Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-12-27

my handwriting once to a Philadelphia |
prophet, who sent me scathing reply. |
had given my name as Ella Leonard. |
The fortune teller announced that |
was mana business man-and a
very successful one. He said that the
proportion and harmony in the forma-
ton Of the two rs proved that / had a
great deal of balance He also said
that in the year 1900 | would embark
in new business, at which I would
make great deal of money. / haven't
embarked yet, and as there are but
thirty days left of this year of grace,
I'm afraid my chances of making
fortune in the business enterprises are
diaphanously Slim
Lily Langtry had the fortune telling
habit in it most virulent form, and
rarely missed a chance to cross with
silver any PLAN that knew how to shut
fle lucky" cards. The Lily is au adept
herself at reading cards and palms, and
during her last visit here found her
one evening breathlessly telling her
own fortune with a charmed deck in
her dressing room at the Garden
theatre.
Not a Believer, But
"Of course / don't believe in fortune
telling! DO your" says Leslie Carter,
and then in a confidential whisper she
acknowledges that, although clairvoy-
ants and media brighten her almost to
death, she dearly loves to have her flu
ture laid bare. Nothing ever happens
that is predicted for her, but with I'M
shaken faith she goes on inviting
thrills and shudders at the hands of
the mystic ladies who peer into the
dim to come at five dollars per peer.
Olga Nethersole used to be a COVER
ness before she discovered her dra-
matte talent, and her higher education
has made her superior to many of the
weaknesses of her sex and profession.
Nevertheless Miss Nethersole has i'm
plicit faith in dreams. The night be-
fore the grand jury closed Sapho
last season Miss Nethersole had a
delightful vision in which dark green
seaserpent, carrying Bingham UNI
brella, was trundling Marcus Mayer on
an automobile wheelbarrow. The aw-
full combination of seaserpent, um
brella and wheeibarrow prepared the
actress for the worst. She knew some
thing cataclysmal was bound to nap
pepn-and 1t did.
A few nights later Miss Nethersoles
pillow was visited by a blessed vision,
in which Mr.. Mayer ate the umbrella,
and the seaserpent ate Mr. Mayer. The
next day the injunction was dissolved,
Saphc was INDICATED and Miss Meth
Nethersole has lived happy. as they say
in fairy tales, ever since.
Joseph jefferson and Neil Burgess
are both firm believers in the tenets of
spiritualishi, and both these actors
firmly believe in the power of clairvoy-
ance to unfold the future of the eyes of
the present.
And Lolita Miss Charlotte Crabtree).
clever actress and shrewd business
woman, is declared to have abandoned
the stage upon the advice of seventh
son of a seventh son, who told her
that failure would overtake her IL she
faced the footlights again.
Edith Kingdom, now Mrs. George
Gould, not only used to consult oracies
who told the future by various modes
of divinatlon, but she herself was an
adept at reading cards, and used to
horrify the scholarly and enlightened
Augustln DAILY by telling the fortunes
of the entire company between the acts.