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About
Dreams.

About A graduate student came
Unusual To me some two or three
Dreams years ago and told me, dur
ing a conversation which
had drifted over into a discussion 90
dreamlife in general, that me not only
was constant dreamer, but also had
certain stock dreams one OF which IL
worth describing In this dream he
pictures himseiy as lying in bed awake,
but with his eyes closed, suddenly and
without any apparent reason, he feels
his ep4s--then his eNe'ds-beng drawn
back lie resists this movement Tor a
short time Finally his head l. forced
back and his eyes opened overhead he
sees an unfinished loft, with the beams
standing out against the black roof.
There. perched on one OF the rafters
directly above him. although only face
and revolver are visible. IL one who
from the description of the features
yellow face" "slanting eyes "hend-
ish smile. would seem 20 be Mont
golian. This rather uncanny creature
~ the dream, aiming the revolver care
fully at the aiiest OF the dreamer, fires
several shots. Tho dreamer speaks or
feeling pain. and screams. waking him
self at the same time. He has q
momehtary feeling as ne awakens that
ne Is dead This dream occurs once q
ycar and although the gentleman could
not be sure as TO whether the period
elapsed was exact every time, ne felt
sure that the variations were not over
one or two weeks I'm length. Although
we should need 10 have much more
Data before attempting a careful anal
Nss ~ stfci-a. dream or such classes
OF dreams, ave may feel ccrtiin that
the old factors OF doubt and superSti-
ton can once and forever be RELOCATED
from the most fanciful mind. OF the
more general facts as to the mental
clements we know that the dream
memory ia worry unstable, giving us for
the most Fart very incomplete and for
that reason often dangerous data from
which to draw conclusions. The gront-
er per cent Of dream imagery Is of the
visual tpe The auditory and taCtuBl
come close together IN their respective
order with the motor or movement type
iast.-From "ENucrimcntal Psychology.
by Charles s. Richard OF Harvard uni
versity. In The Progress Magazine.
rnelaud's Since his accession the
EIfth new sovereign has. on
George the whole borne himself
through very trying per-
iod with dignity and good
sense. The addresses he has had to
issue 60 the nation, to the army and
navy To the British Empire at large.
TO the house OF parliament, and to the
princes and peoples OF india, have been
couched IN excellent language | do
not suppose that King George was their
sole author, but | am assured he had
far larger hand In preparing them and
In laying down their general lines than
most soVereigns have The king has a
real gift of energetic expression He
used to be a poor speaker; he is now
perhaps the most eloquent sovereign
who has ever sat on British throne.
Like most sailors. he Is free and
voluble OF speech. a hearty and persis-
tent talker. "a man OF naive, elementary
nature. IL he used to seem constraiu-
ed and out OF place on a public plat
form II was not because he lacked ideas
or the words 10 clothe them, but be-
cause he Is essentially n shy and rath
or nervous man, and because his life
at sea had never given him that in
valuable early training In facing au-
diences and holding the center or the
stage on ceremonial occasions. But ex-
perience and practise have overcome
his difiidence, and King George. though
his rhetoric viii never rival the
Kaiser's. already rises considerably
above the level OF ordinary British
oratory George V Is one OF the very
few monarchs who have ever ascend
ed a throne without a penny Of debt.
He will have, therefore, no need, and
he certainly has no inclination. to sur
round himself with the German-Jewish
capitalist set with whom King Edward
rather too openly mingled. The old
English aristocracy viii come into It's
own again at the new kings court: and
the atmosphere Of the royal household