Life Wrecked by Palmistry.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 195, 22 August 1904, Page 4

Life Wrecked by Palmistry.

WEALTHY LADY'S MANIA FOR THE OCCULT. . PARIS, July 11. ! When '■ Chelro," the notorious palmist, last carried on business in Paris, his card bore addresses in Fifth-aveue, New York, and Hyii* Park-court, London, as well as 5, Rue Clement Marot, in this city, where he "received" daily from two to four in the afternoon. In private life "Cheiro" poses as a count. In recent years his clients have been almost solely women, and it Is a rare ' exception for him to grant an interview to one of the sterner sex. His usual fee is £2, and frequently he charges double that amount. An American woman, well known in San Francisco society, consulted "Cheiro" in Paris in the spring of 1900, and, among other matters, was informed that the two months most prejudicial to her welfare were those of July and August. Strangely enough, her lover and sister died : on the following July 4 and August 13 respectively. Since then she has bfan a changed woman. ' Upon one who had previously been exceptionally strong-minded, the ap-j parent fulfilment of the palmist's' "prophecy" produced a pitiable el- j feet. Acute hysteria and neurasthenia wore the immediate result, follow-' ed later, by the most grotesque eccentricities. Imagining that almost every ordinary occurrence had some 'bearing on the occult she would immediately seek out 'Cheiro," on one occasion even .crossing to New York for that purpose. Of ample means, Bhe has In turn sought the advice of the most eminent modicail practitioners of London and Paris. But she invariably ceases to persevere with their prescriptions m the middle of the treatment, with the result that she is now men tall v] and physically 0 wreck.