The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-01

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- ~ somebody else. II seems TO
- ae popular as foliage hats or
" tucked shirt waists. No family
-, regard for its social position
w" .,ser,pt 10 go through the summer
r,.so,r entertaining one or more rem
ssrnated souls
co.. 49, q A girl in Boston who claims TO
~ -etncarnation OF Plato. OF course,
y ps,,o wanted to come back 10 earth
Ls,n he would naturally make oee-hne
ss aga, but what has ne been doing in
'ol .'as,a ~ spirits 70 condemn him to re-
tns ssrth as n woman? Anybody who
VIZ "a into theosophy bit knows that
~ ,,asc,,ljne souls are punished by being
~. int feminine bodies, and that II you
- 40 M blck to be created feminine at
~ harlnn,ng Of your psychic career 1t
49, thousands of years OF noble living
s.,o-. you can lay claim 10 the dignity OF
sssrn,ne the masculine form. IL would
~. .vidant that Plato must have been
aetsriorating since the Gays "heh ne was
go N the society gentlemen Of Athens"
II heard schoolboy call him once. And
= s,a examine the Platonian utterances
ssoh he Boston girl put forth in her
,.srs and which form the largest part OF
-, credeutisls as II were, you VIII md
~ marked evidences OF deterioration
s,.f as YOU do in the communications from
~ Shakespeare which are made at va
,so,s times to various spirtualistie me
dtuns. oh. dear Isn't It a funny world?
r :.
THen there n a farmer down in Della
.sye who claims to be the reincarnation
A Lob. but who, thus far, has been UNI
s.,s to bring forth documentssto prove 1t,
"a myself have met plain, domestic
,o.t,re little lady the kind that you want
4. ~ NJ first sight for her recipe for soda
BISCUITS. who believes that the soul OF
Velen Of Troy lives again In her mortal
eoil-i, must be something OF mortfica-
t,or 10 Helen. but then the mink deserves
n-and one OF my friends has promised to
take me to call on the nineteenth century
embodiment Of Cleopatra
Also there Is woman in Paris Just
now who b attracting great deal OF at
tentlon from the scientists. She has SOM
usu,bulistic fits In which she remembers
me things that have happened In her
ofher uveS She recalls her name and
her manner OF life in the days of Marie
Antoinette-of course she could easily
make that upland she also had a career
IN India long ago, and when she remem-
bers II she can speak Sanskrit and Arabic
Ausntly though In her own proper person
she knows nothing Of either language, and
L not possible to pick up smattering
o. them IN rev AteffoOne- SHt hIsO
talks al times language no man has
ever heard OF. though IL II full of clearly
rticulsted sounds and constantly recur-
ring words. She also writes this tongue
N peculiar characters which do not vary
and the pretty superstition advanced about
II Ia that she was once a Marian or an
inhsbltant Of some other planet who has
drifted into our world. who knows how.
= = =
II Is all awfully interesting, of course.
md IN the case OF the woman In Paris II
may possibly mean something, though, as
there have been one or two recorded cases
somewhat similar In which epilepsy was at
she root OF the manifestations, 1t Is Just
- we'll not to bank too absolutely on any
tfansmlgrat!on theory because OF this evil
dsace until We know a little more about
H.
But the thing that strikes me most
forcifay shout the other alleged relncar-
mated folk Is. how deadly tired of them
sslvss they must be before they can be
wiling to entertain the idea that their
bodies are harhorlng such old, old souls
fsscntbafe, experienced torn-to-tatters
oals Personally should resent the idea
extremely that |. Prudence wintergreen,
vas aETinw about with me the soul OF
Helen OF Troy. a graceIess creature, with
nothing IN the world but her looks to rec
cmrnsnd he7 Think of being woman
WIN such past For one thing. she
would require too much discipline
Shouldn't want TO 20 through the training
heeh ought 10 have TO fit her to be an
tnssl y, Wintergreens training is as
maca as can stand My soul Is a poor
'ahs out u Is mine own. II had to
tsks either at second hand. should prefer
poqy Imagine II H. a more plastic
tang
The fact Il that relncarnatlon Is being
worked little just now. as n laf,or-
m'iag dodge, by the people who want
soos ami dread the amount Of work there
holding on 60 and developing ones
~ JUST as socialism Is worked" by peo-
W sne want the comforts OF life with
~ Ssing willing TO hustle for them. ana
~ a. al the new metaphy fads and
piet-a-auarier substitutes for the
49, aeifines 0f the fathers are being
$3.50 hy people who are unwilling 10 40
'aef own thinking
p r.
y sAeri, this T. the day Of ready-maae
ueshes gerry built houses sumner-schooi
sH0s.s ana hatgHin- counter philoso-
ihefe never have been 40 many
sFsp substitutes Tor the real thin, sinre
nefid began. There are merits I'm i'm
e" Aee ana bottled maVonnaiae-au
wv oeViees are not necessarily bad
esii-rsspeotlnU human bclng ought
IAN me linc az admitting ren.iy-nade
nsehs and secondhand souls n L. ret
sven to be Mr Edwari W. uck and
,lAt, Than 70 BE- the reincarnatlon
nAssss Anreitus For " one Is an ola
Vae mas been sifted tested ONES
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\. ~ ~ end 81 ones capabilities. and
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49,. tns heaviest Stone mechanically ean
~ A. man 60 tell him he 4 "A the
% q bis nature ~ '"e
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y, neN bat DON'T seem 20 rSn,srn-
sxss,.s staf words. may he the mos,
eiassom humanity has evsr -,
me very YEAST you MAJ, >.
40 creation as To he ase In avoI
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