New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 25, 1927, Page 11

Sees Women Taking Bigger Part in Business and ' Politics, More Divorces Than Ever Before, Danger in Neglecting Love and Art for Money Mak- Mme. Fraya talking with one of the many American women by whose palms she has predicted their increas- ing importance in business and politics By MADAME FRAYA, The Celebrated Parisian Palmist and Reader of the Future INCE the first of the year I have S read many American hands and I am able to give to the people of America a message of cheer and also of warning. In the months that preceded the great war, I read disaster in hundreds of French palms. I concluded that a cata- clysm was near. Two months before hostilities began I was visited by Char- lotte of Saxe-Meiningen, sister of the German emperor. I did not know who she was, but told her she would grieve and suffer greatly over her brother’s actions. « A week before the war broke out the Princess came again to me in the com- pany of another lady, who revealed the visitor’s identity. I then told her, among more intimate things, that her brother would lose his throne. Just so have I now come to conclu- sions, good and bad, concerning the fu- ture of America. I shall tell you presently how these “revelations” come to me. It may give you an idea why famous statesmen and people of the highest social standing visit me when great world events are in the making, or personal affairs are at stake. But first let me correct an error. Jour- nalists and writers of books very often attribute supernatural powers to me. This is wrong. My means of divination and deduction are of the simplest, as you will realize. What do I see for America? The hands of American personalities 1 have studied since January first include those of several celebrated men of high finance, one prominent steel magnate, two great generals, seven diplomats, and hundreds of others, men and women, :a business, the fine arts, and sciences. From these I have formed an “average deductive conclusion,” based not alone on the positive indications of the lines, shapes or colors of the hands, but also on the “waves” which came to me the moment these visitors entered my room. Like all the others, these Americans brought their subconscious selves to me for inspection. I felt them at once. My extremely sensitive psychic faculties im- mediately came into contact with the processes of their souls, as it were, thus throwing me into a state of waking me- diumship and permitting me to form fairly accurate conclusions regarding Americans collectively. It is a state of mental clarity which never fails to reveal to me the past of any human creature. The future is a matter of deduction and inspiration. The people of the United States are in the throes of a strange evolution. Women are to play an ever increasing role in the affairs of the nation, bringing refinement into politics and gentility into business. There is much brutality in America. Women’s influence will com- bat it effectively. . But young girls will continue to affect masculine manners and clothes. They will go to extremes in dress, and demand even more personal liberty than they possess at present. There is no danger in that attitude of American.young women, for it will reach a climax before another year has gone ‘by. Then will the United States enter a period of reaction in which wholesome feminism will influence that country and the world. Marriages in America will continue to be hastily concluded, owing to the desire in young women to live fast and satisfy the senses. More marriages will be dis- solved in the next twelvemonth than ever before in a single year. This will be due to nervous strain. American men will realize that they must give their wives and sweethearts more of their time and not de- vote themselves wholly to business. They should be greatly benefited by knowing women bet- ter, while the women will surely get more happiness and moral strength fronr men who can be good business men and good lovers as well. America is fast approaching a danger- ous maturity of the mind. It implies the reaching of the zenith in prosperity and world ascendancy, after which comes the danger of decline. The men who direct or influence the life of the nation should engourage the study of music and art in order to counteract the perils of too much materiality. American civilization is forging ahead too fast. It leads all other nations in material advancement and compels the Test of the world to supreme effort in competition. Thus it endangers society in general. Science will greatly help in avoiding the ill effects of too much ma- terial prosperity. Love might check the danger. But love is in the decline in America, and wisdom is taking its place. Closer relationship with the slower- moving nations of Europe will do Amer- ica much good in the near future and humanity at large will be benefited. I see scientific discoveries made in France and perfected in America that will tend toward the elimination of a great world plague. German minds and American money will conclude economic reci- procity arrangements which will form a basis to friendlier international relations beginning early in the next year. Workers and employers in America during the next six months should exer- cise great care in their dealings with one another. Both sides should be intelli- gent and act only after due reflection. There is danger of conflict on the Pa- cific Coast of America, but it will be averted by the sagacity of the nation’s leaders. American and European na- tions will continue to maintain their prestige in Ching, but at the cost of many lives. To gWe up a single human life for the privilege of staying on an- other man’s land is paying too much for that privilege. Many are those in Europe who have followed my advice.