FALSE PROPHETS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 33, 8 February 1913, Page 10

FALSE PROPHETS

♦ HOW A REPUTATION IS GAINED. When Mme. tie Thebes, of Paris, fore, told the assassination of King Hiimbert> she established her reputation for all time as a peeress. Thenceforth the voice of scepticism could always bo silenced by the reminder, "But she foretold the assassination of King Humbert." This one fact — if it be a factr— outweighs easily a hnndred false predictions, and vrill, says an Argonaut writer, doubtless continue to outweigh them until credulity u'a, thing 1 of the past, which will not be this week. For this reason the predictions of Mme. de Thebes are cabled all over the world, and our own Sunday supplements consider that they are worth a yearly broadside just when the new year is beginning to be looked upon at close quarters. The Austrian Emperor will did in 1913, according -to Mme. de Thebes. So will the King 'of England. Aldo the Pope. Abdul Hamid will return to the Throne of Turkey, and there will be agreat revolution in Eussia, a warlike disaster to Germany,' and a naval crisis in England. So the lady's reputation is fan-ly safe, because the Emperor of Austria is eighty-throe and the Pope -is seventy-eight. If either should die during the coming year the defenders of mttdame will be able to point triumphantly to tho fact and so intensify a fame that was first won through ths lucky guess about King Huinbtnt,