Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-03-09
PSYCHICS VERSUS LOVE.
A Physician Cures Cupid's 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
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thing sanctioned by fashion, INDUCED
it's bent for credulity.
Business in psychics was brisk, and
the man from the east had an inspira-
ton. He knew that love affairs were
universal, and that they led to puz-
cling situations. Psychics applied to
love would appeal to a 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 a real princess, who made
up in pedigree what she lacked in for
tune. incidentally he promised her to
give up medieval clothes and long
its Of the invisible world in a frOck
coat and patent leather pumps, but he
kept his occult expression and his sym
boIic 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 a
medium for his supernatural power, he
could deliver any young woman from
the demon Of love. Against sober,
well-regulated love, sanctioned by con-
science and parents, he waged no war
(witness the princess. But uncon-
ventional 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 n
the case Of an illustriOuS family in the
Faubourg St. German. The pretty
Dung daughter of the family had
given her parents no end of trouble
and defied all French family traditions
She was madly in love 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 parent;
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 psychics. A!
| a last resort she appealed to him
Now the young lieutenant goes sorrow
| ing, the girl is heart whole and the
| master of psychics rides the topmO5
wave Of popularity and is working
over hours. Unfortunately, the pres
of affairs has exhausted lis medium
and he is searching for some 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
while. When he returns he bring
Sister Aldegonde with him. She take
the hands of the patient, rolls her eye
toward the ceiling and submits her
self to the mesmeric influence of tn
master After a time the patient i
conscious Of a strange sensation. Ac
cording to the description of one o
! the women, she felt as though an cleo
| trio knob were turned at the back O
her head and a dazzling light fiowe,
! into her brain. Then she saw dis
tinctly all the faults and fmperfection
of the man she loved, and she despiset
| him. She was led to a seat, wher
she stayed for few moments, AM
then she went home cured, and won
dering how she could ever have caret
for the man.