The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-12
and Diagnose Ailments.

,.tv.a.I o. do other work wuch her peculiar
,..,.- enable her 10 accomplish in an UNI
.Ie.v This work she has been doing
,.,.,I.ur.t Two years and she receives a rcgu-
lir-alry for it,
IDaa during an illness that her unusual
,,Ver- were discovered. She was attend
,..4 lusina.. college in the town when she
,,.. and as two Of her sisters were en-
,I.y,i IN the sGritHrium she was taken
n.a While she was being treated ahe
f,.u.ntiy announced that she saw certain
thing. occurring at a distance, and later
o.- 0und that her statements were
corrc
nam institution where there are from
.s,.rty-ave 10 100 patients many Of whom
ta,o light twists in their mentality, there
l. moro or less trouble over articles mis-
,s.csd or removed without the permission
,f,tc owners. 1t was found that this girl
c.,id Invariably locate these missing ar
tl,. M this way it came about that when
.he t5t fully recovered, she was employed
regularly i'm the santarium.
SIZE does her unusual work in n matter OF
fl simple way, seeming to think no moro
ofl than She does of arranging the flowers
chou, 'hc house or putting room m order
Tarpxaupe if a patient Is missing there
11 -ondius out Of -carch'ng parties INTO
the town and the surrounding country
Instead This girl is called into the doctors
oa.,.a where there j. a couch hung about
with curtains which can be drawn
...o lo- down On this couch and the cur
ts,,- nl,a drawn 80 that the light ia dimmed
White tie doctor gives her. either orally or
mentally. certain suggestions, she Hes per
facty straight. wholly relaxed, with closed
owe. and her face turned upward. After
few minutes he asks;
Can Won see mere Mrs H i7F
Sometimes she answers Immediately
train she will say Wait little lhcn
pftar a fow minutes she states what she sees
no illustrate NOR, fully last summer
rertain patient whose home ls IN New ork'
did not aprear al tea time and could NOT
la found The girl, who may be called
Anna for convenience. was called After
living quietly for few minutes she said
Mn r went 10 New York on the 4'?o
r.5n. lu you need not 10 alarmed, she Is
cirir,t She has been on several different
-..ee, cars. but is now with her husband
When she reached her home she found the
house closed aud was obliged 70 go to a
fold where her husband was
lie doctor teephoned at once to the
voman's husband who replied that hi7
wife was With him and that he would bring
her haci, 20 the santarium the next day.
l, was found that all had occurred rs Anna
Ind said The patient when she returned,
stated that She had been seized with a
sudden dc-ire to go home by herself and
L.. Ia 4
boarded the train.
On another occasion a patient whose
mind was very much unbalanced was miss
ing. Anna called TO find her. reported that
she saw her sitting in the railroad station,
swinging her feet back and forth laugh
ing. talking and seeming TO be having
very good time all by herself One of
tho attendants was Immediately sent to
the station. and there was the missing
patient iD-t as Anna had said, swinging
her feet. laughing. talking and enjoying
herself
Al one time money In various sums and
other articles we're missed by people in
the house When Anna stated that young
and pretty woman, Of exceptionally charm
ing mauuer was not only the cuiprit, but
WAS mr. Jei,yll and Mr.. Hyde sort Of
person the doctor found it difficult to
believe hor. Later il was found that these
assertion, We're quito correct and It became
necessary TO send the young woman to
her friends
The day she left quite a large sum Of
money was missed. and the doctor at once
concluded ttat the young woman had
taken il When Anna was interrogated
In 80 hot : no bu
taken b. but that young man then in the
house, expecting that the theft would be
attributed to the young woman, had the
money She further stated that no had
thrown the pocketbook into ditch, where
II was then lying.
As Anna was very positive about the
matter the doctor accused the young man
Of the theft. At first he stoutly denied tho
charge but when assured that deception
was Useless acknowledged he had taken
the money and went and got the pocket
hook from ditch back of the barn, where
be bad thrown il.
Another instance Of Anna's ability 10
find lost articles and also to forecast an
event was in connection with a peculiar
mig The property Of a young man who
was ar the sanitarium with his mother
The ring Vss given him by his father, a
General in the Re gular army, TO whom it
was presented by a Mexican dignitary.
j Was of unique workmanship and the son
'aiuedit not alone for its intrinsic worth,
hNt for 'le association, and when he missed
u Ne was greatly disturbed.
Before anything was said about it Anna
was Questioned. and accurat ely describing
Inc mtg said that it had slipped from the
yours mans finger as he threw a snowfall.
end then lying in a snow drift south Of
ne house She further stated that if an
attempt was made at that time to find it,
u would probably never be recovered.
w whom the snow began TO melt IL would !
'" found Several times she said: y
,mhk 'ae ring viii he found on the eth of
March When that day Of the month
,ame Tie snow had melted and the ring was
found where a large drift had been
it- writer was permitted to zee Anna do
Tor S.rf As she lay, in what the doctor
'a.l- Der psychic state, there was no change
I'D Der niearance, though her expression |
was Of rsrfrct repose. Even the pink and !
WHITE osIo1ug Of her delicate face remained |
,.4eh '- 10 .- when she Is doing other work. |
"i'n asked what she saw, she answered: !
200 large room. think It is an |
.'.e u some kind. There are many men,
''. -e" but two clearly