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Instances Which 0utshine Or.
jekyI and Mr.. Hyde.
Account Of One Woman Who Had as
Many as Ten PersonaIlties-Eng-
lish Doctors Theory-Many
Strange Hailucinatlons.

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 aher
mood every hour In the day.
A remarkable example is that OF
William Sharp, who shook off his
male mental characteristics and be.
came a woman in heart and mind.
Sharp when a youth ran away and
Joined a band of gypsies. When he
returned to society he took up litera-
ture and decided he wanted to become
a poet. He found he could not por-
tray his ideals while plain William
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 way he could not
do as William Sharp. Fiona always
was spoken of as separate person.
and he even wrote letters to her.
There was q real difference In the
literary style, and even In the hand
writing.
Another case was that OF a Miss
Beauchamp, who had what is describ-
ed as a multiple personality. 1t was
recorded of her that she could change
her personality hour by hour. In one
of her characters she was described
as a saint very prim and rigidly con-
scientious, quite incapable OF dishon-
esty. In another character she re-
Taxed somewhat. and in the third per-
sonaiity 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 trinket box. Often
she would scream ON discovering the
very spider she had so carefully |
placed In the trinket box herself
Sally would write letters to people
to whom 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
1t 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. Amsel Baughan, who awoke one
day to ind himself diving under the
name Of Brown a long way from his
home. He had wandered there and
had been living there for two months
keeping shop
These extraordinary cases OF dual
are ec1ipsed by this case.
This woman evidenced the possession
" no fewer than ten different person
liities, one OF which was, of course.
Ter normal self. Her abnormal
;tates were:
1. A childish mood, in witch she
eferred to. herself so thing, or
'ood thing. even signing letters In
his fashion.
2. A passionate mood, In which she
ecame intensely irate. sad even went
o far as to bite her clothes. This
ersonatity was very much better edu-
ated than that of the thing. and the
'tters written by her yhiie under
o influence were in vastly differentI y
During this mood she q
.ferred to herself as Old Nick. /,
8. Every now and again the pa II
ent became deaf and dumb. During G
lese stages she would communicate fl
18th her fellows only by talking on IL
sr fingers. the method OF which Ian. b
Isse she understood slightly In her II