Show SPIRIT DESTROYS HIS HAPPY HOME wife never had best of temper but spiritualism sends her amuck LEFT HIM 22 TIMES muttered at the sink because water run past fast enough to suit her says exasperated husband detroit mich idich twenty two times in the last fifteen years mrs helen ward has packed her clothes the family faintly pictures and china and quit her job as the wife of john F ward a middle aged druggist and violin maker twenty one times john ward laid aside his pestle and mortar or a partly finished violin as the case might have been and sought out his w wife ife to plead until she returned and put back into their places the china and family portraits A few days ago in a dingy back room of his drug store with a partly finished violin across his knees he told the story of how his home his business and seven years of his lif life e had been wrecked it was seven years ago he said slowly that a woman entered my home with this spiritualism tomfoolery I 1 tried to stop it but I 1 was too late mother took it up and drop it she never had the best of a temper but we got along fairly well until she was medium stricken after that oil oh well temper is a weak word after all spirits bad tempered tile the deeper mother got into spiritualism the uglier she became she never seemed to get an amiable spirit it have been so BO bad if she had I 1 think it was either black hawk or red eagle departed Ind indians lans whose spirit possessed mother ive seen her when she had bad lem em mutter at the sink because the water run fast enough to suit her when I 1 protested she would fly into a rage pack the china and family pictures and quit often it took two weeks to find her when lien I 1 did sometimes she was sorry and ready to return at other times she was ugly and I 1 had to coax her once I 1 thought she was nearly cured A daughter by my first wife attended a the next day she 6 4 1 0 she smashed vases valued at while the officer looked on was possessed of the spirit of her departed mother her stepmother like that a little bit and the powers she summoned from below or above made the other spirit retreat over the divide smashed the vases two or three years ago when the tight skirt had its inning mother made one after she put it on she came downstairs twisted herself before the mirror and said how do you like it john its all right mother I 1 answered but put your foot on the chair she did and then I 1 said you will make a display mother when you get on a street car that night when I 1 went upstairs after closing the store mother her clothes the pictures and the china were gone I 1 found out where she was but she return she had placed the china and several hand painted vases at a friends and I 1 got a writ of replevin boget them back when tile the officer went to serve the writ mother was there what could he do with the spirit of black J hawk backing mother that night in addition to breaking up our homo home it has taken money to keep mother traveling with the spirits of redskins red skins and doctors who died a hundred years ago mother lother hats has had to tip caesar brutus and those other fellows who are conductors on the trains or maybe in the subways ive forgotten though mother told me once ive paid the bills I 1 need money now but no I 1 dont believe that mother hed a good time out of it |