NEW-FASHION

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2141, 6 May 1914, Page 2

NEW-FASHION

"AND B.ATHKR A RIDICULOUS ONE." A now fashion—and rather a ridiculous one—has been started among tiro people who have nothing in particular to (to or to think about (says a London writer). It originated in Paris, and was stitrtod by the Oonitcssc de la Rochefoucauld, who writes undvr tiio noin de guerre of "Comtesse Meltisine." Tho fashion is the reading not of palms but of feet, Usually, however, the only people who will lend themselves to this wmr form of palmistry are infants in their cradles, and fond mothers pay quite big fees for the rending of tlieiV darling's future on tlie pink solos of his or her little bare feet. The originator of tlso science, which she calls "solcisw," asserts that exhaustive research went to tho bnildiiin;. tip of her theories, which die afterwards tested, particularly in tlie matter of foretelling crime. Magic lias always been in vogue with the idle rich. At the moment crystal-gazing is the fashionable superstition,'and the possession of a crystal confers popularity on the owner who can "road," One lady who is the possessor of a very largo crystal upheld by a Chinese dragon had an immense success as a reader. But whether it was the strain of concentrating her mind, or whether ttwre is really some uncanny influence in prolonged ■ "gazing," the fact remains that she had to. 6ee a doctor, who- promptly put an end to the crystal—dragon and all.