Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 4, 1920, Page 9

FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1920 FIATUNE TELLER cue HALF BELIEVES IT HERSELF BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN WASHINGTON, D. C., June pale woman with the alert and wary eyes which belong to men ind women and other animals that live by wit and cunning. She is a curious being, half fraud an which she peers into your future is an absurdly simple trick, easily analyzed and easily defeated. And yet beyond a doubt she more than half believes in her own supernatural powers. “She tells you that she is a prophet like the prophets of old and especially like Daniel, and that she has three an- gel guides who tell her of the future, pnd thru whom she communicates with the dead. Her voice rises dramatically and her green eyes roll as/she tells you now the secrets of the universe are re vealed to her power. Then her voice sinks to a weird low tone as she tells you that she has enemies, not less than fifty of them, and that they are fighting her thru the Black Astral with evil sugges- Thru the Black Astral they are to hover about her unseen. She s them in her room at night; they > furniture and rugtie curtaina. She the cold wind of their passing and the faint disturbing shock of their evil sucgestions. But is she afraid of them? Not she. She repeats a certain formula and hurls into them with all the force her mighty will her own counter s on and they are confounded and fly away moaning. A silly ola woman, you will say, with a touch of paranoia taking the form of persecutional delusions. . True enough. Then wi write a story about her? Trecuuse she is a part of almost every Americ community, a factor in onr national life. There is a demand for such she, and all kinds of people make This woman, for example, claims that society women and mem- hers of congress are among hey patrons. She may lie abcut’ this, but/certain it is that taxicabs and automobiles bear prosperous and intelligent-looking peo- ple to her door, and they pay from $2 to pach to listen to her strange riga- marole. She is full brother to the medi- cine man of the red savage and in es- sence exactly the same thing as the VYoodeo woman of the Haitian negro. She has no more place in_ civilization than has cannibalism. And yet she is one of many here in Washington, one of thousands no doubt in the whole coun- try. And America, high and low, black and white, troops to her door. She ex- ists in many forms, from the primitive; rvney appealing to the lowest types. to the so-called scientific palmist and occult psychologist, who stir a savor of science into their broth of savagery to make it appeal to a more sophisticated She is the visible proof that we ye not after all traveled so far from spook-haunted jungles of primitive life. She is the cloven foot of the satyr projecting grotesquely from under our neat garments of civilization. How She Works. You shuffle the cards and she spreads them before her and “concentrates.” Her method of reading your past is) shrewd but simple “T see water,” she says. heen across—to Europe?" No, you have never been across. “But I see water—not so much per- hans—but water, surely water.” You finally admit that you crossed the Potomac in a rowboat last Sunday. “Ahk, that is it—I only knew water. ' Do you know a dark man—a very dark m tior “You haye Now everyone in Washihgton knows dark men. “The janitor of your apurt- ment house is one of the datkest men on earth. So you admit that you know! a dark man. “Watch out for him. Keep your eye on him. He is going to do you harm.” ‘Thus you are confirmed in a previous- ly formed suspicion that the janitor has ye ieee CURIOUS FRAUD 3.—The fortune-teller is a fat, d half fanatic. The method by building. ment?” As a matter of fact you have escaped that curse and you work in a loft over a movie, but for the sake of experi- ment you nod. “A very high white building—the capitol, perhaps—do you work in the capitol?” Again you assent, “Ah. then that is where you have met You work for the govern these powerful persons—these four kings. They are powerful friends. And they are going to do great things for you . So the thing goes. If you admit that you are married you get a lot of advice about how to get along with your wife If you claim that yoifare not married, a queen is turned up who is the symbol of your marital destiny and you get a lot of advice on how to land her. Her method is simply to throw out feelers_atong the most conservative lines. Thus, if you are more than thirty thé chances are about five to one that you are married, and if this guess proves wrong, she takes cover by say- ing that then you soon will be married. The chances are also that you have some little property if you look pros perous.. So she sees property. If you refuse to admit that you own any prop- erty, then it is your strong hope of owning property that she has seen. Her skill comes in putting together all the information she gathers, and in deduc- ing other things from what she has learned. It is easy to see how she can make an impression of supernatural power on a credulous person who deals honestly with her. But by telling her a few lies, or confirming her in a few had guesses, you can take your fortune into your own hands and make yourself out anything you please. You can endow yourself with a wife and eleven children, a mysterious past and a dead uncle who hovers about your left ear to give you good advice. Most of what the woman tells you is harmless enough, but not ali of-it. She herself has delusions of persecution, and therefore she finds that everyone else is being persecuted She Gives You a Scare. “Have you sny enemies, dangerous enemies?” You tell her you have not a serious enemy in the world, so far as you know. But she turns up three jacks In a row, and a ferocious glint comes into her eyes. » r “Those three jacks—all together. They are your enemies. And they are con- nected. That means a plot against yo. It meang that evil influences are beat- ing against you. Have you never felt them?" You admit that you haven't. “Have you never felt dizzy, or sudden- ly cold?" You admit that such sensations have occasionally assailed you. “That's them. They work thru the Blick Astral. All evil influences <lo.” And she goes on to tell you all about ae lie Seca tae ene or after meals are Rewtennoying manifestations . Teen stealins the milic. | e es If you answer all her feelers correct-| hd ly she will quickly and very shrewdly ’ t to neutralize find cut a great deal about you; but if! you choose to do so you can lead her ® thonsand miles astray. Thus about t\vo out of every three people In Wash- ington work for the gevernment in a big government building. Ifence: | acidity and help zeae F . MADE 3Y SCOTT & BOWNE MAKERS OF SCOTTS. Leading Her Astray. “I see a big building, a big white “Rarnett’s, of Course” ‘ Until Monday 5 p. m. We Will Offer the KNOX High-Grade HATS At a Special Reduction for Four Days Only, Ending Monday 5 P. M.° Nationally Known Knox Hats have been made _ for close on to a cen- PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PARTLY Marquand Chapel at Princeton University is in ruins ‘as the result of a fire, the; damage of which is estimated at $300,000. it. She warns you of a certain dark nts suspicions and fears which often attach to particular persons. How many friendships broken, how many fears und worries and even crimes may be laid at the door of the Black Astral in this en- lightened land? Casper Sailor on Former Hun Ship Arthur Hawks, former Casper boy, who is now in the navy, is stationed on the former German battleship, “Ost friesland,"" and has been off the coast of Scotland, according to a letter re- ceived here by friends. In going 7.0 n Philadelphia to Burnt Island, Scot.r4, the ship Hawks was on went througn what the lieutenant commander >f ‘ho boat called the worst storm he had been in during the last twenty years. The gale swept away the wireless and all three masts on the boat. Hawks writes that he was about to leave on the old German warship, now the U. S. S, Hancock, for Brest, France, where the ship is to be coaled. SPOT CASH FOR YOUR LIBERTY BONDS Money to Loan on Diamonds, Jewelry, Guns, Clothing Casper Loan and Clothing Store—229 South Center DESTROYED BY FIRE—The famous REALTY TRANSFERS. 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