Part 16
17.--Will think more and more of his or her partner as time wears on.
18.--An individual whose matrimonial affairs will surprise his or her friends.
19.--Many passionate romances will be experienced before the fateful decision is made.
20.--An individual who will wish to be as romantic after the wedding as before.
21.--A very sympathetic lover.
22.--An individual who will show very little affection, but who will have, however, more than his or her share. A peculiarity of temperament will cause him or her to hide it.
23.--Will make an excellent partner.
24.--This individual has only to idolize his or her partner to make a perfect success of married life.
25.--As long as the partner does not wish to rule this person, marriage will be extremely successful.
26.--Great happiness will come of the union as long as both the partners retain their affections for the other.
27.--Many minor love affairs before the right one is experienced.
28.--An individual who is likely to marry someone of a very different age--either considerably older or younger.
29.--A very bright and attractive husband or wife. That is what this individual will be.
30.--A person who will be happy in marriage, as long as finances cause no troubles.
31.--There is little indication that this person troubles much about love matters.
AUGUST
1.--Marriage likely to be rather late.
2.--Will be very generous towards his or her partner.
3.--The first love will never be forgotten by this individual.
4.--The course of true love will not run smoothly at first: later, it will mend.
5.--This person possesses a strong will and, as long as the partner bends to this will, all will be well.
6.--It will be advisable to go slowly. Any undue haste may result in a fiasco.
7.--This individual must put aside all the old loves, once the marriage ceremony has been performed. It will be dangerous to meet them again.
8.--This person will prove a great favorite with the opposite sex. He or she will be so successful that a good deal of caution is needed.
9.--The latter half of the married life will bring the most happiness.
10.--Marriage must be considered from all its angles before the important step is taken: otherwise, disappointments will be caused.
11.--Your generous nature will assure a happy married life.
12.--Several love affairs are indicated before the real one will be experienced. There should be no undue haste in the choosing.
13.--Your happiness in love affairs will not depend so much on you as on those with whom you associate.
14.--Do not become apprehensive if the right partner is slow in coming to you. A rather late marriage is indicated.
15.--There is every reason to think that this individual will choose the right partner and enjoy a happy married life.
16.--It is likely that this person will marry someone well-off.
17.--There is an indication that there may be a break in the engagement, but that the affair will be patched up to the satisfaction of both parties.
18.--Money matters are the only ones that are likely to cause any disagreements in the marriage life. Steer clear of these and all will be well.
19.--Marry before you have settled habits or it will be difficult to make the mutual concessions that marriage entails.
20.--There may be some unhappiness in the early part of your married career.
21.--This person is likely to be very passionate.
22.--Likely to marry late, owing to a desire for personal comforts.
23.--This person will be easily pleased with married life, and the union will be a very happy one if the partner is not of an exacting nature.
24.--Is very fond of the opposite sex. He or she will find some difficulty in deciding whom to marry.
25.--Somewhat fickle. He or she may cause the marriage partner some anxiety on this account.
26.--An individual who will see the utmost good in his or her partner.
27.--This person's marriage will be a proper sequel to the years of courtship.
28.--Married life should bring many joys and blessings.
29.--This person will find it difficult to be satisfied with the love of one person.
30.--This individual will have the power of making his or her partner think worlds of him or her.
31.--A person lacking passion; one who looks upon marriage as a business proposition. The man will marry for a housekeeper; the woman for a roof over her head.
SEPTEMBER
1.--Will make an excellent husband or wife.
2.--Likely to expect too much of marriage.
3.--This individual may tire of marriage if the partner is not decidedly emotional and passionate.
4.--Greatest happiness is likely to come in the middle period of married life. In the early portion, you and your partner will not have learned to understand each other: in the late portion, there will be a tendency for you to go your own ways.
5.--There is a likelihood that secret romances will be continued after the knot has been tied.
6.--You are a little too independent and will not consider the feelings of your partner as much as you should.
7.--There are signs that you may neglect to make love to your partner after the wedding. Then the happiness of both will be jeopardized.
8.--You lack sufficient emotion to make marriage the success it ought to be.
9.--Your marriage may be too much of a business and not enough of a love affair.
10.--You are likely to be drawn to those who are not sufficiently attracted to you. It means that the chances are you will marry late.
