The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-30
MODERN WOMAN PIANIST.
She Is MuchEin Evidence at English
Garden Parties.

London World.
1t is one of the signs of the times nova
days that wherever you go the palmist Is
with you always. At receptions you notice
that a crowd of feminine draper1es, many
skirts thick, is gathered round the door OF
the third room. = and you are told that
within there is a fortune teller. She may
reveal the future, the past, and the never
to-be by the lines ON the hand, or she may
manipulate the cards OF the Grand Tarot
and weave a powerful romance out OF what
has seemed to third persons singuarly
commonplace career, adding, moreover, a
last act which quantity combines the doubt
ful apotheosis of the problem-play with the
happy ever after of the Adeiphi drama in
manner calculated to prove Infinitely con-
sollng to one who feels herself to be mis-
understood by an undiscerning generation.
Or with the aid of magic crystal (pur-
chasable for the ridiculously reasonable sum
OF tWo-and-Six) she may be seeing more and
more curious visions than were ever dreamt
OF in the philosophy of Horatio, Hamlet or
even the Ghost himself-if dreams ana phil
osophy are included in the ghostly outfit.
AT garden parties, bazaars and fetes OF
every KIND the palmst tent is as regular
part or the programme as the band and the
boredom In the daily papers she shrieks at
you with loud-voiced advertisement that she
gives lessons and confers diplomas, that she
NH DO" ciairvoyance, second sight, thought
reading, cryStal-gaZing, palmlStry, and the
advertising agent knows what besides. Nay,
more, she will burst out sometimes into GU
riosly ill-judged and oddly grammared let
that her house Tin the suburbs) is the only
true Dodona (where the grove surely should
De OF chestnuts rather than of oaks, sneers
covertiy at her brothers and sisters in the
occult arts, and declares with electro
dated authority that none are genuine except
chose who have studied under her. Mysteri-
Gus whispers, moreover, may be heard from
time to time from both beautiful and I'M
beautiful lips: 'She told me that / should
be the subject OF real grande passion three
times In my life, and that two of them were
get to come Lady Jaye has been taking
FREDDY to her every day for week, and is
having his entire character and future done
out In full from his hand, so that she may
bring him up with view to the perfect de-
velopment of his natural talents "She
told me wonderful things. Really, I can
hardly believe that all of them happen
at my age. And yet-fifty-five she says
is to be the most eventful period of my life.'
And this is how the palmlng band, the merry
to U.S.
1t may even be worth considering whether
the remarkable abatement of the howl of the
new woman may not be to some extent due
to the growth of palmistry as a profession
for 'our daughters The females who so
loudly insisted ON their right to romp unre-
strained through all the walks of life which
had hitherto been reserved for men may have
discovered that the medical, legal, and other
masculine professions often attended more
by dignity than pay, whereas the pursuit of
the science" of palmiStry, though perhaps
not tending very directly to honor, is GER
tainly productive of much ready cash. 1t
is easy to imagine that woman with that
true nobility of soul which renders self sac
rlflces so natural TO her-when she loses moth
ing by it-should have magnanimously de-
c1ded to leave to the tyrant man the business
OF. "delying" for nothing but hope, attending
pauper patients without prospect of payment
and all the other delights of the legitimate
professions, while she devotes herself en-
tlrely to the -remunerative task of giving
opportunities of good square talks about
% m SO .f0 1nSi ,Ix1a
terested in any other subject, and promising
them. individually or collectively. according to
fancy, all the delights and successes which
the" female mind can conceive with just,tbe
faintest soupcon of the undesirable sufficient
Ito. invest with artistic verismilitudeh, what
would otherwise be bald and unconvincing
narrative And the ppofessienJi is one in, which
the greater the pretensions avowed and the
impudence displayed the more abject is the
credulity of the dupes who flock to be 1eeced
and the larger the receipts of the adroit and
busineSs-like sibyl H. s6
A student of human -natltre-and the would
be palmist must laberi to deserve the name
can tell a great deal from the first glance and
the first brief conversation. We have all of
us little Sherlock Holmes inside who Is al
ways doing the inductive method, though with
out the theatrical exposition and the Watsonic
applause which accompanied the efforts of the
original. Men are easy to tell observed one
fascinating sorceress this eaIiber @they are
turned out of such distinct molds that one
rarely makes mistakes about Them And there
are certain things which are sure to please
lpaagly9aA men, And iffone goes laAlttle wrong
men are never disagreeable about it. But one
= hasv to nbeg veryecarefubv wfthoi women :. One
woman will take as an insult what another
will receive as a compliment The best plan
Is TO draw them on and let them do most of
the talking. Even then they may tell their
friends afterward that they were told nothing
worth hearing, andhdo their best to ruin the
business" A few years ago the cry was
What shall we do with our daughters ?" Now
1t seems as If the question had resolved itself
into Glow our dauphterS dn