Judge — February 7, 1920 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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Drawn by T. >. Toosey Caing to the coal shortage have given up their the yarage. it down again. This of course is only a very simple thing, and Miss Mutt, our medium, explained it all very clearly by telling us that the table had moved out of the subliminal plane and had got into a plane of its own But at first it seemed quice surprising. After that we went on to quite a lot of other experi- ments and sent telepathic messages clear out into space beyond the stars, and produced astral bodies and raised the dead and things like that. These are only little things, of course, and to you I am sure they sound nothing. But [ can’t tell you how these simple little experiments pleased and delighted me Our séances in our little circle have now taken a more or less regular form. We meet on Tuesday evenings at he and first we have coffee and then Miss Mutt goes into a trance and calls up for us the spirits of any of the great people of his- tory. The members generally vote as to who is to be called up but if there is any dispute the hostess of the evening decides what spirit is to come. We have had Machiavelli and Queen Elizabeth and a Roman Emperor who was awfully goc his name for the minute A e us a most interesting talk on the tariff and made it as clear as anything He said that where he is they understand all about it. At nine o'clock Miss Mutt comes out of the trance and we have cake and ice-cream and arrange where the next meeting is to be. So T hardly ne ppreciate very much ind d tell you that in our little circle we ed the the other side. We shall send a wave at you right away Tam sure then that you will not take amiss the few words of criticism that I feel inclined to add to my letter. Perhaps | should not exactly call it eriti- cism so much as suggestion as to how things might be made bet- ter still, As things are now we have all felt a certain amount of disappointment at what seems to be the low mental standard of the spirits that talk to us. Machiavelli for instance seemed to be all mixed up about what ad valorem duties meant and when Mr. Smiley, one of our members who is in the trade, asked him about schedule kK, he seemed to get quite angry and he said that where he was there was no schedule kK. Miss. Mutt, our medium, reminded us afterwards that Machiavelli had died of softening of the brain so I suppose that accounts for it. But T never knew that George Washington's brain had softened, too, before he died and that poor Longfellow had had it very badly—indeed apparently for years I think, sir, that it will help along séances like ours immensely if you could manage to do something to kee up the education of the spirits. Miss Mutt says that they have books on the other side just as we do here But one wonders if they read them. I suppose that ina sense they must get fearfully restless rushing round in the void, and it must be hard for them to sit down quietly and pick up a book. But I do believe that if they could be persuaded to do so, it would be a splendid Perhaps, too, they could be taught to wool thing for them. wae sort of work that you and other leaders are doing. Miss Mutt, our medium, says that it will be splendid when you yourself are on Teacher—Why don't you st “What's the use of restin® Those m t th $ meant ith it.” comicbooks.com