Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-04
FLORENCE WHITE
STILL IN THE GAME
AS SP00K RAISER
RY HUGH x. HARruNG

Passing No. 444 South Spring street
yesterday afternoon the legend MA
dame Florence white-school for Psy-
chic Forces" on sign beckoned me to
enter, and aroused a curiosity that
seemed also to possess others who read
the sign, ponder, looked up at the win
dows and then moved inward or on
ward as the final mental conclusion
dictated.
With me it was inward I wanted to
be shown, being native Missourian.
Saturday must have been a dull day
at the school. There was a painful
quiet in the building. Few persons
tarried even in the hall. In Nine.
Whites reception room one young wo-
man rocked in chair, watching the
throngs on Spring street below. and
looking anything but client Maybe
madam had told her bad news for
she looked sad.
Madame knew I was there. even
though 1 entered quietly. Folding doors
apparently screened me from her, as
she was in an adjoining room, but she
pushed the sliding doors ajar.
The psychic forces were working.
| Would I enter? Madame smiled
sweetly from the half open doors
opened so quietly 1 did not know she
saw me first.
| I caught a glimpse of an incandescent
| light shedding dim red radiance over
a center table in the room beyond.
Transparent paper furnished the red,
while a magnifying glass that lay near
convinced me at glance that my
hands were to be read.
Madame Is Uneasy
you are Nine. White?' L asked as
she sat down on one side of the table
and waved her hand to me and to
chair at the other
The psychic forces were working.
81 assume you give advice on busi-
ness matters to men, and will, for
fee, give me the benefit of your adj
vice?" L began.
Madame eyed me sharply as though
making a mental picture of my liber-
ality and money-producing capacity,
and admitted that she did practice the
advice business.
"I have the fever to buy real estate
that comes to all newly arrived Cali
fornians' said I, land 1 want your
best judgment on where a poor man
can invest to best and quicket advan-
tage."
Madame shifted about uneasily in her
chair. 1 thought 1 had asked her an
| easy one. She seemed to think differ
emily. I hastened to make matttrs
easier by adding:
"Of course in Southern California it
| is not question of losing money on
real estate. You cannot lose it. What
1 want to know is what your mysteri-
Gus sources of information advise as
the quickest, safest speculative propo-
sition.''
We'll, I have not been here very
long," she said, hesitatingly, "and I
do not feel like giving advice on real
estate"
I wondered whether she had read
lob
cautious train. Did she expect me to
ask advice on horse races, the political
campaign or when and where the next
strike would happen in the Greenwater
district? Did she-horrors-suppose
that 1 did not have the price of her
fee?
Foresees Prosperity
"Oh, l am willing to pay a dollar or
two for the service" 1 FASTENED to ex-
plain.
81 will do what can for you," she
Vouchsafed.
The psychic forces were working.
II am governed by readings of the
hand, by my natural intuition, by my
knowledge of men and affairs and by
other forces-that is how 1 work." the
madame continued.
She coughed every now and then
saying her throat irritated her, all the
time looking at me closely and sizing
me up.
She took first my one hand then the
other and gazed at the palms through
a magnifying glass. Not word was
said about real estate. My thirst for
speculative information was growing
acute.
Your fate lines are a little con-
flicting but prosperity will come to
you between your thirty-fifth and fif-
tieth year" was her comment as with
my hand outstretched under the cleo
trio light she passed the magnifylng
glass back and forth.
By asking questions l got back to
the real estate-the original PROPOSE
tion. My mission was mercenary, l
explained, and l wanted to know
where to place portion of my monthly
wages to accumulate some ground here
or there to hold for investment
Gives Vague Replies
"Wen, l have not been here very
long. Have your" she said, giving me
a scrap of information about herself.
"Oh, since the first of the year. but
am at sea as to where ones wages
should be placed in real estate"
II believe Long Beach offers fine
opportunities" she finally gurgled.
II was there this summer and had a
chance to judge. Glendale, friends tell
me. has cheap property which Will go
up"
"How about Pasadena? | see much
building going on out that way"
said, again seeking to get definite
prophecy. l wanted to help along the
psychic forces for all / was worth
''Yes, property is a good Investment
out that way. And at Sawtelle. too.
Friends tell me lots can be had there
cheaply now, and they are going up
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