Punished for Palmistry.
The English law, on Saturday, loth February, put the official stamp of its condemnation on palmistry as a guide to nature. It is a common thing to punish ordinary forfcuae tellers, card readers, aud astrologers in the Police Courts. for British Courts take excellent care of the pockets of British citizens, and fortune telling has Ion? ' een a punishable offence. The )aw winded at the fad ot crime of hand reading a« long as it was a mere drawiug room amusement, but when a palmi«t undertook to rej*d the future for pay from the lines in the hands of superstitious women, the police at once summoned Uer before the Lord Major's Court. The Magisti ate seemed to regard it as a peculiarly Lenious offence, lor he imposed a fine of £'25, equivalent to fcbe combined penalties for h«lf murdering scores of children.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 239, 9 April 1895, Page 3
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