THEIR OWN FORTUNES I I I We were von bu buying our 1909 memorandum dum duet books book at tue tho stationery stationer department depart depart- I ment of a largo large store storo anI and chatting with friends behind the tho counter countr Old 1 1903 Jias breathed his last said a bright brunette as us she weeded out crumpled Christmas cards from tho the calendar boxes I OIl went ent to a lanco danco on the to help 1 kick lck tho the old year out I wish Id I'd taken take a kick at him hint myself my any- self spoke up a n voice from under a a. I shock o of or and blondo blonde hair Father d yit l do a a. thing thinK to rue me Tho Tue years cars fly b and leave e me mo here hore marking marking- time at tho thu b mo old ohl stand getting getting non hero Where hero Jo tIo you yon 1 0 want to 0 sot got JD ny my friend Edna Edlin 1 t t ff v T o tho jtB f looked ook d at the Because It u you ou t loi know kno where you you- rou ou want tto to get is I Mi not likely lo to h help II you ou get th there r It Il makes mo mc think of a tory story of r a n. fortune rOlt tell teller r and antl A t gIrl I know Wo We c all aU gathered closer to listen Vo Xo Object lu lit Life LUc She Sh was a girl at our shop We Ye always al al- alj j I ways called her iser Flo Flossie lc until ono day lay she nho came caine In and said we wo needn't her any an- more She said ald It was HS to ito bo be DO Florence from that hour on What you ou getting getting- at wo asked cd her Just It it said she I mean to got get et at ot something now And of course I never nevor could with such a 0 name as Flossie I It seems she Rho had been to a fortune fortuno fortuneteller fortuneteller I teller toller the nt night ht before and the questions ques quos tiona the man mOon asked at the start stumped her hor chief elder In life Ufe What is your our object 6 says S 'S be he And when whon she didn't answer ho he puts it another wu way way What Is your our principal ambition 7 Now you ou see oe poor little Flossie didn't have on any chief or any assistant al 1 i I chief eiller object in life lite and as to ambition ambi tion lIon she shed she'd tl alwa always 8 fluttered Cluttered round nn any I bright spot sl sho o saw Just like a moth I She told us she sho shedid did more thinking in iii that takers taker's fortune telling booth than shed she'd over ever done dono before In all her ber 11 life e. e Her lIer 0 n lM Fortune S 'S Im Tin going to foretell in my lay own 11 fortune fortuno for for- I tuno tune after utter this says she And 1 am nm going going- to begin b by n changing ln m my name She Sise wan waH only u IL waist trimmed at 1 a n day In those e daj days e but sho she had Jad oodles I of or style and anil b by the end cud of ot tho the second year If it you ou Miss Florence opens U up UI a n swell gown house department In ono one of or our fitting r rooms and has haa her expenses paid to Paris to copy the latest lat hat est cst designs Now Non she Is t taking art lessons and anda a a. picture of or hers licin was accepted at the thelast last las I students' students art exhibit 1 U 11 a point to that ali allright all rr right ht said gald the tho bright brunotto cally as oI sho Iio handed us us is our go and change I Thank you jou OU for those kind words Inu laughed Edna Ellna Then Thon she eho became gravo o again and n l added i 1 lUC guo guess s theres there's moro more point to trotting getting US up early In the morning and sizing up the thc now new year than there Is 1 In staying up late at nl night ht I Ito to kick out the tho old If It we wo dont don't know j where wo we want to go were we're likely to keep rI right ht on at the same f old stand Ol Old Father Time Is pretty prett bus busy putting up monuments to the tho people that have havo told their own fortunes fortune lies IIo's ml mighty apt to forget Corset the ones one that's that marking I lm time Sho She rapped her hor now memorandum I book bool vigorously au and wound upI up I r guess Its It's U up to people to lo stud study tho the I maps and time tables a little before they go so abroad for tor tho the 1909 trip I |