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The Washington herald., 1906-12-23

A certain charming young lady who is
taking q higher course of study at one
of washington most fashionable board
ing-sehools is enjoying something Of a
Schumann-Heink. At the latter's recent
appearance in this city the young lady in
question, who is nearly six feet in height,
heard the famous COnTalto sing for the
first time. She was 50 enamOred of the
singer as well as the singers art, that
she resolved TO write 10 her in German
a language with which she is not yet
thoroughly familiar. The letter was ac-
complished, after much laboring with the
The Washington herald., 1906-12-23

on the evening Of December 80. at
O'Clock. the choir of Christ Church,
Georgetown. will sing Dudley Bucks can
tata. The Coming of the King" Mr.. B.
Allen Terrell. tenor Of St Johns. viii be
the assisting solOist. Arthur Clyde
Leonard will be the organist and choir
master.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-02
THE PREACHER
AND THE POSSUM

TN old negro preacher Of Southern
Georgia had been given a fine.
fat possum by some of his adj
mirers and was keeping IT in
barrel. feeding it heavily to still fur
Their increase its weight. He had de-
cided to have It killed the next day.
when, to his rage. It was stolen in the
night.
Shortly afterward revival meeting
was being held, and among those who
went I'D to the mourners' bench was a
certain very black Jim, and his grief
seemed inconsolable.
Oats all right, NAH brudderl" the
old man shouted. Don matter whut
20 done, de good Lawd gwine fergibe
your
But Abs been powerful mean" Jim
declared, weeping
rs yo' stole chickens?" the old man
demanded.
"Oh, wuss EN- dat"
Good Lawd. Hep dis po' niggerr'
the old preacher entreated. rs 20 used
a razzer?'
''Wuss dan dat,s'
rs yo'-yo' amt done killed nobody?'
''Wuss dan dati'
Den hyahs whar we tangler the old
man shouted. throwing aside his coat.
DE good Lawd kin forgive yo' ef he
wants ter. but Abs gwine skin yo'
alfves Yo's de varmint dat stole nah
'possumi'
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-02
THE SUREST TESTS TO PREVENT BURYING PEOPLE ALIVE

goes TO the nerve ceEtsrs and does not
manifest itself in motion or lie.
learned from an undertaken OF "a
girl who was coffined alive. This man
says the doctor in the case gave GER
tificate of burial. which was handed to
him by the family. Ec examined the
girls eyes /, and told the family he
doubted her death. The doctor assert
ed again the girl was dead, and with
blind faith in him they insisted upon
her burial, strange to say. The under
taker, however, says he succeeded in
having them agree TO place her in a
vault with a glass over the face think
ing she could make herself heard in
the vault If she rega.ned consciousness.
Later she was found with her face cut
the glass broken--dead. Presumably
she died from fright, for tho undertaken
says she could have been heard had she
screamed in the vault.
physician of standing in a medical
newspaper says: "All bodily activity
depends upon combustion, and combus-
tion requires oxygen" He then goes
consumes in breathing and how soolf
the air of coffin may be exhausted
Also how impossible it would be to
live in the conn, owing to the fact that
we poison the air by our breath in
throwing OF nitrogen. In his treatise
he speaks OF carbon dioxide, which he
says would rapidly make the air of d
conn fatal. He says that in cases OF
trance or suspended animation little air
is needed. He speaks of alternating
animals which live for months in a
state Of trance, and of sleeping der
wishes who initiate these animals.
A Swami once said that these
frances may not only continue for
months. but for years. A theosophist
spoke of the ancient pruids, who, he
said, understood this subject of frances
well. He says that they and also East
Indians leave the body, the astral going
out at will, whichsis cared for by some
one who places 1t in an alright place.
When the astral wisL 80 to return it
does so.
The Greeks and Romans knew that
death is often counterfeiteds in trance
like. states. The Germans today in
Germany and the sAustrians in Austria
have mortuaries where lbodies are kept
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-02

