Show MAGAZINE SECTION MAGAZINE SECTION - ir i Statement : of Edward Wodiska Who Believes: Thai" Helsthe Returned Louis XIV of:Erance- ' J HE age in which we live has way of concluding that more skeptical than any has ever happened It thinks It has to be “shown" Yet it is an age when: great' forces that once' were considered mysterious are no longer mysteries Discoveries and inven- tions and not only discovery about material things but about the human have had the durious result in this skeptical age of making the world think twice before deciding that anything Is impossible In fact this is an age when man - '' i : Mr Wodiska’s voice has not the rasping sharpness that proclaims the fanatic his stature showshim every Inch and every ounce a splen- did example ! of physical manhood his demeanor at all times commands your respectful attention and sideration ' ' He will not make this startling declaration unless you : know him well and If you are acquainted with him you will know that he Is a prom-’-- V v--0'' ft r v -' 1 " - - - A Sf?'" M&y con-min- d - ' £ -- KEMBLE! - - 't "IT HE doctrine of reincarnation claimed ss a fiindamenjil iat it is evolution itself as applied to the 4 by the various adherents and interpreters of the‘Mff Anue Besant a disciple of Blavatsky says the cient wisdom religion is corollary to Darwin s theory y f of reincarnation "asserts the existence of a living theory evolution While logically and philosophically Advanced as:v:jind individualized principle i which dwells in and informs a basic tenet-o- f many religious beliefs' it is sustained bythe body of a man and which on the death of the body 'science In its demonstration of life and nature as a con-- passes into another body after a longer or shorter interval art of fmi b4 timidly progrt-- m inform mdwell or inmut M ill nhe- - the pearls uppu it the separate human lives" ’ All thatfsukes np the impermanent physical man is Aresolved into Its component parts at death and passes out 'to be reabsorbed into the elements whence it came never Yfagain to be “remolded into the identical physical form— never again will these' Same molecules: cells or chemical atoms be reassembledtri reconstruct the same human body the personal man canndt be said to reincarnate any more then does the tree of last year return to ns this 'year bearing its identical vesture of foliage or flower Not reinthe from dark a leaf twig or branch is the same as was last year's form ages Christianity during expurgation carnation is one aspect iof evolution for as it is verdureand color-arpalpably different Still it is the same ment in ' meaning: and as evolution could not go ‘on- -with-- if tree with' its individuality familiar and distinctive - c ments always await him when he comes to New York "every little while” on business or pleasure When Mr Wodiska tells you that he Is' Louis XIV he does hot "expect you to “salute' his majesty" any more than he'-- desires you to run for apolicemanhe isn't trying to preparethe stage ' for ah extensive and ? brll' 'A- shines on great and small rich and - 'induced to relate the story of his career and particularly the incidents in it ' that led him not only to the stanch belief the theory of Below Louise de laValliere reincarnation: but inin the firm convic“the Woman Who Really-- tion that his is the reincarnated spirit Loved Louis XIV’ of Louis' XI vV of France was assured that his experiences would be published as told by him without any comment except a few ’introductory remarks? $-- i 'V - cs rj “V '' r’ if - - - “'u-'-- ' -- In the year 1917 Edward Wodiska will look you squarely In the1 eye grasp :you firmly by 'the 'hand and same calm and speaking with the confidence that ' might: characterize M f like a painting' of Louis XIV he with a natural br l might say an am or if my 'spirit or if any part of me or my spirit is the reincama- abnormal gift for piusidt had seen “It was while I: was In': New York tionof Louis XIV then it was Louis "Shortly after that I entered the who saved France In the year stage where I was privileged to play- that I first saw-th- e picture of Louis XlV r 14Le19 Adrienne In XIV painted by with Modjeska' then T 'would like to interject 'here so couvreur' in ‘The French Spy and that the whole Rigaudt&:as vista t of ”? the past other plays so popular then Later opened before my eyes'6ierweep- - that there can be no misunderstand- etartori I was with Clara Morris James jng boy who muttered ‘tout-est- : Men’ log the statement that while I am n h I am not an O’Neill and J other celebrities and I the man inthe cafe 'who said I looked maniifnntiiro? patrons of the stage in like Louis XIV the lovecjf thestage Prussian militarism I deplore but ahl to obtain Inhls own name mid- suppose the of: the famous old Union and my inexplicable ' aptitude the tor "as far as the civic heart of Germany days own worth I am not not have altogether French parts the psychic' command is concerned it is all right and the Company nd haV®?