The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-26
Miss Ruth Grey at the Orpheum Says She Didn't Discover Mind
 Reading But It Discovered Her
Wonderful Exhibitions Given Daiy-Advce and Consolation Women All Ask Questions About Love Affairs and "Af finities ," While the Men Ask About Business
 Evil Thoughts Worry Her
Rv DOLLY DALnYMPLE.

1 Grey is an optimist to the tips of her fingers and does you more good than all the tonics that the doctors can prescribe and besides that she is very clever. 1 At the end of the performance you feel so sorry for Miss Grey you don't know what to do, because the awful nerve | strain has reduced her to a fimsy mass,
 and her voice is husky and dry and she
 leaves the stage all tired and worn and
 you don't wonder!
 | Once behind the scenes, however, she
 recuperates very rapidly, for, as she ex- plains, all the time she is not giving
 exhibitions she relaxes completely-else
 she couldn't stand the strainl
 Miss Grey greeted me very cordially
 and we made, ourselves comfortable in
 some big armchairs just outside her dressing room, and then I said. How do you do it?"
 | "I don't know" she replied, laughingly,
 as she pulled her big coat closely about
 her shoulders over the pretty spangled | gown she wore. q have the ability to read thoughts-thats all! I see nothing l particularly marvellous in it, when you
 consider that some years ago everyone
 doubted that such a thing as wireless telegraphy could exist The most learned
 professors who have delved into physc
 questions have acknowledged that mind
 reading is an art as well as a science and
 that it's possibilities are limitless." 1 When did you discover that you had | this power?" I asked.
 q didn't discover it." said Miss Grey. Tt discovered me. When I was a little girl my mother used 10 become really | alarmed over the frealSish things that I
 would do. I had a peculiar faculty of
 rushing to her and announcing such
 things as maiden aunt whom we had
 not seen for an age was coming to visit
 us, or another blood relative, who had
 been separated by the antipodes from us
 for years, would arrive the next day, and sure enough things came to pass
 just as I predicted"
 How long have you done this sort of | thing?" I asked
 "I have been giving exhibitions for the
 past five years?" was the reply, ''but I
 have always been interested in the sub-
 conscious self, and the possibilities of
 the physic influence which to me is truly
 marvellous"
 Are you an American I asked "Yes, and better still, am a southern err said Miss Grey proudly. T am a. na- ] tive Virginian although I was reared in Illinois and have lived in the north, east | and west. more than in the south" "ls your work in any degree spiritual | istic?" I inquired.
 q make no pretenses toward spirit | ualism,'' said Miss Grey. T am a mind reader. I was brought up in the Con- i sregational church and my affiliations | have always been in that direction. I 1 follow no cults and isms" Docs it tire you physically to go | through these seances?" asked. Tt worries me to come in contact with bad thoughts said she despairingly. T hate to know that people are contem- plating cheating and robbing and doing
 harm to their fellow men. Did you mo-
 tice this afternoon that I refused to ! answer certain question? We'll I al-
 ways refuse sinister inquiries. There is
 so much to be done for people who are
 really worth while. Don't you seer" And is mind-reading first cousin
 once removed from telepathy?" I auer- jed.
 'Telepathy is what MT. Augustus | Thomas has woven into his most interest
 ing drama, The Witching Hour Did you
 see it? Yes? Then you know what l
 mean."s
 l had question just at that moment-
 Ooh! such an important questionD that
 l thought perhaps little touch of telep- athy might bring about an aswer to, but | 1t didn't seem to strike Miss Grey that way. and so I concluded that perhaps | telepathy works better at distance-sort
 of "absent treatment" as it were-and l refrained.
 'If you have friends in another city"
 Miss Grey explained, and you wish to
 communicate with them, concentrate your thoughts at a certain time upon them. Get them to do the same with you. Ga