until putrefaction sets in. this being,
they think. the only evidence of death
Decomposition is not considered conclu-
sive evidence of DEATH as decomposf-
tomas any hospital tyro knows-may
affect one or several parts long before
death
DR.. Gandolfi, a learned Italian, Is of
the opinion that doctors often make
mistakes in regard to death. lie says
that many of the signs of death are
identical witt. those of trance. lie says
also that in come cases of trance the
coff1ned are mute witnesses of their
own funerals. unable to protest or give
sign. He cites many cases which
have occurred in Europe, the au-
thenticity of which may not be
doubted. He urges that simple test
for rich and poor alike which may be
applied at the bedside in few minutes
is needed most urgently.
Many physicians say that putrefac-
ton is the only sure test. but as the
law now stands at the Board or Health
a body may not be kept more than TOUR
days and must then be buried out of
sight. In boarding houses and hotels
bodies arc almost always ordered out
by the proprietors at once. leaving no
time whatever for a subject TO resusci-
tate before being cofihed
DIR. Justin Herold gave much time to
the subject of premature burial, and
made tests covering many years and
performed on many bodies. He gave
the following tests after saying: We
know that there are diseases IN Wnicn
occur total cessation of all the apparent
functions of vitality, and yet in which
these cessations are merely suspensions,
properly so called. They are temporary
IN In l.
anism. certain period elapses and
some unseen mysterious principle is
again set in motion. The silver cord
vas not wholly loosened,
when there is total cessation of all
vital animal functions it means death
The organs not only cease TO act, pu'
lose the susceptibility of renewed ac-
ton. Yet this is really the beginning
OF a new life
He adds that the tissues are not
really dead for some time after DEATH
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-02

and that life may continue in the cells
for several days.
I'm another work read that the smell
of earth seems to awaken the dead
earth is vitalizer. So one may pre-
sumo that, life still existing the body
may again resume it's functions. DR..
Herod says also that a child even after
birth may live without breathing, APP
parently. Many cases are cited. He
gives this to show that a steppage OF
respiration does not in all cases prove
death. Even the pulse may be absent
although cardiac contraction goes on
He says that. in his opinion. when the
heart has ceased to beat for twenty
minutes resuscitation is impossible
The tests given by this doctor are
ror test: feather test: water or mer-
curry test: stethoscopic test. rhythmic
traction of the tongue.
2. Cessation of circulation; stetho-
scopic test; ligature test: scarif1cation
and cupping; opening of an artery
needle test (Cloquet's); fluorescence
test: injection of ammonia; diaphanous
test; Roentgen ray.
8. Changes in the eye: test by bright
light; test by hydriatics: test by oph-
kaleidoscope; test by ophthalmotometer.
1883
low.
5. Loss Of sensation and motion
electric test, heat test; caustic test.
6. Muscular faccidity and contracti-
bility.
Z. Cadayeric ecchymoses, lecidtty, of
hypostases.
8. Rigor mortis. -
3. Putrefaction.
He carefully discusses all these
points and shows clearly. that no test
can definitely be relied upon, except
Ing putrefaction, unless it be possibly
the prompt and immediate opening of
the radiai or temporal artery. He says
that this test should be made upon all
dead bodies at once. The arteries of
the dead should be empty. If there is
life in body. he holds, blood will flow
from the artery.
In a copy of the Medical News of 1895
is given description OF an apparatus
to prevent the possibility of being
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-02

