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HARPY OF

STREET

THE

BOND

"T

ELL your

for slogan "Desutiful for Ever," and

there tune, sir. Only beneath

words were

a penny." The shown a glittering collection of cosmetics with fancy Oriental fawning voice names, priced as high as tw checked the man's glass hundred guineas for a small

bottle, half-way to his lips.

Bar over" mare desirable. would make them "beautiful

It

The fantastic prices, instend Had there been anything of frightening women vaguely pleasant about the only made the Httle bottles that fortune-teller the man would doubtless have paid just for the amusement of hearing a cunning string of lies. But the woman was repellent.

Hor sallow face held two shirly

eyes above a strongly hooked use and Eose thick- Epped mouth. So unpleasant Wats she that the man turmeri quickly away and joined in the conversation of his neighbour in the public bur..

The year was 1833. Some ten yours later the fortune-teller Sarah Rachel Leverson--was to figure in trial that brought London society nocking to the Old Bailey, but not before she

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had amassed, at the rate of some

never seemed to have crossed the minds of her foolish clients that if Madame Rachel could

make them beautiful, her potions and creams might have had smo effect on her own features. The rich clothes she now wore did little to mitigate her own uglhess.

Her fawning tongue and ful- tery, however, kept many in the shop who would otherwise have left nt the first sight of the woman who ran it. Some of these who stayed soon found there was another not so plea- sunt site to Madare's tongue.

KENDALL McDONALD

tells another of the World's Strangest Stories

·

NATHANIEL GUBBINS

B

EFORE me on the

desk was an inter

I've told you the customer's Christmas always right this

view in a rowspaper up with him at the grocers;

But they're goiting prolty fod with Miss Nora

Herdsman, who writes There's nothing to prod ant

Christmas card rhymes for pinch thero, old man. a lying and a known a8 The Jingle Queen.

Oh, yes thore Is He prode the dates and figs and pluches the biscuits,

Do you mean he steals them,

As Albert, The Robot Columnist, can produce old man? verse almost without effort I asked him if he would care to have a shot at it.

"There's money in it, Albert," I said.

"How much?"

But you'd think he'd know He says he wants to try them.

what they wore like after esting one instead of a handful. Then he tries the cheese and a bit of sausage and a slice of cooked ham,

"I don't know. But this Is the sort of stuff Miss Herdsman Practically a full meat, old is working on at the moment, man.

"Sweet is the message of

Christmas.

- Sweet

are the thoughts 10 brings

Of those who are dear, both

far and near,

And old familiar things.

Over to you, Albert.”

"Right. How's this?

Precisely, old man. They had

to ask him to leave when they found him with his angers in a jar of preserved ginger.

It's not hygienic, old man.

Of course it's not. No wonder there's so much gastric 'flu

"Sweet is the message of about

Christmas,

Sweet are the thoughts,

new,

not

Of what are you likely to give

to me

So what must I give to you?"

"No Christmas-card manu- facturer would pay for that, Albert. It's too near the truth. Here is another example of Miss Herdsman's work with her own exclamation marks.

"Christmas! Let's be gay)

And how I hope it brings The best of luck your way And many pleasant things, Over to you."

"Right,

Christmas! Let's be gay! And may you listen "in

To the broadcast they're doing

on Christmas Day

Of the

Japl,"

Somebody ought to write to the public health department, old man.

If he can't lopep his fingers to himself somebody will send for the police. Having a quick one. before you cook the wite's lunch, old man?

No, thanks. I still have to do me grates. So long, old man..

Bo long, old man.

Christmas Day

Vou must now imagine the you

home of a kiddie-worshipper on Chrismas Day. He has Ave children, and their loving father · has armed them with the toya mentiond. One guest is a highly

bomba dropped on strung uncle who has been on a bit of a bender the night before. "No good at all, Albert. Let'a The highly strung uncle, an avold parodies of Miss Herds- ex-Army man, is trying to sleep man's work. What Ja your late when he thinks he hears favourite Christmas card reveille. Half awake, ho atso rhyme?"

thinks the bugle is being pressed is right, "One I read last year. It was against his ear. He

except that it is not a bugle but "Keep your robinay keep your the

glistening gold trumpet being played on all four notes with valve action by one of the dear little boys.

moto,

an

Give me Marilyn Monroc." "That was written by Irreverent university under- something

Try

thon and sincere", "

This comes from the

"O.K. heart:

"Nute to turkey, nts to pud, Nuts to doing people good, Why not spend your Christ

mas Day

With a blonde far, far away?" "Careful; Albert"

Leaping out of bed, the uncle's bare feet, are struck a; painful blow by the toy lawn mower driven straight at him by another dear tile boy; and by a dear little girl strumming he is played to the bathroom -

hideous sounds on the Ukette.