11.--Capable of being very affectionate.
12.--Will make an admirable husband or wife. You will be blind to the faults of your partner.
13.--You will fall in love several times and have some difficulty in deciding whom you ought to marry.
14.--A person who is too sensitive in love affairs. Likely to experience some disappointments before marriage.
15.--You are an ardent lover, perhaps too ardent to make the happiest of marriages.
16.--A person likely to enter upon marriage without giving the matter all the consideration it deserves.
17.--Your knowledge of people enables you to judge accurately who will make the best partner to fit in with your ideals.
18.--An individual who has a strong will and who, therefore, can do much towards persuading the person of his or her choice to share life with him or her.
19.--Your love-making will be governed less by your affections than by your reason.
20.--Likely to marry late, as you do not feel your position good enough to share with a partner.
21.--You are likely to be attracted to two very different people at the same time. Your choice ought to be made in favor of the one who more approximates your own station of life.
22.--You can be a delightful companion and ought to make an excellent husband or wife.
23.--Your marriage will make a great difference to you, for the better.
24.--All your love affairs will not bring happiness, but your marriage will be a success.
25.--Probably you will marry a person with whom you fell in love at sight.
26.--Married life will bring considerable happiness, but there will be occasions when your vanity will be hurt and you will then be somewhat morose.
27.--You will usually treat your partner with considerable affection, but there are times when you will speak in a very hasty manner.
28.--You must be careful whom you marry, as you are not likely to be too sure of your own mind.
29.--Likely to have many strings to your bow.
30.--Be very certain that the attachments you form are worthy of you.
OCTOBER
1.--You have a strong desire to create a good impression with the opposite sex. This desire may lead you into danger.
2.--An individual who will make an excellent partner except when he or she is in the wrong. On such occasions he or she will present a very unsympathetic nature.
3.--Marriage will mean everything to such individuals. They must be careful that the wedded state brings no disillusions.
4.--What unhappiness comes in married life will be due to friends who interfere.
5.--Home life will give you the existence you require: therefore you must avoid marriage with a gad-about.
6.--Your marriage will be eminently successful.
7.--You are an individual of somewhat fickle temperament; but you will settle down once you meet the right person.
8.--You are an excellent companion and will make numerous friends of the opposite sex. Choosing the right partner, in your case, will be difficult.
9.--An individual who will love intensely and who has the capacity for making an excellent partner in marriage.
10.--Marriage should be thoroughly successful if financial worries do not upset your calculations.
11.--An individual who will experience much pain as a result of unsuitable friendships.
12.--Likely to find it difficult to remain in love with one person for any length of time.
13.--Married life will bring considerable happiness, but lovemaking should be indulged in after the wedding as much as before.
14.--Your partner will appreciate little surprises, such as tokens of your affection, even after you are married. Do not forget this.
15.--You are liable to be too cold towards your partner. Recall the early days of your friendship.
16.--An individual who will treat married life in a too matter-of-fact way.
17.--Love is not life to you: but once you meet the right person, happiness will reign supreme.
18.--You will approach your love affairs in a very common-sense manner. Thus, you are not likely to make any mistake.
19.--A very worthy partner.
20.--The earlier years of married life will not be the most successful, though they will be the most exciting.
21.--Do not expect every comfort and joy after the wedding ceremony. Money may be a cause of difficulties.
22.--An individual who will experience some trouble in knowing his or her mind.
23.--Slow in acquiring affection; but once a friendship is formed, he or she will be in great earnest.
24.--A happy married life is almost certain.
25.--An individual who is likely to be a more practical than affectionate lover.
26.--Unduly shy in facing the business of a wedding.
27.--This person will have much deeper affections than are suggested by appearances.
28.--Family relations are not likely to make the path of matrimony any rosier.
29.--More love and affection will be expressed after marriage than before.
30.--Rather apt to rule his or her partner when things have settled down after the wedding.
31.--A lover who would satisfy any reasonable being.
NOVEMBER
1.--There will be many surprises for this person.
2.--Great happiness will come of the union, as long as both the partners avoid trouble-making friendships.
3.--Harmless flirtations are hardly harmless, when indulged in by this person.
