The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-03-29
Have You ever Had Hunch?

| ave YOU F1aQ a f7QHCHa
| The question Of how far sub-con
scious mind controls us has always
| been great food for thought. Emf
nent brain specialists and psycho1o
gists have discussed the subject for
centuries. Which is the stronger
our conscious self, or our sub-con.
sclous self? In an article published
in Pictorial Review for April, some
astonishing facts are presented that
90 to show We do possess a sixth
sense, (suB-conscious mind, in the
shape OF a full-fledged guardian an
gel.
The article cites the case Of a
young lady walking along a quiet
country lane who suddenly beheld in
her minds eye certain room in her
house and saw her mother lying on
the floor Of this room. SO impressed
was she with the belief that some
thing had happened to her mother,
that she ran to the house of the
family doctor, took him to her home
post-haste and led him TO the room
in question. There. sure enough,
they found the mother unconscious.
She had been stricken with an at
tack of heart failure that according
20 the physician would have been IA
sal had he not arrived when he did.
The young lady's father in corrobora-
ton of her story, states:
Il distinctly remember being sur
prised by seeing my daughter in
company with the family doctor out
side the door Of my residence, and
asked who is ill?' She replied,
Mamma She led the way at once
20 my wffe's room, where we found
my wife lying in a swoon on the
floor. When I asked when she had
been taken i'll, found it must have
been after my daughter had left the
house None Of the servants knew
anything of the sudden Illness
Another lady, while sitting alone
with her infant child, heard a voice
command: Take the child out of the
crib!''
Greatly frightened, she looked
around. but there was no one to be
seen. Indeed, she had reason to
believe that she and her son We're
for the time quite alone in the house.
However the voice came again:
Take the child out Of the crib!''
A third time the command was
given and she took the child up in
her arms. Scarcely had she done so
when a heavy bracket supporting a
lighted lamp gave way, letting the
lamp fall into the crib, which was
instantly in flames.
Happenings like these re,~of fire.
quent occurrence; but curiously
enough it is only Of late years that
any serious effort has been made to
explain them. So far as the general
public is concerned, it is safe to
say that as yet SO little is known Of
the recent scientific discoveries
throwing flood of light on them
that most people are still disposed to
regard them as evidences Of some
thing supernatural. In reality, it is
demonstrably certain the so-ealled
sixth sense" has nothing supernat-
ural about it. Whenever it operates,
it does so in accordance with some
Well-establlSHeu ldNS OF Inc nuHidH
mind. ].
To be suress mist be frankly con-
ceded that not all the experiences
chronicled can be explained in this
way. By no possible extension Of the
ordinary senses can we account for
the vision which sent the young
lady post-haste to summon the family
doctor. Happenings like these de-
cidedly come under another category,
though even they do not neces-
state an appeal to the supernat-
ural in order to understand them
They do, however, indicate that there
actually is at times operating in men
and women a faculty which may
rightly be referred to as sixth
sense"