The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-03-17
To An Aggregation of Only
Women in the Opera
House.
HER sUs-coNscIoUs MIND PENE-
TRATED MANY MYSTERIES OF
LOVE AND BUSINESS AND SET
HEARTS AND BRAINS ATHROB
WITH WONDER
BY Maude Wood Henry.

y cOfpOfalS guard OF spring mill.
merry attended special performance
of Ruth Grey, The Mental Marvel" at
the opera house yesterday afternoon.
With a black handkerchief tied over
her eyes, this occult young woman di-
vined what was going on beneath the
nodding plumes and fresh straws in a
most uncanny way.
All you had to do was to write "A
question on a slip of paper, to which
you attach-d your initials or signature
and these slips in'sealed envelopes pre-.
sumably aided Miss Grey in her re-
searches, for she called the turn on
first one and then another of Pensa.
/ cola's femininity, divulging all manner
of information pertaining to love and
business with startling directness
"kn rapport with her subjects she an.
nounced the name or initials given by
! them, and with a long mental reach
plucked their questions from the
sealed envelopes and replied to them
as if inspired. Indeed, zone wondered
if she wasn't. Plain mind-readins
would never account for her. She
spoke in quick, agitated voice. as if
in pain and her hands twitched neI.
vously. She left curious impression
, since she was fully awake and YET ap-
peared entranced or obsessed.
What was it?
Some real thrills went round espe,
cially among the younger women who
had men on their minds. Miss Grey
handled these affairs with great diplo.
macy, but to the apparent satisfaction
of the questioners.
Business, however, appeared to have
engrossed most of the audience.
never saw so many women with mer-
cenary motives. Nearly all of them
had involved property which was ex.
planned or restored in sub-conscious
vision An occasional woman had i'll
health which brought out some New
Thoughtisms-Miss Grey is a New
Thoughtist, among other things-a
corking good creed for women, any
how. Everything comes your way if
you will orly think so, or as someone
else has said: "A thing exists as it is
perceived ......
Attitudes the idea.
Women Were Scared.
Really, it is impossible TO do Justice
to Miss Grey's powers in a press
notice Her work can be nothing but
legitimate and she deserved packed
house Her little audience was rather
quiet and self-repressive considering
that it was made up of women; still it
is a little trying to have. spooky
young lady tampering with ones pri'
vate mind in public. One has an un-
comfortable feeling that she may go
father than one desires. I'll confess I
didn't dare ask question myself. And
l chatted furiously with the girl next
to me to keep Miss Grey from poaching
on my mental preserves.
AS an able second, professor
Thompson, a very un-diabolical wizard
entertained the women and settled
their nerves. His first act was the old
cabinet trick. The sprightly manager
called for volunteers to go on the stage
and-Since everyone else was shy
Miss Burnham of The Journal, Mrs. ].
B. Perkins and !, arose to the emer-
gency and if | do say it, did a neat
job of modifying on the young man.
It would have taken a healthy ghost to
get him out OF bondage. We even
drove tacks with a hammer) and had
him nicely spiked. A tambourine, bell
and horn Wer- laid on his knees-the
curtain drawn-and the crash follow
ed. Invited to walk AROUND the cabi-
met TO see that no trickery existed, l
borrowed Miss Burnham's knife and
cut Il slit in the curtain. I inserte d
one eye in the peep-hole tbefore the
manager caught mel and a hand was
writing on slate. Perhaps the
wizard had three hands. Who KIN ws
Anyway, he was clever and palmed bill
lard balls, extracted coins from the
air, etc, as well as Hermann could
have dore it.
Miss De Mar sang as pretitly as pos
sible. although a song bird seemed to
me trife out of place in connection
with mysteries.
Miss Grey Explains.
After the show | discovered Miss
Grey in the wings. No longer ban
daged she displayed lovely eyes, and
sufficient youth and beauty generally
to dispcl all uncanLiness. She dis.
claimed being a psychic-her sub-con-
e~i"-e mind did the act-she was an
adherent of Hudson.
anu you are not a spiritist. What
about unseen intelligences operating
THROUGH vou?"
i am still materfalistic,' said Miss
Grey. y am not medium. I have
done a little Of that sort OF thing