The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-05
A new SEER Is IN FASHION.
HE LOOKS AT YOUR FACE AND
THERE READS YOUR FATE.

50 Successful Has He Been. Even II HIS
Fortunes Do Not Conc True. 1haf he
Has Doubled HIS Fec and stream OF
women Keeps Flowing to His once.
Fortune telling by the face IL having
it's day In New York just now. and very
prosperous day II is, too. The physiog-
nomist, as he calls himself. is piling up
q substantial bank account and WONDER
ing meanwhile for what reason under the
sun the New York woman Is called prao-
teal and unsentimental. He knows bet
ter
All sorts and conditions OF women are
in the procession that goes to his ONCE.
Women who have taken college degrees;
women to whom life means chiefly un-
limited shopping and new clothes; women
who earn every cent they spend; women
young, old and between. all knock In turn
at the physiognomist's door. Occasionally
q timid looking man. with an air OF doing
something he is very much ashamed OF,
presents himself.
That the physiognomist, like seers in
general, is better at telling pasts than
futures Is fact that apparently does not
decrease his popularity. Then some peo-
pie have found out that the most critical
features In his forecasts are seldom as
signed to dates very near at hand. which
circumstance leaves him a good working
margin Of time. But all that counts Tor
little II Is much more TO the point that
his method Of telling fortunes Is new.
One woman waiting her turn in his once
the other day confessed to having had her
fortune told nine times in five years ~ as
many different kinds OF forecaster. None
of the forecasts came true. nevertheless,
every time a new seer looms up she con-
suits him. In about six months from now
she will probably be able and willingto give
her views on fortune telling by the face,
Those who should be able TO judge say
| that fortune telling made easy-to women
is the aim Of the particular .physiogno-
mist now to the front in feminine favor
ne first opened an office, about one year
ago, customers who strolled In found hhn
| ready and waiting. No appointment was
necessary, and the fee was only u.
The business grew 20 fast that before
long appointments had to be made three
DAYS ahead. sittings were confined strictly
TO half an hour and the seer saw clearly
enough into the future TO know that he
could rase his price to 81 and get II. To-day
not the slightest effort is made in that
Office to induce callers to stay or to have
them return.
A small boy receives the customers In an
ante-room When any one protests ever so
mildly at waiting three days before seeing
the fortune teller the youth deliberately
turns his back and becomes absorbed IN
newspaper, and when the abashed visitor
meekly accepts the appointment he lazily
makes a dash against that particular half
hour on a slate and-goes on reading. That
is all. ,..uon, ~, :. r,v., NJ ds,os;,
asked, no name or address Is taken. The
NAV no kent not. lust az
one pleases
One thing is certain though. II an APP
pointment IL not kept punctually the tardy
one is sure on her arrival TO find some one
else in her place and the appointment can
celled In that case the only thing TO be
done il to get another appointment for
three DAYS later from the small boy.
When finally the room Of the seer Is reached
everything goes smoothly enough Hav-
ing ones fortune told by the face is pleas
date OF ones birth are put; a woman IA
not asked 10 take on her gloves nor even
to remove her veil II it IL transparent
The physiognomist II not an unpleasant
man TO look at. neither does he show any
part ocular desire to stare, unless, indeed the
visitor happens to be unusually pretty.
In some oases he has even been known 70
look over her head a good deal and yawn
repeatedly while revealing the past. present
and future.
Az the HTT1Ndl VI u NIriAot eiIV 49, Ne''''
in his swivel chair and waves her to seat
facing him and a strong light. For Sec
ond or two, while a few conventional re-
marks are exchanged, he regards her face
intently and probably finds all he needs TO
know before the woman u more than COM
fort ably settled in her chair
Tho professor, il must be acknowledged,
has a seeing eye. Furthermore he has
travelled in many countries and studied
the facial peculiarities and the charact erls-
II L. N
Evidently he has profited by those studies
to a degree that enables him to hit on his
clients character and make a favorable
impression as he leans back In his chair
and begins Immediately In a conversational
way 10 diagnose the temperament and
qualities of the person before him.
For that reason most women who pre-
sent themselves in a prejudiced state
Of mind become 80 enthusiastic by the time
the professor has told them most OF their
good points and remained discreetly silent
as to the bad ones-for the professor has
not studied human nature for nothing
that thew withdraw every mental reserva-
ton and find themselves eager to do little
talking themselves Just to show their APP
probation. This is fortunate thing for
the professor. who evidently needs trife
Of assistance to get through the rest OF the
half hour as successfully.
In his summary Of the past he tentatively
appeals to his sister with suggestions in
the form OF questions, to which she almost
invariably answers either by what she says
or leaves unsaid. At this point the ply
tiognomist Is always thoroughly awake.
II Is only when he begins his forcce 81, the
success Of which depends 30 much on what
has preceded It, that he Ia ever known to
yawn. And, as q rule, II 10 with the fore
cast alone that the professor comes to
grief.
knowledge OF women, he almost invariably
shoves q man Of destiny into every future.
or kills him OF, as he thinks will be most
agreeable to the lady concerned. When
the latter Ia particularly good-looking the
professor has been known to multiply the
man Of destiny by two or three