Re: Interesting Anecdotes from the Past
CHILDREN CONSULTING A FORTUNE-TELLER
“Does he love me?”
Young girls and children are seduced into visiting fortune-tellers. A Boston fortune-teller, in 1871, took a summer tour through Eastern Massachusetts and New Hampshire. At Manchester, one evening, some one knocked lightly at her reception-room door, when, on her answering the summons, there stood three little girls, of ten or twelve summers.
“Well,” said the lady, “what do you children want?”
“We came to have our fortunes told,” replied the youngest, drawing her little form up to represent every half inch of her diminutive dimensions. With a smile of incredulity, the lady said, “It costs fifty cents. Besides, you are too small to have a fortune told.”
“We’ve got the money,” replied the little speaker; “and we’re not too little. Why, I am ten, and Jenny, here, is twelve.”
“Well, come in,” replied the fortune-teller. There was a lady present, who also asked what those children came there for.
The girls sat up in some chairs proffered. The younger one was so small that her little feet could not reach the floor, and sitting back in her chair, her little limbs stuck out straight, as such awkward little folks’ will.
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आ नो भद्रा: क्रतवो यन्तु विश्वतः (ऋग्वेद)
(Let noble thoughts come to us from every side)
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