The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-06

| ! not lost, strayed, or stolen; he's just gone away on little visit"
 No, Mrs. Jackson" Madame Fay said, you need not be jealous of your hus- band; he does not love any other wom- | an as you think; you'll be able to hold
 him all right; nobody else wants him." | All this while sloughs of men were l asking questions.
 | Down in the front row of the orches- | tra seats," Madame Fay said. You, | A. R. T., you are thinking about the | money you've got with you this after
 noon; aren't you? We'll it's not so very I much; I can hardly notice it from where | I sit"
 You ought to know better, J. H. B." Madame Fay admonished, than to get ! mixed up in that 'Get-Rich-Quick-W Wal | lingford' scheme; it's outrageous, so cut
 1t out.''
 | And on and on, like the brook, this | marvellous woman went, advising, sug 1 gesting, observing, reading minds as if | they were so many open books; dealing out futures with the ease of 'bridge' shark dealing the cards; it was easy to discover that Madame Fay is an optimist, 1 pure and simple, for not one person in l that vast crowd left the theatre with l anything but an encouraging word from l the seeress.
 I After nearly 20 minutes of answering iISoeioiio Ol every hlilu dHQ ucSCTlpllO1l Madame Fay lifted the handkerchief from her eyes and said she couldn't work any more and left the stage. 1 followed quickly on her trail and I just as I was going down the stairs lead ing to her dressing room somebody asked | me if l wasn't afraid she'd "see through l me" read my past and future and every thing, and I calmly said: "No,' for my little simple life in retrospect Is as in- nocuous as a glass of water; you can look clean through it and stupidly enough see nothing worth While-nothing of any momentous importance; I've caught a few trains talked a few times over long distance to people I couldn't understand
 at the other end; have had lots of nice suitcrs; still have few; committed
 matrimony only once; and-and-well, 1 there've been few more moves here and there, but calling such 8 sequence a past suggesting that l had a flu ture' would be quite as absurd as cata- loguing a timetable as a book, Theda
 Bara as an ingenue, or Billie Burke as a vampire.
 i I found Madame Fay very charming, 1 very cultured and very clever we'll read, 1 widely travelled, and in her Oriental l costume, handsomely beaded and gor-
 geousely embroidered-(she dreamed the costume in dream by the way, she
 told me later and couldn't rest happy
 until she had it fashioned after her dreams)-she looked very queenly and | imposing.
 ', How do you do it?" was the first
 question I asked her, after we exchanged | greetings.
 l "I can't explain that; simply have i the ability to read thoughts; women
 naturally have more intuition than men. We set our hearts on something and ! make a success of it-develop a talent
 that is what I've done with my intuitive powers. I don't mean to say that 1 possess supernatural powers; don't say ! that what I suggest is to anybody's eise way of thinking; it Is all simply a ! kaleidoscope to me; life is; people are; and as the wheels turn, read John D. Rockefeller thought of nothing so much as money; Russell Sage had the | same idea" Madame Fay said. They concentrated on that idea and made it a 1 life work. I have done the same with my talents William T. Stead, by the way, who went down with the Lustania, was a great friend of mine. He was great psychic What I never understood was this: he seemed, with all his mar l vicious power. to have no premonition of the fact that he wouldn't come back when he started on his fatal voyage. T have entertained audiences" Ma
 dame Fay said, fin all the capitals of
 Europe Asia, Australia-everywhere tho former Czar of Russia l know very well; has was a good, but very weak man. l think his natural inclinations were just and kind, but he was surrounded by oc-
 cult powers-Germany, for instance. On | the other hand, I see the Kaiser meet l ing an awful fate, but a just fate; it is
 the law of compensation for his German kultur atrocities. I see our beloved and great President enjoying safe and | glorious voyage to France, where his voice will be raised in behalf of suffer- l ing humanity. President Wilson was
 born at a psychological hour; all the elements were in unison: that's the req son he is such just. such wonderful
 and such a normal man.
 'I've been a devotee of mind reading" | Madame Fay said, ''since was Il years | of age; I seem never to have done any | thing else; and sometimes l grow very l tired"
 Do you ever fail?" I asked. T mean
 out thereon the platform?" "Oh, mercy, yes," said Madame Fay. Sometimes everything goes dead black | before me; can't read a thought; that comes oftenest when I receive thoughts 1 from bad people, people contemplating ugly schemes: robbing; forgery; burglary l and dreadful things like that. First audiences in place are always difficult" Madame Fay said. flor there | is so much doubt; the names are hard | for me to receive; and must work very, | very hard to become en rapport with my audience"
 l I had a question in my mind that l was simply dying to ask Madame Fay; | but 1t didn't seem of as much importance ! to her, because she didn't tell me that l
 was thinking of it; neither did she an-