Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-05-29
A GOSSIP BUG IN HER AURA.
Little Woman With Worries Learns
What Ails Her.

The little woman VINO had Deen lnaue
i'll through gossip, says the New York
sun, was whirled up in an elevator to
the office of the fashionable New
Thought healer. crystal reader and
general adviser and arranger of hu-
man events.
Fortune telling is no longer the
crude affair it used to be. It's follow
ers do not huddle in cheap rooms in
poor neighborhOods. but set up their
belongings in studio buildings and
have regular office hours and fees
ranging from SIS up.
If YOU are hungry for advice on such
subjects as your husbands where
abouts evenings, the future course OF
stocks, the health of your mother-in-
law and the reduction of your weight,
YOU can find out all about it for $lO
or s15-about an hours sitting.
After this you should be considera-
bly, keyed up, cheered and encouraged
not to say strengthened, for if you are
the sort of person who is unable to
wrestle with lifes tough problems
alone you will also be the sort to take
comfort from a calm and perfectly
poised young woman in a white linen
gown, who gives you the logical rea-
soning you should give yourself.
The little woman blurted out her af-
fair without a word of warning when
and seated herself near her visitor
eyeing her all over with close attention
which took in details, wrinkles, style
of dress and grooming, boots, gloves,
everything.
II am not after lost jewelry or a
vanished lover" said the little woman
nor do | wish to peer idly into the
future. But l heard that you were
able to answer questions and give
good advice.
"I have been made very wretched all
my life. at intervals of course, by gos-
sip. Most of the time it has been silly
and unimportant. At other times II
takes on a sinister character and 1t
is impossible for me to laugh at it.
Il find myself wondering if it in
fiuences persons outside of my own
circle of friends and acquaintances
who know that such things are not
true"
"Of what nature is it?" asked the
cool, young woman.
"Of all sorts" said the little woman
LAS look back now can see it began
when 1 was at school and has contin-
ued ever since When I left school ii
concerned my beaux. 1t was silly and
foolish. 1 paid no attention to it.
After was married it took more
unpleasant strain. l was accused OF
wild extravaganza. l can recollect one
story that I have white satin furniture
with gold legs in my drawing room.
Everything that I have done OF
thought of doing has been exaggerated
If | go on a visit out of town l hear
rumors that 1 have separated from
my husband. If a servant girl takes a
spoon it becomes a burglary. If
cut my finger l have had an arm am
putated.
"An New Years day we were kept
busy answering friends who wanted to
know over the phone the details OF
my death and when the funeral would
be. A couple of stuffed doves and
funeral wreaths came in the afternoon
IT'S getting on my nerves. There
must be some reason for it. 1 am a
simple living sort of person, fond OF
cooking and living a quiet life. Be-
yond this one hoodoo that follows me
up l have very few troubles in life
none out of the ordinary.
My husband laughs at my notion
that there is a gossip star and that
was born under it. Men are very apt
to laugh at woman's fancies. He
calls it the gossip bug. Now what
want to know is, is there a gossip bug
and does it follow certain people
around?"
The cold. calm young woman looked
very serious, then she smiled brightly
and without a moments hesitation an
Swered:
Yes, there is a gossip star, even a
gossip bug or microbe that gets into
the auras of some persons and will
not be shaken off. But it is not serious
and it can be met by a condition OF
mind that will cause it to lose all its
evil influence on your mind. for 1t
has none elsewhere.
Persons born under the planet
Uranus in certain conditions are very
apt to suffer mental unrest from ru-
mors and talk. 1t is not always det-
rimental, but it continues. They can
not escape it somehow, and it causes
them annoyance if they are not made
OF the stern stuff that throws it Off
IF you are not afraid of gossip 1t
will not hurt you, no matter how mali
cious it may be. You must remember
that people very rarely speak i'll OF
the dead and if they talk about you
it is because you are stirring up GER
tain circles and are interesting people
AN actor or a public man who has
the gossip microbe, a mental microbe
you understand. does not have to en-
ploy a press agent. He is advertised
by his loving friends. Nothing de-
lights him more than these rumors,