| Show I 1 rORT TELLERS TRIM 1 I I J I I I POLICE DRIVE SOOTHSAYERS OUT OF TOWN Names of Persons Found Jound On Sucker I Lists I CHARMS ARE GIVEN Women Told How to toMake toi Make Young Men Prop Propose e I By LEE OVERMAN O Standard nm l r Special Cot Cot- Cor Correspondent rc respondent Copyright 1924 by th the tho Consoli Consoli- Consolidated Consolidated dated Pre Press Pres Association SAN I R CO April 5 5 Names ames of o 50 persons Including some of o San Francisco's elite so- so soI so socially I I I daIly clany and financially sere viera ere found on the er lists of halt hall a a hundred hundred cryst gazers slate writ writ- writers writers ers era palmists trance mediums and other of soothsayers ers who I I ha hae e just been up and herded out of ot the ha city by the tho po po- po lice l j Jom SOme Ome q erv S J o them heni aI sf the OUght ought to ou kind td o alrea hind already already ly- ly had paid out good moy money ln frequently lalle lies to obtain the aid of occult In- In Influence Influence In Influence fluence according to the ties tics The lovelorn of o both sexes ere ere the chief source of revenue for the Soothsayers ayers the tho police dis- dis disclosed closed Some Sonic of ot the cures cures the th occult gentry disseminated were I almost t ludicrous enough to cause laugh at an undertakers undertaker's conven- conven convention tion i In O TO WIVES For Instance moro than a II score I of case cases 1 were vere ere discovered where unhappy wives had been advised that the best way to cure their thelt I philandering husbands was to In in- in inbert In bert 13 pins and 13 needles in II ai pair pall of ot the dear ones one's B 13 V DS Dl D I which wel e then to be turned burned be- be beneath neath the front doorstep I j In another case a large group of f women with who lacked I elt either her the courage or the disposition lion tion to I leach the proposal stag stage I II ere ere ad advised to b bit il a 0 piece of old oid I stockIng In salt and vinegar on seen se da daThe davs s The backward swains simply resist the temptation to toI I propose they were nere 1 ere assured If It the would weir veu er this chemically prepared bit of ot some here hera hereabout about her person I I I T niD STOP ACCIDENT T But It sea as as not only the lovelorn ho w ho contributed to the ers upkeep One automobile onner ner I was nas found In Iii a raided den where i I he was trying trying- to return to the pre pre- presiding presiding pre presiding siding seer a mulct of ot soul leather marked d With a cabalistic design lIe He I had just collided with Ith a I I and the was eRa raving ravine ahard a hard time him that the charm would ward oft off accidents when hen happily tor for him the tho police Inter ened Here Hore are some of the things soothsayers ers told their cue cus- customers cus customers and apparently persuaded nan nian of them to believe belleve I I I A rut rust ru t safety pin found on adark a ai I i dark corner during a II storm will ward eard oft off bid bd luck jinxes Ines Inces and ol tune In 10 love loe e It If worn In tho the 1 toe of the left shoo shoe I I allI It Is c unlucky tor for all pre present ent It If a brunet child sneezes l In lna room in which there are aro moro more b ondes than bl un It Is equal equal- equally equally equally ly unlucky It la Ifa a blonde child sneezes In a room In which the brunets pro pro- pre predominate dominate It If you are backward or bashful In affairs affair of o the heart and I become boome a highly efficient sheik Ot a plain rubber band worn e abose the left leet arkle arkie will Imbue ou OU euth Ith the courage of ot Sir Galahad and anel the of ot Romeo The evicted ones viewed 1 ed their heir e expulsion philosophically If It the of these sons eons and seventh se ghers are aro to be believed ed the tho percentage ot of o sign be lIe Ing jinx teal ing credulous Is no higher Ii in San Francisco than In tn J any ott of o the United States State Appal entry 1 e C IS 13 aMI t tiL one ODe ing born every minute 00 |
