Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17
MATERIALIsM OF THE SOUL.
Chicago Physicians Conduct InvestI-
catiOns Along Strange Lines.


| City progress and interest in that
| which is unusual, are now busily en-
gagged in conducting investigations con-
corning the materialism Of the soul.
Internes at the County Hospital are
watching day after day for soul ghosts,
and in order to put the soul finding
| quest on a more systematic and scien-
| tifc basis county officials are to be pc
titioned for permission to photograph
death beds. 1t is proposed to take
series Of negatives as lives Of patients
at the County Hospital come to an end
in hope that upon one delicately sensi-
tized plate trace Of a departing soul
may be recorded.
DR.. Rose NJ. Reading, a prominent
Chicago physician, says that on two
occasions she has witnessed the depart
ure of the soul from the body. In dis
cussing these occurrences, DR.. Reading
says:
''The first remarkable experience
came to me in East Chicago about Is
years ago. I had been called to attend
a little child. The baby was or
months old Little could be done for
it, and I knew it would die. 1 held it
on my lap.
Suddenly as 1 gazed at the baby a
shape formed over its little body and
then rose about a foot from it. 1t was
Of about the consistency of tobacco
smoke. It stood still for moment,
and then drifted up toward the corner
Of the room. Fascinated, watched it.
at the moment failing to appreciate
what the phenomena meant Then
looked at the child in my lap. 1t was
dead l knew at once had witnessed
the departure Of the soul from the
body.
1.-THE second instance came about 10
years later. 1 and my husband were
at the death bed of an old man in Chi
cago. A bright light was burning In
the corner of the room. The end drew
d near, and my husband and 1 watched
closely. As death came the soul de-
parted in a vapory haze, rose toward
the. ceiling. and finally faded from
sight. There is no questioning the
tangibility or the materiality of the
shape that drifted away from the body
of the dying man.
'"The reason the soul is not seen more
frequently is because men and women
at death beds are always moved by
unusual emotions and the brain never
can see clearly through strong emo
ton.
"About the materiality Of the soul
we know little, Of course. 1t permeates
the whole body. How it leaves the
body we do not know. There was a
time when they did not understand
the circulation Of the blood. Some day
we will know all about the circulation
Of the soul.
1.-THE study of the materialism OF
the soul has to go forward slowly and
conservatively, Of course, because peo-
pie are prone to pooh, pooh discus
siOns of it and laugh at contentious.
But you remember there was day
when they laughed at Fulton because
he said he could steam up the Hudson
River
The Turned-Up Nustache.
The German emperor is generally re-
garded as the inventor Of the turned
up mustache. This is true only as far
as introducing it as fashion. 1t was
invented at the court Of Philip Nv.
about 1926. That monarch was the first
to wear his mustache turned upward.
From the Spanish court the fashion
spread over all Europe. Charles 1. Of
England, Philips brother-in-law, and
many members of the Austrian Haps-
burgs adopted it. 1t came to Belgium
and was introduced into Germany by
the Spanish soldiers during the 80
years war.
It was also found in Sweden, as well
as in France under Louis XIII. Under
Louis XIV. the beard went out Of fash
ion, and during the time of Rocco the
elegant world knew only clean shaven
faces, until the French revolution
brought the mustache again into use.
But nowhere, except in it's Spanish
home, did the mustache rise so ex-
travagantly as it does to-day with the
German emperor and his imitators.
In Spain all kinds of artificial means,
such as bandages and coverings, were
employed to compel the mustache to
keep this unnatural upward position,
and in looking at the paintings Of Vel
asquez or Murillo, one can easily under
stand that without such coercive mea-
sures a true full blooded Spaniard
could never have realized his ideal
| mustacheS.