Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-04-18
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Part of boston.
From the New Orleans Times Democrat.

From the New Orleans Times Democrat.
Boston, like Paris, has its Latin quarter,
where the most interesting things happen.
There is a seml-Bohemian region in which
are located several studio buildings and
other artistic or semi-literary headquar-
tiers, which is a part of the city that Is
very much alive. On the new land, the
buildings all new, il is yet adjacent and
adjoining the old part of the city. 1t is
not distant geographically, from the fash
ionable residence portion; it is within half
dozen blocks of Commonwealth avenue,
Of Beacon street, but while these thorough
fares are monotonously quiet, with the
decorous rows OF private residences, broken
now ard then by an apartment hotel that
Nies with The palaces in luxurious fitting
up this artistic Latin-like quarter abounds
IN students, who pour out of club rooms or
restaurants in great numbers: with artists
men ana women, who perhaps live in their
STUDIOS, make their matutinal coffee over
a gas stove, and dine at the students res
taurant; in lecturers, in the followers and
practitioners of occult science and mental
hcallng-ln spiritual mediums-what YOU
Will
You will. perhaps be accosted on the
sidewalk by neatly dressed woman. with
refined courtesy Of manner, who offers you
a card bearing the legend Divine Science
Home. You may be favored with a copy
OF the Prognostic Star GaZer; you may lie
gently entreated to attend a lecture on
He 'JCieHCe VI creation FROM the STAND
point of Vibration" or be invited 10 a
course on "Psycho-Physics;" you NAV he
asked IL you understand mental chelnis-
try; you may be informed OF the private
lectures given by Sid Mohammed Tabier;
you may be invited to the home Of Rest
Recuperation and Regeneration or lie
privileged to enter into the mystic atmos-
phere of the ''OrientaI Circle" where YOU
will listen 10 discouIses on the Gods Of
Egypt and the Book of the Dead" The
Mahabharata and the Ramayana" or Re
incarnation and the Nedas." Lecturers in
this quarter discuss such topics as Primal
Force THE Bondage of Mortal Sense"
and What Is peath2' A daintIly goWDel
young woman in a club parlor in this re-
gion was asked if she believed in thought
transference
''Oh, 1 am far beyond that" she replied.
airily; Il am in the sphere of intense Vi
brations." There is one house where it's
fair mistress prCclaims herself the
daughter of the Druids," and where she
gathers a circle OF the faithful about her
on afternoons and lectures to them on
symbolism" She has a room fitted I'D
with maps and charts Of the most extraor-
binary description. The signs OF the 20
diac; the supposed aspect of the universe
at different periods of creation; TepreSen-
tations of the stages of evolution in man.
and other strange signs and designs. OF
which L have not, alas! grasped the mean
ing.
All this is the picturesque region Of Ros-
ton. 1t is very much alive, and IS indcs.l,
an atmosphere of intense vibra lions"
Here congregate artists to whose mind
views on impressionism and realism con-
stitute a legitimate casus belli, over which
they wrangle as the elder theolog!ans of
New England did over original sin and
REORGANIZATION.