Evening star., 1916-07-17
WOMAN DETECTIVES.
By Frederic J. Haskin.

NEW YORK, n. Y, July 11.-Not long
ago there appeared the advertisement
of certain remarkable professor, who
for the sum of 81 agreed to tell people
the occupations best fitted to them, to
remove all evil influences and to re-
veal the names of their enemies. This
advertisement was carefully clipped
from the papers by a small, dark-hair-
ed woman with hazel eyes, in a down.
town office, and pasted into a large
book which stood on the top of a roll
top desk. after which she noted an ad-
dress on tiny leather notebook. At
the same time, in another section of
the city. an immigrant woman, who
was the proud proprietor of a small
grocery store, clipped the same adver-
tisement from the paper and stuffed it
hurriedly into her handbag as her
husband came into the store on the
way to his mornings work.
A month later the immigrant woman
was shown into the downtown Office of
the city's detective headquarters and
Isabella Goodwin. detective, small.
dark-haired woman with keen hazel
eyes. Seated in small straight back
ed chair the immigrant woman told the
story of a swindle, the pathos of which
fas not lost in its revelation of igno-
rance and superstition. The woman
detective sat silent, occasionally taking
notes and asking questions when the
thread of the story became difficult to
follow.
The immigrant woman and her hus-
band had been admitted at Ellis Island
five years before. The husband. who
was by trade a marble rubber, had OBJ
tained a place in small town in
$40 a week. For this he polished
marble under water, which, in winter
when there was ice, caused his feet to
crack open and bleed, and his wife kept
house. After a year of this they had
accumulated money enough to take
them to New York, where the husband
obtained a job at s25 week. This
was, indeed. luxurious salary, but
instead of increasing their standard Of
living, the immigrant woman still lived
as frugally as possible and saved
money.
When they had s1.5o0 in bank, they
bought grocery store, while the hus-
band still kept
Soon Accumulates on with his
Balance in Bank. ness was nror-
table. and soon the immigrant woman
found she had paid the small mortgage
on the store and had $4,000 in bank.
She was just on the verge Of buying
chicken farm, selling her store and
moving into the country, when the pro-
fessor's alluring advertisement at
tracted her attention and she deter
mined to seek his advice.
For the sum of SIS the professor re-
moved an evil influence which was how
ertng over the immigrant woman, told
the names of several remote persons
who were jealous of her, and advised
her not to buy the chicken farm! In
stead. he explained, she should by all
means invest her money in stocks, as
the stars showed that this would be
her most successful line, and he relat-
ed numerous instances of individuals
who had invested in various stocks un-
der his direction, who were now riding
in motor cars and sending their chill
dren to college.
The woman had finally been con-
vinced. and she resolved to mortgage
the grocery store to obtain more money
for investment SO that In the end she
could surprise her husband with the
enormous returns of her thrift. For
this money the professor presented her
with, impressive-looking documents
bearing gold seals, describing mining
stock which had never been heard of
by any one but the professor. Then
suddenly and inconspfcuously, the pro-
fessor left town. The rest was up to
Mrs. Isabella Goodwin, woman detec-
tive.