Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-07-12
THE MISSES BOWMAN
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inquiry are directed towards abnormal
mental phenomena, instead of the mere
increduiity which most of US can re-
member so well, new danger arises
to beset any rational investigation into
this fascinating field. A
We are apt to hear only those
stories of prescient impression which
ate rounded of artistically generally
to an end of calamity or death. &
The consequence is that the health
ier minds are repellsd from the whole
subjeet and 1t is relegated to the
gloomy and morbid.
Others, wholesomely refusing ,"to
meet trouble ha.f way, strive to resist
any impression that presses upon
them, feeling only that it probably
'bodes no good
If anyone is inclined to question my
statement let him moot the matter of
thought-reading, dreams, ETC., in the
first little neighboriy assembly lin
which he joins. = ~ 13 ~ - < = J.
If his friends know no more of
mental phenomena than is to- be
gathered from newspapers, general
Conversation, ETC., he will find they
instantly divide into two parties.
The dreamy, sickly and fanciful of
the group are sure 'there is something
In it, and each will produce his little
tale of foreboding or warning.
The bright healthy and practical
will say there is very little in it, and
what there is mere disease, to be re,
pressed in silence and got rid of as
soon as possible. $50 n1vti@. F.
This is not the way in which un-
known facts can be ever rightly
weighed and correlated. r.,
IT we leave the investigation of
mental phenomena to weak, forebod-
ing minds it is only the mental pheno-
rnena Of weakness and fear that can
ever come to light. -
IS 1t has often seemed to those who
have looked with some care into the
strange facts of insight and foresight
which life occasionally throws up to
the surface, that few are so interesting
as those which remain inexplicable; the
stories which have no artistic end; and
which seem to reveal the existence of
law generally working in secret, but
always operative. without any stimulus
from fear, sorrow, love or emotional
disturbance Of any kind sfFEtE
think [ will try to tell one such
story now. 1t is an experience of my
own girlhood. .aa.t l.......s.s.. \.
1t is necessary, therefore, that /
should strive to set myself and my
surroundings before my reader aai
was the youngest of our family;
and with many years Intervening be-
tween myself and the sister next me in
age, was the constant companion Of
my eldest sister. cheerful and in
tensely matter of-fact person. sa..
My favored friend in those DAYS was
a boy-cousin about two years my
senior, and naturally at his then age, a
very unromantic individual, who de-
livered his opinions and advice In an
uncompromising, brotherly fashion.
It can be readily understood that in
these circumstances though l was not
at all a. solitary child, yet I had an
interior life which was solitary. .
1 was in the habit of weaving long
stories in my own mind, which l
carried on for days together, and
whose outward expression was never
in manuscript, but in strange carica,
ture-like drawings which l did in rows
with lines between, after the style of
Egyption hieroglyphics. 4a
My home was in the heart of Lon
don, in the centre of interests of every
kind; historical, political, picturesque
and tragic. Access to the country
was not as easy then as now, and I
saw very little of it, always walked in
the parks for two or three hours
every day. EHEff# 66s8
I was never out Of doors without an
attendant of some kind, my eldest
sister being my usual companion. I
was never taken to the theatre, or in
dulged in late hours either of night or
morning.
Ihad plenty of interesting books of
every kind; but the only novel proper
which l had read was The Heart Of
Midlothian, which | had found, with
out titlepage or authors name, in the
house of relatives old servant, and
of which l had eagerly devoured every
word, quite undaunted even by the
legal dryness of Mr.. Saddlstree.
received my education at morn
ing school for girls. f j r. g3f
a Education then was 9 simpler thing
than 1T is now; but in organization,
discipline, etc., either that school must
have been superior to its contempor-
aries, or the modern improvements on
these lines need not be boasted of; for
in them have never seen it surpassed
scarcely equalled.
Igot on well with all my teachers;
was great favorite with two of them.
My pet subjects were drawing and
history, and I gained many prizes
I.generaily had one favored asso.
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