make a considerable variety-say NJ
teen or twenty. different sorts OF ugly
faces, II would be well for her TO 60
through the facial oontortfons az many
as half O dozen times a day, devot1ng
TO each session anywhere from ten
minutes 20 half an hour. have one
patient who 'garsoyles' her face for If
teen minutes every morning Just altar
waking and while still lying In bed.
Then IN the evening she spends anethsr
fifteen minutes after she has gone to
bed. and she reports that 70 makes q
splndid night cap
THE principal thing, though. IN nee
so much the length OF time one spends
In the process as are the thoroughness
and regularity with which IL IL donA
Fifteen minutes every day IL bsttsP
than half an hour every other dag,
and In general 7 would not advise raorR
than half an hour under any c9roum-
stances.
Gargoyling' has advantages Tor thu
youthful as we'll as for the ujddie-aged
face, and nothing better subserves the
attainment Of perfect Fepose, so rare In
the oountenance Of the young girl of
to-day, particularly the young American
girl In order to have repose It Is nes-
essary 70 have It's aatithesis, vtvacfty,
and vivaclty Is a quality that Is almost
MI n the modern young girls fac@
Nervousness and excitation we have
a-plsnty. but these are only the I'm.
pleasant and exaggerated oaricatures
OF the other more subtle and spiritual
and always charming quality. When
the face Is capable Of being genuinely
vivacious under stimulus. It Is equally
capable OF lapsins into an exuu1sitely
perfect repose the moment that stfmu-
lus Is removed and nothing win bring
the young girls face into the requisite
mobility as a patient and systematic
course in 'gargoyling'"
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Ivn who but for the fact that relative
saw her finger move just at the moment
the undertaken was about to screw
down the lid would have been buried
alive She was never told of the cir
cumstance, so I may not mention the
name. A man told me OF a relative of
hfs who was found sitting in the family
vault a skeleton. He was q strong
man and must have burst his comm, yet
could not get out of the vault.
The average doctor laughs at prenia-
ture burial Yet occasionally. when
disinternient takes place. bodies are
found which give plain evidence of life
having existed after burial. Horrible
details, unfortunately, arc plenty. Many
cases are cited which are authentic,
and as they occurred as late as 1905,
and are by an eminent physician OF
London, Colonel L. +. Noliun, NJ. D.,
they may not be questioned. The book
is in any medical library and may be
seen by any one.
Man is peculiarly formed, and his
makeup may not be gagged by phys
ioiogy To the East Indians mind
mans physiology is the least OF him
and is dominated by the astral--which,
indeed, may leave the body in trance
and, travelling, return to it at will
and the ego. There are interesting
stories in a volume IN the medical
library of exhibitions OF this kind in
India. where men voluntarily allowed
themselves to be buried after they had
thrown themselves into q trance. That
these were not fake exhibitions are
guaranteed by English officers who SUI
perintended and watched these cases.
Suspended animation, trance, mans
psychology, the astral. are all under
stood by the intelligent Fastener, who
marvels at our ignorerce' of our total
getup. To him these things are not
marvels
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-02
MSS LOUIerE DRESSER

face never looks old in the same harsh,
uncom promising way that other won-
ems faces do with advancing years.
ITO attain this desired mobility has
been the object of innumerable systems
and processes OF beauty culture, all
more or less silly and useless, and
some positively harmful and to be
avoided Among the latter class ] may
designate the much abused massage
treatment.
THE original principle of massage
is an excellent one. but it was never
intended to be applied to the muscles
OF the face. The virtue of massage
begins and ends within very definite
and exceedingly narrow limitations. 1t
is A treatment which properly should
be applied only to the invalid or con-
valescent patient, and then only as
a stimulus toward the restoration of
the normal muscular action of the
body To the fsceeit should never be
applied. If massage has any effect
whatever upon the facial muscles il is
only to make them coarse and heavy,
or, in extreme cases. of sensual appear
ance The fashionable superstition
that masseuse is able to work out
wrinkles by certain esoteric manipula-
tions has no basis Of fact to sustain il.
either in science or in experience. The
surest and best method to keep away
wrinkles and all other signs of ap-
preaching age is the possession of
keen interest in life, combined with a
fair proportion of natural JOY and
natural sorrow.
The next best way is to make faces.
lust ugly faces-such as are known in
schooi-r room parlance as shoots
Making Faces
In this way better than anx other
a woman may give her face the spon
taneous muscular exercise which in
supreme moments might be and is pro-
duced by intense emotion. The chief
defect with the average feminine face
is that it does not laugh and cry
enough: nor does it reflect the depth
OF emotion within. In 'gargoyling the
face, provided the 'gargoyfing' is done
with variety. there is positively no
muscle or combination of muscles that
does not get vigorous exercise.
The 'gargoyling' should be done il
possible in the open air or before an
open window, and ii is well TO begin
with the mouth. Every conceivable
ugly contortion of the lips, tongue and
teeth should be practiced until that
part of the face becomes weary. Then
from the mouth go TO the nose and
wriggle and distort that organ in every
conceivable way. Then the eyes, the
checks and the forehead, and last the
entire face in unison.
AT first thought this making faces
sounds very easy. In imagination we
picture ourselves as capable of making
the greatest variety OF ugly and gro
tesdue faces. and remembering the ia
cial feats of our childhood days we are
justifed in our delusion. But alas.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-02

