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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 89, 14 April 1923, Page 19

As long as even well-educated persons bow to sweeps or pick up lumps of coal for luck, the practice of fortune-telling will flourish in all ranks of Society. There will always exist in Vanity Fair expensive consulting witches or ' wizards who will tell you all about your future—provided you have an introduction from a client of .social standing. One of theso consultants, whoso nrnno is quite unknown to the general .public, is said to earn between £3000 and £4000 a year. Amateurs sometimes make a little money in an unostentatious way; for example, a gentleman who took up the- casting of horoscopes, according to the strict rules of astrology, as a private diversion, is often besought by casual acquaintances to exorcise his abstruse avt for their benefit. The world's annual yield of raw wool is reckoned at about 3,000,000,000,000! ii, of wliioh about 40 v^r.osjil. is pcoUuesa in cooatrits oi the British Esupre. \