While M, Marcel Prévost's deductions may be correct so far as the higher classes (from the point of view of money and culture), concerned, it would be hazardous to assert that the Latin temperament of the the peenle has been med appreciable extent, The sewspap. Gre still talus about plenty of Jealous husbands who sheet fai Wives, and amorous yo revolvers and knives on xitls wh do not respond to their 4 Only yesterday we had a midle aged widower children, who became Zaseinated by, a woman of 88, spent iis hard earned fortune in satisfying her stepmother to his children, allowed her to poison eldest daughter's mind against him, and sina moment of exaspera. tion, shot his mistress.
Fortune-tellers still 20 andy nine cases out of tes thole hents are juenced by some affair of the heart. At Lyons, the other day, one of these feminine mare chads de Uenkenr was sentenced. to two months? imprisonment for selling love-philtras to women wid wanted to regain the affections some fickle husband ov lover. Sevet= al witnesses, called for the defence asserted that they put a few drops of the magic potion in the beloved coffee and that the results that ould be desived, Tre magician told them that the charm would take a certain. length off time, but would be effective in the Tong' yun, and they were convinced: that she'was right, We may be sure that they still cling to, thei illusion, in spite of the conviction, The woman who took their money, was technically guilty of false pretences, but she "delivered the goods" in another form—hope and patience—and she may have averted more than one drama. A levee philtra is much less dangerous Society than a revolver or a bow! of itxiol, 4
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