"With a blonde so far away, Hip hip-hip, hip-hip hooray! Away

from. playing silly Damer Round the fire She applied

with ancient dames. instead of playing gamer that of

for a warrant for the arrest of

Illness robbed her of her only good feature— her big mistaka her hair....but that gave her the "inspira- Mrs Bordalle and had her put from duping and blackmailing tion" which changed her from a penny-a-

£

€ 20,000 a year, a huge fortune

wealthy Landon society women

-merely by exploiting their time fortune-teller to a £20,000-a-year crook

vanity.

debt. Into Whitecross Street Prison for

for

Mrg Borradalle's friends sallied to her support. In next to no time Rachel Leverson, who The step between selling penny Few women talked of their This completely turned the

insisted on giving her age as 43 fortunes and becoming the most visits : Madame's

Lord Ranelagh although she establish- widow's head, talked

must have been of woman in London mant. There were rumours of was no longer young, it was true, older, found hangall gnoted would probably never have hap- lost

but he was handsome and a jewels and of Madamo pened but for a kindly doctor Rachel's simple answer-"If you familles in the country..

member of one of the best false pretences. In King's Cross Hospital. For Rachel Leverson caught a fover. say anything, I shall teli your Part of the treatment was to husband you came here to meet shave off the one beautiful thing a lover." she possessed-her flowing dark hair.

And in this bewildered state of high delight Mrs Baradalio. signed the cheque for the balance of the full beauty course

£900.

Somehow

Lord Ranelagh was called to Madame Rachel's story as "too give evidence. He declared

ridiculous Kr

and monstrously false from bogia- ning to end."

words"

With blackmail in the back

7 and beauty in the front, Madame Rachel's parlour prospered. Sho

Counsel for the prosecution took a luxurious house in the ever seen Mrs Borradalle. So quickly destryed a thin defence

Lord Ranelagh had, of course, West End, and employed inrgo staff of servants to

it was sheer luck fr Madame and amki laughter recited some tok after

Rachel that he visited the shop of the potions she used in her she hor, Each day in her own each in Hyde Park when the widow, was

was driven in Bond Street on one occasion beauty salon and their prices: there. The Royal Ambian Toliet of by liveried vants,

other Madame Beau ST

Beauty, as arranged by Madame Rachel, contrived in introduc- Rached for the Sultana of Tur tion. Lord Fancingh exchanged key, the facsimile of which is a fow polite words with The used 'by the Royal European

Brides." heavily made-up woman with

Prices from 100 gulnces the yellow-tinted hair and left to 1,000. Jordan Water the shop.

("brought by swift dromedaries from the River Jordani”), Price: Madame Rachel explained 20 guinose, Dew of Sahara for that he wanted the whole thing Removing Wrinkles": kopt secret. until he married

THE medical man, to pacify her, told her that he would give her something that would make her hair grow rapidly and be more beautiful than ever..

It was about this time that she started the affair which was to And Nature was so bountiful bring her downfall. A new cut- that her hair grew most winder tomar arrived one morning. fully fast, at which she was so delighted that she asked the

doctor for the recipe..."

This, according to a contam-

porary report, was the Inspire-

was soon hawking round.

ment from

dul for ever.

THE

tion. It is probable that Rachel MRS Mary Borradalle was in Mrs Barradale. · Hò had told Loverson decided there and her fifties, the widow of a. Madame Rachel that he would then, in her hoglial bed, to colonel, killed in the Indian write easing diza name of exploit the vanity of women to Mutiny, who had left her a nice "William" as a cover for his All her

purse. When she was little fortune. Madame Rachel real entity.

