Prophecies About People.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXII, Issue XIII, 26 March 1904, Page 65

Prophecies About People.

PREDICTIONS THAT HAVE COME TRUE. The astrologer who has been foretelling frightful disasters for the Russian Royal Family reminds one of some prophecies about popular —or shall we say notable?—people that have come true. “Of course, everyone has heard mat the famous Gypsy Lee told the Duchess of Portland that she would wear the strawberry leaves; but I believe it is not just as generally known that she foretold the accession of a duke at a period when four lives lay between him and the title, and moreover of disputes as to that title which have arisen since. “The Duchess of Marlborough had two curious predictions made of her when she was a tiny maid of 4. One was that she would ‘wear strawberry leaves,’ the other that she would become the mother of a line of kings. I have heard that, the first having come true, there are members of the Vanderbilt family that have firm faith in the second. Just how they suppose it could come true it is

difficult to see. unless they imagine the abolition of the United States Republie and the instalment of a future Duke of Marlborough as King of the New World. "Cheiro is very discreet, but he eould unfold some strange stories if he chose, and I know for a fact that he foretold the matrimonial troubles of a certain fair lady who was prominently before the world—and Sir Francis Jeune —in 1902. before the lady was even en

gaged. “The late Bishop of London, when a schoolboy of twelve, was told by a New Forest gipsy that he would one day in-

habit a palace. He naturally laughed the prophecy to scorn, but it came true. “Of course, there must be hundreds of prophecies about people which will never come true, but one does not hear of them, or they are forgotten. 1 remeiii ber a bride of last season, who did not make a brilliant match, had been told that she would marry at a certain age a very rieh man. When she reached that age sne became the wife of a poor one. but. as he said. ‘Any man who married you. dearest, would be rich in the |><>- session of such a jewel.’ so she still has some faith in fortune-tellers. It is a mad world, my masters!” O o o o o