HOAXING A PSYCHOMETRIST.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9402, 24 March 1909, Page 6

HOAXING A PSYCHOMETRIST.

I tried tbe hair idea on a noted (so she says) psyohometrist (says a writer in the New Zealand Times. Carefully producing jt from an envelope, ‘ ‘ Gan yon tell me, madame, *..* I faltered, “what is the matter with my friend. He is unable to move or speak. ’ ’ Madame, of course, placed the lock of my dear friend’s hair on her forehead, lay down on the couch, drew a deap breath, and went to sleep. It couldn’t have rested her much, because she rose again in about three minutes. During her sleep she started violently, as if in pain, and twisted a bit, and groaned. She told me that my friend was so old a man that she feared he would not recover. She had seen him, and found him to he a tall man. The internal tnmour from which he suffered might perhaps he surgically treated, but she was sorry to believe that he would probably die any way. While she was examining, my poor friend’s tumour she had also taken tiie opportunity to make a complete internal examination and found that the liver was a good deal congested, and that sensility had decreased the ' usefulness of the heart. I dropped a silent tear, paid five shillings, thanked mada'me, and departed. And tbe gnat skin rug from which I took the look of hair will never know 1