[Transcriber's note: for this online edition I have added a Table of Contents and have indicated section breaks with three asterisks. Also I have made the following spelling changes: Chapter II: "shapened like a shephard's" to "sharpened like a shepherd's"; "course in leaves" to "coarse in leaves". Also the sentence beginning "This is a retrospective day for your soul" is incomplete. Chapter IV: "agrandizement" to "aggrandizement"; "repoductions" to "reproductions". Chapter VI: "sitting ud" to "sitting up". Chapter VII: "Chapter V" to "Chapter VII". A Few Toasts: "murmer" to "murmur". Three Great Commanders: "Owen Meridith" to "Owen Meredith". Entertainment Suggestion: "calender" to "calendar". Characters in Finger Nails: "strickly" to "strictly". Strange Wills: "There have been many" to "There have not been many", and "MacCaig" to "MacCraig". Something to Remember: "Spender Percival" to "Spencer Perceval".]
CUPOLOGY.
HOW TO BE ENTERTAINING.
INTERESTING FACTS FOR BOTH YOUNG AND OLD.
TOASTS -- GEMS.
HOW TO TELL AGE.
PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR, CLARA.
CINCINNATI, OHIO:
PRINTED BY FRANK H. VEHR.
1904.
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1904, by CLARA, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INSPIRED CUP-READING.
Not Mere Fortune Telling.
[From Sun-Flower.]
PROPHECY.
"Prophecy is the science of being able to sense the casual influences or vibrations governing the person or subject on which the consciousness is centered, and knowing the purport or meaning of these influences. To the non-sensitive this has no existence, and he must judge the future by surface effects entirely--his knowledge of human character or of the subject to which he is devoted. A feeling of peace or quietude; that which disturbs or irritates; animates or enervates; engenders joy or gloom; that which attracts or repels without visible effects, are some of the sensations experienced and have their specific meanings, which must be grouped, counter-effects considered, and conclusions drawn from this to make the forecast or outline of the subject's future. To avert mistakes, however, the reader of destinies must have sufficient self-knowledge to distinguish his own influences or vibrations from those sensed in others and not combine them as coming from one source. Every individual is governed by this 'cause upon him,' and if he studies himself he can become his own prophet."