Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1883 — Gypsy Lore. [ARTICLE]

Gypsy Lore.

The day of the week on which you are born is the best to commence business. Fridays and Tuesdays are the luckiest for women; though women fairly shudder over regarding Friday a lucky day. Sundays and Mondays are the best for men. Never enter a new house or sign a lease in April, June or November, and avoid the 11th for any kind of an enterprise. The lucky days for business are the three first days of the moon’s age ; for marriage the 7th, 9th and 12th. Ask favors on the 14th, 15th and 17th, but beware of the 10th and‘2lst. These are all the moon’s age. To answer letters, choose an odd day of the month; to travel on land choose the increase, and for ocean the decrease of the moon. Start new buildings in March. Don’t marry on yonr birthday or on any martyr’s day. “Which are some of the most prominent signs of events, as it were, that cast their shadows before?” the reporter asked, realizing that he was getting enough “points” to set up as a fortuneteller himself. “Thousands of them,” answered CeJio, “but I can’t think of many now. Here is one that I never knew to fail: If you meet a white horse, if you are going on particular business, it means success. If it is a piebald horse, it means that whatever you have asked for will be given you.” Another: “If a pigeon that does not belong to yon flies in your • house it means success. If it rests on a bed, death. If there are two pigeons, there will be a wedding. Never tell a dream before breakfast. The same dream three times is friendly warning. Had William the IH. and the Duke of Buckingham paid attention to this they would have escaped death as they did.” “How about cards ? Do you ever use them?” “Sometimes; but the planets and stars have much more to do with us. As we are bom we are controlled. Planetary influence is a thing the scientists of later days langh at, but who can say they are better informed than the astrologers of Old. For myself I depend more on the science of astrology than on cards, though palmistry helps out.” Washington Star,