Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-08-29
Instances Which 0utshine Or.
Jekyll and MIR. Hyde.
Account Of One Woman Who Had as
Many as Ten PersonaIities-Ene-
lish Doctors Theory-Many
Strange HalIucinations.

London.-Dr. Jekyll and Mr.. Ryde
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 off his
male mental characteristics and be-
came 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
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 a 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 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-
sonality she was known as Sally.
chiefly because of her mischfevous,
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 az 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. Ansel Baughan, who awoke one
day to find himself living under the |
name of Brown long way from his
home. He had wandered there and I
had been living there for two months. |
keeping shop.
These extraordinary cases OF dual |
are eclipsed by this case:
This woman evidenced the possession |
of no fewer than ten different person
alfties, one of which was, of course.
her normal self. Her abnormal /
states were:
/. A childish mood, In which she
to herself as thing. or a
good thing. even signing letters in
this fashion.
n q - pdS6lOudtC AnONAs All WHA~A 1AC
became intensely irate. and even went
SO far as to bite her clothes. This
personality was very much better edu-
Gated than that OF the thing, and the
letters written by her while under
It's influence we're In a vastly different
handwriting. During this mood she
to herself as Old Nick.
3. Every now and again the pa
these stages she would communicate
with her fellows only by talking on
her fingers, the method OF which Ian
Euage she understood slightly in her