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Show Ouija Board and Spirit Messages Are Additional Terrors to Death. , ! 1 1 By GEORGE BERNARD SHAW i My mother was always having communion with the dead. She took , it quite seriously. She was a wisa and balanced woman, too. 1 Tho first planchctto that ever came to Ireland came to our house. I j used it incessantly till it became a deadly bore as it docs in about a week. I havo looked into the subject, but it has not convinced me. T feel much like a man I know whose dearest friend, a woman, was close to death. "You arc about to pass over, my dear," ho told her with tears in his oyes, "and I want you to promise 1110 solemnly that if it is possible for you to communicate with 1110 from tho other world, you won't do it." Fortunately sho recovered, but she has since died, and now my friend is 6cared stiff for fear 6ho will romo to him just for spite! Fancy the poor dead having to spend their tims tilting tables for peo-plo peo-plo in this world I And ringing bells and sending messages. Why, it iul terrors In death. "" f |