| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini: of to-day's vaudeville, owe their start in life
to the dime museum.
Among the museums that were veritable
gold mines, I might mention Epstein's of
Chicago; Brandenberg's of Philadelphia;
Moore's of Detroit and Rochester; The Sackett
and Wiggins Tour; Kohl and Middleton's;
Austin and Stone's of Boston; Robinson
of Buffalo; Ans Huber's, Globe, Harlem,
Worth's, and the Gayety of New York.
The dime museum is but a memory now, and
Miracle Mongers and Their Methods |
The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: Somerton to concert with Lord Feversham concerning the men he would need
for his undertaking.
That night Richard made free talk of the undertaking to Diana and to
Ruth, loving, as does the pusillanimous, to show himself engaged in
daring enterprises. Emulating his friend Sir Rowland, he held forth
with prolixity upon the great service he was to do the State, and Ruth,
listening to him, was proud of his zeal, the sincerity of which it
never entered her mind to doubt.
Diana listened, too, but without illusions concerning Master Richard,
and she kept her conclusions to herself.
During the afternoon of the morrow, which was Sunday, Sir Rowland
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