Evening star., 1909-04-26
CA|LD'S ODD FANCY
Claims to Have Seen Appari-
ton of Joan of Arc.
PERCHED IN AN ELM TREE
Weird Story Of Little French Girl in
Paris Paper.
APPEARS TO HER IN ARMOR
Describes Experience in Which Maid
Of Orleans Predicts War and
Adaiction.
APPEARS TO HER IN ARMOR
Special Cablegram to The Star.

Special Cabiesram to The Star.
| PARIS. April 24.-Jeanne dare is ap-
pearing to q little girl ten years of age,
dwelling at Orrony. So at least the
child says, as there has naturally been
no witness OF the fact. A correspondent
Of the Petit Parisien interested in this
strange tale has been to the place to
ee the small maiden, and he describes
her as a pretty. intelligent child. utterly
| free from any sort of training which
might infuse weird fancies into her
brain. This is her story: One day in JUL
she was looking after a goat In field
near her grandparents dwelling, VIII II
suddenly she beheld flash in an old elm
tree, on a branch of which human form
was perched, a. she noticed when the
light had died away, and off she ran In
| panic to the house.
1t was only when she had been pressed
with questions that she related her ad-
venture, to the great amusement Of the
old people. who laughed at her story
When about week afterward she pluck
/ ed up courage to return to the spot, she
saw the strange figure again, an expert
ence which has been repeated any num-
| ber OF times
| when | first saw the dame. she
| told the writer, II was in q terrible
| fright. and my heart beats violently
whenever | see her again"
Does the :dame' speak to you?" he
asked Yes. This is what she told me
| last year during her second apparition:
Suzanne, a great war is coming, to be
followed by cholera, yellow fever. black
fever and infectious flies. Rome. Mes
sina and all that neighborhood will be
swallowed up. Suzanne. 1 order you to
go and bless the French flag and the
weapons of war.
Apparition Seen Fifteen Times.
That is all she says to your Yes.
sir; she often repeats it. l have seen
her fifteen times since the beginning OF
the year."
''Have you questioned the lady?''
Yes, have asked her: Who are you?
and she has answered. I am Jeanne
dare martyr She goes away after five
minutes in a flash, as she has come. 1t
Is generally about $50 o'clock in the
afternoon that l see her."
And how Is Jeanne dare dressed?"
''She is In arlnor resembling lead. Her
hair Is parted in the middle and falls on
her shoulders. In her hand she holds a
| sword with the point In the air and a
crown which looks as If it was made of
the teeth of saw and branch of
laurel"
And she never speaks to you about
anything else?"
Yes; but l have not understood"
Voice Like q Child.
What is her voice like?' was the final
| question.
Like that of children, shrill," replied
the girl. lone would say that she
SINGS
The writer visited the elm. but only saw
perched on the famous branch little
bird. which seemed to look mockingly at
| him. He adds that little Suzanne is
| ouitA natural. and like other children and
that she describes her experiences in
| the simplest and most unaffected style.
But he reminds his readers that 1t was in
that district that the Maid of Orleans was
captured. and that the country people
still retain all sorts of traditions about
| her, 80 the child must have heard many
thrilling tale about her, and be more or
less familiar with old prints in which she
Is portrayed. From this to some freak
of fancy the step would not be far. And
this Is the practical explanation accepted
even in that rural region, and 1t Is GER
tainly indorsed here.