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Show HER PREMONITION OF DEATH Circumstances That Led Prominent Woman to Live Ever in Fear of Impending Disaster. A most touching account of the premonition of coming trouble w-hich she experienced before the tragic drowning of her children at Paris, was given by Isadora Duncan, the dancer, whose poetic interpretations charmed the people of two continents. Two months before the unhappy accident, ac-cident, the bereaved woman was continuously con-tinuously haunted with visions of death. Consulting her physician, she ivas assured that she was "suffering from nerves." When playing in Russia Rus-sia shortly afterward, so strong was her conviction, one night, that her own death was imminent, that she left a letter containing her "last words" on her dressing table, before going onto the stage. Again one night on the train she seemed to hear Chopin's Funeral March all night Ion;;. At the same time she seemed to see a vision which produced so vivid an impression that on the stage next evening, entirely en-tirely without rehearsal, she reproduced repro-duced it in motion, reducing her audience audi-ence to tears. "All through my performance," per-formance," Miss Duncan says: "I felt is though I were marching to my grave through an icy wind, and afterward after-ward with a melody of resurrection, a sort of ecstacy that was not earthly." The very day of the terrible accident, acci-dent, the mother had packed her little ones, who had accompanied her with their nurse to Paris, for a little outing, where their lodgings were, as she was to remain in Paris for the rest of the day; and in saying good-bye she playfully play-fully kissed the lips of one of her children through the glass. Contact with the cold pane struck t. chill to the mother's heart and a strange foreboding fore-boding overcame her as the motor whizzed out of sight. A few minutes later the children were hurled from the overturned car into the Seine. |