° I1ier?sf - striking that I most me The forgotten buy the Memolpa of Saint German people : themselves are as d as any ase' with whTchl l read lovable and as language which I had in the world i andcapping''it'all- e picture $JiuIe XIVi here wi 'Avowal an exact "Shortly after myrretum tcrOi IndGpendenCe Tampa”hecontinued‘Iifeltanfi?iJ ih my friends- are s as stanch and true ' I have related are incidents : resistible Impulse tbwgo'tO EuropjSi':"''® LvCIlt 1X1 iVly LfifCCr vas any man’s1 and it is a matter belief no of reaaoacould :I Mjr- businsgoiffIctilt ‘V give are: strange al--' ' In A experiences was and material Indifference to me be my partners befef urgent this CQimection It may ft moist beyond belief and f6r that rea- -' to was restless 8fayv J son l hesitate o tell them for fear pointed out ihat’ Louis xrv was dedlssiabeiher oneInks or does not think o£ tosrldtcitieoted to'Ttheartaaia the worlcI thatI may Know wnen i leiior le believe me well and good : hallucinations and if these Ir had jmbarkedonth Mttoxlawtod whyI w mntol delul no °f ability at least of sin-- apparently purposeless errand know why they all are re- to plaint to make" I have an idea that Be JJ1 Germany I saw tls Prussian jated to the incidents of one man’s many people like some of my friends cerityt- and Jn his patronage of activities ' and I sensed 4an-jWe will consider my experiences simply Moliere he was the ceaseless wby I have never had any my others” : ger Returning to Franced-t°l-d coincidences pion of the drama a remarkable seriesof :? “I am r not of French descent I M:'l now come to ( what j I consider Companions there that waiwas f im r Wodiska was asked lfhe had' peril - crer geen anyone whom he thought was born in Cleveland As a boy the most inexplicable event in my pending that France was I was cnsidered :a reclusei WhIle career Iwas'in'NewOrleans- walk-- - Although Frenchmen acvrded me al- jq be Louise de la Valllere the only ' extraordinary Atention and- ? woman who ever really loved Louis : IJ' others playedl sought the shelter Ing alone when I was attracted to a 1 glanced over the books consideration my warning that Gei'- xiv or De Malntenon the ' woman of silence and cried Wandering along book-stan- d France would soon be at Wbose ievll Influence over him va the! street onc my way to s school' I : and walked away ff Some V psychic many - and was not taken y seriously 1 primarily responsible tor his used to mutter Tout 'estSbiental-- force drew: me' back there my eyes Krips the Edict of Nantes : iErenchi ’andfdld 'iwere riveted on a book with a French wen®ver ° Spain and on mjtvay from I learned back' Genevato Paris not even1 know Ihat the words pieant title I bought ILS It seemed I could' “Xot that I am aware of" he re-worst kat that the had happened A11 Isa well ‘brithat the expressionYnot keep-frobuying it At home plied “I had a vision once of La yv was one :usedby Louis XIVi while’ I read tie: title La Cour de Louis Europe was in flames' Valllere in a garden and when I asked whereXIVparSaintSimon’ (Memoirs of'fPo01 France! T felt she was- wa8 jn Versailles I saw that garden ' on his death-be- d ’ I was r on ’the doomed No there was one salva- reproduced in detail and in reality the v Duke of Saint I w picked ’iup this simple ' ‘ - French !tion£Mgland could save her i I lost and it was the old home pf Louise flrstboat tor :de :1a Valllere v However I have De Malntenon? w uswuu- - m wuwm I went to the never seen her a gn wnen- i was wnen 1 coma got reau rrenca? x way years ' a room over-to not do Hotel I know a Metroiwle :'' ‘what was book? in know nameor did that Possibly ’sittingini-cafe tnat my ' I4 and ' there Louis day But a Parliament “Ah! what XIV bewildered waa and looking conr I king mystified rather my personality" wasfirst f? nected with that of ?'LouIs 5? XIV f sought " to explain it to myself as a "and:: night I prayed that England would have been had it not been for come to the rescue And Eng- - d© Malntenon— had his love- for OnthatVoccasion I heard' a man psychic phenomenon’ Possibly I Louise been as pure and as stead- atFrench had come-- to me readily land' did thank God! 54 -- -a - 11:: — ® sitting fast as hers for him!" j - anti-Germa- ge - - - be'-’suhje-ct - i y 1 -- 1 A- " i’i i : - ' ' ' V - - - J ’ - e re-emb- - : ' - ka Frank The hypnotist has his work to do tin the hospital' A great and sue-'- ! cessful drama is built on the theme of mental suggestion: The foremost : theatrical producer of his day con-streets' a play the central character of which Is a dual personality which was taken from realke declares' ’ life still another dramatist makes v an enduring success of a play the f ' is' keynote 'and keystone of which ' ?"' telepathy ' mental The great writer who - held the chair of psychology at- one of America's oldest and largest educational institutions declared earnestly to his friends that he would ' com-munlcate with them after his death New thoughts- new sensations follow fast one upon the heels of ‘ others: Men listen with open minds in this age of wonderful things i Mr-Wodis- finely-graine- al meta-physi- r : - X-ra- ys ! : Pro-Frenc- look through you When when men's faces burned to the bone by liquid fire are restored by wax at a time when radium the miracle mineral Is only beginning to perform its marvels when Caruso sings in the humblest home when men talk to each other through wires and the diplomatic notes ' of nations clicked from one continent are picked out of the air by another— at such an age men's minds are open receptive not only to things new in the scientific world but in the realm of psychology and ? - : - trans-continent- ‘ - - The Challenge V to Skepticism -- - - -- as never before is willing to listen to those who dream or seem to dream t ii u" rna tion”? turedt gentleman a cosmopolite whotlcularly interested except in so far has checked his hat in the best hotels as it relates to 'his own remarkable In all the countries of the civilized experiences publicity is Mhe last globe a: student and of thing in the world he seeks notoriety the arts a raconteur whose person- - is - his pet aversion! Louis XIV was called the Sun King ality seems to magnetize' the lobby of the big hotel where his apart In accordance with his own words: A Portrait of Edward Wodiska to Artist Has Added a Head Dress Similar to That Worn by Louis XIV Emphasizing the Remarkable Resemblance A 4 ne cham-mllIta- ' ry ‘ - - ? - - -- revoca-thoughriknew" m : ’ ' ? - - 1- - : rea-wou-ld - thenextr:-vtableVltell's6niBv : ‘S d a- - s V |