The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1905-10-28
WAS 1T A CASE OF TELEPATHY9
Experience of Two Women Friends
Who Had Been Separated

Fho Had Been eSparAteu-
"Telepathy or the faculty OF thought
transference, or whatever you've a
mind to call it," said the average man
the other day, according to the New
York World, seems to be making
good deal of a stir nowadays. Person
ally, don't fall for these newfangled
things very often, and the more | read
the wonderful experiences cited by
people to prove their theories, the
more 1 wonder at their gullibility.
believe that In the few thousand years
that we have been inhabiting and
blessing this mundane sphere by our
presence, we have discovered about
all the senses that we have.
Something mighty strange hap
pened in my own family, yesterday,
however, that, If l were one of these
easily convinced people, might make
me believe that there Is such thing
as telepathy. 1 look on it merely as
queer coincidence, but you can't con-
vince my wife, who was one of the
prancipal actors In the strange event.
MY wife used to be very intimate
with a woman whom we will call Mrs.
Jones. They were together on shop
ping trips, euchre scraps, bargain
rushes and the like, four times week.
When one was away or unable to see
the other, their correspondence was
extremely faithful. This intimacy
kept on for some years, and suddenly
stopped. There was no reason, except
that other interests attracted my wife,
and circumstances in general com
biped to make them see less Of each
other. For perhaps year the two
women have not seen each other, and
the letters, which were frequent at
first, dwindled until the correspond
ence. like the visits, entirely ceased
1.-The other woman moved, so did
we. and neither family knew the 9th
er's address. Yesterday my wife was
sitting In the front room, writing let
ters. Her desk Is near a window over
looking the street. After writing a
while she looked up and said:
Its strange, but l can't help
thinking about Mrs. Jones. 1 haven''
seen her for a year, nor have
thought of her for weeks and months
but to-day she is in my mind all the
time. l wish 1 knew where she lives.
"'Wish you did, my dear said 1
and went on with my reading. But IL
a little while she said again:
Don't you suppose you could fine
the Joneses' address "a the directory
II you are not too tired to go out t.
the drug store
"'All right said 1, L will, in Lit
tie while. Do you want to write t.
herr
"She went on writing a little Will
longer, and suddenly she gave a shou
that made me jump to my feet in fea
that something had happened 10 her
She was standing at the window. gaz
ing fixedly at window in the apart
ment house across the street, wher
another woman, gazing just as fixedl
at our windows, stood. That othe
woman was-Mrs. Jones.
my wife rushed downstairs an
across the street, and the two wome
met at the doorway OF the apartment
house. After the imaginable caresseI
they each told the same story Of hay
ing the other constantly In he
thought, and wishing she knew be
address. SO as to write a letter. An
now they're good friends again.
"Was 1t telepathy that made the tw
women think OF each other as the
were brought into near association
neglected to state that the Joneses ha
Just moved into their apartment acros
the way from ours. You can't max
| Mrs. Jones and my wife think this
| there wasn't regular system of brai
| waves from our window to theirs, b'
} l don't know. Seems strange, that
all I"