The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-08-14
A Chat by the Sea With
Mrs. Richard ]. Hinton

| to her little ones through toll, prayer
and aspiration. She brought them. up
nobly. Six Of them are living. filling
honorable places In the world, q credit
| to her. themselves and society. The
mother gave her life to them SO long
as they needed her.
But meantime during all the years
| while they were growing around her
| and gradually dropping into their
places she had thoughts and visions OF
| an existence all her own In which she
could develop talents she knew she pos
essed. She was well educated and
longed to write. The wave of inter-
| est in occultism and physiological
| science which IL still at Its flood be-
gan to draw her into it's current. She
| began to study mysticism and the pow
| er of mind and spirit over the body.
| she felt sure there were more facul-
| ties In human soul than man has yet
developed. It is somewhat strange.
but I find that perhaps o majority of
| the women who do things are students
Of the ocult lore or mind and spirit.
They say such studies help them I'M
mistakably.
Many Of these women who do things
also have mental experne$ces out of
the ordinary, happenings that are Wv
idly remembered ever after. Once Mrs.
Hinton herself lay in an apparently
lifeless safe three days and would
have been buried alive only for a wo-
men friend who insisted that she was
not dead. When she came back to OUT
ward consciousness she seemed to her
| self to have visited other sources. those
| described by Swedenborg as soul cir
cles. She brought back with her to
| the earth consciousness powerful
impression Of help and Inspiration az
| forded in the invisible to mortals who
are striving to live the truest. highest
life they know. This impression has
| remained with her ever since.
When Isabel Hanks began her psy-
Geological studies and her writing she
contributed tsories and sketche 8 to
| magazines and newspapers And just
about that time came along Colonel
Richard Hinton. with his sombrero and
bearded face and his brave, tpue soul.
She attracted him. he attracted her.
and they were married. And after that
Isabel gave up her life to her hus-
band as before she had given It to her
children, Little cared Richard Hinton
for occultism and mysticism. He was
stepped to the lips in plans for help
ing the living, throbbing, material man.
kind he saw all about him, and his
wife dropped her plans for his.
Colonel Hinton was identified with
the labor movement; Mrs. Hinton be-
came identified with 1t too. ALI they
had, their time. strength and such
wealth as they possessed they gave to
1t, in company with John Swinton and
some others. Wherever words were to
be said for liberty and prosperity for
all, there up spoke Richard Hinton;
there went with him his wife as his
silent partner. silent to-, the outer
world. but helping grandiy behind the
scenes. Colonel Hinton was the close
friend and platform associate Of Susan
b. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
and Lucretia Mott. ~
OF the famous women who do things
Mrs Hinton has at one time or anoth-
err met nearly all in America and Great
Britain. One of Mrs. Hinton's friends
In England Is Mrs T. p. O'Connor. OF
American women engaged in active
life in London none Is more sought af-
ter than Mrs. OConnor, who Is really
the chief writer on m. A. p" MAINLY
About People). Mrs. O'Connor was
Miss Pascal. a gifted American actress
whom T. p. OConnor met In Washing
ton and fell in love with. She Is as
brilliant and popular in London liter
airy society as she formerly was on the
stage. a pretty woman with a singuu-
larry magnetic manner. Her play,
Ano Aauy from TeXaBs made great
hit in London. then went to Australia.
1t satirizes the British aristocracy, who
have the good sense to be amused at
It.
But OF the women MrsHinton knows
well none seems to her so remarkable
as Clara Barton. founder and builder
OF the Red Cross in America. II there
really are any such beings as the
adopts" Of oriental philosophers, then
Clara Barton comes very near being
one. She seems to need little food or
sleep. works all the time and appears
never to grow weary During the Red
Cross Investigations last winter law
yers and witnesses. young men In the
prime OF health and vigor. were worn
out before the case was finished; Miss
Barton remained calm. unworried and
unwearied to the end Her hair at the
age of seyenty-four is dark and album
dant. She has the power and will of
an eagle. At night. while others sleep,
Clara Barton sits at her desk and
writes and plans. She has recently
published'a book, much of which is au-
photographed. she Is a born organ
izer Of large affairs. and her executive
ability is most surprising to those who
know her best.
Poor Lucy Parsarizs the fiarv arraffo