The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-14
HAS A GAY SPIRIT WIFE.
CHICAGO MAN BUYS ORNAMENTS
FOR SEANCE MEDIUM.

Thinks He Has Astral spOuse-she
Rides Bicycle, Wears Costly
SILK Gowns, and Shoes Made TO
Order-The Man Thinks She Was
Luther's Wife 800 Years Ago, and
Her Figure Is the Same as the
Medium's-She Is "A Clever Magi-
cian-Catherine Grasping Spirit.
From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
THAT silk dress 1 got for my wife S
Christmas present is beauty" remarked
a gray-halred man to his friend as they
stood in front Of a window on State street
"Why err stammered the friend, II
didn't know that you were married"
The gray-haired man, up to six months
ago, was manager for one of the largest
corporations in Chicago. Now he is drift
ing about, out of work. and aging a year
with each month. He lives on the South
Side. and his name is Ralph Rounds. or
SO near that that it will serve.
well, a good many people don't know
it. but 1 am. My wife is Catherine for
merly the wife of Martin Luther" Rounds
said to his friend, firmly.
mot much. Catherine is my spirit wife
and I've talked to her every day for four
years She goes bicycle riding with me
and eats a box of chocolate creams a
week.
Rounds is the victim of spirit medi-
UNI, and his story is one of the most pa
thetic and yec ludicrous in the history of
ba an of l,a
in spirits of an unearthly sort.
The graft" which an up-to-date spirit
medium has is one of the most inexplica-
BILE things to a man who is mean enough
to stretch his legs out and let the ghosts
stumble over them at seance, and the
Rounds case Is a story in point
on the south side, near Fortv-second
street and Cottage Grove avenue. is one
of the shrewdest Undertaking. mediums
in Chicago She lives in a modern brick
house, and the business she carries on is
so exclusive that she does not hang ont
professional sign. Nobody is admitted
to her seances until they have given ref
erences This precaution prevents scandal
Nobody at Mrs Gillens circles has ever
seized the ghost and found the medium
and nobody investigates the cabinet. Moth
ing about her house smacks very much
of charlatanry-at 10 O'clock in The morn
luS. Inc cClHHlke smells and lilac OdOrs
are kept for Wednesday and Sunday GO
ances There are bits of expensive brie-a-
brac, china clocks and handsome rugs.
Catherine n Grasping Spirit.
In the gas grale are pieces of match
ends and cigar ashes. Under the olush-
covered chairs in the corners of the mar
lor dust lies thick on the hardwood foor
and two spirit paintings" hang In the
walls. These are the only indubitab,a
signs Of spirltualism visible in the middle
OF the morning. Mrs Gflen has had
Rounds on her striHg for about fonr
years Twice a week he goes there 90
talk with a 1Tgifg III u trailing ~11ritz-
sheet who announced to him that she Is
his spirit wife Catherine. the nun who
married Martin Luther over 300 years ago.
Catherine is one of the most crashing
ghosts who ever came out of the spirit
world. No loving woman ever DISPLAYED
more mercenary qualities or more de-
cided taste for hnery She has an inor-
dinate love of silk frocks and sealskin
coats. Rounds buys the finest OF these 10
be had. ready made, some of them Paris
importations. Fortunately IL is easy to
get fit because Catherine is just the size