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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.- MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1934.

Menace Of Fortune Teller

THRIVING BUSINESS :

MANY REALLY BELIEVE

By Walter Denningham

Fortune-telling is thriving nguin. According to a police official, there are in Great Britain probably be tween 8,000 and 10,000 people mak- ing a ving from fortune-telling at the present time.

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It is difficult for the average man or woman to appreciate the legal attitude towards fortune-tellers. One asks what harm there is in spending sixpence to have one's future read from a tenzup, from cards, or from a crystal. Isn't it only a piece of fascinating pretence on both sides? And surely nobody is stupid enough to believe what he ja told, and so on.

The tragedy is that there are prople stupid enough to believe what they are told by professional "Roers," A few weeks ago, at an. Inquest on a woman who com mitted aulside by gas poisoning, the woman's widower said “A | fortnight ago my wife went to a fortune-teller, who prophesied that she would have a severe flness be- fore the year was out. My wife could think or talk of nothing but i this. She was young and in perfect health, but undoubtedly the pro- phecy preyed on her mind. There Is absolutely no other reason why! she should have committed suicide,"

This is not an isolated case. A shop-girl who ran away from her home left a note saying she had been warned that a neighbour might make an attempt on her life. Just before last year's Derby a man put all his saving on a horse named by a fortune-teller. The horse lost, and the man committed suicide.

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Washington, Dec. 17. Immediate abandonment of the Monroe Doctrine as the luftial step In a programme for more success- fal Pan-Americanism, and adop tion of the Pan-American doctring]-- of joint responsibility, is advocatef

by Gaston Nerval in a three- hundred page volume entitled "Autopay of the Monroe Doctrine," published in New York.

Nerval le the pen name uf Senor Raul Diez de Medina, son of the former Bolivian minister to [the United States, who was con- nected in n secretarial capacity with the Bolivian legation herg during hin father's period of eervice. In the volume, which does credit to the art of book- making, Norval discusses the original Monroe Doctrine, reviewa its metamorphosis, and takes up its many Interpretations.

Nerval discussed the abuses committed in its name, and traces the development of hegemony and imperialistic policy of the United States in Latin-America, -

The author Indicta the Monroe ten counts, chief Doctrine on among which are that it is not intended for the benefit of Latin- original American republica, its merita have been grossly aggerated, its preaant warn out and useless condition, It is unila- teral and egoistic, it has arrested real Pan-Americaniam, of EQUR)| rights and mutan! obligations, and

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Ib, steak mince, one small is in conflict with all modern onion, 14 oz. dripping, seasoning peace machinery of mankind."- to taste, a teaspoonful of flour, United Press. one cupful waler. Pastry-six | oza, plain flour, three ozs. margar- ine; cold water to mix.

Chop the onion roughly, and fry

mince, add the flour, seasoning, and water, and simmer very gently for ten minutes.

You may call such, people, neuro-it in the dripping. Stir in the ties If you like, but in ordinary circumstances they are stable mem- bers of the, community, and as such slemand protection.

EFFICIENCY

Washington, Dec, 17. Policeman J. F. Reynolds was intent on questions in an examina- tion which he hoped would lead Allow this to get quite cold, to a promotion. When he had Within the last twelve months while you make the pastry, Rubinished his paper, he discovered fortune-telling has increased to an the fat into the flour, and mix to someone had stolen his hat. alarming extent. Usually, the firm dough with a very little cold | United Press, · police are not very strict in their water. Cut it in half, roll out one enforcement of the law concerning piece, and line a plate or sandwich | professional phophets, and theytin with it. very rarely prosecute in cases where fortune-tellers are collecting money

The cheaper kind, charging fees of Spread the cold mince on this, anything from sixpence to ten shill- for charity. Perhaps this laxity roll out the other piece of pastry, inga, usually rely on imagination; is in some measure responsible for and cover the mince with and since they nearly always fore the Increase in fortune-telling. Press the edges well together, tell the future rather than define During the summer there is always make a hole in the centre, and the past, it is very difficult to catch

thern on any point. an increase, due to the numerous brush over with milk. Bake in a fairs, fetes, and flat-racing meet-hot oven for 25 to 30 minutes. Ings that are hell. But in the

ordinary way the number of pro-

fessional fortune-tellers does not (July 4 hat, I visited a fortune- execel 5,000. This is a police com- teiler, This woman had been black- putation. At the present time that listed and she knew it. And she figure is almost doubled,

was very smart.

Dearer consultants indulge in a Hittle more pantomime. This may slightly increase the risk, but the bigger reward makes it worth while.

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IN THE CRYSTAL Mr. Will Goldston, the eminent It is by no means easy to procure her before she demanded a fee of me of an enlightening experience I had scarcely spoken a word to magician and Spiritualist, has told evidence sufficient to convict # fortune-teller, and such methods a ten shillings. I paid. She then told with a professional crystal-gazer. the police employ have sometimes I asked her to explain, she said was invited to gaze into the crystal. me I "vibrated to sevens." When After some minutes, Mr. Goldston been condemned from the Magis-Seven

Bevens are forty-nine. He has no claim to power as 2 acer terial bench. At a recent case the You are probably P.C. 49." Maglatrate remarked-"It is a dis tested my innocence, but she stoutly see a long street with wide pave- I pro-and was consequently amazed to graceful thing that

a police con- stable should have to disguise him- refused to tell me anything about ments reflected in the glass ball. self and pretend to be a client seek my past or my future.

The solution came to him very ing genuine Information."

-There is a woman who makes two for three thousand pounds a year, quickly. He recognised the street To this a police inspector re- not from fortune-telling, but from as that in which the house was plled-"If your worship indagines training fortune-tellers. The police standing. By an ingenious system the police enjoy this sort of thing, have long known of her activities; "camera obscura" pattern, exterior of mirrors, arranged on the he is mistaken. To discourage all but for a long time she has proved fortune-telling we have continually too clover for them.

scenes were reflected in the crystal. to bring cases, and we must pro-

This apparatus was worked by the An erstwhile pupil of this lady duce concrete evidence. If your supplied me with some interesting consultant's daughter. workship knows of any other way Information concerning her. A That in the sort of thnig the pub of producing evidence, we should full course at her fortune-telling lic has to contend with. It is some- he very glad to hear of it." His school costs thirly guineas. This thing more than a mere swindle: worship didn't.

works out exactly at six guineas ait is a danger to sanity and life. lesson. Since this course covers The police are doing their best to practically every department of the eradicate such evils, but the real But even disguised policemen or pupils cannot grumble.

fortune-telling game. I suppose the remedy lies with the public. If policewomen-cannot always find

fortune-tellers are not patronised, the necessary evidence. I know

The devices and tricks of the pro- they will very soon go out of busi- this from my own experience. Ofessional seer are many and varied, neas.

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