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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (April 5, 1908)
SUNDAY APRIL 5, 1908. THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA. OREGON. li s f; ii ill ;s i i it ! if 4 1 "' ' I,J L I Laliv do come before the mind at II , , - mm m n nnn r""3 -,; 17 fl ffl 1 This "WALNUTS" 15c Per Pound A. V. ALLEN SOLE AGENT FOR BAKER'S BARRINGTON HALL STEEL. CUT COFFEE. Buiv-7ii and 3871 BRANCH PHONE-713 ! CHRYSTAL - -NEW STRANGE FAD;; BOSTON?, April 4. One of the most famous objects in the collec tions of the .Museum of Fine Arts of this city is a great crystal ball with oriental settings, the largest mirror f the subconscious world, it is said, n the planet. Acquired for the Ames collection from an East Indian source nd loaned for an indefinite period to the Museum in Copley Square, it perpetually invites to the exercise of the now fashionable fad of crystal gazing. You look into it, or into any other of a large group of similar but smaller globes under certain favor kig conditions and, if your tempera ment is right, youu may see visions projected from out your subliminal Bfe. Seeing things in very popular just bow. A play, for example, in which ao well known a thespian as Miss Ethel Barrymore is starring this sea son presents a crystal gazing scene. This is a time, too, when along with the general revival of interest in all topics pertaining to psychical re search, more people, probably than ever before in the history of the world are looking into crystals, glasses of water, polished stone or wood or other surfaces capable of re jecting light with the expection that apparitions or hallucinations may loat before their eyes. ."Spooks" seen in a glass seem from all accounts to be among the easiest Whatever the cause of these apparitions the fact remains that from very early times peculiarly constituted persons about one in dividual in seven have appeared to possess the power of producing hal focinations of a certain kind in them selves by gazing intently into a crys tal. In recent years, and especially since the formation of societies for scientific study of psychical research in this country and abroad, interest in such phenomena has been very keen, and a considerable body of facts apparently well authenticated, has fceen collected. Prof. James H. Hy- slop, president of the new American Society for Phychical Research, has long been studying the pschological considerations involved in this cult of crystal gazing and in his book "Enigmas of Psychical Research," as well as in other popular expositions f metapsychical subjects, has given in detail the records of strange sights from the unseen realm. He cautious- 1v claims nothincr from which an ar- point 01 view ji mm.... v,.... , 1wwwwwo Large and Complete Line of Extension Tables. Round Pedestal Table, Regular Value $18.00, Special Sale Price Round Pedestal Table, Regular Value $23.00, Special Sale Price Round Pedestal Table, Regular value .uu, apcciai one n. Week IUi There, no a oCcli ft VV " IJ J Hi H '' i GAZING gument can be drawn as to such com munications from the eternal depths as Sir Oliver Lodge asserts he has had. He finds, however, a great mass of data that fascinate the stu dent of the little understood activities of the subliminal mind. The marvels of crystal gazing come right down to homely experience. If, for instance, o'ou looked into a glass ball and there came before your eyes a sharp, distinct picture of your old minister whom you had not seen for fifteen years and then just as you exclaimed "Why, Mr. X," the face vanished and there appeared a slight picture of a cemetery, would you not think there was occasion for apprehension? Later the woman who saw this sight in the glass brightly is reported to have gone to the city to which the clergyman had moved, found the man himself dying and recognized the very cemetery which she had seen while looking into the crystal. This notion of seeing the unseeable at times when the gaze is fixed upon a reflecting surface whose high lights are eliminated as far as possible is nnthinc new in history. As Prof. Hyslop discloses in his book on the metapsychical enigmas, this form of di'ination was known among the Greeks, who possessed polished and enchanted crystals in which future events were signified. He has also found traces of the practices of crys tal gazing in Assyria, Greece, Rome, China, Japan, India and possibly in some of the South Sea Islands. The use of a mirror or crystal ball has been noted among the Apaches of the western plains: they employ a crys tal to discover stolen property. Other