The evening world. Newspaper, May 2, 1921, Page 17

\|AT LAST— WHY WE SEE GHOSTS’ ANSWERED BY EXPERT Spirit Tips and Raps Explained “Every Outside Apparition Is Simply a Reflection of an Inside Belief,” Declares Dr. S. A. Tan- nenbaum—If You See Things You Are “Not Crazy, but Abnormal.” By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Copyright. 1921, by the Prom Publiaking Ca, (The New York Brening World.) HY do we see ghosts? Why do we think tables tip and spirits rap and voices of the @ead give us communications? “) Simply because we WANT to believe In these phenomena, Just as a moving picture machine projects an ~ ~ ‘™age on the screen, so our own men- ‘al machinery projects on the atmos- phere a ghost-image that is an expres- ‘ton of our faith. And all the mate- ‘tal phenomena of spiritualism—the ‘aps, the voices, the white robes—are the result of an unconscious mental effort on the part of spiritualists to make the incredible credible, the in- tangible real. That is the Interesting explanation | obtained from Dr. Samuel A. Tan- aenbaum, wall known psycho-analyst md editor of the medical journal, Be je and Eros, who discussed at a \* the ghost has been told that he will sce it if he sleeps in a certain room; all its detaila have been described to him. So his mind obligingly projects the tme-hallowed phenomena—onee more, whatever Is outside oomes from what ts inside, “In geances and jn eessiona with the table or the oulja-board, whatever is not a deliberate fake is produced ‘uncunsciously by the living men and women present. The table moves be- eiuse of the-often unconscious—- muscular action of romabody’s hand, knee or toe. No medium who wna honest ever told anybody any truth unknown to him or to some other interested perso! Few of us have the sitghtest id of the number of | secent invetiog of Une Eastern Mediow ioe w noe without knowing we s “Ps =\Pathol now them—beciuse our conscious Society the “Psycho-Pathology of the Fin] nas forgotten them.” Belief in Spiri' “What about the effect on the “What is it?” I asked Dr. Tanmen- health of the Individual of all this faith in ‘the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen? " T asked Dr. Tannenbaum, “In most instanoes.” he observed, cheerfully, "such faith {8 entirely harm|: nd indeed has a happy and soothing It a religion as truly as Christian Science. Those who b in epiritualixtic phenomena be- Heve, as I have said, im what they want to believe, and, having set at rest their doubts, they often are hap- aum, yrhen I found bun in his office At No. 3681 Broadway. “Were you gorrectly quoted as saying that one tas to be a little crazy to see ghosts?” “Not crazy, but abnormal, he amended, with w sinile; “and, so far as that goes, each of us Ls at least Wightly abnormal, Hundred per cent. aormality is an ideal which never is tealized, effect "It iw true, however, that ghosts pier than some of the rest of Us" tnd other spiritualistie phenomena ens sfo simply a subjective o on by those who believe in them, Such phe- gomena have no objective existence; mm, at least, convincing scientific proof never has been uifered of such GOING DOWN! fxistence, Every outside apparition Prat. PL, by tne Pree, Putiistng On ‘aa reflection of an Inside belief, Kel iets Dla had “and all these so-callet materialis- BAR DOUBTHR—The very ge phenomena,” continued Dr. Tan- when you are think- ‘the rappings, the ing of giving up your po- visions of white bed fg ‘e simply rts on sition (Job) is the real time yoa @ part of the believers iem to Q nerd to hold on the hardest, Bresette nae of reality to what is The reason you stay where fureal The phenomena have no ex panies bs gtence in themselves. They deti- are {s because you have not tely a creation of faith; what rned your lesson. have called ‘the reality coetli You are in school. Why Ment. try to learn algebra when you “But why have so many persons I fuddenly decided to believe in them?” Q don't know