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Show ART MYSTEHY HAS CHICAGO FOLKS DAZED Weird Egyptian Pictures Drawn By Woman Nobody No-body Knows Answer (By Edward M Thierry. N. E. A. Staff Correspondent. I CHICAGO, Dec 12 People around Clarendon avenue in Chicago tremble when they ro out at nipht They are aft aid they will see an Egyptian ghost strolling around dragging bis mummy t)Q behind him For the idea II pretty well Implant d ihat an F.gjptian fthosi is hanRlnt-around hanRlnt-around the nelshborhoodt Klsc how does Mrs. Emma Mabel Field, who liyefl a.) tU2 Clarendon avenue, ave-nue, draw those weird Egyptian pictures pic-tures ! EVERYBODY PUZZLED Artists, university professors, arch-coIoEi.ts. arch-coIoEi.ts. Egyptologists and plain pen pie hae been stirfed by revelations that this Chicago woman involuntarily draws ptures pronounceil by experts io be p. .lect specimens of Egyptian ' art. Mrs Field has been drawlne tbp'i strange, fantastic pictures for 10 c rs Hei pencil, she says, moves alum , o Itself. Now Chicago Is talking about its art Spirit mystery Science is aghast. onie ot Mrs, Field s drawings have been placed on exhibition In Krvlne Metal's studio in the fine arts building. build-ing. SPIRIT IS BLAMED Spiritualists insist Mrs. Field is the medium for an Egyptian spirit, or the reincarnation of an Egyptian artist. Scientists say she is utilizing subcon sclous forces and heritages. Mrs' Field doesn't know whai to think. "1 Just have to draw and I an'i 1 lell why," she says, I don t know I v. hat 1 am drawing I have never read anything about Eg ot and I don t know : what the things mean that I draw. Hut I do know they mean some thing. Prof James and others at the University of Minnesota were able to 'read the drawings easily and related to me the story each one told. WORKED 24 HOURS "I'rof. .lames l..,',d nie il wa- i cas of my subsconsclous mind being mote developed than my conscious mind, and i ha i in m) -ubr onscious mind was a heritage of Egyptian learning and 'talent, dating perhaps from the time i ot Egypt itself." The first photograph ever taken of Mrs! Field at work showed her com Ipletin:; a weird picture She had worked over it 24 hours without pauSC j to eat or Bleep. |