| Show Crosses Ocean to Find 1 Violinist Violinist Se Seeks ks Dle Drain ln Girt t- t X 4 if Search Leads Him to England BY SELFRIDGE HANNAGAN Special Correspondence 1 LONDON Oct 11 Because Because he had a adream adream a. a dream a young oung oung American musician of if j unusual promise had made his way from the United States to England in order that he ma may r give his dream a chance hanc to I come e true This is the ry of I Rupert a a. young oung looking man with th the dreamy eyes and I frail from which Sl so often orten accompany I the artistic temperament I was introduced to in a aIn cafe cafa I in the East End of London near to which Is a shabby little picture palace I in irs which has secured a position as violinist I Yes it is true he said when I had explained the object of my ray mission I Iam II 1 am a spiritualist I believe also in predestination predestination pre pre- destination and that fate rules every every- pre pre-I thing My father was a Jew and my mother a Catholic and I believe God has given be the best of ot these two great religions which I 1 lund find expressed in Spirit Spirit- One day I know I shall be famous a a. great virtuoso I knew that before I had my dream but now I am certain of it it nd before I become great it Is necessary necessary sary for me mc to meet the woman who is isto isto isto to help me to achieve success Will you tell me all about your I dream I asked as the man who In Introduced introduced in- in us ordered coffee from the dirty dirty dirty dir dir- in-I in ty looking waiter valter who shuffled forwald to attend us I PLAYED TRUANT If I do so said Mr raising a it warning finger I do so BO not because I want to gain notoriety but because I I wish to further the cause caute of Spiritual SpIritual- ism fern I began playing the violin when I I. I was 7 I have never had any tuition for both my parents were too poor to have I me roe taught Nor were they th y musicians themselves Neither of th them m could play I or sing a note But always I have haye loved the violin and even when at school on East Side in New York I Ivas vas was often punished punished punished pun pun- for neglecting my tork It really I amounted to persecution those persecution those blunderIng blundering blunder blunder- ing lag school teachers who have no mind I except for history and geography and arithmetic Mr went on to describe how I he played truant from school in order to gain more time to learn the violin On one occasion he said he was brought be before before before be- be I fore the magistrate to be sent to an in industrial industrial in- in in-I in dust rial school as a habitual truant and I only the fact that the judge of the children's childrens chil chU- drens dren's court was a man of wide sympathies sympathies thies prevented the application being 1 suc sue When I left school proceeded Mr tr my life was even w I 1 stavred myself in order to buy the music music music mu mu- Mr I sic necessary for the completion If of my studies I do not mind that my roy r reward wald will come corns when I am great eLt It is only two years however since I be- be beame ame a t Spiritualist Then my mother died and andI I was disconsolate To my horroM m mv my I music did ld not give m me the consolation I thought it would Worst Vorst than that I I. I could not play for grief Then on on- night I met Mr McKenzie a well known Spiritualist Spiritualist Spiritualist Spir Spir- pioneer In New York Directly I talked to him I felt a different man It seemed as though I was surrounded by bya a halo of wonderful light and that same same night I heard my mv mother speaking to me sic meas meas as plainly as I hear myself speaking to I you She told me rue not to grieve for she was not d dead d but only happier than a sh she nd il had J b been n on e earth h and that she would 0 I Ibe be quite happy if I promised not riot to grieve but to work hard and give great music to the world THE DREAM FACE i You really believe you spoke to your mother I asked I I am certain of It it said Mr I and I am going to give you jou proof It I Iwas was because my mother spoke to me ma that I Lam Lain am here now In a a moment you will see how It happened I asked my mother how I should become great and she told me that I should have to be helped l by br another soul She did not know who this person was but she was tr trying to find out Finally she told me that the thc person was a long way off oft across the waters and I would have to go and find that tha t person I 1 was so anxious for more help from my mother that I tried to speak to her again but I have never been able to do doso doso doso so since When I did not hear anything more from my mother the old unhappiness unhappiness descended upon me me until I thought I r should go out of my mind Then one night I had a dream and in my dream I saw the face of woman Though I did not recognize it it seemed quite familiar to me me and then I knew that It was the face of the woman who was to help me to become great But at atthe atthe atthe the first time she did not speak It was when I saw her a second time that she said she said in a perfectly clear human voice voice Come Come to me in England I am your destined wife the wife the person your mother spoke to you ou about I 1 can describe her exactly Her hair was black and her eyes eves grey She was not particularly good looking but rather kindly kindly kind kind- ly 11 faced and all aU smiling She wore an evening gown of ot blue and white which left one shoulder bare so that I think she must be a professional artiste herself herself herself her her- self to be wearing such a dress I asked her her name but she the only laughed and said she would not tell me and that I could guess Then her face grew seri ous and she urged me inc to come away as