The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-05-30
DANGER TO GIRLS
The Alarming Number Of Young
Ladies Who Visit Clair
voyants.
"reminiscences OF a Memorable
Sunday-The Westf1eld
Disaster

OlSdSbSI
Brooklyn Eagle.
There probably isn't one girl in ten
in the whole city of Brooklyn who
doesn't, or at some time hasn't, been
the regular patron of a clairvoyant SO
called. When the first visit is made
it is next to impossible TO keep away.
/ have been TO them myself, dozens Of
times, and you would be surprised to
see how many ladies-and | use the
word advisedly-are to be met there.
Ut would startle you"
, The speaker was young lady, the
daughter of an honored resident OF
South Brooklyn, and the words were
uttered at a little social gathering
which took place few nights ago in
that section of the city known as Pros
pect Heights.
Out of the dozen or more young
ladies present there was but one who
would not own up to having INDUCED
i'm the weakness of a desire to see into
the future, and even that one, a sunny
haired, blue eyed, suicide inducing.
mischievious, buxom daughter Of
Adam and "Mrs. ADAM" rogueshly
shrugged her shoulders, and as she
said, 81 wouldn't 60 for the world"
her actions led to the inference that
she, too, could tell more if she felt so
Ai;aclined.
MA knows all about it. but pa.
why. pa would just 60 crazy if ne even
dreamed ofsuch thing" was the YER
dict of all; "but it is just too too Gas
the papers say for anything"
.sOf course we don't believe any,
thing they tell us, said one, as she
pursed up as pretty pair of cherry
ripe lips as ever drove a mans neck
into the matrimonial moose, seaIskin,
Ga nsborough, French bott' mes mother
in-law AID all; ''but they do, some
times, tell things that are almost
true, and that sometimes are nice to
think Of" she continued half doubt
fully.
"My daughter Emma" said a staid
} dame of so, actually became so in
faouated with clairvoyants that /
found it next to impossible to keep
her away from them, and at last l
was compelled to propose visit to
Oneida county, where We have some
relatives, aud where she is now.
Why, every time she would 60 down
Fulton street shopping she would visit
one of these harpies, and her brain
became so filled with the nonsense
that she conldn't Sleep"
"And," said another mother, "my
Mary was just the same, but | threat
ened to tell her father. and that put
a stop to it Immediately. 1t is sim,
ply terrible what a number of our
best young ladies visit such places and
into what companionship they are
thrown!" she sighed, and the talk was
temporarily ended by music.
The above mentioned converse ton
set the writer's thinking apparatus in
working order, and he determined to
disprove or prove the assertions made
therein and lay before the readers of
the Eagle the result of his researches.
The writer wishes to preface the
testimony he acquired with state
ment of facts which came under his
personal notice:
Up to about six years ago, perhaps
a little more, there lived on Baltic
street, between Smith and Hoyt. a
clairvoyant who was known to her
patrons as
MADAME BEEBE.
This woman accumulated a large
sum of money in her business, and
was the alleged possessor of fabulous
wealth. Be this as it may, her rooms
were the resort of the beauty, fashion
and wealth Of the city of churches.
Hundreds of well dressed females
visited her house weekly, and car
riage after carriage, drawn by we'll
fed quadrupeds and surmounted by
brass-buttoned and equally as well-fed
bipeds, made the neighborhood lively
and furnished bait for those who were
fond of gossip.
Among her regular visitors was one
Minnie --, a we'll known young
lady in certain society circles. Her ..
home was in Newark. but she was tenn. !
porarily residing with>a married sis
ter in Brooklyn. One day about s
week prior to the memorable Sunday
on which happened the terrible West. 7
field disaster, the young lady made |
one of her accustomed visits to Mad 9
anne Beebe. Minnie was a plump ;
blonde, with blue eyes and lively !
Upon her return from the G
visit her friends noticed that she an