Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1913-09-04
Instances Which 0utshine Or.
JekyIl and Mr.. Hyde.
Account Of One Woman Who Had AZ
Many az Ten Personalitles-Enu-
Iish Doctors Theory-Many
Strange Halluelnations.

London.-Dr. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde
must look to their laurels. British
scientists have uncovered instances
Of human beings who possessed as
many as ten different personalities.
One in particular could change her
mood every hour in the day.
A remarkable example is that OF
William Sharp, who shook on his
male mental characteristics and be-
came q woman in heart and mind.
Sharp when youth ran away and
Joined band Of gypsies. When he
returned TO society he took up litera-
ture and decided he wanted to become
q poet. He found he could not por-
tray his ideals while plain William
b Sharp.
He would sit down. take upon him.
self feminine tone and write books
as Fiona Macleod.
He used to say he could write out
Of his heart in a way he could not
do as William Sharp. Fiona always
was spoken Of as a separate person,
and he even wrote letters to her.
There was a real difference In the
literary style, and even in the hand
writing.
Another case was that Of Miss
Beauchamp, who had what is describ-
ed rs a multiple personality. It was
recorded OF her that she could change
her personality hour by hour. In one
Of her characters she was described
as q saint, very prim and rigidly con-
scientious, quite incapable Of dishon'
esty. In another character she re-
laxed somewhat, and in the third per-
sonality she was known as Sally,
chiefly because of her mischievous,
troublesome and nasty behavior.
Miss Beauchamp, like most women,
disliked spiders intensely, but 1t was
astonishing to find that her third per-
sonality, Sally. loved them and col
lected them IN her ttlnket box. Often
che would scream on discovering the
very spider she hid 80 carefully
placed In the trinket box herself.
Sally would write letters TO people
to when Miss Beauchamp would not
speak. In this way she found herself
in for appointments with persons she
| would not think OF meeting as Miss
Beauchamp.
It was easy to see which character
was In possession by the way she
walked, By the clothes she wore and
by the manner in which she shook
hands.
Again there was the case OF the
Rev. Ansel .Baughan, who awoke one
day to ind himself living under the
name Of Brown q long way from his
home. He had wandered there and
had been living there for two months,
keeping a shop.
These extraordinary cases Of dual
; personality are eclipsed by this case;
This woman evidenced the possession
Of no fewer than ten different person
aIities, one OF which was, Of course.
her normal self. Her abnormal
states were:
/. A childish mood. IN which she
referred to herself rs a thing. or q
GOOD thing. even signing letters in
fiis fashion.
2. A passionate mood, In which she
became intensely irate. and even went
20 far as to bite her clothes. This
perhonaIity was very much better edu.
Gated than that Of the thing. and The
letters written BY her while under
tn influence we're IN a vastly different
handwriting. During this mood she
referred to herself as Old Nick.
Every now and again the pa
dent became deaf and dumb. During
fhasa stages she would Communicate
va her feIlszs Only By talking onl
h,r Hngsrs. the method Of which Ian
rnnrD she understood slightly IN her