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T the beginning of the present century. it would have been impossible for any- body but an astro- loger to foresee the extra- ordinary revival of interest in astrology that has taken place since the war.
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At that time astrology was generally regarded as a bygone suparatition, like the belief in or the belief in witch- craft. The age of reason seemed i to huve set in for good. Astrologers were all very well as comic characters in musical comedies, but as men of science they had ceased for most of us to exist.
favourable for sport, to put on a horse a shirt that he can ill afford to losc.
blood, causing boils and èrup-- tions on the head, face and body. You will be subject to many experiences of the sur- geon's knife in various parts and to have danger from the 'intestines."
I used to have a friend who snid, things like that to me. Ie thought they were interesting. They were, but we ceased to be friends.
I suppose, however, there must be some way of counter- ing these appalling threats from the night-sky. That, I imagine. is why Chelro advises
mo
as to what colours and jelela to wear. As regards "Your jewels, ho tells me: lucky jewels are green jade. moonstone, cat's-eyes, opals. pearls, rubies, garnets, and all red stones." I now know what to ask for as a Christmas present.
As a matter of fact, there may be something in this jewel business. Before I sailed for Canada this summer, a friend gave me some kind of atone—a' cornelian or something and said: "So long as you wear! this stone, you will not be drowned." I wore it all the way to Canada and back and-be- lieve it or not I was not drowned. Does that strike you.
or does it not-as suggesting that there may be something in the lucky jewel theory after all?
I only wish that I had known what my lucky colours were before my last visit to the tailor. If I had, you might now see me going about in a to the head, either from acci- costume in which the colour dent or violence."
scheme was founded on (be- Fighting man though I may cause of the moon) all shades be, I have a fastidious dislike of of green and white, (because of cuts, wounds, and blows to the Neptune) all shades of greys head. I dislike even drawing and (because of Mars) all blood with a safety razor. shades of red, crimson and rose. Worse was to come, however, How many of my misfortunes when Cheiro-using the second in the past may have been due person-warned people born on to the fact that my favourite my birthday (April 20th); colour is blue! "You will meet with many acci- dents, have danger to your life Cheiro for his guidance for the I am all the more grateful to from enemies, and will run the future. I will outwit those sur- risk of assassination or a violent geons with cat's eyes or a death."
moonstone, and it may be that It is true that Sir Thomas even the threats of assassina. dolph Hearst, whose-birthday-ing a grey ault, rose-coloured Beecham and Mr. William Ran- tion can be countered by wear. falls under the same influence, aocks, a white shirt and a green are told the same thing. But tie. that is a small consolation to
I have hot myself enough scientific knowledge either to commend astrology as a science or to attack it as a superstition. I have an instinctive feeling, however, that human beings would do well not to take it too seriously. Even the betting man may be tempted, after reading, tional crisis at. Home, a timolysay, that Tuesday next week is discovery was made of a scrap of paper, the contents of which bore on a matter then upper-
It would surprise me to hear When an astrologer says most in the public mind, the that it ever happened on any things like that about me I
day "favourable to sport" that purr. stability of the British Empire. all the betting men who had This was in the form of a few consulted the astrologers back- thoughts penned by the late ed all the right horses.
Again, I rather like the por- And the trouble is that if trait of myself in the passage: Lord Balfour on a subject which
Mars, the ancient symbol astrology begins to be taken to always lay very close his seriously it will begin to be of War and Action, strongly heart. "Whence comes the cohe- taken seriously about far more influences. persona born in sion of the British Empire he important things than sport. April, making the competitive People will then consult the element predominant. As 2 wrote. From two sources. astrologers about business, rule they fight their way First, "Patriotism.
Loyalty, health, marriage and all the through all obstacles, court
most serious concerns of the ing many dangers and Second, "Religion, future; and a gloomy forecast periencing many changes in
ex Race, Pride in various manifes from the stars may exercise au their lives and careers.
