The Prescott daily news., 1915-06-12
'ARIS WAR SEERS
 FALL UNDER BAN
5 .aany Women Were Seek
 ing Aid Of CIaIrv0yants.
w SWINDLES SPRING UP.

A'l Sorts of Crimes, While Latest Amusement ls Writing Love Letters
 'o Men at Front Just to Cheer Them on Battle llne.
 The happy days of fortune telling in :2ris are over. Mediums, clairvoyants, d trologers, readers of palms and cards ,iYe now to make their living some eiher way.
 Hhe police found that too many wom- t" were spending their pittances in yrtune telling parlors So the ban has gone forth and in one week sixty nine .:ofessors of occult knowledge were fought before the magistrates. What harm does it doi" they asked. 6e always tell encoura gng things. 'tWs. It keeps people cheered up and ;appy."
 Many of them said their only sons, Ci? husbands, were at the front All 'Hrce of revenue was cut off and they n0d to do something. But the court r'is obdurate and said the profession raS entirely out of keeping with the sriousness of the times They Neatly Evade Law. Some of them, however, continue to 'upheSy, but adhere strictly to the Ser of the law in not giving any G"lilite date. For instance one of the vt known of them told the fortune of 2 young actress in this neatly evasive ny:
 You will receive letter soon. 1 'H't tell you exactly when The po- nave forbidden me to- >ud for that little phrase she ask S2.
 n the Paris police courts many pa 'ptic cases are seen. There are many "hioh are due solely to the war, new ofcssions and new crimes which have rung up.
 There are men with one leg who get uniform and go around soliciting
 ':,s under the pretenSe that they lost ;hn leg in the trenches. What scores
 men and women up for theft al
 3yS say is:
 Tour honor, l have q son ta brother
 i2rhaps husbandl at the front
 l"" what he Is suffering there in tine inches, and I couldHt saHi,t the wish
 r:! him somethin@ AaS, l had no
 t.nr. and that is why l committed
 H lnpardonable act B.t lny love
 stronger than my cons ianoe."
 Having heard this aho&t twenty
 .:2S one morning, one ot the judges
 o little weary of ij. When q
 ..4an came up accused of having
 zen short weight in butter only half
 what she was being paid for, in
 ltt he said
 Well you, at any rate, can't make
 t, If the argument that you were
 ,Hding something to the trenches Che Had the Old Excuse.
 1t comes to the same thing" the
 oman said calmly. "l have q friend
 , jac trenches, and the morning this ing happened l got word that he was r.iously wounded. l simply lost my ll and didn't know what l was do- g- That was why | didn't notice lW much butter l was selling. ..Vc"y sort of charitable society has an formed in Paris since the war. ,,re are those that concern them
 ,rcs with the physical welfare of the y.dicrs and those of the moral and
 ."gious But it remained for the jour :! named Fantasio to launch the lat # and evidently the most popular.
 Hais new and novel organization is .,! cl the Society For the Flirt at the
 "oat and came into being through tue :ter of two serGeants 70 the FantaSio.
 B .N h.ch they begged that paper to do
 ,aething to provide tNom with lit 'c ct the tender sentiment of life as a
 .:.ef from the strain of the trenches.
 They were so wearod, 'hc soldiers ..tl. with the continual MaSculnitN of tae trenches that they thought if some md and thoughtful young ladies of aris would only write them tender I'rlisIles they would feel cheered to .n the offensive against the Ger )Is
 Consequently the Fantasio has un- ts".Hkcn the work in all seriousness,
 .warding such letters aS are address 10 it's care by modest maidens who ot wish to sign their real names acting in return as distributing s.nfice for the etfusionS which come ,ii from the soldiers.