Miscellany, Oct. 12, 1936

Seers

In Trenton convened the National Association of Fortune Tellers (membership: 110) to plan the profession's 1937 program. Keynoted President Helena A. (''Gypsy Lee") Perota of Manhattan: "Fortune telling is not going to escape modernization. It will undergo a streamlining process. . . . It will have a regard for those who have practiced predicting in the past, read palms, stars, handwriting, cards, head bumps and tea leaves. But 1936 has ushered in a new era in the profession with introduction of beer suds reading. The results are as accurate as those obtained...

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