BOWLED OUT.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 January 1915, Page 3

BOWLED OUT.

T Levin has just been visited by Madame Sona, palmist and clairvoyant, etc Her stay is short, probably owing to business in her particular line not being brisk. The boarders at the hostelry where she was staying resolved to test her powers and it was arranged that one of their number, a miale, who could pass in a crowd as. one txi the fair sex, should interview the lady and get a reading. In the "dim religious light" the lines on, the hand of the visitor could not be distinctly read, it is presumed, and as it was marked pretty deeply the palmist concluded that the presumed lady visitor was a cook. iSlio was told that in the house she would be a very economical woman. Looking ahead over the long vista of years the palmsit saw her the mother of nine children. The sitter kept a grave countenance, and when; "she" was told not to be jealous of the young man she was keeping company with she bit lier tongue in trying to look serious and drew bloodi. She was advised to get married speedily. Then the palmist felt the belt of the supposed lady and remarked that it was a very nice one. The fee was paid and the interview came to an end. Much that was said is not.given, but enough to show that Madame Sona was very much off the track and gave the impression that she was a bit of a fraud in this particular line. These persons who travel about piv> fussing bo possess occult powers without any recommendation, as to their genuineness, should not be tolerated in any community. If Madame Sona | had been a true clairvoyant slie would not have talked to the male visitor as though he belonged to the other sex; she rather would have denounced him as a trickster and shown him the door. .Some of theso people claim to be Spiritualists, but the Spiritualists denounce them as frauds, and one of the rules of their Association reads: "The churches of this organisation shall co-operate with the authorities, whenever possible, in protecting the public from unscrupulous, fraudulent, or incompetent persons possessing to have psychic power."