The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-09-11
WOMEN TELL OF DREAMS.
TTDINGs, VISIONS, WARNINGS THAT
CAME BY NIGHT.

Other Women Pronounced n Good One.
They we're talking OF dreams.
ut is quite rs impossible" said the woman
with the big gray eyes. ito pick a dream to
pieces. TO analyze and classify It as 1t would be
TO make a shirt waist out OF a pink cloud or TO
explain why q cream or white chrysanthemum
planted in with q clump Of red chrysanthemums
changes to red. Yet they are strange enough.
these presentlments. Incidents Of telepathy.
visions. dreams or what you will. Many that
are weird and wonderful have come under my
own observation. For instance. / knew OF a
woman who sat at her desk late one night I'm
ishing q letter TO a friend. She was dressed for
bed. but she added o hnsty postscript This
WAS the postscript:
Don't burn my letter II you love me. / have
the feeling that. II my letters are burned. l my
self shall some day meet with the same terrible
fate. How horriblel To be burned. TO be
burnedr
"She arose and stood before the crate. Her
long hair swept into the blaze aud caught. her
night dress caught and she was burned TO
death before they could burst open the door
which had been locked. They found her letter
on the table.
"That 1 know to be true. but this is my own
experience: A few years ago my mother-in-
law died at my house. The nurse and l were
with her. When we found there was no hope I
said to the nurse, i wish Won Herlich were
here Won Herlich was our rector-'she was
always a pious woman II only he we're here to
say a ~prayerI' and. k~neeling by her bed. I
watched her die. still longing for Won Herlich.
The next morning Won Herlioh came to the
house. He was amazed to see Grape on the
door. and he stammered as he told me his
dream of the night before. He dreamed that I
stood by him and said to him. There is some
body dying. l wish you could be here My
look was 90 troubled and my presence so
vivid that he awoke. BE looked at the clock.
1t was II, exactly the hour that, kneeling by
her side. / was wishing for him..
These are not cheerful dreams; but happy
people have few dreams and presentiments.
even as they have no histories. It is only In
trouble that signs and wonders present them
selves. in death and sickness and worry OF mind
and Of body. I knew OF a grandmother once
who lay dying. Her daughter, who lived q hum
bred miles away. could not be with her. She
sat at home by the cradle Of a very sick child.
Suddenly the grandmother attempted to rise.
She was assisted to a sitting posture by the
nurse. She was past speaking. but. raising a
trembling forefnger. she pointed upward. At
the same time her daughter. looking up at the
corner OF the room above the child head saw a
trembling foreGnger pointing straight down at
the cradle. The child and the grandmother
died that night at the sam hour.
"0f course all Of us have scores Of jumbled.
meaningless dreams. but a dream which leaves
a lasting impression generally carries with it
some warning or premonition. At least that
has been the case with me. One particularly
was a vivid warning. l was In Chicago, at the
to a close. and as usual l wrote to my servant,
an Irish woman by the name OF Mary. to get
f nish ho i SPea an gf@ 81 Mary. f0f + t hoy sfsuF + saw T her
in a common room without a carpet. She was
stretched upon a cheap iron bedstead. Her
Portable. 1 feltthat she had been hurt in some
hair was spread out on the pillow and her eyes
were elosed ID, Sde ia ap5PTea6Ee11 to oe IN q sort o,
t shfpip99T Cream 1 W eTeept hf that I P told * the ins next ! arG mornl
ing a breakfast t. my sIster
news awaited me. Mary. upon receipt Of my
letter, had gone to the house at once. She had
line in the back yard, and was preparing to
wax the floors, Ip her hurry she heated the
on the floors. over the gas burneref the kitchen
stove; Il was in q shallow pan: In taking the
her. The catastrophe Which FOLLOWED was ReoGr-
rible: 80 horrible that even now l cannot bear
went to her home. There was the bare
floor Of my dream, the iron bedstead and Mary
lying on It. her hands bandaged with white
head had not been burned. Her hair lay on the
her features wore a look that was almost calm.
produced by the drugs that had been given her
me until / was on the verge OF nervous pros
~tration. and. to make matters worse. my friends
swarrm nee ,G about g me relating similar u n incId S,TdS
with, poor. screaming creatures fleeing from
the flames. When, later. gave up the house.
terrible visions OF the burning woman"
It appeared that the subject of presentiments
was q special hobby with the gray-eyed
- It is. a common thing with me- she con-
in sympathy and to receive a letter from him
written on the same day. often at the same
s s9ST; u t Haief I he Sa TtSG discassee fdsfii IN my Tee Iet: sa% to
him. In some mysterious way our minds have
crossed the realm OF space, dividing US and
again dreamed of places l have never seen. Wis
tied them afterward and been reminded OF my
Strang things, seemingly trivial. constantly
happen to me. have a little girl at boarding
PASSED PASSED a shoe store. and stopped %T TO Sf look R'm in the
ggiI sn@dff Call SIhihH her sis eGe. Be b T Sesd fSSu 70 time me ior
waiting for me. Il was II from 81 She said her
shoes we're worn. to %tatters. and, she must have
another pair. 1t quite startled me, though |
would have been still moro startled If she had
written without asking me. for, something or
suddenly ILL.,"
A fair young woman with hair OF a Titan
bUuuO commonly Cdlleu Teu Dekdn TO J6Il nef
story. She was q widow. Her black gown
beautifully accumulated the pearliness Of her
when my husband was H." she said, IT
took care OF him myself, sitting up with him
night after night. Just about dawn on the day
before he died, exhausted from the want OF
sleep. dropped on into a dose, l dreamed
then that | stood at the foot OF a long light of
stairs. He was half way up and L was trying to
follow him. Try az would gould mott but
looking up l saw a woman STANDING at the head
of the stairs holding out her hand to him.
He YEARLY mounted the remaining steps.
took her hand and they disappeared together.
l called to him to wait for me-, but, he seemed
not to listen. He did not turn his head. l
sank at the foot OF the stairs weeping. Iawoke
copvulsed with sobs. He was so very III that 1
did not tell him OF my dream, but Later in the
dream was at dawn. you see-he said his
mother came to him and held out her hand:
stairs. He climbed the stairs. took her hand
and went with her somewhere. he could not
tell where exactly. but II was along a road into
a very beautiful county. That night he went
the way OF his, DREAM