arithmetic? Qasked. “Is the new interest in Take it easy! rho ty the ts and spiritualism due onaatanertye ALPALPA SMITH “he answered, “and for two The persons who have os, bry or husbands ed : a been a eS have a lous yearning believe that they stlll live and thi + they can communicate with those le {Fv ehind. But many other persons, who t ; not been b¢ Sa Ak Y gaffered a tremendo: St the yor—a loss eof oo Wet tna EY A Mai A wend ‘on'of human pro Petey Gna unconaciou BY ROY L.McCcARDELL need for a § rs e Co \ by the ree Publishing Ov Mat their ligion was true and we New York Mreaing Wortd.) Yhey «didn't ‘ 66] OOK here," said Mr. Jarr ao eached eager L he paused at the threshold as feb » was dermerting for the hey too wanted te 3 work, “haven't you forgotten “Another reason for ft something? tualistle jets ta that they ox: Mrs, Jar, had tissed him iy ba : goodbye, an hin for meney, could think of thing remiss tu the whole duty of a w su lovked eved in supernatit s at ti 1 puzz ere pixies, gnomes, TI be * exclaimed Jar. nd a 1 sims the mind to p Jar Shannela of childish a res tales." You'll “Rut if a bellef in ghost 1 ts the expression i uy ; it y fove,” Targued y ist thatseme Rauusle t at Teast. hay Lat seme tel Somit ApONT nN Mr. Jarr smiled, but only asked If Thnins, headings women, Mrs. Jary expected him home early thor terrifying On, of course, | want you to com Fee Eh anpARtlDns y the home in timo for supper,” said Mrs if 1 fen é yut [im going downt to do tward expres iste nd at an 1 desire.’ ox shopping and I won't be home lained Dr. Tann LUT, The wee lla i cevpurely a creation of the 3 4 favorite day visualization of ter fy oS Nt at f Ne pink snakes atl ele every day ER Oe ON a enti TRON) roplied Mrs ‘ priaie live in town or rat man er in the subu Mrs, Jenkins, tp the imag inatane wut of tow fre mit Tin Stor cha ate an Intense love for en suburbar ly tra 8 Nt Pigeons man n Lwemen ati the thi hey co Finds to, some has to town after thoir husbands leave fo i i ome and t back before thom endowed ment sion hates contain gironment. He own fr finds }) city! bed Well wu Ik don't have much pleas- ruettic - : inflict on bi : ao aine they fren haven't f till the last act ‘is fin- Mi hom, te vd 1 or Huh niffed Mr Jorr. “Th ; s Ai ome hat live the ‘suburban towns don't deny themselves any thing In the way of playgoing. in to the the matinoes ¥ midday train ou should ! They a OR polishing brass but len coming 4 nd their hu k oY " Wis a their rut has nvent eA N Wd ¥ oh nd run wild" noved to those ibur account of y could have ! y of play nite hive plenty of fresh of play room,” replied Assan exercising machine a s running to town chair ha vented hay- wn day r day! ing rock 4 com can't plete oval, enabling an occu said Mr, J pant to turn over in sald Mra. Jarr either direction, way from’ the € uptown, as 4 The Day of Rest! [AN SEE WHAT YOU Yj DID ON THE WALL BLACKENING Sry LCAN FIX THAT HARRIMAN HE one fixe In a fran boredom at any women of the ts and wi markabl rapid dancin frock twice her maid. Hey month New Palm RBeac mn be a t An tle endeay cost, t hust York, a vr to ave men even ty w ars d und anne a then gives it to spends a thight a America nd it ding Je Van ight- ms When of 80 va re changing their nes! Knickerbocker ning Mra. Nwiller Knickerboc or, mi Mrs, Van Twiller Jones, It's fr fully pu Sometimes, of course, there ty be method in the ma for Instance, a matron of society ha urded doesn't him any more t disc ally she remarries last name. —and he docs? / she But a husband want to be han is ne can suppose jus tn she doesn't her PEARSON (CAMERON MRS MORTIN Does she wish to be ROTHERFORD.