Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-11
MAORI QUEENS PALACE
MIARANTTNED BY POLICE
cbickasaw Indian Woman's
Dream of Fortune-Telling Par
lor Chain Shattered

,. rorderloin, which has It's breakfast
l o,bers are suppng, got up early to-
Day
,ba unfamiliar glow of natures in
nII"ssscent it tumbled out several hundred
...ono called forth by the weirdest alarm
~, has ever shaken it from its bed, to
uI,.sss uis. one Of the strangest scenes ever
..sc,ed in the vicinity
70 was an Indian matron registering the
a., ,bat Mr.. Kiplng had 1t right when he
.r.rred that East Is East and West is
west and never the twain shall meet
~ tbat Mr.. whover-It-Was was entirely
correct when he declared that hell hath no
h,rv like a woman scorned.'
To passers-by IN the neighborhood of 2tO
.ra 800 North Ninth stret, the Indian
rn,ron Is the Maori Queen. fortune teller,
Sorn in New Zealand, educated in Jerusalem
and II may be added, soon evicted from
PHILADELPHIA.
IN reality however, the Maori is a genu-
ra limited States product. With her pa
pooses, other household goods and few en-
;srnrising members of her tribe-the ChCka-
sow-she came from Oklahoma about a week
aro in huge touring car. At the above ad-
Sress she set up two fortune-telling estab-
iisbments donned the gladstone gypsy rags
0f the prOteSSlOI' Oublll OuN lilS ldillS jew
,ls consisting of coin necklaces and many
inrling bracelets, and prepared to prove
how easy il is to fool most of the people
most Of the time and make a good living
thereby.
But ever since last March. when the
poice, as the result of a campaign conduct
Cd by the EVENING LEDGER, ran hundreds
Of fortune-telling nomads out of town, any
thing resembling the second cousin of a
~, a- Ia
Today, just as the Queen and her rela-
tves were predicting roster futures than
ever emerged from the bowl of an opium
pipe to a group of Chinese visitors, a detail
Of policemen acting, unN,r the orders of
Lieutenant Brown, of the Eleventh and
Winter streets station, surrounded the place
and put 1t under a fortune-telling quaran-
tine
When the regent of the Maoris saw the
blue-coated Sitting Bulls" who had taken
up chairs outside of her quarters and were
deliberately interfering with her business,
she let out a wild war whoop that sum-
moned her clan around her and brought
the toused audience.
Then caching several papooses In various
inches, she loosened her clothing and took
down her hair, to permit the freer play of
wrath and, jumping out from the crowd,
executed a frenzied war dance, hurting
blood-curdling imprccations at the cops and
paer faces
The lady passed malediCtions around with
the liberality of a sandwich man giving
out literature. According to a mild-man-
nerel little Indian boy who stood on the
bdenes and acted as interpreter, being too
accustomed to such regal behavior to be
moved by it, the squaw wished ten years
Of nsurmountable bad luck on the City of
Brotherly Love. She followed this with a
whirlng Dervish dance, characterized to
bring eighty days of rain upon us. Then,
despite the Mayors recent order resembling
the darkening of the municipal tower, the
enraged woman swept Philadelphia into an
era Of total darkness.
At this point, when the combination
which held the ladys clothes on threat
sned to break, Policeman Farber ordered
her inside with little kindly advice as to
least-rugged, best-oiled roads that led else
where
Thomaseo Bucchayost, described as the
advance man" of the tribe" appeared at
this moment and decided he would 'step
round for the car" Which he did.
And the tenderloin, like an ousted ferret,
Uawled back into its lair again.