tribes of Indians make their patients gaze into water in which they see pic tures of the food and medicine good for them. In Polynesia a hole is dug in the ground and as it fills with water the priest peers in to discover the authors of thefts. In India cas tor oil is held in the hand of a child and in the mirror thus formed float weird pictures of spirits and demons. Mrit r,f the stories of wonders ac complished by means of crystal gaz inir have come down on the basis of such testimony that they are regard-j , hi-itVip cripntisrs as tntercstinfir but unreliable. Xor are the modern manifestations held to belong neces carilv in the rpnlm of the mteer. The j saniy 10 ine reann mc v . J . . ... t,. Aicf ' ... c :rwio-n nThic'i r.r irnnu' pfffP. ne havs. w c imji ca .v-.-.- Wo I REMEMBER THESE PRICES ARE FOR CASH ONLY ROBINSON FURNITURE research is that strange things act ually do come before the mind at times, as a result of a concentrated gazing. There is no need of colling 'them supernatural; they are shnply supernormal. Oftentimes an impression made by some circumstance of years before and entirely erased from conscious memory reappears. An advertise ment in a newspaper, seen but not really noticed months before, will drift into consciousness. Prof, Hy slop cites the case of a woman living in Brooklyn who on looking into the crystal frequently had a vision of a bright blue sky, a garden with a wall fence and a peculiar chain pump in the garden. Later she went to her old home which she had not known since she was two or three years old and there, sure enough, were the chain pump, the wall fence and the bright blue sky. One of the internationally famous crystal seers is Mrs. Verrall, for sometime a lecturer at Newnham College, Cambridge, England, and known to the classical world as the translator of Fausanias. Mrs. Verrall has had many other entertaining phy chical experiences, some of which enter into the long-expected revela tions from Sir Oliver Lodge as to communications from the late F. V. H. Myers. THE LARGEST OF CRYSTALS As regards crystal gazing Mrs. Verrall has found a cut crystal, glo bular crystal, a glass paper weight or a glass full of water to be equally effective. She says she is most likely to see things when the light is dim. She has occasionally seen pictures in fairly bright light, but never in ab solute darkness. The practice is useful in Mrs- Verrall's case because he finds it a convenient way of re calling things she has forgotten. The picture once produced has a reality which she says she has never been able to obtain when looking into the tire or trying to call up an imaginary scene with eyes closed. Sometimes hc has practised automatic writing while looking into the crystal. The Countess of Radnor and Miss dood-rich-Frccr are other English women who have been susceptible of the ap paritions of the crystal. Without prejudice as to the origin of these visions or hallucinations Prof. Hyslop ami other writers of the psychical research literature, of which a new book by the secretary and founder of the Society for Phy chical Research is shortly to be issu ed bv the Small, Maynard publish- ing house, regard them evidently a- iiertaining particularly to acute sen- sihilitv of temperament. "The limits J - t wif "Rotary Shuttle Styles' "It Rums Light 35.00 $12.75 14.50 25.50 eif ifH ii ii .fi-i in MB if., .nrii i - i Cardiff Coal & Coke Go's StocK at $3.00 Per Share The Price of This Stock Will Positively Advance on Monday of Next Week THIS IS POSITIVELY THE LAST TIME THIS STOCK WILL BE OFFERED AT THIS PRICE. If you want any of it thin week, hand your application to J. C. Lee or C. II. Calender, or mail it direct to the Cardiff Coal Co.. Room 517 Chamber of Co mmerce. Portland, Oregon. Remember you can't buy it next Monday at $3.00 per share and wc are not going out of our way to sell it to you at that price this week. We will still continue calling attention to our coal until we have everybody in Astoria burning - CARDIFF COAL i actly where Locke placed tthem, namely normal sensat'on and per ception. Apparently the mind is sen sitive to much else, or we cannot de fine the limits of sense perception. However this may be, crystal visions and similar phenomena bring us to the forced admission that we have not yet made the mysteries of mind as clear as preceding generations sup posed." The preservation, at all events of such crystals as those at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts is an interest ing indication of the entwining of material and immaterial in the hist ory of art. 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