The Natchitoches enterprise., 1922-09-21
PALMS
SHOW JAZZ STUFF
IS ALMOST OVER
BY Wynonah Breazeale Johnson

WV
, the fortune-tel]ers in Los Angelo
3 dapper circles, and she's been hay
ing a hectic fortnight, too. fo
this is open season for palm read
, ing in incense-favored hooks oil
Ethe living room, where Mother O
Auntle is giving a party to cele
brate Genevieye's return from
college, or Lorraine's coming-ou
party, or Joan's guests from th
East, or Carries birthday n
everything. Hordes of sweet-gir
graduates have been feted thes,
past few weeks, all frilled out il
organdy, and permanently waved
and full of thrills over the new
summer season opening out, ane
to these festivities the popular
Nine. Vera has been hidden b,
the aforementioned mothers, aunt
les and doting daddies, all for te
read the palms of the guests and
tell 'em it their wishes are coming
true.
| It's the fascination of the future
which is the most interesting tc
young and old, regardless of color
or previous condition of seryitude,
and though Nine. Vera does not
sit in the recess of a doorway down
town with a sign boastlng her
powers as a seer, she has looked
into the pink palms of hordes of
Los Angeles girls and read their
heart lines and life lines M every
thing most correctly, and forecast
happenings of the rose-or gray
future to these fascinating Misses.
Now, Madame herself rises to
announce that, all signs to the
contrary in daily press and pulpit
notwithstanding, the fiapper,s flsp.
per shows such a return to nor.
malcy that her profession gives
signs, of becoming exceedingly
Hat. stale-and Improbable.
First thing they want to
know." she said, hitching her
eaudy turban slightly more awry
on her curly head, is about their
marriage line. And I'm here to
state that in the dozens of girls
hands I've pecred into these past
few weeks, I've seen more single,
distinct marriage lines than l've
seen in all the palms I've looked
into before in--well, let's say the
past ten years. Fact! !
PiSh For Life Lines
They always want to know
about that life line. l run a ten
tative finger down the life line
First, usually, but do you think they
want to know how long they're
going to live9 Not when they are
seven to thirty-seven they don't.
The main thing is the heact line.
Even in the past the girls always
wanted TO know when they'd DIR
y and who, aad especially how
many times. The notchas and
breaks and forks and criss-crosses
I've worried over in the pink
palms Of the past decade!
Yes, worried. All I have to
10 is read 'em and get paid, you
night say; but this business makes
person kind o. thoughtful. I'd
% dippy, sitting opposite palms
l1ey're all palms to me, y'under-
tand, same as life's all feet to the
hoemaker or teeth to a dentist
'eah, I'd 90 dippy just holding
lands and breathing in incense ifl
wasn't that / could do a little
tudyin', as my colored nanny
sed to call it, and get line on
lfe through these same hands.
lou see, most of my time is spent
ust sittin' and readin' 'en. II,
ould o. foretold much of this past
7ave O. jazz stuff some years ago,
ust reading hands. II
l had a perfect epidemic of
pitt heart lines. One marriage,
hree love affairs. two. three d.
orces, and the like l used to read,
II plain to see in the last bunch
f girls ! held, and l got uneasy
bout it. You know what follow
d-this wild Hollywood stuff.
lot that Hollywood palms are
1ore lined than others. on the
entrary, l see more settled, hard
palms there than in most
ircies, Notwithstanding the papers
nd sermons to the contrary. But
saw it coming all the unrest of