The book printed in Yiddish shows the most wear. It is divided under these heads: "Travel and Letters," "Love and Marriage," "Home and Children," "Business," "Work," "Luck and Losses."
Some of the questions make interesting reading and supplementary to the reports and papers of the various Hebrew charity organizations. One of the more recent of these reports gave statistics of desertions of wives, and "other women" was put down as the cause in a large number of cases.
Married Two Wives; What Will Happen?
The first question in the fortune tellers book under "Travel and Letters" is, "Where did my husband elope to?" The identity of the other woman in the case seems to be secondary in importance to the whereabouts of the deserter.
Under "Love and Marriage" are these questions, among many others:
- "Is my bride's dowry as big as she says it is?"
- "I have married two wives; what will happen?"
- "Shall I be married in court?"
Those who are in doubt about work have many questions to select from, the list starting off like this:
- "Shall I be a letter carrier?"
- "Shall I be a conductor?"
- "Shall I be a street cleaner?"
- "Shall I be an actor?"
- "Shall I be a lady-figure?"
A lady-figure is undoubtedly a cloak model.
Under "Business" some of the questions are: