The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-04-06
OF INTEREST.
TOWOmen and Others.

booth she laid the umbrella on the
counter.
Instantly the young girl who con-
Quoted the booth seized the pretty UNI
brella, waved it over her head, and
cried
How much am I bid for Nine.
Bernhardts umbrella? Fifty? Twenty
five? Ten
And while the actress looked on
smiling, there ensued a spirited auc-
ton that ended in the umbrellas sale
to a western brewer for $780,"
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If the Rev. Isaac X. Funk, of Funk
& Wagnalls, publishers, is to be be-
lieved, dying in an exceedingly pleas
ant experience
The announcement is contained in
his book "The Psychic Riddle" where
in appears a message, written by Mrs.
Piper the Boston medium, from the
late secretary of the Society for Psy-
chical Research, Dr. Richard Hodgson.
to Prof James II. Hyslop, formerly of
Columbia. 1t was written out by Mrs
Piper's hand while the medium was
in the trance state which accompanies
all the messages from the spirit world
through her. Here is how the alleged
Hodgson spirit described the death
process:
1T is delightful to go through the
cool (cool not read at first) ethereal
atmosphere, cool-cool COOL-into
life and shake (read as take) off the
Shake off the shake-Shake off NOR
tai body. tHyslop, speak"
Doctor Frank explains that the spir-
it's often appeal to hearers to reply,
since this seems to help the commune
eating process.
For those who are not familiar with
the history of Mrs. Pipers mediumship,
it should be stated that the spirit is
supposed to enter her body and use
her hand to write out what it has to
say. The mortal in replying addresses
himself to the mediums hand. The
parenthetical remarks in the commu-
nication printed above are by Profess
sor Hyslop. It will be noticed that
when the word "cool" was not under
stood it was repeated several times
that there might be no mistake The
same thing happened when Professor
Hyslop read as take" what the spirit
meant for shake"
Continuing the Hodgson spirit, ac-
cording to Doctor Funk said:
I'm leaving the body the shock to
the spirit knocks everything out of
ones thoughts for a while. but if he
has any desire at all to prove his iden-
tity he can in time collect enough to
-collect-enough evidence to prove
convincingly his identity-convincin
-convincingly-
1T is so suffocating to enter here,
can appreciate their difficulties bett ar
than ever before"
Commenting on the last clause Doc
tor Funk says "the testimony from
many seance room is that spirits
have bodies of which their physical
earthly forms were the outer. coarser
forms, and that in this new life they
do need something akin to breathing,
and that when they enter earthly con-
ditions they experience a difficulty of
breath like that we experience in go
ing into place of foul smells"
Doctor Funk insists that he is not a
spiritualist, but pleads for the fullest
investigation Of such phenomena as he
describes.
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Novelties in belts and girdles are
are always eagerly sought after, parti-
cularly in the spring, when the de-
mands Of blouses and shirtwaist suits
must be met. The encroachments of
princess and empire modes and one
piece frocks have by no means obvlat-
ed the necessity of providing aces
series of this sort, and this seasons
belts and centuries of all kinds are
particularly beautiful.
Elastic ribbons are a feature of the
new belts. So marvelously like ordin-
airy ribbon are these elastic creations
that the difference is not distinguish
able at all when the belt is worn, and
the added advantage is that the elias
tic does not crush into indistinguish-
able folds when drawn around the
waist Pompadour, MORE and brocade
effects are successfully reproduced in
elastic ribbons For the tailored suit
rather narrow belts, with neat gold
or silver buckles, are shown The rib
bon is about two inches WIDE and the
buckles the same size.
Two buckles are found on the new
est belts, one at the back and one
in front Some Of these are very elab-
crate, and are inset with semi-precious
stones, while others are quite severely
plain. Among the larger buckles
more than two hooks are found, some
times three or four being used, more
for ornament Of course than for use
fulness. The buckle is rarely large
in proportion TO the width of the rib
bon If The buckles are large the belts
are wide