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WERNER'S READINGS No. 31.

SUGGESTIVE ARTICLES TO BE ATTACHED.

For Women: Small bottle, a physician; roll of cloth, a merchant; bit of goods with needle, a tailor; anchor, a sailor; flag, a soldier; bit of coal or iron, a miner; bit of earth, a farmer's wife; bits of wood, a lumberman; book, a writer; roll of paper, a journalist; pen, a lawyer; penny, for gold; brass, a gambler; nothing, failure; two sticks together, two husbands or wives; box of matches, to light the fire for your future husband; ball of twine, so he won't get away.

For Men: Comic valentines of different subjects, or small pictures representing gold-girls, poster-girls, Gibson girls, are tied to each stick. Japanese dolls, pig-tail, tape-measure, clay pipe with instructions for use, huge slippers made of canvas or burlap, dressing-gown of paper, dunce-cap, pair of paper suspenders tied in tissue paper with baby ribbon.

2. FAGOT GHOST STORIES.
(Seepages 83-119 for suggestive styles of ghost stories.)

All may be invited to sit on floor in circle. At center of circle hostess places a table on which is a dish of salt covered with burning alcohol. Then each guest receives a fagot. Hostess takes one and lights it and begins to tell a ghost story. When fagot is burned out she stops. The first person to her left tells a story after she has lighted a fagot and the story ceases with fagot. Stories should be awful, grewsome, ghostly.

FORTUNE-TELLING.
(See pages 79, 82 for suggestive fortune-telling.)

Next should come the Fire Tests of chestnuts, etc. Meanwhile hostess has disappeared, and returns dressed as a fortune-teller. She offers to tell fortunes or read character.