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Show THE PALMY DAYS OF THE PALMIST AT AN END IN NEW YORlS fciOW have the mighty fallen! According Ac-cording to the admission of one well known professor of science of palmistry palm-istry and the comparison is his own In its palmy days chelrosophy was as good a business as being a broker on tho exchange. And today, to-day, well they arc both about in the same class. Time was when New York City was honeycombed with tho readers of the tiny lines of thothands; when tho West Twenties and Thirties and Sixth avenue boasted savants from ail parts of the world, but especially from tho mystic East. And Coney Island's never-failing attraction was the veiled woman or the man with the hypnotic eye. But the spirit of reform and skepticism skep-ticism has descended upon one of tho most ancient professions In the world. There la hardly one of the few palmists In Now York who has not been arrested recently and who is not out on bond to keep the peace for a year. There is hardly one who does not expect to make hta exit with imprecations impre-cations from the city within a few months, to wander West and see whether he is not more appreciated there. Even at Coney Island the lid has been lowered upon the prophetic vision and the Irrepressible imagination. imagin-ation. "They eall this tho land of the free," said one well known seer scornfully, "but I don't see It. Our business is absolutely ruined, and yet wo never did any harm; that Is, tho most of us. You've got 1 so many rules and regulations in this city that you have not even the right to think anything wrong. You're likely to be arrested for tho thought This business used to be as good as the Stock Exchange, Surely! One and two and live dollars at a reading, read-ing, and there were readings from morning until night And then I often charged anywhere from fn0 to $1,000 for a case." "A man comes to me about a girl. He loves her, and she does not love him. What should he do"' I read his hand, and from the linos I know whether now Is the time for him to he happy In his love. If it is. I ask for a picture of the girl, so that I. know what her nature is. and then I tan advise him what to do. Sometimes I tell him how to intluenee her." "Hj photlshi ? "No. Something perhaps I get from E'-'ypt.'" "Powders J" The professor shrugged 'Well, it is sometimes a powder, yes-" "But do you mean to say that you can affect anything with powders, pow-ders, or nnv other silly contraption?" contrap-tion?" He bridled. ,"It is not silly. Sometimes I tell him to take the hair from his head and burn it. and give the ash to the girl, and dio will love him. Is that silly f That is knowledge as old as the world Itself I had ' from mj father s father, and that and much else is true. "I have many good customers who believe in What I say, because I havo told them so many true tnmgs. and given so much good advice. ad-vice. Often we palmists are I! We confessors of the church. Men and women come and ask us what to do, and tell us secrets that are of the darkest A week ago there came a young girl who wanted to commit suicide. She had come from Belgium to marry D man, and he had fouled her She had no home, and she was so ashamed she wanted to die. "I told her there wns much hopo In life for her. and a tew days later when she came again. I sent her to the Belgian Consul, and In a few days sho will be on her way homo again. "Is not that good work? And yet now we do not dare to do b.isiness. or else we will be arrested. All daj 1 sit and wait, and haidly ever do 1 dare take a customer. This Is tho worst city in the world Nowhere do people mako so man laws to make people good; and yet thore Is Just as much wickedness as anywhere any-where There 13 much graft, and there is little honest business." It is -urlous that no two hands are found with -lmllar markings and ?o Individuality stands out plalnlv. It is asserted by those who ittidy and practice palmistry that present and future events are portrayed on tho hand In the same way as in tho past. A man's or a woman's fate; tne lensrth of his or her life; whether happiness or unhapplneea will come; whether there is to be Illness or health: success or failure in love; whether rrleds will be false or true, can be foretold. Guidance as the professor Instanced in his particular cast, can be given as the course to pursue in certain clrt uinstanceeB There are man: stnlng InstanceiBt purporting u show tin- a . vuracy prophecies, and this one Is tn in4Sj stance of weird omnlsclon. T: Two v ..mi. 11. .-I in 1 diversion u rather than anytblnu l-'1'. deter- mined t cons ill a well known palmBRj it in I. ..ml. .a I h, !:-! was as- J( founded by th" :u.tn-it. reading otj? hi r pasl Sh waU promised a hapwi p.v future and the palmist forctoltiWH in ir. - i!. ,n claims havaJBL Since come true. r?1 Th.. past ... Hi.- frrimd woman was th n r i!.. l.rt the palmlstt refrained ii..m saing any thing Jftc r th.. f 1 1 1 v 1 1 - Wh.-n .isked whyJl she did :i.. prnplw. In regard to . this, s)im r plied H ' 1 can se,., no future In yourl hind." I Barely ten minute- I it-r this womy. an was run over and killed by tOffr) omnibus, l "i. h t !.'-(- - : 1 . 1 . 1 . : 1 oil en," said ill the professor, ' Sm.ill .p.i.u.iiti.-c ,..f , trollzed f""a v.. iter poured int.. fresh watejH swimming Is has been found aid effective sterilizer against bacterljB By the use . . m. 1 ! .m irachln . erj tie h. 1 1 , ,f th. -an'' i.iys hast 1 been sue. . s.sfuHy harnessed 'QjJ1 .1 y lor lrrlga- 1 1 . 1 1 1 p urposes Jla Shaving - .ap m contain.-. I within J the hnndle .' : ,t new fhavlng brush,iJf0 for. J , 11.:.. Die lirl-tles7 c tor use by a slight turn of the up- per end. S |