Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-08
XIV.
Love and the Soul-Sleepers.

Mrs. Randolph was reading to me- / de-
spair of conveying to any one by the use
OF mere type and paper an idea of the
charm OF her voice when she read-low,
soft. well modulated, yet with vibrant,
beH-like quality. 1t soothed me TO hear it.
The book from which she read was
Pinchot's Mysteries of the Mind" 1t was
strange book. filled with records SO
strange that only one conversant with the
revelations OF psychology could credit them.
As Mrs. Randolph read / watched her
with loving fondness. The pallOr was gone
from her face: health, contentment happi-
ness were revealed in ii. And it was as
beautiful as l had dreamed. The Clear-cut
features. the white forehead and brilliant
complexion. the rounded throat, the soft
brown hair with It's CLEAN of sunshine, the
sweet blue eyes. and lips made for love and
kisses noted them all hus noting and
listening ! almost forgot at times the
straugcn"ss of the things she read.
That Is queer case | said; read
that again. please.
''Very much like your own. Julian"
Pinchot was expounding his theories OF
the "sub-cunscious mind and telling of
that singular mental cataclysm by which
all previous recollectons are buried under
new and imaginary ones.
The former ego read Mrs. Randolph,
ais apparently cXtinguisAed, and another
1--WE cannot call II d new one for ii previ-
ously existed supplanrs it. The man is
thus. as to his mental states. wholly an
other being. While he is TO the eye Of the
behOldcr the same man he does not him
self know II. Nor does lie know OF the
change in himself His past IS to him as
II & had never existed. He does not recog-
nize or know those who were his former
friends They are strangers to him. He
recognizes only those whom he has known
a .ers.r- ~. lgft. -
existence; and he knows chat IS. recalls)
others. who are but inha bitants of the
Chimerical past he has created for himself.
past which would otherwise be blank.
Sometimes tOften, indeed the past Is a
blank. With this manufactured past Of l
may so call IT. serving, and deceiving him.
as real memories he constructs for him
self a new life, begins perhaps new pro-
fessiOn, assumes new name. which he
faucies has been always his, and does not
for an instant dream even that this Is so
II n married man he perhaps marries again
not knowing that he IS already married
Should he even meet his wife he, IN all
probability, would not recognize her nor
could he be made TO believe that she was
his wife or that he had ever met her be-
fore. But II recognition came, then his
submerged ego would instantly reassume
control, and he would be as a man aroused
from trance; then the new life he had
been living would itself become blank
the new acquaintances would be no more
remembered as belonging 10 that period
and. IN fact. all that he had thought and
done would be as a sentence or page OF
writing erased from slate. This Is usu-
ally the case: yet there are well-authenti.
Gated instances where a man thus restored
is able TO recall not only this new anG
usually forgotten past, but recalls also, the
same as mind which has not known this
submergence, the events of his previous
life, such as every man remembers"
She closed the book, with her finger be.
tween the pages.
DIR. Thompson saw that you were IT
Just that state" A hint of tears came tC
the blue eyes. And. Julian. you don't
know what II cost me- when l tried t.
carry out his oders there in Camden. after
he had reached the conclusion that vio-
lent mental shock might arouse you to the
Old life. I am poor actress I'm afraid
for / came near breaking down when
made that pretense of believing you to bt