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THE FUTURE IN DOMINOES
LET'S read the future, but, d-2 tome Life. A quarrel or a clean 3-2 Home Life. You have not yet
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just for a change, not in the cards or the tea leaves, but simply in a set of 28 dominoes, which, (even if you don't ever use them) you probably have tucked away somewhere in a cupboard. You know, of course, that dominoes are by no means a modern game but existed as far back as the days 5-0 of the ancient Greeks; some people even go so far as to say that in those far-off days, sears foretold the future from the dominoes. Be that as it may, a little fortune-telling is always amusing, especially during the holiday season.
All you
is a set of dominoes and the knowledge of what cach domino
means.
So here rules:
break is in the offing, Business. There will be favourable changes in your finances.
Home Life. If you have always longed for a child, your dream will come true in the very near future.
Business, A pleasant change is coming.
Home Life. Someone loves you but has not yet told you Bu Business. An unlooked-for stroke of luck is coming your way. Good outlook for business. affairs.
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met the person you will marry,
but will do so soon. Business. You will shortly go on a journey.
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3-1 Home Life. Be on your guard where love is concerned. Do not undertake anything new. Business, Be careful in business as weili
plans
3-0 Home Life. Don't put too much
faith in the opposite sex. Business. Your present have little chance of succeed- ing; don't agree lightly to now proposals,
4-4 Home Life.
Don't rush head- 2-2 long into anything. Don't put promises faith in 100 much made to you. need
Business. It won't pay to bo rash. 4-3 Home Life. You will get married
during the coming year: Business. Your situation will
·soon 'change for the better. 1-2 Home Life. Big changes in your
private life.
gves
with
the
1. Put all the dominoes face down on a table, or any flat surface, and stir them up thoroughly.
2. Pick out one and jot down its value on 凸 piece... of paper (e.g. 5-6, 0-2, 1-1, etc.).
"3. Put this domino back with the others and stir them all up again.
In this way pick out 3 dominoes, noting down their value, each time..
Business, Changes here also. A change for the better. if your
Good outlook. This domino in the best in the sot. If your other two dominoes are bad, what they say will be influenced for the good; if what they say Is already good, things will turn out even better.
2-1 Home Life. You
may be sad
through a love lost, but Fate has a deeper and better love in store for you.
Business. A debt will be repaid. to you or you will unexpectedly come into a little money.
CHRISTMAS QUIZ
(In each case, three possible 'an-
we are. Elven, Tick the: onò". you think is correct; and obeok. with the solutions on Pare 19)
1. The
famous "Christmas Oratorio"-actually a collection of six church cantatas, intended for: performance on different (days-was written by:
(a) Handel,
(b). Bach.
(c) Purcell y
2. The
song
beginning "1m:
dreaming of a white Christmas" "be- came very popular when it was sung: by Bing Crosby in:
(a) "Going My Way"
(b) "Holiday Inn."
(e) "The Road to Morocco,"
O tidings, of comfort and joy." This line will easily bring to mind one of the following Christ- mas carols, in which it appears.
(): "Good King Wencesins." (b) The First Noel"
(c) "God Rest You, Merry:
Gentlemen.**
Christmas Island, discovered' by Captain Cook in 1777, is probably- the largest nioli In:
(a) The Atlantic.
(b) The Pacific. (c) The Antarctic.
B. Every Christmas, people have gally decorated Christinas trees in their houses. The custom of having such trees comes from:
0.
(a) Ireland.
(b) Italy
(c) Germany.
Chips Rafferty, star of the im-
pregove, Australian fem the Over- landers," has more recently appear..
(a) "White Christmas." (b) Bush Christmas.*
ed in:
(c) "The Canterville Ghost."
7. Written for the Christmas of
1842, Dickens "A Christmas Carol" is one of the most charming stories. from the pen of that great writer. Can you say which of the following characters did not appear. In
the atory?
(a) Fagu
(b) Scrooge.
(c) Tiny Tim.
8. In the Romulian calendar, December had 30 days. This num. ber was reduced to 29, but Julium Caesar added two days to give the month its present length.
The name "December" actually means:
(a) The tenth month. (b) The last (c) Caesar'a month.
month
D. When the fairy had done her good work, Cinderella was able to go to the ball, but as she hurried away from it she lost 4 slipper... According to the original story the slipper was of:
(u) Leather, (b) Fur.
(c) Gloss.
10. The Christmas Rose, (which was once considered to be of medicat Business A risky deal will come, ment) is: off and prove satisfactory..
other two dominoes are good; a 2-0 Home Life. A secret romance.valuo in cases, of mental derango,
change for the worse if they are bad. If one is good and the other is bad, it means a change. without either improvement, or worsening of your situation.
4-1 Home Life. Some unpleasant
news.
Bualness. Here again things may go wrong.
4-0 Home Life. Your private life will not come up to expecta- tion.
One point to remember: if you pick, the same domino 3-3 -two-or-even-three-times, its meaning is either doubled or tripled.
The messages of your three | dominoes should, when com- bined, give you a clear an- swer to the two main ques- tions" which dominate. every- body: Love (Home Life) and Business,
A word of warning: don't "read the dominoes" too often...
WHAT THE DOMINOES SAY
0-0 Home Life. Excellent outlook all round, You will be lucky in
love.
Business. Here also you will have success,
6-8 Home
Lle. Don't give up¦ though it may not look like it, you are certain to succeed... Business, Stume prospect
6-4 Home Life Love has a strong Influence over you, but don't let your heart rule your head. Business The plan you have in mind will succeed, thanks to friends' Intervention.
0-3 Home Life. A happy marriage. Business You'll earn more prostige than money...
Ba Home Life. Fairly favourable
outlook
Business You will succeed in your present plans if you'follow_ your own good judgment. 0-1 Home Lite. You will marry twice. Your second marriage" will be happier than the first. Business, Everything will come right, but later than you think. 6-0 Home Life, Bad outlook: A
serious quarrel in the offldg. Business, Again a bad outlook. You will lose money
5-5 Home Life, Good outlook, but this-dominio is not so favourable. - as the fapplomilno zent
Businesssttime: nullook) Hama-Luís you marry, the one you you love, your marriage will be unhappy, as this person is unworthy of you. 54 "Basinta? If you are a@inan; a Hood Bullook.. If you are a de, woman, don't touch IL-N VE
548 Home Lardar. You will fall vilnis
love with or MiaTzy Morażcie who
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Business Worries
connected
with your job, or loss of money. Excellent. Even if Home Life,
dominoes are your other two “bad” "With“this one," thingsTM will
take a turn for the better, Business Same outlook.
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1-0
0-0
(0) An
TOSC.
exceptionally hardy.
(b) A kind of geranium.
(c) A member of the buttercup
family,
Home Life. If you have quar- relled with someone, you will shortly make it up. Otherwise, you will receive a present, Business A
pleasant, unex-tables of the fortunate at Christmas. time, was. Introduced into Europe from:
-pected journey.
Home Life. Be careful, someone is deceiving you." Business. Be careful here too, you risk being robbed or losing something through carelessness.
11. The turkey, which swells the
(a) America,
(b) Turkey.
(c) Australia
13. "Good King Wencealne" of the carol, a convert to Christianity, Home Life. This domino sets as his endeavour to convert his people. was assassinated in consequence of any He was the ruler of
a warning- not to take “favourable outlook" predicled by your other two dominoes over enthusiastically.
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