| Show FACE TO FACE WITH DEATH society comans womans Wo mans Jle marhaba experience before a mirror at the ball last night said a man talking to a companion at bis club dinner a girl with whom I 1 sat out one of the dances told me of a rather curious experience she had earlier in the evening she said she was in the hands of her maid for the ball was seated before her dressing table having her hair done the room was warm and flooded with light her ball gown was in her sight she was reading during the process some light society novel and as she rather shamefacedly confessed munching bon bons between times all at once she grew tired of candies and fiction and putting both aside sat looking in the glass while the maid worked she was thinking of the ball and various anticipations she had concerning it when suddenly without warning and from no apparent cause she found herself face to fac with her own death she put it very graphically it waa personal death I 1 was struggling with she said not the abstract death that we read of in the newspapers nor the future long to be postponed mortality which we more or less indifferently accept as one common destiny it was the actual end of my life the finis of everything for me and the going out from my home and friends to the darkness and forroi of the unknown beyond what religious faith I 1 had forsook me completely 1 I trembled and a cold dampness damp nesa gathered on my forehead I 1 choked and started to my feet my maid alarmed asked if I 1 were ill I 1 said yes and was ill with dread but nothing more for I 1 was conscious of feeling perfectly well she went to fetch a glass of water and before she returned the vision or whatever it was had gone as quickly as it had come the hairdressing was resumed and I 1 could detect no physical results of the visitation which was terribly real and awful while it lasted and I 1 shall not soon forget it reminded her of some verses of aldrich on a similar subject where while the carriage waits at the door for miladys forgotten fan the husband or lover is confronted in the same dismal way but she had never seen or heard of theal hen experience waa evidently i very genuine and had made a consider aole impression upon he times |
