| Show v r to FA FAVORITES ORITES A A AMONG At DIPLOMATS A AC e C I F ii c y l t 1 I r 1 M MJ m I I n r j J 7 S i served l' l ns lately who 1 I Count Cn ambassador cur ur at al Madrid 1111 rid and n l n Russian alO I ambassador at ni V was former formerly retired Irom ton ion has now y of or his big niece r. r service r A photo 3 vh wh h W Me bind Countess Sin ant social charms J m le olo her n a I gen t. t j pIquant tor lieu sho she favorite in n oral eral t a house house- over ever the OC nm vr l d i presided Jil v i j hold also appear p I I Mediums an axed and Their P Personalities A most mo In Interesting ng circumstance ti In tho time phenomena Is that which shows a fairly rational vi ow of punishment for or sin Min The Tho communications purport to represent sent the Iho policy of or nature or provi 1 providence deuce dence with regard to sin and this Is IB that true punishment Is the consequence conseQuence consequence conse conse- quence of or sin sit anti and not some artificial penalty such as lS we WP have been accustomed accustomed tomed to believe ve The Tho representation Is IR that of or conditions in another life Jfe and andi i lIe of f what many wish lo know mow regarding it Il Moreover it Is also alo important to remark to the man who advances secondary personality as ns the explanation tion that the te type of punishment here defended 11 Is not the one wh which 1 11 Mrs Jr I Smead's s 's theology has hns held hed The Tho Idea Is comparatively new to her hor mind She would not naturally accept this view w from rom hor her early teaching Her lieI theology makes a n aver very different account of punishment punishment pun for sin and und If IC her subliminal I notion action Is producing th the results of or her previous experience it would lit hardly y take tho the cour course courso e horo hero manifest Apparently Apparently Ap Ap- then the hypothesis of or secondary secondary j dary dury personality has difficulty In InU maintaining maintaining main main- 1 itself 1 havo have no doubt that many will prefer prefer pre pre- fer the theory to account for forthe forthe the iho phenomena and so would act accept ept them on their own certificate of oC non- non relation to lo Mrs Smead's usual habits of I thought But there are arc two very vcr Important Im Important Im- Im facts In the tho record Itself which h the time student of oC psychology will detect i plIt t tut ut at sight and which afford him a perfectly per per- perfectly 1 goot good excuse for fa referring ih the 1111 I phenomena na to secondary rime Tho first of ot these facts is the tho vision ni um nithe the end of or the tho experiment nl That apparition apparition ap ap- I- I 11 Is tho the historical representation senta- senta tion lion of Christ and can most easily be l I. I explained L by supposing that the general general gen gen- eral raJ drift of tho time thought during the sitting might easily suggest such a athing I thing Ruing to Mrs Irs Smead's mind The INon second second sec sec- INI I ond on and still sun more Important fart fact Is Mr Ur I Smead's own unwary un statement to time tho communicator earlier In the tho I ment When hen he hc assuming that he vas talking to the cardinal exclaimed I tin II h Irace grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be bt with th thy spirit hm h gave a most distinct sug HUg suggestion e lIon to 6 Mrs 1 Smead's subliminal mental action acton and antI wo wt ma may assume t that ha t the whole Impersonation of or Christ l wa waH was VIK due H entirely to that suggestion md tad I that hat the vision Islon at the tho t terminus of oC It was the result of oC its momentum as aN she hc was WILS re recovering consciousness Hero iho thu scientific scientific man would sa say saIs Is time advantage of or a verbatim record sf of I all that occurs on such occasions In all ull ordinary experiments experiments' a memo memory 1 report of or what was r received oll would be bc beall beull all ull that we Wc should havo o to baso base our 11 Judgment typo upon lIPon n and antI unless w we were fl familiar with t tho the delicate dell Influences which suggestion exercises we should hardly remember our giving gl rise to productions pro pro- like tills this h by somo some casual pro pro-j remark re remark re- re mark marle ot or our own We c have therefore there there- fore ore In this record the tho superficial indi indi- indication indication cation at least o of a a perfectly normal e explanation of at the phenomena all ally when we recognize the dramatic character of oC some Come of uC our 11 dream life Our Our- dreams often represents represent the presence presence presence pres pres- ence and with conversation us of various various vari varl- ous personalities living or 0 dO dead doad and anti as ns that state elate rs