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Show THE CITIZEN NEW BOOKS NORWALK rj High Pressure Casings and Tubes THE WORLD AND Guarantee Tire & Rubber The death of this vivid versifier, who wrote some of our most popular poems, gives a peculiar interest to her autobiography. It is the of a Wisconsin girl who early became known as the poetess of passion through the medium of sensational and misrepresenting publicity and who did not quite live up to this dubious reputation. Come to fame and fortune, she did much traveling and familiarizing herself with the peoples of many lands. She has written frankly and openly about her travels and especially about her spiritual development. Always of a spiritual turn of mind, she early became interested in new thought, at a time when her admirers fancied that she could discourse in verse about love only. While the book is interesting from many points of view the reader is especially absorbed in the writers spiritual experiences, for it is quite obvious that these have absorbed most of her interest. In later life she became a leader of what was inexactly called the New Thought. Much of it was older than the pyramids and could be called new only in the sense that its zealots gave it new aspects and emphasized it by their strainings after novel points of view. incarnaSpiritualism, theosophy, tion, magic, prophecy, ghosts and astrology seem to have gained the solemn worship of Ella Wheeler Wilcox. She gravely mentions palmistry as if she were ranking it with the laws of nature. We find that shew as very happy in her family life because her husband was on the same spiritual plane as herself and sometimes a little higher, for he had visions one of a lady in a Shaker bonnet who insisted on passing through his home without so much as saying howdy do. That the poetess took her oddest beliefs seriously is attested by curious sentences such as these: Being an old soul myself, reincarnated many more times than any member of my family, I knew the truth of spiritual things not revealed to them. I could not formulate what I knew, but I felt myself the spiritual parent of my elders; and I longed to help them to clearer sight. Her first experience with a medium was thoroughly satisfactory to her, for it warned her away from a false city beau. The warning came from some one named Harvey, and as the only Harvey, she had known had died long before, that won her confidence. Besides, how could the medium have known': who she was? Had she not disguised herself in a friends dress and a bright red wig? And yet the first word from the spirit world was Ella. er Wilcox. South Main Street Phone Was. 2222 Salt Lake City, Utah 'lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!r BINGHAM i i GARFIELD I I RAILWAY I I AND g The Scenic Line to g s BINGHAM "Where Copper Is King" . s PASSENGER TRAIN SCHEDULE NOW IN EFFECT Leave Salt Lake City 6:56 a.m. 2:15 p. m. No. 109 No. Ill Arrive Bingham' No. 109 No. Ill 8:25 a. m. 2:35p.m. Leave Bingham 8:45 a. m. No. 110 Noj 112 4:00 p. m. Arrive Salt Lake City ..10:05 a.m. No. 110 No. 112 By Ella Wheel- Book by courtesy of D. self-revelatio- 451 ( I. A. Callahan. Company 5 5:30 p.m. slate-writin- H. W. STOUTENBOROUGH, Assist. General Passenger Agent, 1207 Deseret Bank Bldg. a Phone Was. 140 . s Salt Lake City, Utah 5 ' WE PRINT THE CITIZEN OUR CRAFTSMANSHIP SPEAKS FOR ITSELF Centurp printing Company J. Q. RYAN W. G ROMNEY CENTURY BUILDING 231 EDISON STREET Phase Wsistch 1801 Printers. Bindery Designers, Lisotypers 9 s g a . , g, ns See and Hear the But Ella was not carried away by every professed medium. She carefully calculated, by a method she does not reveal, that only one psychic in twenty who made a business of possessed real powers. It must have been comforting to tell the false psychics from the true. One is not always Impressed as profoundly as was the poetess with the other worldness of certain events. me-diumsh- at theNEWHOUSE The Brightest Spot ip, she writes, a similar puzzling and mysterious incident occurred. Miriam French, a beautiful In FOLLYDOLS in Town Dine, Dance and Eiqoy a Geve Show 1917, American woman, was on board The City of Athens, sailing from Cape Town, Africa, to America. During the voyage Mrs. French amused herself by writing a story about the ship and imaginary passengers, and ended the tale by having the ship strike a mine and sink into the sea. Two months later The City of Athens met that exact fate. How can the purely material reasoning mind explain such occur- rences? The material reasoning mind, whatever that may be, probably would have argued in its gross fashion that the boat which escaped the German submarines in 1917, when the kaiser set out to destroy the worlds shipping and almost succeeded, was lucky. How could the purely material reasoning mind see anything unusual in the fate of The City of Athens? Any writer, aboard any ship on the Atlantic in 1917, would have had about one chance in five, or thereabouts, of being right if he or she predicted the sinking of that ship by a submarine. Not only did the poetess believe in palmistry; she believed that she herself could predict the future by this method, and she tells us how she foretold the future of a noted writer by reading the lines in the palm of his hand it was Jack London if our memory be not treacherous. Some will think that these revelations approach close to the margin of sheer buncombe and will suspect the sincerity of the writer; others will feel that she is perfectly candid in stating her beliefs. Some will find these the less interesting parts of the book; if they do, they will find other fields in which to enjoy themselves, for there is much of persons and personalities, of books, of places, climes, poems her own poems , of strange events and of noted men and women. IRELAND? A STUDY IN NATIONALISM. By Francis Hackett. Published by B. W. Huebach, New York. for President de Valeras bond sale can surpass in effectiveness the following disclosures about the slums of Dublin, a city whose trade is limited by discriminating British commercial restrictions. The city of Dublin provides one hideous economic object lesson. With a population of 300,000, It offers so No propaganda (Continued on Page 14.) 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