The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-11-08
AVHUsBAND m TROUBLE.a


the Consequences OF aOOnSultfnR q
Fortune Teller--.An ,AEnIabIe wife
turned into an UnamiRble Fury =
In the correspondence column ol
NO0h'S Times AID Messenger for this
week, we find the following question
and answer: ~, r5 rs :, : ,i.,i.ig:7 Ll
QUESTIoN.-"Cany You say OF: do moth
ing tor me and for many others that
suner, In their peace of mind and fami-
~ relations, from the falsehoods Of those
INFAMOUS pests of this city ycleptf for
tune tellersf For instance, am (oi
course most cruelty and unjusuy,) ao-
cused OF infldelity to my wife. She has
been to several of those curses, and they
nave put this n1ischiey GUS thing In her
head. If I,could only be sure of the
parties she went to, I do not know what
would result. As 1t is, am not sure
Wha6 may happen to me or mine.
Potsou. has been freely talked. of in
paro1ysms of intense rage and hate
and !oathing. am interfered with, at
and in my business, by the presence OF
a fury that; a few months ago, was an
amtable andlsensible woman. expect
rom this communication neither advice
nor sympathy, but 1 can say, from Bit
ter experience, that If, in yourcapacity
OF Journalists, yOuIcan stop this Crying
evll, yon Will save many from misery
AAAAs -.
ANswER.-Youm may well call the bus
mess OF these fortune tellers" a crying
evil. The wretches who pursue 1t are
commonly unprinoipled, reckless and
malignant. They separate man and
wife, inspire family distrust, break up
the happtest relations, and bring hun-
dreds OF foolish women and young girls
to dishonor, shame, ruin, despair and
an early grave! The most lucrative
portion of their profession" IS to sup
ply lewd men with opportunities to get
oquatnted with such women as they
nave taken a fancy to, and to subse-
qnently assist these men to ruin the
the latter credulOuS creatures that, II
they yield, fortune and felicity will fol-
low.s Unfortunately, thousands of fe-
male minds are so constituted as to be
easily led astray by arts of this charac-
TER. IL IS very common, trick of these
chiarlatans, the fortune tellers," )" when
some ,roue applies to them to secure for
him the attention of a certain married
lady, hrst to get some confdante to per-
sqade the lady to have her fortune told;
next to inspire her with doubts of her
nuspand's fidelity; and then, when her
jealousy Is fairly aroused, to show her,
by The cards." that she can cure her
husband by gettinglup secret flirta-
tlon or her own with some gentleman
Whom fate Will throw in her way in a
mysterious manner "A clandestine
meeting between the roue and his iu-
tended victim thus Brought about, the
step to family disgrace IS easy and is
seldom successfully avoided. We NAV
well wonder, in view Of these well
known facts, that the authorities do not
put a stop to the practice of 'fortune
telllng." especially as there is a law in
terdicttng it under a penalty Of fine
andsimprisonment; but the authorities
seem to wink at the 0fense SO much
that these pests actually advertise their
nominal business inithe newspapers
or rather in the newspaper, for there is
only one journal In this city base
enough to advertise the grossest indie.
cenctes while protesting to be shocked
at the short pettiCoats of a ballet COM
panY. Ia ID .f..g f. 80 60 - :