\ Several foreign en- voys to the Peace Conference at Ge- neva have honored me with their visits and I have been.able to help them. No two hands in the whole wide world are an opening in a heavy curtain. N N ing, and Many Curious old engraving of a young girl vi: Ot!:ei Things The lines in the palm of hand in which cial palmists believe they are able to read a person’s present future— (a) the line of destiny; (b) the life; (c) the line of health; (d) the past, and line of line of heart; about a love affair that is worrying her alike, you see, and my conclusions re- garding the past are absolutely infallible. Intuition and mathematical deduction reveal the future. The lines of the hands explain the past. Let me recall an ex- periment made by the school authorities of Paris some time ago. One hundred pupils of the Normal School let me read their hands through I could Copyright, 1927, not see their faces. The authorities had asked me to classify the pupils, psyc logically, and had placed the most va- ried characters behind the curtain, bright ones, nervous ones, lazy ones, stupid ones, vicious ones, and so forth. The teachers knew the youngsters quite thor- oughly, of course, and simply wished to compare notes. I quickly analyzed one hand after an- (e) the line of the head ing an astrologer for advice Mme. Fraya, whose interesting predictions of America’s future on this page were made after a study of the palms of many American patrons other, naming the respective tem- the peraments, inclinations and spe- idiosyncrasies, while the professors took notes of my ut- terances. The result was 87 per cent correct analyses. It had taken the teachers a long time of observation to know what they did about the children. I solved the problem in less than two hours. I mention this merely to show where the practice of chi- romancy might officially help where it is prohibited by law. I foretold the in which a prominent French statesman was to be implicated, also his fall, his banishment and ultimate return to a high position in the dinner 1 impend- The hand told me of his stormy past, and the moment he came near me I “felt” that the man was doomed. There is something in and around each person that I dis- feel the moment the Call it intellection, please, it is something which EXISTS and manifests itself to me as I look other human being. nce the world has pro- duced thinking minds, men and women have been eager to know the future. The sacramental dice which the high priest threw before the Ark of the Covenant decided the fate of Israel. In the depths of the Egyptian hy- pogei the sages fixed the rules and mysteries of the spotted cards, while even to-day the naked Yogi in the deserts of India let th aind of Brahma trickle gh their hands and decide their destinies. the and; government. At a told Bolo-Pasha of h tragic ing death is made. or whatever you upon Ever Since the great war all psychic theories have been newly studied, not only by the ever curious but by the most ironical Some want to establish, scien- the laws of the thaumaturgists, while others seek in these mysteries a quenching of their too positive minds. The general anxiety caused by the social irama feeds phis tendency. And the world is becoming more and more anx- jous to know what the morrow will bring,‘ what new problems will have to masses savants tifically be met and solved and what good things are destined for us. There are many people who hawe little or no faith in the ability of palmists to read the past in the lines in the human hand. Perhaps this is because not every one who professes to be a palm- ist knows his or her busimess. But palmistry is a real and a very exact art, to me, and my “gift” of “feeling” a person’s mind enables me to add to the things I see in his hand the mental traits that will definitely influence his be- havior in days to come. 1 like Americans, particularly the women. Their intelligence is coupled with such gental naivete that their in- nermost thoughts are at once visible to my sibilities. After reading many of their hands and “feeling” the personali- ties of their owners, there is little diffi- in coming to a definite conclusion regarding the future of America. It is like an open book to me. And again I say that American men must look to the women to offset the dangers of over- prosperity. Travel will help in leveling the differ- ences between the hasty civilization of America and the slower progress of European nations. The contact can only do good to America. Music and art are beginning to make themselves better un- derstood in the New World. It is a good sign. But the benefits of artistic influ s will only be felt when the masculine tendencies of the women will have been into more normal channels. Women should not smother their feminine instinets in dress, in thought or in action. They are of the greatest use to society when they are their own sweet selves and do not need to adopt the masculine manner to fill their high destiny in the scheme of things. The women of America are destined to lead the world in the realm of thought and consequently will exercise a great influence in the evolution of humanity. But the homelier and more feminine in- fluence will still be found in France and Germany and other European nations. America must be careful in her great financial preponderance. It may be de- structive of character and national com- fort if not handled sagaciously. The more American women will have to say in American life the better the state will fare and the more successful the home will be. In the hands of American women the fate of their country is written. led