buried alive. 1t is an expensive piece OF
mechanism. The coffin is provided with
air holes and the lid is fastened down
so light touch with open it, and this.
instead of being buried. is put in a
metallic vault six feet high and nine
feet long, in which a person might
stand or even walk. It allows an
abundant supply of air. The same
spring that opens the coffin conmuni-
Gates with the sections room by an cleo
trio contrivance. /.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-02

HE attention Of. the public has
been turned recently to the SUBJ
sect Of premature burial because
Of a peculiar viii made by a
wealthy woman, in which she stipu-
lated that her executor take every pre-
caution against her being hurried alive.
That this fear is widespread may be
seen from the fact that it is at inter-
vals brought before the public through.
Nedico-Legal, before which body an
apparatus was shown. the object of
which was TO prevent the killing of one
prematurely buried and the conlmuni
cation of the fact that he was alive to
Che sexton or some person near.
The working of the apparatus is sim
PIE and good, il IS said. hut as there
was room for Improvement IL has gone
10 the repair shop. For this reason IL
cannot be seen. Count Kanick of Paris
IS the inventor. Strange TO say. orders
for the invention have not come in TO a
large extent, although some timc-a
sear-has elapsed since IL was present
ed in New York Possibly the inventor
did not place il on the market in the
right way. The invention being simple
and cheap makes 1t possible for ceme-
teries TO use many OF them. The sale,
however, has not been in proportion to
The fear of premature burial.
Soon after tho presentation of this
apparatus the Medico- Legal Society
took steps TO Investigate premature
burial It found il almost impossible
10 get available statistics. yet enough
data was obtained to cause il to realize
that better laws IN regard TO burial and
burial certificates are needed. LeEis-
lafion was tried, and failed. AS the
law now stands at the Health Depart
nent any person may be buried when
a physician signs the certificate. No
tests are insisted upon; no one ques-
Mons the death. That crime may be
covered by a certificate no one may
question
One Narrow Escape
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frances of Hindoos

once heard Swami Abedansnda lee
ture upon Immortality" In the course
of this lecture ne said that many peo-
Die are buried alive. l. asked him II
cessation OF circulation does not prove
death. He said it did not, for
low activity of the cells exists after
the blood ceases to flow He further
explained that vitality N such cases
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-02

when we attempt to do as men and
women the facial contortions we did in
childhood we discover for the first time
into what a hard and fast mold our
countenances have formed themselves
during the intervening years. 1t is
upon countenances thus tensely set that
old age fattens. and the virtue OF gar
goyling the face in the way described
consists solely in>,the fact that 1t re-
leases the tension of these muscles. rem
deripg them mobile and responsive to
emotion.
LAS to the amount of time to be de-
voted to such exercise. that is a matter
which depends upon the individual and
her environment. 1 usually prescribe
fifteen minutes every morning-ffteen
minutes. that is. after the subject has
got herself into training. Until such
time as she has practiced sufficiently to
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-02
Exercising the Face

The reason for this. is not hard TO
find The. actress gives her face a great
deal of natural exercise. The nature OF
her calling makes il absolutely neces-
sary that she shall bring into play Ger
tain muscles of the face which in
other women are only exercised on
state occasions. such as overwhelming
sorrow, exultant JOY bitter despair,
and il is this quality in the actress
face that constitutes its greatest charm
and Il is the principle underlying the
quality which accounts for the very
notable fact that the average actress
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-02

