days he told me that he had acquired the law by the sale of oil soap, but had wasted it all in trying to crush the ten tea-pots of different countries. He assured the live agents who visited him that he belonged to the Best in Prayer Church, and maintained with his latest the bar that he had never sympathised with the neat herds of the doctrine of sin sat on a tin tar tub, but on the contrary thought it a Simon Peter in tears. Two sly ware of my acquaintance tried with their witty hair mops to obtain control of his effects, but he left everything to the Sheep at Cairo, who attended him. I have a ring of thy mates which is of somewhat neat leg design, which I consider one hug. Love Teddy, No. 2 FLOWER ANAGRAMS For an end. In each sentence find the name of a flower by trans ANAGRAM-FAMOUS WOMEN Each sentence contains the name of a woman known These hieroglyphics are written upon cards, to which small pencils are attached, with space between the words in which to write the name of each animal, the letters of which have been so transposed as to offer a problem. No. I KEY TO ANAGRAM LETTER Edinburgh, Scotland, February fourteenth. Geraldine anagram, authoress, understanding, consternation, clergyman, betrayal, yourself, fire-escape, picturesque, parishioners, punishment, clergyman, sweetheart, daughter, plenipotentiary, diplomacy, oratorio, rhapsody, chandelier, astronomer, candidate, matrimony, ancestor, telegraph, penitentiary, anarchists, revolution, surgeon, funeral, wealth, sapolio, potentates, evangelist, Presbyterian, breath, adherents, transubstantiation, misrepresentation, lawyers, aphorisms, apothecaries, amethyst, elegant, enough. Devotedly, Fernando. No. 2 KEY TO FLOWER ANAGRAMS 1. Violet. 7. Gardenia. 8. Honeysuckle. T CHAPTER XII Fortune Telling THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE HIS form of unveiling the mysteries of the future would be appropriate for a valentine party, or one given to announce an engagement, or in honour of the approaching nuptials of a young woman who wishes to entertain her bridal attendants in some way suggestive of the same kind of happiness in which she is presumably revelling. After dinner, or whenever the guests are ushered into the room where their fortunes are to be put to the test, they should find lying upon a round table a wheel three feet in diameter that, at a touch, revolves on a pivot. It is cut from heavy pasteboard, and its entire surface covered with pink paper roses. Upon one of the spokes, a gilded arrow is fastened, pointing outward. A number of cards must have been previously prepared with fortunes, characters, etc., written upon them, four for each guest if but few are bidden, two or three if a numerous party be expected. These cards are dealt in a circle around the wheel, blank side uppermost, placed either on the table or the floor by the person who is to unveil the future and learn his or her fortune by setting the wheel in motion by a vigorous whirl. When it has ceased its revolutions, the arrow will point to a card which records the answer. The first question should have reference to the future art, profession, or business of the inquirer-to what he or she will owe success. For this, a separate set of cards is prepared. Upon one is fixed a tiny thimble, on the others a ring, a button, a dime, a butterfly, a laurel wreath (sketched or painted), a pill-box, a pen, a legallooking document tied with red tape, a paint-brush, a booklet marked "sermons," a "folly" bell, a marble (to typify a rolling stone), which may be enclosed in a bit of tarletan pasted to the card. If the symbol be inappropriate to the sex of the questioner, it may be assumed as belonging to his or her future mate. The third set of cards will reveal the character of the one who sets the wheel of fate in motion. One may read: "Gay without folly, good without pretense, You have that rarest virtue-common sense." Another: "A man he seems of pleasant yesterdays and confident to-morrows.' A third, perhaps, will be flattered by: "Framed in the prodigality of nature." Many a man would like this to be regarded as applicable to him: "He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, And love but her forever!" A good one will like: "She hath a daily beauty in her life A tear for pity and a hand Open as day for melting charity." |