Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-23

only once gentlemen. and you will never
use Q razor again! Easy, quick, safe and
sure Never wears out. and always retains
its power. Write to met Mail was deliv-
cred by the hundred-weight to this '.inven-
tor" One OF the inspectors secured one OF
these razor substitutes. 1t was a little, OBJ
long cake of some substance, resembling
pumice stone, and the accompanying cir
cular directed that 1t be rubbed firmly back
and forward over the beard after IL had
been lathered. Another inventor advertised
that he would for 10 cents mall to any
youth in the land positively sure instruc-
lions as to how to grow a luxuriant mus
tache. This promoter. too received mail by
the bagful. Each dime invested brought in
return only a printed slip: Lather like the
ID and shave like HI"
An alleged faith healer" of Sea Breeze.
Fla. who advertised under the name of
Mrs. Helen Wilmans," claimed power to
heal any disease affiiction. Including
poverty. by q method of concentrating her
mind upon the patient taking the treat
ment For such services she solicited re-
mittances OF So per week or SO per month.
Inspectors detailed upon the case discov-
cred that although the faith curist" her
self opened the voluminous mail addressed
TO her, and took out the money which came
pouring In thereby. she. without a careful
reading Of the communications handed
them over to a corps OF clerks who an
swered them according to stereotyped forms
placed before them. The assistant attor-
ney general decided that the curist, how
ever energetic and capable of effort she
might be. could not find It possible to send
specific and individual thought waves to
all OF her patients To this charge she
replied that she could think for a thousand
sufferers at time quite as easily as of
one. Despite her claim of a mental null
tipie circuit system, the Postmaster General
blacklisted her.
That she would read from the starry
heavens all of the future that any one
might banker for, anu that she guaranteed
TINS Tor 10 cents per reading, Nine. Car
scendant OF long line OF seventh sons
lately advertised from Gardiner, Me- The
sulhble person who would mail the 10
cents Immediately learned that the web
OF rate had never been greatly tangled
Tor any other person since the world be-
gan Ten cents worth OF research had de-
veloped this interesting fact that the per-
son IN question was far out of the or
binary. For an additional 81 TO Indemnify
her for her loss OF sleep, the seeress prom
lsed to wrest from the stellar blue the last
aetaii OF these amazi ing complications, and
10 dispatch the translated information post
haste to the anxious inquirer. IL the be-
wildered patron hesitated too long In send
ing the " the seeress forwarded to her u
second stereotyped letter announcing n
benevolent cut in the price to 81. because
OF her unusual interest taken in his par
ucular case AS an added inducemeut Tho
magical, magnetic Hebrew charm" would
be thrown in. This potent talisman would
compel love, force fortune or drive yowling
cats from the back fence. Some OF CHIEF
Vlckery plain-clothes men detailed on the
sorceresses case reported that she did not
read individual horoscopes but that she had
dozen stock horoscopes already drawn,
one Tor each month of the year; also that
each patron was made to believe that he
was the most favored and presents a case
OF tremendous individual interest. Hence
the fraud order which prevents Nine Fred
ericks from doing business until she
changes her location and becomes Madame
Somebody Else.
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS,