The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-02
CALvE IS A THEOSOPHIST.
TFrom the New York SUM- sum, . ~

From the New York SUM-
theosophy. Neither did the Sun reporter;
Calve took the subject too seriously, ana
enough Then, too, there was a large
leather screen between them BY one ne
French through a thick screen, to an IN
visible but melodious voice Whlcn Is Is Iry
bino, the difficulties Of tbs situation can
hardly be understood. Moreover NINE,
Calve has most ingenious eone ario-.ts
less than seven feet tail. In the Dig
drawing room of her apartment at S Sner-
RVS she has a carved oak chair, OF form
idable feudal aspect. Its back towers cell
ingward and the seat follows the pack
The late iamented Cardiff giant might
possibly have been at ease in It. There
a tradition that Plancon can SIT IN II ana
touch his toes to the floor. But Flanc9 IN
has been king so often. and IS SO uSed 70
feel quite at home in his fellow singers
chair. The Sun reporter d1dn T. she SWUNG
her feet, and wondered, ldly, Wne es9iNit
Calves companion and maid had expniciit
Instructions to run every unweicorne Nlsl-
tor into that PARTICULAR II, fhaiT The anu nF rToP
donnas smile was sweet and her man
ner was winning, but unoerheaLin +Il..l
velvety exterior might Turk relentless
YES, am theosophists" the voice s9
behind the screen announced IN muslcal
tones, but I do not like to talk about It.
As a singer I belong to the public. II IS
my meter, the singing, ana you say what
iigion-that is quite another affair Even
an opera singer has a soul and would
like to find the truth about spiritual
things. 1 am not clever; but | nave az, az
ways longed for some fo9nd pI if f e
theosophy and SO I believe in It That Is
lis it recent, this conviction. Nine.
What do you call recent? I have been
years Years Long before that I was interested
in oceultism. l am busy but peaa ana
me tremendously. 1t is a great regret TO
me that I never knew her. what mar mar.
velous womani How her books help one
to livei You see, do not tax ooct i.list:
] do not argue Among my ln n,,hIic
friends perhaps yet; o4t LOT LOT the to
explain the mysterious things Of life. 1t
would be absurd, pretentiousi Ior mes me 70
That such women as Nine. Blavatsky and
Nine Besant may do do do not ,, even 9 a
plain? But l believe
And your experience justifes your be-
"A thousand times. 1t is through per-
sonal experience as much as through rea-
periences that could be explained in no
other way; but no, I can not tell OF them.
That would be profanity, Mind. don't
saw that only theosophy holds the truth.
>Buddha, Christ, all the great teachers.
have seen the truth, and all the relig-
ions founded by them hold as much that
is beautiful and worthy OF study ana
faith. The feeling. for spiritualism, the
osophy occultism in all its forms, is
Stronger in Paris than here. You are
more practical. more conservative less
inpressionable, and. perhaps, you have
smaller coterie of what we call les
gems d esprit,'. find that in Paris most
Of the men ID esprit'-the men of brains
and feeling. the men of letters and the
psvchic phenomena, believe more or less
in spiritualism. Perhaps the artistic ma
ture is more highly strung, more sensi-
tive to Impressions than the average ma
ture and so is more susceptible to psy-
chical influences
At this juncture something went wrong
with the costume, and for the time be-
ing theosophy went to the wall, while the
singer grappied with problems purely ma
terial. The reporter realized that her
dangling feet had gone TO sleep. and, fol-
lowing a train of psychic suggestion, re-
membered that the only other time she
was ever in such fieshy torture was when