Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-06


except trouble coming to YOU before your
mai dissolution he weeps actual. chemi-
cally pure tears In a most refined and I'M
obtrusive sort OF way. but comforts you
after awhile-as he dissipates the evidences
OF his lachrymose indulgence with a snowy
handkerchief-by telling you that a few
more visits to him on future occasions-or
course, IL is understood, at SO the visit
might do a heap toward driving away some
OF the shadows and thrusting a little sun
shine into your future mortal life.
Gathers I'm the Money.
Now, incredible as 1t may seem. this In
genfous, Electrically given frauds doors
are actually besieged, and he has his SlO-
per-visit clientele all booked for weeks ana
months ahead. The very best people" in
New York. so called-which is perhaps an
other term for the idlest-cool their heels
in his hall. waiting for the Turk to zodiac
them Women. and, alas. men, or at least
pantalooned automatons that resemble
men, whose names perennially figure In
the social columns Of the New York news
papers call reverently upon this perfectly
transparent fakir and issue forth after
the seance in state of hySterical ecstasy.
ready to declare that there is but one ma
ton. the Turkish. and that the only Turk
has just looked them in the eve.
The fellow depends upon the faddy In
stncts OF this population TO gain his clients
and when he gets them he employs a bit OF
rudimentary hypnotism that he has picked
up somewhere or another TO make them
think that he Is possessed of ''pheaomsnal
powers" as the enthusiasts over him but II
Now, II would be perfectly safe TO bet
that this bovine-eyed swindler of the orient
not only could not bamboozle a resident OF
Three Forks. Painted Post or Oshkosh into
digging up $40, but that he couldn't induce
a resident OF any one Of those three irter-
eStlng places to produce ten cents, for the
equivalent he so blandly bestows upon his
vast and fashionable New York clientele
He would be hooted and derided were he
to take up a booth on the outskirts Of any
county fair on this or the other side OF
the Mississippi. The beauty OF the matter
is, however. that he probably knows tbs
which Is why he waNeth fat and oily with
In the gorgeous shelter of great nyphenat-
ed hotel in New York. The worlds faklrs all
know how easy, so to speak, this town is
and they also know that the higher they
aim here the more liable they are TO Lring
something down.
Finds broadway Easy.
Again: In a big, ornately decorated Broad
way plant woman who claims TO be a
palmist has pitched her picturesque tent.
Now, it seems to be generally admitted by
capable scientists who have investigated
the subject that there is something in
palmistry. and there have been some palm
lists who. without Numbering about their
capacity to reveal the past or forecast
the future" have appeared to possess the
FACULTY to greater or less degree CT de
the lines on his hand. But this woman on
Broadway is a wonder. She reads the
hands of the Broadway boulevaroiars ar
the uniform rate of 81 per read. and she
Is always busy. New Workers dressed TO
the mines. and with money to ;nclnerate
to judge from the fronts they exhibit
actually stand in line to get into this wo-
mans little forecasting tent
The woman is a weakened, excessively
homely creature, with matted hair claw
ike hands and nails, and she chews gum
with the zeal of one performing a penance
When You enter her tent and reverentIy
hand over your dollar she clutches Your
hand, gazes intenuy at it for a moment
and says something like this:
You hain't got much of a life line but
you may live till you are forty-two They
amt no music in your makeup. but YOU
like to hear the pianner when 1t is PLAYED
decent. You amt so fond of literchoor as
you might be, but you do like real excitin'
books sometimes. You've got a easy-goin'
kind of nature. but you amt so constant
in your love affairs as some / has seen:
but you can do better If you try. You
amt none too fond O. Children. but you
do like dogs lot. You like girls that has
red hair, and you will marry"
And so on. The bag makes, at the very
smallest computation, 500 day right on
Broadway. New York, for exuding stuff
like that. Such a blase community as this
little old metropolis of the western world
is, to be surei
SiP
The epidemic of suicides in New York
hotels has become so alarming to the man.
ayers of the hostelries that one of Them
whose establishment is not very far from
Broadway. either. has actually had the fol-
lowing neatly printed notice appended to
the Rules" tackled on the inside Of
guests doors:
Guests contemplating self-removal are
earnestly requested to repair to the office
al toll r.-l, 81,
of naturally bright, CHEEKY disposition,
and whe, therefore, might be able TO pre-
sent to those disposed to self-destruction
some reasons why they should 30 right on
living"
That" said The Star corresnondant to
the hotel manager. referring To the suicide
notice, looks kindly and philanthropic.
What would you do if a chap descended
the elevator and informed you that he ex-
pected to pass over the big divide within
twenty minutes?"
I'D buy him a pound or so OF morphine
and a couple o horse pistols. and then es-
cort him to the hotel in the next block,
was the ready reply of the man with the
naturally bright, CHEEKY disposition"
Interests Southerners.
One among many curious features Of the
immense revival production" of Uncle
Toms Cabin at one of the big theaters OF
New Tork-a production in which notable
actors and actresses take parts the great
number of southerners, and particularly
southern women, which the show is attract
ing. New York is always well filled with
transient southerners and 1T seems as If all
OF them are taking in this Uncle Tom"
show, to judge from the vast amount OF
pleasing southronese talk to be heard at
all of the performances.
Il don't mind confessing," said frank
southern woman at the performance the
other night, that I've been just longing
to see Uncle Toms Cabin for years. 1
can't remember the war, of cogrse-and L
wouldn't admit 1t if / coud-but the south
has strong appreciation of the commotion
raised by the Uncle Tom novel 1 never
read the book. Even today it is not book
that a southerner would exactly care to
have resting on the library table-there are
too many of the old folks who remember.
and who would not look approvingly upon
one who Haunted the book around. The
regular Uncle Tom theatrical companies
now tour parts of the south of course. but
there still remain other parts of the coun-
try below Mason and Dixon's line, / be-
lieve that they refrain from visiting for
prudential reasons. 1 really enjoy the play.
1t is, of course, tremendously exaggerated
even the folks of the north admit that. 1
believe-but L enjoy IL especially because
I've been secretly laundering to see II ever
since l was a little girl, and / know scores