The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-28

Won must take it here. | was arrested
once and fined a lot of money because a
woman showed some medicine l gave
her.
with that the supposed fortune teller
took a piece of butter paper, dumped a
powder into it, rolled 1t into wad, and
then handed II to me-
Threatened to Kill Her.
Swallow it. she commanded.
"T know | never could swallow any
thing so large as that answered.
can't YOU put the medicine into cap
sule?'
AT that she took capsule from a
drawer, dumped out its contents filed 1t
with something else, and then s,andms
over me said sternly:
Swallow thsi or | will kill you.
For an instant my heart almost stood
still and | was scared stiff. Then ! de-
termined to brave it out. Selling a glass
of water In one hand and the capsule in
the other, I apparently put the capsule
into my mouth and swallowed with SEEM
ing difficulty, without however letting go
Of the, capsule,which afterwards | manag-
ed TO slide into my glove. Before going l
paid down the 81 and promised to come
again for another capsule.
when | came with detective the next
day to arrest her, she laughed triumph
antly, remarking:
Lyon have no medicine to show. How
are you goint to prove anythingT
"She soon found out when her trial
came off.
although fake doctors are thekest
perhaps in the poorer more crowded dis
tricts of the East and West Side Of
town, they are plentiful enough in the
neighborhood of Fifth avenue, and when
it come to being fooled the -Four Hun
dred are just as easily caught as the poor
folks in the tenement districts. If any
thing the Fifth avenue quacils are the
more dangerous, because they are by far
the more attractive and plausible.
zone of the most elegant of the women
quacks | have come In contact with has.
or did have luxurious quarters in a side
street near the Waldorf She professed
to be a skin specialist. Her terms were
s. an hour or $3.50 a half hour, and her
method had just enough novelty to catch
the fancy of women in search of a sensa-
ton
ut consisted in part of subjecting a pa
tent to the violent, ray, which meant |
seating her in front of a big Lurlle glass
globe in the full glare of a violet electric |
light When 1 called upon this specialist |
was handicapped by the fact that had |
not the ghost of a pimple on my face or |
body. What is more, l knew no one |
LnuS dillGltu AHOHl L COuiO dSh " 81 |
with me.
II need not have worried, though. Pim- |
pies were not needed. When l walked |
into that place / was greeted so cordially |
and sympatheticaly by suave, refined !
and apparently sincere woman that [ felt |
quite conscious stricken at first.
"'What is the matter? purred the spe- |
cialist.
az am annoyed every now and them
l explained. with blotches appearing on
my face They come Unexpectedly, last |
a day or two longer, and then disappear.
Can you cure me?
"I can see the traces of one of the |
blotches now the specialist answered,
scrutinizing my face, and you do well
to take the matter in time
81 was advised to take off my waist
and submit to an examination of my
arms and neck, and when I did so and
asked with apparent anxiety for her
opinion l learned that | had a pro-
nounced case of nervous. skin disease.
:" 1t can be entirely cured, however, by
the violet ray and by keeping strictly to