A friend of mine sings a song tations, Habit, Language." And important influence on a man's
life or plunge him into the that ends with the question: then, he-wrote, "Mere-Law-is deepest misery.
“"Am I a man or a mouse?” As among the weakest bonds." I used to enjoy the old- I read that passage in Cheiro's Many years before these words fashioned popular astrology book I rejoiced at the news that which kept discreetly vague according to the Daniel - wise were written, it was said that in its prophecies of disasters stars, I was certainly not a if the Empire were supported by and left one with the feeling mouse. bayonets only, it would collapse that one's own future was fairly liken house of cards. The truth of that saying becomes obvious as we think of the events of the recent past. Foreign observers were strongly impressed by the calmness and the steadiness with which the transfer from one monarch to another was achieved. The spirit then dis played was certainly a tribute to the British people's love of order and their devotion to the decencies of public life. Ex- citement, there was, and deep feeling, but self-discipline was the outstanding characteristic displayed. The change, which in Cheiro, it is true, says many
A Mr. Archer invented the machine many other nations might have pleasant things about persons Germany.
for perforating postage been marked by a disastrous up material success or power is
born in April. "As far
Oldest Parliament in the world is stamps. Parliament gave him £4,000. Pneumatic tyres were invented by the Icelandic Althing, established
Golden-crested wren is smallest heaval, also served to demon-concerned," he declares, "there. Thomson, of Stonehaven, in A.D. 030.
1045-but Were not successful.
European bird: about 72 weigh 1lb. strate the unity of the Empire are no heights persons born in Reintroduced 1888 by Dr. J. B. Dun- No goal was scored against Queen's
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the Wettest place in
world is Cherrapung, Bengal: average yearly who on other issues had been
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To be given a rosy future in print is distinctly encouraging. 1 felt greatly encouraged on reading, an astrological predic- tion on my last birthday.
It seems to me, however, that the astrologers are becoming more outspoken than they used to be about the darker pos- sibilities of the future. They no longer hide the worst from us like good doctors. They do not hesitate to hint at ex. tremely unpleasant things if they find them foretold by the
stars.
That, at least, is what struck me when I looked up my birth- day in a new book, "You und Your Star,"* by the most famous of astrologers, Cheiro.
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No sooner was` I basking in this planetary flattery, however, than I came on the sentence: "Persons born in this sign sel- dom get through life without receiving cuts, wounds, or blows
me.
Astrology seems to be a more cheerful science than I had at first thought... Your jeweller, Again, after having been jull your hosier and your tailor ed into a sense of security by among them ought to be a the statement that I have a match even for the most robust constitution. I
maleficent stars. am
have fevers and disorders of the (Count Louis Hamon). Jenkins. 155. warned: "You will be liable to "You and Your Star." By Cheiro
Things You Didn't Know Until Now
All Fools' Day, April 1, is said to be | They then served to button back the ↑ connected with the fruitless first skirts of long frock coats. errand of the dove from Noah's Ark.
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bitter eritles of the Government thought, nor, for that matter, to came together und joined hands use the words of Lord Balfour, with the nation's leaders, pre-on mere law. Let the explana-human body. senting, the inspiring (spectacle tion be what it may, the fact Once a fu leaves its larval state. of a united people. And through remains that in times of crisis it never grows any more. it all there was evident the British people everywhere for. Dew falls on the average in a year obvious attachment of the people to the claims and calls of nation-
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as a whole to the Throne as an al tradition. And there is much leaves are off. The sap is then at Football 24 times.
Timber should be felled when the land in essential element of the national Freassurance to be found in this rest. life. These things, or some of fact in these days of unrest and ]· "Lager" beer is named after the them, may seem intangible and tension. So far from the recent lager or frame on which it is stored difficult to dissect and define, but happenings at Home having before use. they do show that national and loosened the bonds which unite A clergyman cannot marry himself, the British Commonwealth of Empire unity do not rest ofther Nations, the effect has been pre-present day men's evening tail coats The two buttons on the back of on force or on regimentation of cisely opposite.
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