FORTUNE TELLERS.
The existence of two separate police authorities in London leads to some odd effects at times. One of them is very noticeable. The City Police authorities have decided that the “one square mile” shall contain no fortune-teller. There is to be no waiting for the usual complaints. The moment that an intimation is received that a “palmist,” or “palmiste,” has set up shop within the City boundaries the police call with wliat means notice to quit. The old Act of King George IV. is used, but the City is content" without taking monetary penalty if it can get the fortune-teller to undertake to clear out, not merely out of the “one square mile,” but out of the kingdom altogether. Outlawry is the City penalty for fortune-tellers. Yet the odd thing is that up West palmistry may flourish like the green bay tree. The same paper that contains the report of the expulsion from the kingdom of two British subjects accused of this heinous offence in the City contains the open advertisements of a dozen palmistry persons in the aristocratic Bond-street quarter. And some arc even able to advertise that they are under royal patronage. It looks like one law for the City, and another for the Westend.
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New Zealand Mail, 29 January 1902, Page 17
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209FORTUNE TELLERS. New Zealand Mail, 29 January 1902, Page 17
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