Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-09
PSYCHICS VERSUS LOVE.
A Physician Cures Cupids Diseases

When Shakespeare sang the little
song in Much Ado About Nothing be-
ginning Sigh no more, ladies'; sigh no
more, he must have foreseen the man
who has lately come out of the east
to set lance at rest against Cupid, and
he is prospecting better in his quest
than might be expected. When he
first turned up in Paris he didn't de-
vote all his attention to love affairs.
He wore flowing hair and medieval
costumes and an occult expression,
and did psychic things of various sorts.
He was follower in the paths of the
Wandering Jew and Cagliostro, but
those paths have grown thorny IN
these prosaic days and a cruel world
guyed him about his clothes and his
familiar spirits, and he got very low
in spirits of all kinds, and was tempted
to abandon psychics and go into a
patisserie shop. Being in the way Of
exercising demons, he resisted temp
tation. Then his business began TO
improve. Psychical research became
the fad, and he public, finding the
thing sanctioned by fashion, INDUCED
its bent for credulity.
Business in psychics was brisk, and
The man from the east had an insplra-
ton. He knew that love affairs were
universal. and that they led to puz-
zling situations. Psychics applied to
love would appeal to tremendous eli
entele. He became a specialist.
Just by way of getting his hand in
and showing what he could do in the
way of adjusting matrimonial events,
he married real princess, who made
up in pedigree what she lacked in for
tune. incidentally he promised her to
give up medieval clothes and long
hair, an6 was obliged to face the spir-
its of the invisible world in a frock
coat and patent leather pumps, but he
kept his occult expression and his SYM
bolic poses and his lamentations. He
announced that, with the aid of Sister
Aldegonde, a nun who had renowned
the veil and had consented to be
mediNm for his supernatural power, he
could deliver any young woman from
the mon of love. Against sober,
well-regulated love, sanctioned by con-
science and parents, he waged no war
WITNESS the princess). But uncon-
vent.onal and foolish love he would
down If it took all the spells in his
black book. Paris was an excellent
place for his business, and he pros.
pered from the start. Now everyone
talks of him, and it is an admitted fact
that many grande DANES have con-
suited him.
One of his recent triumphs was in
the case of an illustrious family in the
Faubourg st. German. The pretty
F. Dung daughter Of the family had
given her parents no end of trouble
and defied all French family traditions
She was madly in loYe with disrepu-
table and utterly ineligible lieutenant
and would not listen to reason. The
infatuation caused much scandal. The
girl was punished. scolded, nagged,
trotted about Europe, but stubbornly
held to her lieutenant. Finally she
became seriously i'll. Her parents
were in despair They couldn't per-
NIT so hopeless a mesalliance, but they
couldn't see their daughter die. The
madam la comtesse. the mother, heard
Of the master OF applied psychlcs. AS
a last resort she appealed to him.
Now the young lieutenant goes sorrow
ing, Tie girl Is heart whole and the
master OF psychics rides the topmost
wave OF popularity and Is working
over hours. Unfortunately. the press
of affairs has exhausted IFS medium,
and he is searching for somv sensitive.
virtuous and mystical young woman
who can share the tired nuns duties.
When a patient calls upon the mas
'.er he listens to the tale OF woe, medi-
tates and goes out OF the room for a
while. When he returns he brings
Sister Aldegonde with him. She takes
the hands OF the patient, rolls her eyes