The Washington herald., 1911-04-22
MANY AND VARIED ARE
FANTASIES ENTERED IN
THE DREAM CONTEST I

By JULIA CHANDLER MAN7

The new Herald Building has become
this week a magic place, made so by
hundreds of dream tales, recited by you
in the Strange Dream Contest" So
vivid are some of these wonderful
visions that 1 have been quite carried
away with the dreamers into strange
and wonderful lands, through queer and
varied experiences.
Mrs B. G. Brann enters a vision in
the contest which she calls The Dream
of the Red Domino which seems not
merely a vision, but a message conveyed
10 her in the still of the night-a clear
seeing with subconscious eyes, that see
not at all when all our faculties are
awake and active.
The following is Mrs. Brann's dream:
The Dream of the Red Domino.
Some years since, my father. who
resides in a beautiful country town near
Syracuse, n. Y. had the misfortune TO
fall on the ice one cold winters day.
his head hitting the ice in such way
es to cause a slight concussion Of the
brain.
He was taken into the house and put
on a sofa in the sitting room. and as he
seemed cold, in the rush and excite
him up in his own bathrobe, which was
upstairs in his bedroom, some one hastily
folded about him an old red woolen
domino that had once worn at a mask
ed ball. and which happened to be hang
ing in a nearby closet. 1t was warm
and soft, and as the doctor forbid his
being moved that night. it was left
around him.
MY father and I are great comrades.
sharing joys and sorrows alike, and, al
though in his well moments he knew
that We were many miles apart, yet from
the first moment of his fall, he called in
cessantly for me.
Was with Him in Spirit.
In the wee small hours of the night
my mother, sitting by my fathers side,
saw him sit up, and looking over as If
at person standing near him, say aloud:
"'Well. daughter. daddy knew you'd
come and take care Of him. but why do
you wear that old red domino?
Then ne laid back, relaxed, and slept.
In a few days he was about again. He
did not remember the fall: or anything
concerning it-except the dream about
ne and the red domino.
Saw Father Lying Ill.
The same night. the same time (as
we afterward found OUT. I. many miles
away. knowing nothing of the accident,
awakened trembling and fearful
Il had dreamed OF seeing daddy lying
III on the sitting room sofa at home. l
went to him and said, Dear old daddy,
I've come to take care of you, but why
do you wear that old red domino
The dream was so real that l got up
from my bed and sat down and wrote
about 1t TO mother.
Her letter TO me, mine to her crossed
en- route. each containing descriptions of
the two dreams, which in our dream COL
lection we call The dream of the red
Domino" "
Dream that Changed Life.
a young woman sends me the account
of a vision that was so vivid that II
changed the course Of her whole life
! am Withholding the name of the dream
er at her request, but this is the dream:
Il was then a mere child of fourteen
ami about as disObedient and independent
as any my age. In fact, I was an eX-
trcmeIv naughty child and not a whit
religious. Sometimes, l would even go
so lar as to break the dishes or tear a
When. one night after an outburst of
never forget.
Salvation in Balance.
I thought that l was sitting on the
steps of my home. sulking. when Christ
appeared. He was clothed in flowing
robes of blue and red. There were san
dals on His feet and a halo of light
shown around His head. He laid cne hand
en- my shoulder while in the other He
held an equally balanced scale. And as
] raised my head l saw a face Of angelic
lC,eIineSS.