Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-07-30

OF wax flowers and other fancy articles.
Ane most remarkable of her work arc the
lsaVes she has cut. They are clipped
with the precision and regularity of ma
cnine work, are usually cut from velvet,
ana are then yeined with a white silk
thread. A pincushion of white aud pink
SATIN, ornamented with these leaves and
pearl beads, and adorned on the TOP with
dIminutiye slipper attached to the cush-
ion, and trinmed with the leaves. ia the
hsndsomest article of its kind we have
ever seen. She croches and kuits with
the greatest rspidity, and most beautiful
~, all manner of shawls, baby sacaues
and stockings. and embroiders on canvas
with more skill than any person in health
could do.
Her patience is as wonderful as her
taste is faultless, and in the artistic
blending of shades and colors she has no
superior. Were it not for her shrinking
timidity she might make this talent a
source of revenue to herself, and the
profits arising from the sale of such
handicraft would tend to relieve her
mind of the regret she has that she is a
care to her aunt.
IT Is NOT ALWAYS
that she can amuse herself with her work;
much of the time she lies motionless and
silent In warm weather she is not 80
comfortable as in winter, and the thunder
and lightning effect her keenly. The
noise of door shut loudly startles her,
and any atmospheric change is predicted
eetore it occurs, and generally causes her
to tremble violently.
IT Il NATURAL
that the great majority of the busy out
side world should deny the almost super
natural powers of this person; reasonable
that they shoGld judge of the conditions
and gifts of others by their own weights
and measures, but it is shameful to inn
pugn the veracity of the many who have
testified to her mental and physical pow
ers.
SHE Is CLAIRVoYANT,
is gifted at times with marvellous power
OF reading sealed letters, of foretelling
events, of predicting the coming of per-
sons, and of describing the personal ap-
pearance of individuals she has never
seen.
In the years to come, when science
shall have superseded superstition, and |
common sense illuminated religion, the
case will be understood and explained.
To those who have breadth of mipd to
see and perceive great truths she Is an in
teressing study, proving beyond doubt
the existence of mind independent of mat
Ter.
WHAT THAT CHILD
sees, and hears, and experiences, it is i'm |
possible to know. Her spirit is not able !
TO commune with the outer world clearly, |
confined as it is to her body, and yet it is |
nevertheless go much stronger than the |
material thai she cannot control its action. |
When in trance it is with the beings of |
another sphere, and when by the still |
strong cord of life it is recalled, and she |
Is cognizant of what is going on around |
her, the body is capable of much mental
exercise.
She is the least material of any living
human being, and her spiritual percep-
tons are therefore clearer and more dis |
tinct. What is dormant in others is in
tensely developed in her, and the vail that
the visible and invisible world |
has been rent by her partially enfran-
chised spirit.
Though she is hopelessly blind, abe yet !
possesses the faculty of sight, and, as an |
instance of her quickness of perception, |
q chair was about being moved by a Wis |
itor, which was broken, when she showed |
signs of alarm, and by her motions and |
efforts to speak, called the attention of |
her aunt to the fact. Then the aunt re-
membered that it had been broken only a
day or two before.
HER FEELINGS
are acute, and she is alive to the contra |
dictory views held by ply sicians in regard |
to her case yet she il hopeful and at |
times happy, though she has had heavy |
sorrows to bear, apart from her physical !
sufferings. She recognizes the fact that
her misfOrtunes have fitted her for the
perfect bliss of higher life, and she longs
with intense desire for the change that in
the twinkling of an eye shall release her
from the body, and render transformed
the deformed.
AND sHE is
q warning to Others, and her condition |
should be a lesson to those who would |
urge forward immature children. Per- |
haps long life of usefulness would have |
been the portion of this poor child, but |
for the mistaken ideas of her teachers and |
others. She was gifted with much talent,
and is cultivation was continued long |
after the inroads of disease had untitled |
her for any kind of effort, and most of |
al for mental work. She erred through
ignorance then, and the world is guilty
Of the same weakness to day in denying
her the possession of the same mind she
was once spplauded for developing. Her
body is distorted thing, the victim of
her too powerful intellect. The one is all
but dead to us; the other is strong and
clear, and rapidly unfolding for another
existence beyond the confines of this
world.
GRACE GREENWOOD, writing about the |