AkING faces is the latest wrin
kle. IN beauty culture II yoa
are beautiful make faces and
you will not only promote and
further enhance that beauty, but you
win make it proof against the raw
ages OF time and. eanKcring care. Or,
81 you have just missed being beauti-
ful. and are only a near beauty,
make faces and the features OF
Phryne are yours. Or If peradVenture
You happen TO be just prosaically
pIain. make faces" and To- YOU are
plain no longer. j.
In short. If there is any rudimentary
oleH7e~- ~ grace about your counte-
-L. iL lJ contains any subcutaneous
arrr-. - comeliness, all you need do is
10 make faces the ugliest faces you
POSSIBLY can make, and yours viii be
The Joy of seeing that latest germ grow
active and assert itself in the refec-
ton OF your mirror
Sach is the dictun OF a well-known
New York physician, whose name may
not. in Difference 10 the-ethics govern
ing his profession, be made public, but
who was willing to grant The Call an
anonymous interview upon the sub
5ect. with the further concession Of per-
hitting Call photographer to be pres
of one of his beauty seeking patients.
There is really nothing strange or
mysterious about the ,gargoyle, treat
nlent for preserving the mobility and
beauty of the countenance." declared
the physician. However new the idea
rlzY be in iheorE. it IS old in practice
The face. Ike any other part Of the
body, loses its full strength and beauty
or line and expression just as soon as
il fails TO be properly and reg ularly eX-
erciSed. Facial muscles that arc all
lowed 10 60 long without such exercise
soon tccon1e either faced and fabby or
sln and hard.
The ideal condition is mobility, =
condition which allows the face TO as
suHle a pure. serenity when IN repose
. sparkling vivacity under intellectual
or phy steal stimulus Such faces are
seen in our best actresses. ana in fact
any and all actresses have a mobility
OF countenance which is not to be found
10 such a degree in any other class Of
women.
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ENGLISH WORDS
GROW SINISTER

- Z may seem whimsical 70 attrfb-
ute quality OF original SIN TO
the dictionary" says an eminent
English philologist now IN this
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-02
One Narrow Escape

learned of the case of young girl ,
now living on the outskirts Of Brook Z
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-02

AKING faces is the latest win
kle IN beauty culture II yoa
are beautiful make faces, and
Won will not only promote and
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-10-20

train for an out Of town trim. and mn
on their return they will be at nome
at No. 1875 West Martin street. The
presents received by the bride were
unusually numerous and very beauti-
full. and embraced some splendid spec
linen OF cut glass. silver, hand paint
ed china, bric-a-brac. etc. Among
the gifts was magnificent solid sill
yer service OF Queen Anne design, the
gift of the brides parents. and anoth-
er was u superb and massive cut glass
punch bowl
Tie bride is beautiful aud ac.
oomplised leader of the Younger social
set of this CITY, and a popular and
gracious hostess. She was educated at
Wilson college. Chambersburg, aud the
MoTavian seminary. in Bethlehem,
and pursued her advanced studies in
music under private teachers in Wash
ington. Her father, DIR. Myers, is
one OF the most prominent physicians
of this section of the state. former
president OF the state board Of health.
and President OF tire Merchants ~
Farmers bark and the Martinsburg
Power, Co. Mr.. Boyd is well
known young attorney of this city.
and CONES of distinguished anacestrv.
his great-grandfather having been a
prominent general in the Mexican war
and the builder and occupant for
many years of 30. dville. the pres
ent home Of the Faulkners. He took
his degree in arts aud law at the. West
Virginia university.
Among the guests from other points
were Mr.. and Mrs. King, of Middle
town, Pa. Mis- Kunkel. of Harris
burg Mrs. Cook. of Charles Town
Mrs Alice V. Anders. of Frederick /:
Miss Hassett, of Clearspring, Nd ,
Miss May Barr. of Washington Miss
Elizabeth Stalnaker. of Shepherds
town Miss Miriam Sterner. of Wash
lington; Mr.. George Rumsey. of Phila-
dephia Mr. George Belizloover, OF
Charles Town.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-10-20
MEETING OF INSPECTORS
Men From Different Railroads Now
at Intersection.

r B. Rosbridge. chief inspector of
tine Philadelphia aud Reading railroad,
OF Reading Pa. W. HI. Hall. chief
inspector Of the Central Railroad Of
New JERSEY. of New York city !, Il. l..
Drawbaugh. chief inspector of the
Cumberland Valley railroad. of Cham.
bersburg, and r. d. Wilson. of Mar.
tinsbn-g. chief joint inspector Of the
railroads at Intersection. near this
city. were in joint meeting for tine
purpose Of making thorough in.
spection Of everything at Intersection,