The sun., 1903-09-19
MAMMA MYSIERIA IS HERE.
HER PRESS AGENT rs ST. PETER
REINCARNATE, HE SAYS.

FIFTY Peters Pence Price OF Admission to
This Singular Show Matthew ana
Mark Absent at Roll Call-DOubtinS
Thomas Out Of TOwn-Luke Drops In
Led by the Holy Ghost, in the sympathy
OF Heaven, in the fear Of God, Mamma
Mysteria. a trembling one, greets the world.
that greeting should be met with by the
tenderest affection and gratitude.
This together with lot Of other verbal
trash covering good sized page of printed
matter, means to convey the modest propo-
stion that one Augusta Sherk, the daughter
Of citizen of Brooklyn now living at l52
Lawrence street announces herself to dis
eliminating public as the Saviour returned
to earth as the precursor OF the now near
at hand millennium. She Furthermore an
nounces herself as Mamma Mysteria, Jesus
Christ the head of the Church OF the Holy
Spirit" Perhaps it would be nearer the
exact fact to say that Mamma Mysteria's 8
business agent, c. A. Sylvester so an
nounces her, for Mr.. Sylvester says that
Mamma herself does not advertise-that 1t IL
he who gets out the circulars.
Mr.. Sylvester, 1t may be said in passing,
is st. Peter reincarnate. Anyway he has
charge of the gates to the houses in which
Manna-familiarly called Nanny by the
disciples-appears. He not only has the
keys, does Peter, but he keeps sharp eye
out for the pence 1t costs fifty Peters
pence to get by the gate when you want to
get out Admission Is free; it is getting out
| that costs. Peter blandly but firmly informs
YOU at the critical moment OF exit that
.something has to be collected for expenses
and that half dollar. coin OF the republic,
J is the size OF the tax.
! Mamma and Peter have hired hall in
Manhattan borough where there are meet
| iups on Sundays and where the tax Is only
! rs cents. But over "at residence AZ the
! hand bill styles it, at e82 Nostrand avenue
! BROOKLYN, Peter ia resolute in the position
that fifty is the number Of the pence re-
auired to hear Mamma
+. A reporter for The Sun paid Peter the
requisite pence last evening and WAS ad'
mitted to a back parlor Of small frame
! house. There we're some Japanese fans
on the wall a picture or two. among them
a orayon blasphemy purportlng TO repre-
sent the Saviour; a number OF stralGht
| backed kitchen chairs along the wall ant
couple Of gas jets burning IN broker
| globes. Seven persons besides Peter were
] IN the room waiting for Mamma to appear
Peter, who is prepossessing young man
! apparently in the thirties, entertaln lnee
the company during the wait with som'
personal "reminiscences OF supernatural
| character.
NV tongue was touched with prophecy
was speaking in Congregational chur,
| in Minnea polls at the time. heard thu
sound of nv own voice, but did NOT know
what l said I was informed afterwart
that read long article that was I" appeal
in the 81. Paul Pioneer Press eighteen year
later and that | predicted the Galveston
disaster The newspaper article appearet
exactly as read it and l was IN the Gal
vest on disaster and was miraculollsly pre-
served. | have a number of friends am
acauaintances among the angels ana the
tell me that I look exactly as Peter dld II
Heaven before he was relncarnated n me
at is only six years since the S4Vioii
came back to earth in the person of Mama
The Saviour was only 80 years old whe
| He departed from earth and some say
will be twenty-four years more. now ina
!! he has come back. before the mlileniui
comes. Personally l do not think 1t wi
be so long" ,,
Among those present waiting for Mann
was an elderly man with long 10 TO ! wins
kers. He was one of the Twelve Apostle
reincarnate.
II don't think Matthew, Mark and job
will be able to be with us tins evening
continued Peter, "but am rather lookln
for Luke. James, the son OF Iebedet
has an engagement elsewhere ] am Sort
TO say, and Stephen had to 60 down in Jerse
sotne where. Thomas the Doubter is ais
out of town -. ,,
, At this point well-bult httle W1na
) came into he room. Her black hair hun
loosely to her shoulders, framing a paIf
, strongly featured face. This was Manni
She shook hands all around and manlfeste e
much solicitude lest those present foun
themselves sitting in draughts. Peter helpe
: her to a rocking chair There was an - en-
harrassng pause, and Mamma told Pete
J she did not know what she was going 7
| do: that is, that no programme for IN
| evening had been supernaturalv imparte
, | to her. ....,>,,
One of the women present suggested
Y HYMN, and Peter led Off with dismal re
a ! frain in which the rest joined. While
. was going on Mamma writhed and grima, e
- and wandered around the room for VIII
. !. and then broke into a general haranRue
! which she announced herself as the Savlou
u After that she went to each person preseI
, in turn, seized him by the hand and ac
- dressed to him string OF conversation
/ which vibration and atmosphere ni
u ,red a good deal, but which conveyed Il
|
!, that the higher up the spirits were II
a worse rubbi-h-as it appeared to o'r gro
i intelligence--they talked.
a After the Mama mysteries performan'
n various other spirits took possession
n the medium and, Judged by Peters e'
/. planation, they must have been on We, w
!, elevated spirit planes indeed, for the rll
i bsh they gahbled certainly was OF q
y astonishing degree Of Stiffness. Peter r.
ligiously wrote down all the rot that WI
uttered on big writing pad he had on h
knee He said he had book of 1t that WI
r abigger than the Bible and good De
deeper One of the few coherent spiri
who came on deck was George Barne
a who irreverently called the apostle vii
Y the whiskers Grandpa" and Santa Claus
v and incidentally told THE Sun report
y that II he said in the paper that the she
s was a fake" he, the reporter, would &
d it in the neck" in addition to suffering &
r, further inconvenience Of having "his he'
Al caved in"
d ATTEMPTED SUICIDE on A a.