extremely 1 susceptible to dramatic pIll play of or personality being fret free rt of the Inhibitions or of arrests which af affect affect af- af the Judgment in normal consciousness conscious conscious- ness every suggestion IN is liable to take tl effect and s a-s Mrs 1 Snead Is a I. I INy very Ny nII religious luU woman or has hns all her boon been Joen addicted to 10 u rt religious view w of things It world v be he 1 perfectly natural that her mind would take hike this RU suggestion gOS- gOS tion lIun In him h her 1 trance date tu tf HER VOICE A FORTUNE I f t r rc c r I v t trY y i rY w f 1 M r 3 tei ry H x 4 ISN i Sr r v yi r 1 I I c amt I This tI T i l t III T tvs 1 Miss l M 8 Barbara barn Coffin th tits tits' phone N girl who Is to become a famous opera singer If it the hop hopes hope of her friends are uro Lr realized A who had occasion to talk to hev he 0 over 01 1 the time wire wino discovered Cre her marvelous voice olce and laUlI has provided funds for Cor her musical education Consequently what the spiritualist might accept as ink having an source on the ground of oC rationality and antagonism to the natural convictions convictions convictions of oC Mrs Smead Snead thus becomes lu- lu to by subjective action and anti all tho representations of oC a transcendental life lire would 11 be such lIch stuff sture as dreams ar are made of or and antI the case a n good example of oC what we wc have ha to bo be on nn our gURr guard against in our omit desire desire- to have some definite knowledge of or another world Any In Information about a n transcendental ond existence coming In this way has to pass the ordeal of just such criticism as I have hav In indicated and students t will I have to learn that the time task of oC certifying the tho th source of such Ruch communications Is an extremely difficult difficult I cult ull one Jho Tho circumstance wh which Ich will strike e the tho average a man ratan of or intelligence as absurd is the readiness with which I certain alleged d can be called or orthe orthe the time apparent ever presence of any p particular particular par par- lI person that may attract the fanc fancy of a a. medium We Ye cannot be he easily easily eus ily lIy made lo to believe bellove that great ii historIcal historical cal per personalities are arc forever hovering bout to mako themselves known to obscure persons all nil over the world on all ull sorts of oC occasions oc It Is a Il suspicious cious dou circumstance that such phenomena phenomena m mena ona should hould occur no matter how at attractive nt- nt e It mn may appear to lo our prejudices prejudices dices s or wishes Hence it would bo be a stumbling block to our belief to lo expect x ex- ex expect a ready reldy acceptance of or such phenomena phenomena phenomena I mena on their superficial character We c might ht moro easily acedo to the claim dial Stainton Moses was pre present but even en this would bo ho feasible only on the supposition that his appearance had hall semi mi- mi purpose and anti consistency with the Ow noral scheme of or tho limo experiments If It tH he was only a casual Casull visitor as US so often upper appears rs In phenomena of oC timed med in iii general we would hardly U his claims any moro readily than thon w we would those of such a personality CHI ris those of or Jesus Jesu It happens that tho the of or Stainton Moses oses us IlS alleged communicator in this case was a n natural nat nat- ural urah accompaniment of tho time alleged allege presence presence pre pre- sence of other communicators us as the tho same lI e group of ot personalities have havo been represented In III tho tiro Piper cas case On tho the thoth th theory ory especially that of or secondary personality Stainton Moses Mosos ought tobe to tobe be bl represented as a communicator here hero lout but this sudden and Inexplicable appearance ap- ap of oC Christ can only At servo to tomake tomake tomake make us sc sceptical pUcal of oC any tny source but that of or subliminal mental lII action an anthis and this not because of or IlU any pr prejudices which either scepticism or religious belief might entertain about Its possibility but of oC the tho casual and purpose purpose- less loss character of oC time Iho a appearance hen When therefore we wo find such such traces tracol of suggestion sug as Mr Ir Smead's exclamation wo we may mayvell well vell understand tho time represented represented sentell appearance without having hn our minds perplexed IJ by tho time semblance of oC spirit communication Dr Dr James II 11 Hyslop In the Duct December Journal of or American Society for foa Psychical Re Re- search SPAIN'S ROYAL FAMILY 1 1 4 t i r rc I r. r r c s i a s J wi 12 h 1 C L 1 I Im I and his quo queen e en and d their infant I SO sot son l. l J King Alfonso O of Spain |