4.--There will be ups and downs in this person's married life, but the "ups" will exceed the "downs."
5.--This person will not be rebuffed. If a man, he will not take "no" for an answer.
6.--An attractive person with the opposite sex, but likely to cool down a great deal after marriage.
7.--There will be many love affairs, but it is doubtful if marriage will result with any of them.
8.--A person likely to make an admirable partner in marriage, if allowed to follow his or her own harmless way.
9.--Marriage will come early.
10.--A very affectionate lover and marriage partner.
11.--Of a practical nature, this person will know exactly how to steer clear of matrimonial troubles.
12.--Will make an admirable husband or wife.
13.--This person will love very deeply, perhaps too deeply, as it may lead to unfounded jealousy.
14.--It is doubtful if this individual wishes in his heart to marry.
15.--Somewhat fickle in love affairs.
16.--Married life will be less romantic than anticipated, but it will be more congenial and placid.
17.--Too fond of comforts and one's own company to embark on marriage lightly.
18.--This person will be conscious of the fact that he or she invariably falls in love with the wrong person. This will last until the age of 22 or 23 is reached.
19.--Marriage should turn out very well.
20.--A late and happy marriage is indicated.
21.--Likely to be very passionate.
22.--A person who is sure to have several love affairs. A feature of these is that some of them will be revivals of old ones.
23.--Marriage means everything to you and you are decidedly unsuited to living a lonely life.
24.--You are sentimental and emotional and will think highly of your partner.
25.--Do not rush into marriage without considering the matter very seriously.
26.--You have an ideal for whom you are searching. However, the ideal does not exist. There are plenty of good fish in the sea, nevertheless.
27.--A rather sudden wedding.
28.--You will be happy only as long as your partner gives you the upper hand.
29.--Marriage will be mixed. Much happiness, some sorrows.
30.--This person will have many love affairs, in fact he or she is the type that prefers a succession of such affairs to settling down to marriage.
DECEMBER
1.--Somewhat headstrong, this person will want to rule the home.
2.--A very easygoing partner. Happy as long as his or her mate guides the ship through the troubled seas.
3.--Men born on this day often marry women older than themselves.
4.--Somewhat slow in deciding on marriage.
5.--Likely to find marriage more of a boon than anticipated.
6.--This person will, probably, marry someone whom nobody anticipated would be the individual.
7.--This individual should marry someone with totally different qualities and an entirely different outlook on life.
8.--Such people have a most compelling way with the opposite sex and they make good partners.
9.--Very fond of the opposite sex; a character that may easily experience difficulties.
10.--Will make a marriage in which the man plays the minor part.
11.--Marriage will be planned and carried out in a short space of time. The haste may be deplored later on.
12.--A person who will take marriage very seriously.
13.--This individual will play at lovemaking for a long time before treating it seriously.
14.--A person who will have numerous flirtations, then a period in which the other sex is more or less ignored, followed by a sudden and happy marriage.
15.--Liable to delay marriage too long, or until it cannot provide the blessings anticipated of it.
16.--Married life will bring many joys and blessings.
17.--Do not be cold and uncommunicative to your partner. Act as you did before the wedding.
18.--You will be slow in acquiring affection. Once a friendship is formed, however, it will be a very deep one.
19.--As long as your partner is not one given to "laying down the law," you will have a very happy existence.
20.--Be very careful that you do not fall in love with someone after marriage.
21.--Marriage will be supremely happy.
22.--You are somewhat fickle and will, probably, suffer in consequence.
23.--Your marriage is likely to have the effect of complicating your financial position.
24.--A person who will find married life of average happiness.
25.--Do not keep from your partner information that should rightly be shared. You are not confiding enough and this may very well cause unhappiness.
26.--Avoid extravagance in married life and all will be well.
27.--A kind and generous partner.
28.--Take little notice of what your friends tell you of your intended one. Be guided by your feelings alone.
29.--You will marry late and your only regret will be that you did not find your partner earlier.
30.--You and your partner will, largely, keep yourselves to yourselves. You will be all in all to each other, and it will prove a very happy existence.
31.--You will make an admirable husband or wife, especially if your partner is one of the "easy-going" type.