THE Jury were out for four. discharged the found, even in was delighted. She even reduced:

The letters duly started to hours. They disagreed. A the slums, vanity enough to pay her price for the full treat-

£1,000 to 2100, arrive. The fact that, although socond trial began on Septem- for the "miracly bottles" she rs Borradalle was to be begut, full of love, for" "My Own Bo. ber 21, 1808,

Joyed Mary the letters were

The Central Criminal Court, hardly those of an educated with Mr Commissioner Kerr It was some years before she could save enough to move to

After a course of baths and man was explained away by the presiding. Was pecloed - to- the Weat End and richer along Mathme had the tight story that he had hurt his hand suffocation point. Mr. Gorjeant pastures. Madame Rachel, as fully told her not to expect any and was getting his valet to Ballantine, prosecuting. ****

called herself, did framediate change in her homely write them for him.

cribed the case as things thoroughly.

features now. routine 'was"

mest

which had worked out specially for the

ever brought into a court Early morning shoppers in foolish widow.

that in the three years that Bond Street could hardly miss

Madame Rachel had known Mrs. the new shop. Hugo Jotters

Borradale £5,000 had changed DOTOSS the front carried the

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She was told that shoutẩy ofler her Inst visit a nobleman of

as one of

of the

birth.. had become a RS Borradallo next paried hands. £800 for "paltry powders"

M moured of her. He had caught or trouser; a mnall for

Four days later, on a Saturday,

a glimpse of her through a further botha -and firentintinta crevice in the wall of the rim and £1,400 for jewellery which the trial ondo In which she took her bath, Mind Buch was the persissive power keeping for her (although it doubts.

Rachel putin safe fehle time the Jury had no Bachol Laverton-still

SO, SOBAL WAR

Madamo

of Marine Hachel's tongue and wi dacvered that Madame obstinately Sour old was

the vandy of life sold it back to the jeweller a few convicted of urdawfully obtain Borradalje

ahomever daya lator). \| drabbed that a poblèmen of such gr

Ing £1,400 by fallen and fraüdü decency and high breeding could. “The final clean-up of. Merlant biglarosata BHI WA INDO descend to paplot 3drought}: Barradale deprived ba? DE BEVEL THE cracks in Bathroórn

plate" rings, family, souli, JetDeew;

then wald that

Go

Are

broad and play

with

"That will do, Albert." "Go abroad to gay Parce."

"I said that will do."

• Severely shaken, the undla carves his faco badly while shaving and nearly has his ear of when there is a wall of · agony downstairs. At first he thinks a dear little kiddies being strangled and is ashamed a momentary feeling of relief. But it is only another dear little giri playing with her toy car, speed cop, and shriek- ing siren.

At heart the highly strug

"He-he, he-he, he-he, hehe." uncle is a decent vert elf chapt

Gentlemen In

Retirement

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even fond of children up now.

He thinks, well, Christmas is Christmas. Perhaps they'll

soon tire of their toys and ho will have a chance

to rectover

his nerve. But he Coesn't know what's coming to him.

As he enters the dining- depr

old room for breakfast

little boy, taking ever, behind

OT your turkey yet, U man? dil, it's still three weeks

Well, not yet, old man. After the settee, opens fire with the to water gun, With Telescople sights the dear little chap can't he hits the highly, then Christmas

inlas it, old man. I suppose you're the other.

There's no harm in ordering uncle frst in one eye and

As the undle burną,

Like you,

in the left car.

strung

till doing the wife's shopping? his head he gets it in the right I've been doing it ear. He turns again, and gets it "Let him have ever since I retired. But I the lot," the door little children don't think there'll be a short yell, sounding trumpet and stren age of anything this year. For for the kill. the first time "sinco · 1939 phe customer will be always right. Before the highly string

unale com escape

tho kog Still, I know one customer deadly stroom" hits him full in who's not taking any chances.

the face and he has to go up- You don't mean

to say he's stairs to change his shirt.

Did the uncle havo, a lovel got his turkey already?

happy Christia

You'll hardly bellove it but he went up to Norfolk~ two months ago to choose a chick. .. Never, old man?

He had a label with his namo on it tied to its log and he told them

to food

on cream. .." Cream, old man?

It makes them very fat. and fender, old man, Better than); milk. happened?

But what do you think

No idea, old man,

'. It died of fowl pest,

That's the only laugh Poe had since the Ter Match

Same here. But you know

the town what's going to happen now? He'll grab the best turkey: "In

Others can play at that game, old man

much time and energst to it. But other won't devated a pant whole woultry ring Sundays, prodding and pinching turkey bresat. ⠀-

tisinki šta dirgisting," old

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