Teacup Superstitions.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5, 4 February 1905, Page 13

Teacup Superstitions.

After you have drunk your tea, look carefully at the dregs. If they are all massed together, things will go well with the fortune-seeker; but if they arc scattered, then troubles are in store.

A small scrap of tealeaf near the top of the eup means a letter, a larger speck means a phots graph or present of some kind; what it is depends on the form of that speck.

Tile little bits of stem are peoplelight or dark, tall or short, according to their colour and length. A thick one is a woman, and a very short one a child. If these are crosswise, they are enemies; if straight up. intimate friends or pleasant acquaintances to be made. A large speck near them means that they are coming for a visit and bringing luggage. An unbroken line of grounds betokens a journey by water: a broken line, a journey by rail.

A large ring is always lucky. To a man it means success in business; to a

matron, a fortunate undertaking; to M maid, an offer of marriage. A small ring foreshadows an invitation.

A cross signitics trouble: a square or oblong, new lands; a pyramid, good fort line.

Dust-like grounds massed together at the bottom or side of the eup portend money to wine. A heart is the happiest sign of all, for it betokens long life, health, wealth, and faithful love.

But no one would be so foolish as to believe in any of these old saving-..