Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-09
MAORI QUEEN"
25-CENT REGENT
Fortune Tellers Operating
Again After Gypsies
Driven Out
MUCH IN NAME AND SIGN


When is a gypsy not gypsy7
When she is a Maori queen, with n sign
on the front OF her shop which says she Is
an indirect importation from New zealand
having stopped over in Jerusalem Tor the
fifteen years of practice in fortune telling
necessary to the high standard demanded
by Philadelphia delivers into the future.
It is possible to have your fortune told
in Philadelphia; II Is possible TO have It
told gypsy-fashion, with grimy seeress
attired In colorful rags and weighted down
by necklaces OF gold coins, holding your
hand that has been crossed with tho silver
she required Of you before she would utter
a word.
All this is possible, despite the fact that
as the result of articles published In the
EVENING LEDGER in March inveighing
against these pests and calling upon the
police to run them out Of town they were
bnnished and forbidden TO return,
The vanguard Is here again. Evidently
the pclIings were too good to give up with
out something of fight.
But as yet you cannot have your fortune
told by one who is bold enough to call her.
self gypsy, You must of necessity patron
ize the Maori Queen.
ALL IN THE SIGN
"See," she said. standing outside her
headquarters at 21O North Ninth street,
what the sign says; she pointed to a
fiamboyant sign lure which stated speci-
fically that she told only of past events.
II am not a gypsy; no. no. am Maori
queen from Jerusalem I mean New Zea-
land Come in, it will cost you each a
quarter"
Inside, after you have been told OF the
two women who are running your reputa-
tion behind your back OF the three little
children that some day are TO be yours; Of
the headaches that you once in while
enjoy; OF the man who loves you despite
- H.
journey to the big, big land that you are
going to make-after all this, and after
you have told the seeress that you might
bring a party Of six up to have their for
tunes told, she will wax confidential and
tell you that the New Zealand-Jerusalem
part OF her history was the signmakers
dream and that in reality she has just ar
| rived from Oklahoma and Is an Indian
This is not difficult TO believe; the stains
Of her trip and of many preceding trips
| are upon her,
Across the street, at 22s North Ninth
| street. where an Identical sign advertising
| the merits of an Identical Maori queer
naunts itself, you learn that the more-or-
| less young Indian who has reviewed your
| palm is but the Princess. The fat queer
herself the mother, with tribe OF dirty
| Indian younglings in her wake, all OF whom
clamor for the privilege Of crossing your
palm with additional silver, waddles to the
| door of this establishment.
| ITS all right" she calms you paclhcally
when you tell of your experience across thu
way, 'let her call herself queen; it's all II
the family. She's my daughter. I'm thu
real queen. Yes. we come from Oklahoma
| How long we stay? Oh, a good long whll'
If beezness Is good. II not we go Il
Boston. It all depends on the beezness."
| Much, It might be added. depends ais,
on the gullibillty of the public and IL
Willingness TO allow vagrants who, II the!
are like the visitors OF last spring, refuse'
10 oonfine their 'beezness" to their em
poriums, but overfowed into the bushes
houses and ONCE buildings OF the city Il
their endeayors to drum up trade"