¢ wn as Mrs. It Is Fashionable Now to Change Your Name “Who’s Whko'’ in Society Becoming a Name List ‘‘Subject to Revision’’ MRSS = @ DAHLGREN John Knickerbocker No. 1, while her Coueisht, 121, by the Bryn Publiah suc rts alled ing M ida Hola dinele Nee Ae ker No. 2? My dear, how had married when L was twen- Lr fi Aaa : : ty-five yours of age that would NN ale deta aly Oa hh ane ike me married just ten years For There is, for example, the social leader GRAS MOTOs Ouenagas a bi tier or Ww {know not which. whose call ris formerly read iybe I would have deen balder and Moy. Belinont ‘Pittar t Belmont r than tam now. 1 tis 4 b hard SCIENCE NOTES. ut ad now Lditn't take the ‘ Lget a H new Jo " with the boys i t w t » gone en vat nicht and 1 would be rich mow Holen got married yesterday and with her futher ' lea 5 combs te Of 2 evening Just prove vbove, was formerly Mrs. 1 rd aluminum, coated wax hurt over the mutter Emmet, but now ts Mrs, Dahle Oculists have found that a I'd boter: be elt alts, Mortimer Rutherfurd, th Souls form Seaiaivale ie: irl would t 1 y hs Mele Ru to persons read while Lost my job ar An r A ng dow © wo son—who was { a lard and ng f at } moved in. th soclety—migh to w early ¢ ave expressed its latest little fad mivs iJ gut Lwent t¢ “Let the smart world spin forever § proof wood, because the sun wi dewn the ringing grooves of change!" ws in, That waen's half as bad as TEM xo HARDSHD, * BY NEAL R. CHARA The Film Prima Donnas Have a Great Life and T' Seldom Weaken—Turning Down $800,000 a Year Is Only a Minor Hardship. Copyright, 197, by The Presa Publtaning Co. (The New York Brentng Workd), EFORE you send your daughter to college, consider the movie star. B She sews not, but oh, how she can reap! We sald a truckload there, buddy. Why let Nellie get up to her neck in culture when she can get up to her collarbone in a ‘#unng girl costume and make twice as much money at It? Aye, thrice as much, if the truth be known. And re- member, we doesn't have to know how to swim to put on a one-piece bathing suit. That's official, The film prima donnas have an easy time, no matter what they claim in their divorce proceedings. True, they work hard, but so does a slot machine, Life in Los Angeles tsn’t killing so long as your car stays on the high- way. No experience required to be & movie starress. Not even expert- ence in reading, writing or adding up charge accounts, Why let your danghter waste four years acquir- Ing boarding school manners when she can learn boarding house man- ners in her very first picture and go down on the payroll besides? A movie diva has only to make up in pictares ond shut up tn conversation. The make- up covers her wrinkles and the shnt-op conceals her intellec- toal blemishes, Wandreds of filmettes that wonld make Sim. ple Simon look like a Rhodes scholar are down on the salary sheet for five thon a week. Your “TURNS DOWN OFFER OF $800,000 A YEAR.” a Orders secretary to find out who this guy Poe ts supposed to be. danghter Annie can do the las fingernails polished withepul- same! verized essence of emeralds, ~ Take an average day with a cel- Takes shower bath of hot milk, followed by brisk rubdown with Gobelin tapestry. Reads Sears-Roé- buck catalogue of firearms in prep- aration for role of Lady Magbeth. Inlold. queen whose name will be nameless, by request, Let us dog her trall from task to task from the moment she fs swathed in her morn- Ing lingerle. Ready! Shoot! Calls up lawyer to arrange for ber Our lady enters in a radium- annual divorea Agrees to alimony beaded wrapper. Sits down to on a sliding scale—$3,000 a week breakfast of scrambled peacock for the first six months, $3,500 a ezes. Calls to seeretary in duleet week the next six months, $4,000 a tones: “Hey, Mile, bring In them week the succeeding six months, racks o? mail. Put ‘em there, kid." $4,500 a week the following. six Has all Jetters written in English months and $5,000 a week forever translated, Turns down offer of thereafter. Claims first two years $800,000 a year, Claims there ain't enough ciphers in that offer, Buys three original Raphaels for her but- ler’s pantry. Goes under the tnfluence of rove- scented ether to have three tafts of her eyebrows removed. Finds the are the hardest, but agrees to the divorce, Rings off from lawyer and weeps at her plight. Tears wash away the bulk of her complexion. Sends {n hurry call for exterfor decorator. Orders No, 8, sem{-jpa- genta pallor, with sunset effect. for lavender stripes on her racing car the lips. 5.15 P. M.