soon as ever I possibly could to England England England Eng Eng- land because she was lonely and wanted me to find her as soon as possible Why If she told you so much ha has hai she not given your directions to find her I asked A FASHIONABLE LADY Mr laughed That is the sort of q a sceptic would ask was will assuredly spread from Poland to her western and southern neighbors In central Europe every circumstance moral and material material favors favors the disease dis dis- ease A population weakened by war and famine Is living In conditions and well were It vigorous which ven f-ven to mIce mIce- infection infection fed would make resistance tion difficult or impossible As in infection infection infection in- in spreads it becomes harder todeal to todeal deal with and no European country country- not perhaps even an Island like Great Britain can Britain can count Itself wholly safe safo if Poland be allowed to succumb In Inthe Inthe the tho third place there thero is the claim of humanity Poland has not brought this misfortune on herself She is the victim of circumstances for which she Is not responsible She has done as our authorities Inform us all ali with n her power to help herself In hel helping ing herself she has lies greatly helped others and she deserves not merely their s sympathy sympathy sym sym- m pathy path r. r but their aid it should however however how how- ever eyer be noted that the evil wrought by typhus cannot be measured merely by statistics statistics' of mortality The disease Is Isono isone isono ono one which attacks with peculiar se severity severity severity se- se verity men in the prime of life lire It Is thus the bread winner of the family who wh is stricken down by death or long drawn Illness and whole families s become become become be be- come a a. charge on the community through the misfortune of a single member Even those nations therefore therefore there there- fore who wio suppose themselves to haVe ha no direct Interest in the prosperity ot of Poland and to be In no measurable mCL danger from the spread of the epidemic epidemic epi epi- demic may yet et on reflection feel reel moved to lighten the load of undeserved undeserved undeserved unde unde- served misfortune which presses so heavily on those unhappy regions Moved by these reasons the council ot of the league of at nations has requested me meui meI I ui urgently gently to repeat their former appeal It Is in their name nam therefore and by t l their authority that I venture earnestly earnest earnest- ly to press upon your government nt the of Joining a A. movement tin importance which at a comparatively eh mat ber t I may confer canter su such h signal mankind I his reply Because a thin thing is made easy eav for one it is be mad no reason why W it il should nothing made too easy If this be were to so in nothing for fol A Already life I J have would be worth working Corking been helped on in a marvel marvellous r manner by m mv my dream Soon after mv fm my future ture wIfe spoke kc to me me Iwas I l was ah able j to get et a a. P position 3 tion as a sick berth t steward on a a. boat to Holland and have just lust sn succeeded in getting gettin from Holland Eel HoJ- land to this 0 country Do you expect to find 3 your ur dream wife In the East end of London 1 swE That I T nn cannot annot say was the reply She ha has come to me three times and andT ande alwa always s in the e same ame fashionable society attire So Lm T I am expecting ng to meet her either at some concert in one of the big London halls IS or Or- r else at some SOCIal function to which I may be asked When do you expect that to be I have no idea Nor dOCS does it H worry mC It may be tomorrow It may be e in ln a aa year or five year But is it not quite a common exPerience expert expert- ence for people to see faces in dreams dreams' I am riot not COncerned with that Al- Al Although h though I 1 have It never heard of a Person actually seeing the face of a a. perfectly S strange being L in ln life liCe colors In the same detail that I at have ft wL done To me me me- however it tf was no dream a as you sceptical people understand dreams It Jt was a vision a vision of a person whom do not forget forset for- for get set my mother had already warned me i to be ready to meet My mother tOI tow tote 1 me this person was waiting for me across the sea sea and this person who proves to be a woman asked me rue to come to her ip ii England where nhe he was waitIng waiting waltIng wait wait- Ing for me WOULD RECOGNIZE HER Would you recognize her in the flesh if you saw her That is an altogether unnecessary unnecessary- question and an insult to to- tomy my intelligence intelligence intelli intelli- gence retorted Mr 1 warmly In In a crowd of or a thousand people I should know her the first instant my eyes rested upon Somewhere here In London I bell believe eve although it is of course possible she she is outside London breathers a living woman who from the tile beginning of time was destined to meet me and be my mate on this planet I believe she is destined to help me mc ot ba be b bea bea a a- great musician If It I should fail faU to be that it is because of some fault of my myown myown myown own or else because I have mistaken my destiny But so far everything has happened as I believed belie it would and there is no reason why all I hope for should not be realized The reason people do not get all the good out of life Ufe they desire is because they do not notI I believe sufficiently 1 belive bellve in my dream I wife as you call her and in my spiritual spiritual spiritual spirit spirit- ual affinity embodied in the flesh as I prefer to think of her Some day very shortly perhaps I shall meet her a and d when I show her to you you jou ou also will willbe willbe be convinced |
