The sun., 1899-05-01
THEOSOPHY OFTWOBRANDS
4 LITTLE TAME HERE-PICTUREsoUE
IN CALIFORNIA.
Here They Don't Think Much of Kitty Ting
Icy, but She Made Things Lvelier-A
Commonplace Session in Lyric Hall
While Sha Ia Mnllnr Rnxnl PrnGreaaaa.

Here They Don't Think Much of Kitty Ting
Icy, but She Made Things Iivelier-A
Commonplace Session in Lyric Hall
While She Is Making Royal Progresses.
That fragment OF local theosophy which has
abjured Kitty TinGley and all her works and
gone into business on its own account held
public meeting at Lyric Hall last night. Tho
public at the meeting vas about $50 strong
and it took it's theosophy straight in consecu-
tive doses. Mr. John NJ. Pryse ofilcated as
chief Yogi for the evening.
After four young girls named Neidhart had
performed some pleasant music on string in
struinents Mr.. Pryse arose and announced
that unfortunately two Of the expected speak
ers were suffering from bad colds and were too
sick to he Ill. seeming paradox which ap-
peared to be satisfactory to the theosophic
mind. As the first speaker Mr.. Pryse intro
duced Mrs. Vera Johnston. niece OF the late
Nine. Bavatsky. founder and patron saint OF
modern theosophy. Mrs. Johnston revealed
herself as tall. blond woman. who wore
what appeared to be either a lreman's Jacket
or n golf coat with black front. and who
spoke in mildly broken English. She ia
one Of the most deliberate speakers that ever
stood on public stage. When she got warmed
UP to her subject she spoke as rapidly as thirty
words a minute. but most OF the time she
didn't make anything like that time. How
ever. she expressed hope that she was
attaining some meaning" and as her audi
ence arplauded her. she probably was. She
didn't tell much about her aunt. on the ground
that revelations regarding the departed lady
would merely serve to crafty an unworthy
Next came delightfully."- plump and youthful
Fred Flint. =, Mr.. Flint doesn't speak much
faster than Nine BIavatskys niece bpt he has has
orator He fires of his words in pairs and
after each shot he pauses and looks around to
see he's baeEs4 mnrh M Fns
the White Lotus Theosophcai Society
rhen to sRow how
sn he to let bots se chs M6
10Th 18th isF barre s. aH He S also took % pot shot at
Kitty Tngley's theosophists. who. he said.
hs ,D sWn
of theosophy.h he enunciated some lofty senti;,
mentss about Karma great many people had
orisins proHosition put BY the sphinx. Mr.;
last night that k1rma was easy. and then gave
n definition of it that caused wan and groping
to the facial asPsgt Of
failure to understand which inspired him to
remark with cynical iconocasm Immediately
We mg9st.,seknoowledGe that-we're not
mTGn G2olf % lnafer az brnl" On hs bsarsrs
by delivering q few charges on the subject Of
the responsibility Of COLLECTIVELY and. when
qST sbsd who would
were at. Some musi ic by Miss Cecilia Bradford
they recovered they began to escape. pre-
sTmasby Win ytsnton yISw to giving pro
twenty had reached the door when Miss
n sS6 Mss wSo
is a determined-looki person with rather
handsome face and grayish hair stood silent
then she began with the highly pertinent 2. 0b.
world, People were always in hurry to get
everything even religion. she said; but no re-
bennfs eFs got the feo al
she said. What she chiefly pleaded for WAS
frankness that everybody should say Just
"rm dissIsted with these people who are
That audience Strengthened up as II some
body had introduced universal pin In the seat
al approval pr SHip upon H Miss StabIer ''' '' 1
We'll" said She II mean the G goody-good
She finished up by asking with pathetic in
tonaton why We couldn't all be good naturally
and without trying. a query which is al
to ehen to sSs
Spirit OF Justice. embodied in the, mother
% Hs sT 9nF R G% St si]s :
query or locked as Il there here as Tas any necessity
OF the hall had 10 be paid the hat would be
passed around. and from the AUDIENCE &c came the
OF a long -pondered problem;
-. Oh, that's what he meant by the RESPONSE
blity Of COLLECTIVELY !"
MIR. Pryse then made his speech on the AT
tainment Of Divine Powers" the four young
girls played again and it was all over, This
particular branch of thcosophy won't hold any
more meetings until next iail
FLoURIsHING KITTY T1NGLEY
Mrs Kitty Tingley is still holding her. post
@ % the aanf OF Of h the Tbs
her congress" that she has been holding at
OF the school for the Revival Of the Lost Mys.
terics OF AntiGuity. where she rededicated'
ago. hut has never had comranion laid near
II. IL she is asked when she intends building
The she rse i whGG is lSG hs that 9ssS ss5
has been raised Tor the purpose.
While attending the congress at Point Iona
ings we're held She drove over at each meet
s team m Of al &ps tsf hoses She dressed in
o9s Ts ns y be 81 eyf ana
With WITH the " word % "i.oyaty" oval on It. S' 10 one % was
a9wcd to address her g she went a al3bpg ,b but
OF the grounds Ia largo triumphal archl by her
cabinet. with uncovered heads. and at tnat
moment four trumpeters. stationed on the
prayer tower IAN old well derrick. sounded to
universal brothe rhood. Preceded by the Pres
ident. Mr.. Neresheimer, she entered the
auditorium and ascended the PLATFORM the
new title has been conferred upon her.
Our Lady Of Compassion" Her cabinet"
speak OF her thus: and in a speech at the
congress Mr. Pierce remarked that our
mother" thinks that my speech VII be too
A lady visitor to the meetings was expelled
from the grounds for not showing as much
rayarApcA for tho adaDt n q the OthAra