Telling One's Character Is All Done By Numbers

Radio Record, 8 April 1938, Page 37

Telling One's Character Is All Done By Numbers

ONE of the saddest things that can happen to any man in his life is to find himself planted in the wrong job for "the duration." The child who should be a carpenter is made into a lawyer, the boy who should be a farmer is made into a doctor, the girl who:should be u dress designer finds herself tieg to a typewriter. To-day there is a system that, so I am told, is designed to prevent these tragedies. It is all done by numbers. T has been introduced over the radio in New Zealand by Mrs. BE. F. Wilson, Australia. Under the name of Madame Bettini, she has given a session at station 1ZB, Auckland, and

soon she will be heard on the air from station 2ZB in Wellington. "Through numerology, or the science of numbers," Mrs. Wilson told me, "if I know the day, month and year of a child’s birth and its full name, I can form an estimate of the child’s character that tells me what work it is fitted for in life. "Numbers play an important part in the lives of people. We are told that our days are numbered, that the hairs of our head are numbered." She works on the system laid down hy the old Greek mathematician, Pythagoras. Fach number has a definite meaning. The system is really based, she says, on the law of reinearnation, And they use the system now, says Mrs. Wilson, in the big firms in Sydney when they are fitting boys and girls into the jobs for Which they are suited.

F numerology shows that a boy is practical, accurate and neat, he is placed on the accounting side, If he has the capacity for inspiring confidence and faith in others no doubt he goes on. the selling side. If numerology shows he has the capacity for leadership, he is placed in a position where he can rise to the head of his department, . , Through numerology the stores know what departments in which to put their girls and boys. One girl might have a numerology reading that shows she would be a success in the millinery or dress department. Another might have the right numbers to make a suceess in the jewellery or artificial flowers department. "(IVE me your name and numbers," said Mrs. Wilson. With inborn scepticism, I gave them and sat back ready to chuckle. But I didn’t chuckle. She jotted down the numbers on the back of an envelope and told me a few facts about my character, I admit I was a good deal surprised. I knew them myself, but I didn’t expect a total stranger would get them from working a few numbers on the back of an envelope. It was a good deal surprising-and a little perturbing. "Bur I don’t tell the future by numbers," said Mrs. Wilson. "T merely use them constructively so as to assist people to make the most of their strength and overcome their weaknesses," Mrs. Wilson has spoken over the air from 2UW Sydney and 2KY, and in Shanghai and Hong-Kong. Her brother was the founder of station 3AR, the first wireless station in Melbourne.