Detroit evening times., 1943-01-10
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In Faces


"palmist' Bayou La Fourche, New Orleans,
a wrnked little ajun who mystifying her
visitors with startling magic But instead OF holding out
a palm the TO examine the client
pose like some movie stars and says Don't read my palm
read my profile"
Lorraine sometimes called the Witch of La Fourche
peerng through magnifying glass. examines every
wrinkle line and characteristic subject
the left side then the right.
Profile reading has swept the bayou country OF
Louisiana like wildre since Lorraine first introduced H.
and such remarkable and uncanny representations have
resulted in the of of her clients that she can't
take of all her business At first jeaousy guarding
her secret, Lorraine wouldn't tell anyone how she
about making her prophecies simply from reading face
lines Now however with more curious people lined up IN
front of her door willing to handsomely for peep
the future her amazingly system than she
take of. she gladly reveals of her
Lorraine has long been known a small and faithful
following in the Evangelne country who have her
cabin regularly for to seek advice Now her business
has doomed to wholesale proportions due part highly
advertised predictions OF recent weeks which true
One the tragic death of the songbrd Linda Lee a.
New Orleans girl. who plunged many stories TO New
York street exactly Lorraine had prophesed
saw the famous radio and stage singer only a New
Orleans thoroughfare before Lndas trip
York. but all Lorraine needed she said quick
at the young beautys profile disaster and tragedy
ahead The told her friends that pretty Linda
not long to live
Even before this Lorraine predicted great future
actress for Miss Dorothy Casebcrry a New
Orleans girl she department elevator on the
Crescent Cty's famous Canal Street. Miss Casteberry
did not visit Lorraine professionally but the had
much time she needed TO read the lines girls
during the time it took the elevator to rise
to the fourth floor of the building Dorothy Castcbery
later went to Hollywood, by way of Chicago
worked for time elevator operator changed
her name to Dorothy Lamour
Many other examples of Lorranes insight future
events including Stangrads stand told everywhere
down in the sugar cane country where lot of voodoo
still practced But the fortune teller is
nothing Of voodoo in her system.
She able recently TO successfully predict bumper
crop for plantation Jack Duquesne of Thib-
doux Louisiana. extra lines of plenty" which
had cropped out the planters left profile last
after earlier reading in the spring when
there at all Sure enough Duquesne harvested largest
sugar crop in the history of rich Magnolia plantation.
While conventional palmiss read things life
fate marriage children and many other hand lines
aine through so years of trial that
marvellous results be obtained by reading the
future eyes the ear lobes
dark circles bumps noss length of eye
brows She saws anyone can read his or her own rofIe
quite simply by using double mirror
If you have exceptionally large lobes says
il you exceptionally honest the
little fatty bumps wider than they long you are
destined for life of incidence but nevertheless will be
lucky enough in accumulating money the inheritance
route to enjoy being lazy you wish person with
long fat lobes the other hard would not enjoy
loungng around indoenty but complete con
cnment only in hard work and personal achievement
Lorraine has used ruler lobes of than
clients and says she has been wrong single case
dmpled cheek on the right side of the face sure
sign of great literary talent which sometimes well
expressed in music the arts, such Greek dancing
A cleft chin according to the little old Cajun woman
Is sign of brooding nature, which bring either
unhappness its opposite She advises these people TO
spend lot of time outofdoors and keep their
petty things.
recedng chin says Lorraine is believe or not the
most misjudged part of human physiognomy is more
likely she says that socalled weak chin" person
the heart of a lion and great stubbornness.
person with cleft chin and eft-sided dimpe plus
longitudinal crows feet the right temple is either
destined live sadly or die violently says she
doesn't know which would be worse, that she
rarely predicts tragedy unless she fOresee way
to prevent it.