MAKING USEFUL MASCOTS
Anyone of a handy disposition can make mascots that will bring luck to him or herself, as well as to countless friends. In addition, they may be made for selling at bazaars or even for profit in shops.
_HORSESHOES._--As a rule, it is best in this case to obtain a supply of old and worn horseshoes--any local farrier will be glad to sell them for a penny or two apiece--and to make them presentable. First, knock off the rust, and then wash them if necessary. It is not a bad plan to beg some old nails from the farrier, to slip one or two in the holes, here and there of each shoe, and to twist them round with pliers so that they cannot fall out. Then give the shoes a coat of paint--either aluminum or stove-black. When dry, thread a strip of ribbon of your lucky color through a hole on either side of the shoe, so that the shoe can be easily hung up. But, please do be careful to arrange the ribbon so that the shoe can only be hung tips upwards.
Failing a supply of worn shoes, the best idea is to cut horseshoes from a sheet of thick cardboard. There is an illustration on p. 6 which will give you an idea of the correct shape to aim at. When the shoes are cut, paint them with black or silver ink, and tie with ribbon, as already suggested.
_SWASTIKAS._--Large swastikas are best cut out of thick cardboard, as suggested in the previous paragraph for horseshoes, but small ones, suitable for wearing, are not difficult to cut out of sheet metal, if a triangular file is at hand for cleaning up the corners and edges. When worn, Swastikas are usually hung diamond-wise. Therefore, it is necessary to drill a small hole in one of the corners of the shape. A coat of gold paint or transparent lacquer will add to the appearance of the finish.
_SCARABS._--When scarabs are to be made, the shape with the closed wings will be found much the simpler to construct. They can be made out of large oval buttons. If the buttons are flat, it is advisable to give them a domed surface by applying a suitable layer of plastic wood. This is a putty-like substance which dries rapidly and which can be moulded to the required shape with the fingers. When the plastic wood is dry and hard, smooth the surface with fine glass-paper and ornament it with oil paints. A dull light blue serves best for the groundwork, and the pattern can be added with a small brush, using grey or black paint. In this way, some very realistic scarabs can be made easily.
_CADUCEUS OR STAFF OF MERCURY._--This lucky device is very difficult to make in the form of a model. However, the same purpose can be served by a picture. Draw the outline in pencil (see p. 9), give it a wash of silver color and line in the pattern with India ink. A picture, made in this way, about twelve inches high, on a white card, would look very attractive when framed.
_ARROWHEADS._--Those of us who have an eye for geology will have no difficulty in picking up flints, shaped like arrowheads (see p. 8), along the sides of country roads. Failing these, we can get some slips of granite, and, with hammer and chisel, shape them as shown on the page mentioned. The next thing is to obtain some gilt wire, and to make slings to support the arrowheads. These can then be hung up or worn, according to their size.
_TETS._--These mallet-shaped mascots can be made readily by cutting small strips of wood to serve as handles, and then moulding the heads in plastic wood. When the latter has dried hard, all the surfaces are coated with some bright colored paint, and, after that, additional bands of color are added to serve as ornamentation (see p. 8).
_BLACK CATS AND OTHER DOLL MASCOTS._--Any woman or girl who is good at needlework can make cats and doll-shaped mascots fairly readily. The first thing is to cut a paper pattern of the parts, using newspaper for the purpose. Usually, it is advisable to make the pattern in no more than two parts; one for the left side, the other for the right, or one for the front, the other for the back, according to the way the creature is to be executed. If this is done, it must be recognized that each part should be considerably larger than the animal is to appear, since although the pattern looks as though it need only serve for the front or back, or sides, it really has to supply the width as well.
When the paper pattern has been suitably shaped, cut out the stuff to agree with it, allowing an edging for turning in. Use black velvet or black fur cloth, unless some color is desired. Then, place the two pieces together, face to face, stitch round most of the edges; follow by turning the outside in and stuff the interior through the gap of stitches. Old but soft rags do for the stuffing. When nice and evenly plump, stitch up the gap, taking care to fold in the seams.
The last stage is to ornament the creature and form its features. Buttons serve for eyes, stitches of red wool or silk make the mouth and nose, and whiskers are supplied by hairs taken from a broom. A band of ribbon, tied in a bow, round the neck, completes the mascot.
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