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Show HOUDN FEARS I PSYCHIC LURES Never Saw Spiritist Peat He Couldn't Explain or Duplicate BOSTON, Oct. 19, Morbidness and melancholia In. in. . l by Interest In psychic phenomena threaten the health and sanity of many persons In the opinion of Il.-irrv Houdinl, president of the society of American magicians, expressed al the annual dinner of the sodet) here. He spoke of his 25 years' investigation of the subject, and said he had never v. . n anything to convince ),m that th. r. had been a single communication from the dead. I1 I have never seen any of the mediums me-diums or spiritualists do anything or produce a single effect which 1 i ould not, through my knowledge of magic, account for or duplicate " he a ert-ed. ert-ed. "I have had nin.' pin ts with the dead, who 'while alie agree,) with me to try to communicate With m.-from m.-from beyond, but acn has been fruitless." He said he had worked with sir Oliver Idge and other scientists n-i n-i gaged In th. study of physic pheV nomcna and respected them "But," he added, 'when I demon-strate demon-strate to them the secret and reveal the methods used t.y mediums and they tell me that I, too, am a medium, me-dium, in spite of myself, i am forced to conclude that they n er y do do1 , know. "I have seen people who previous to the war, never concerned themselves them-selves with things phychli now delving delv-ing Into it to the poinl of hysteria It Is a conductive ..f mo brooding and isvilanrho 11 be- comrB an obaescN-n irerj quickl and j l would warn against it it Is tl reat- enlng the health and sanity of those I who indulge h, it." |