The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-16
Was Dead an Hour.

During Il period of suspended ami
nation lasting several hours, Satur-
day afternoon, while she lay pulseless
and without breathing-to all appear
ances dead-Mrs. William MoNulty
says she talked with her dead moth
err and another relative who died 30
years ago.
Mrs. McNulty is convinced that she
visited the hereafter, and DR.. Thomas
Mulligan, who attended and revived
her, says that so far as his medical
skill could determine she was dead.
Mrs. McNulty has a perfectly clear
recollection of all that happened
while she ceased to live. She is still
in too weak a condition to be ques-
toned at great length, but even the
story she was able to tell is perhaps
as remarkable as any of it's sort ever
related. This is what she said:
Everything was black at first.
did not seem to have any conscious
ness. Then gradually I began to
move or rather glide through space.
Faster and faster L went over inter-
minable distances. 1 was not con-
scious of seeing objects pass by as
one does on a train, but just moving
on and on. 1t was the most pleasant
There was no sensation of time, eth
er, so 1 can't say how long this SEEM
ed to continue.
after a while region of bright
ness and light appeared in front of
me- 1t was dim at first, then bright
er and brighter as I seemed to come
nearer to it. 1t grew dazzling, hun
dred times more so than the sunlight,
but it was not like the light of the
sun. It was not like any light had
ever seen before. Just a flaming
brilliancy that pervaded everything,
but did not come from any one place
in particular.
when the light was at its bright
est found myself in the midst of an
endless crowd of people. They were
all moving, too, and oh, how happy
they seemed! I would have been
perfectly happy to stay there forever
myself. Suddenly 1 saw my mother,
and beside her a distant relative who
died 80 years ago. Il was talking to
them when the light seemed to go
out again and everything was in dark
ness, and I lost consciousness. When
opened my eyes 1 saw DR.. Mulligan
bending over me-"
Dr. Mulligan states that her mind
is perfectly clear and that she will in
time recover her health.
yesterday, Mrs. McNulty was appar-
emily lifeless- 1t was not a trance she
was in, but condition of absolutely
suspended animation. To my mind
she was as dead then as she ever
will be.''-New Britain dispatch to
new L DIX AIn6T1Cdil.
Eating to Live.
TIL amiable philosopher, WI Ting
fang, Chinese minister to this country.
has given eight rules of the system of
living by which he believes a man
might attain to 200 years. These rules
nearly all relate to diet, and they pro-
vide for a smaller quantity of food
daily, abstinence from all flesh food.
and the thorough mastication of every
mouthful before 1t is swallowed.
Luigi Carnaro, the Italian gentleman
who found himself abandoned by the
doctors at 40, lived as long as he liked,
or until he was approaching his one
hundredth year, on a diet the most
meager subsisting comfortably in his
later years on one egg day.
In Carnaro's time, which extended
from about the middle of the fifteenth
to the same period of the sixteenth
century, dietarians of his kind were
rare. but the philosopher WI Ting-fang
is only one of very large and rapidly
increasing number who seek to solve
the problem of a long and healthful
life through the wisest use of foods
Boston Globe.