Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1906. 1906 A “MAD YEAR.”

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3635, 5 April 1906, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1906. 1906 A “MAD YEAR.”

The Greytown Standard has the following:—Mdme de Thebes, the Parisian prophetess who added to her fame by predicting the Boer War, the charity bazaar fire in Paris, the Servian massacre, and the discovery of radium, gives a not very flattering forecast of 1906. She predicts that it will be a mad year, and is of opinion that many drastic changes will be made in the scheme of things after January. Belgium, she declares is to play a curious part in the transformation; Germany will be seriously threatened; France will find her troubles increases. With regard to war, she believes it is in the air, although there is nothing to assure her that strife is inevitable. She also prophecies serious losses in the world of art, some of them by sea, and that toward the end of it the world’s attention will be turned in the direction of the Near East, and particularly toward Turkey. Her method is to note the salient lines of all the hands she has observed during the day, and by taking the average of these she claims that she can find the general trend of the currents she considers to be “the march of destiny.” “For example,” she says, “I see in the course of a year 200 or 300 hands of military men from different nations, and as many hands of diplomatists from the leading countries. Well, not only the hands in each calling will have a general resemblance among themselves spatulated and muscular with soldiers, fine and pointed with statesmen—but also if any great event is, at a given moment, to hold all those soldiers or diplomatists in tension, it will be marked in their hands.”