Life — November 20, 1902 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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Life’s Dictionary of Interna- tional Biography. MARY BAKER EDOY, A MORTAL mind dispeller, sou- venir spoon agent, claim de- stroyer and general collector of all kinds of money. Also chief superin- tendent of a prosperous miracle fac- tory at Concord, open day and night, and the only one where a strike never occurs, or the wages paid are even complained of. Mrs. Eddy, unlike Hetty Green, did not inherit the foundation of her for- tune, but acquired it herself by con- stant prayer and office visits. Like On Easy Street, Hall Caine, Mrs. Eddy has taken the plot of her work of fiction from the Bible, but, unlike that eminent author, has never thought it necessary to write more than one volume, this mak- ing enough to make both ends double over and meet on the other side. Mrs, Eddy was not born, but demon- strated some three-score years ago; and she early evinced her psychic powers, beingable to tell a Government bill from a $500 note in the dark, and even then being firmly convinced that $300 was not too much to charge for six weeks’ tuition in her special pipe- dream course. Boston was at that time a little struggling town, situated just back of Wendell Phillips and Waldo Emerson, EVIE: and she took it up and made it famous, and helped to develop it into the principal municipal religion incubator of the United States, When a young girl, Mrs. Eddy was one day reading that famous riddle, ‘When is a door not a door?” and being struck with its tremendous philosophy, turned to the Bible and evolved an answer in “Science and Wealth, with Key to the Safe Deposits Vaults," which proved suc- cessfully that we are only such stuff as dreams are made of, and our little lives are rounded by a five-dollar seance. From that time on our heroine was on Easy Street. There have been many skep- tics who have doubted the real ‘reasonableness of Mrs, Eddy’s health trust, but it is only necessary to quote the distinguished lady herself in her own defense, “The proof of my system,” she says, ‘lies in its demonstration,” and it is well known that she has demonstrated nearly half a million. Her favorite occupations are: Trans- ferring real estate and not being seen. Principal works: “Tag, You're It,” “Heeling as a Fine Art,” “It’s Up to You,” ‘‘ A Cure for Epitaphs,” ‘The Gates Not Ajar,” ‘ Mortal Cash,” etc. Tom Masson, EXTRACT FROM A NOVEL. “Me PELT THAT SUE WAS ABOVE mIx.” savad ani axy THE QvICK— Gratifying. NTENSE Americans will be grati- fied by the report that Mrs. Cor- nelius Vanderbilt is dressing her serv- ing-men like George Washington, this winter, Everybody is well aware that Mrs. Vanderbilt might, did she choose, dress her butlers, equerries, chamber- lains and the rest like Solomon in all his glory, or King Edward in the grand finale of his coronation, or the Akoond of Swat. The fact that she finds a sufficient pattern without going abroad cannot but appeal strongly to the sense of national selfhood. TF it wasn’t for silly hens, the fox & would not have his reputation. Modern. “ A BENT you fond of the old “~™ masters?” “I think the new masters—Morgan, Schwab and Rockefeller—appeal to me _ more."" ‘pe Mad Mullah is a mystery. Does the fellow fancy himself too powerful and important to havo bless- ings of liberty bestowed on him, or is it a plain case of one who doesn’t know when he has had enough ? A WIFE is always important, if “~* true, comicbooks.com