—She comes up have faded and trades it in for smiling. Swallows seldel of creme $2.50. Consults architect on home de menthe for spring tonic. And’ so improvements. Orders 18,000 square forth, 3 It's a hard Wife, tot they never weaken, except to take a vacation feet added to her library and sends an order for books in pink bindings to fill. Sends check for $100 to to Rurope. Try it on your dumbest preserve Fdgar Allan Poe's cottage. daughter. SHOULD. WOMEN TELL? * BY SOPHIE IRENE LO Ccgyrigt. 1921, ty the Prom Publidhing Co. (The New York Broning World.) AST week James L. Odell patd husband this thing, which of the I ‘ott abe the past, this young couple would now the penalty of death in 1° be happy together with their’ little etrie chair and thus satls- oy, fled the Stute for the murder of a By insisting on vengeance, they man. He had spent his last hours have lost everything fooking at bia buby, whom he had | There are many instances of (ete, kind which do not always reach the never seen, of which cause uurder nias ut Tt wite Is now W189 Antola miseries in the lives of pe gation , ole ne lives people. eee none te BAe eae If the woman in the case had kept ben the poze oe tne terrible trag- De? counsel and decided that ven- ‘A ty / ance lies with the Higher Power Co balapeha id Thay not be usurped without Thue ends the principal chapter of aniaeanine onsequences, then all would saved. rious b Bat behind it all ts a big, human Ae is 1 throbbing story at in passing one anne wn Thaw case {s an: raises the que n of considerable © ae i ‘ importance to the happiness of many Why do wor in tall ‘To what end? people. A story of revenge—hitler Who {8 benefited? [ venture to, gay revenge—that ia ways Dead Sea that there isn't a single case of thia fruit, as 18 so si gly demonstrated Kind where a woman has bad some oveurrence her past, and has in- in this case, in It all came about ise the sisted on having her husband know woman told—told nd of a after she marries him, where real wrong that had committed food ulted from It against her before had married — [It geems to me when people marry him. they should with a clean alate. ‘Phe young hushand, fired with tn 4 should be bygones for Doth dignation, toe ho his wile 4 plan A cruel reve nt man has no more reason=to man in her private affairs sthat It is a long story it is sald, a n her early life, after aha yery brutal one, where the hushand marries him, than the man has to do and wife fin uevemplished the the same thin Jer of the othe Nite times out of ten, the man If thie Woman had not told her kow counsel, If every man were wife all that he had done r ' would for- r life would \ tun th. W assume (he should not ft concerted Co, (The New York Evening W vith past? whing up wt Hadn't get manty up tis that afterr Losi Pha une to the gar nite asked lite of a girl, which is a closed me about he there at ww good man will realize shat Ne ended. Well, hy y irned to love the wortan fer thy howwke ido 18 MOr® what she is and he should not love than active. s for something that occurred past, if iil at thet . Met Jack this over ; t every thiqa clu, He le ten years» n that a w ht to bes T. dit Took Wen like manner, women teth thir troubling the " 1s triflin 1 things chet him to-morrow, Maybe he manly tm s bet 7 ver hin gulf 1 make mountalas and man thege sna t \ T have so many letters on ths Jack always did want anyt an atitomobiie and up—if it was 4000 1 of the rainbow has nv im; it's the fassnat f hat! ts his young blood Po-morrow night 18 chocolate cake for anne. w wowescent || SUPERFLUOUS HAIR! at ‘i < H " PERMANENTLY by the palnid about my food. And KOE “a too late every morning. ‘Be, Now Kork City, A