The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-11
ELIZABETH TONNE IS HIGH PRIESTESS OF
 THE NEW THOUGHT
Native of Oregon, Resident of HoIyoke
 She is Apostle of Optimism.

Reincarnation, karma, unity, optim- ism, the solar plexus. love, Fletchertsm. joy, success, monisn, spirit, occu1tisn, good cheer, psychic phenomena, clair voyance, cleanliness. telepathy, sug- gestion, Inspiration brotherhood and a thousand and one other words ex- pressive of ideas or a paucity of same enter into the literature Of that re- ligio-p philosophic system which is call- ed New Thought,r and which has won millions of disciples throughout the world. High priestess of this great and growing cult is Mrs. Eliza- beth Towne Of Holyoke. Mass., who was born in Portland, Ore, forty-rine years ago today It is true that Eliza beth does not accept all of the theor- name of New Thought. and very few of her followers are in absolute agree-
 n1ent with her, but Mrs. Towne be- Ilieves that New Thollghters could principles to- enable them to form sak powerful church body with a congre gationa1 government.'' After her re-, cent tour of America Mrs. Towne ex-s 1 pressed the opinion that this new re- ligious body is already in process Of forming and that 1t will soon have societies in all Of the important cities and towns of the United States and lCanada. 8
 I Mrs. Towne began her New Thought
 work in Portland. Ore, about twenty years ago Her maiden name was
 Elizabeth Jones but at the age of fifteen she became Mrs. J. Holt strl- I ble. In 1900 she removed to HoIyoke, ] Mass. where she married William D. 1 Towne. Since then she. has been ac- I lively engaged in writing books and publishing periodicals devoted to New Thought propaganda, and has made numerous lecture tours of the contin- I ent. l Optimism is the principal plank in
 Mrs. Towne's philosophy of life. s.Sal- jyation from sin,'s she declares, comes from the New Thought of oneness with 1iGod, the All Power. the All Wisdom and AT-Presence.,
 Renember, says Elizabeth, the IcaH of the grave Is to sobble oodles Of grub and sit around. But Life and lNew Thought call you to discriminate. lmoderate masticate. irrigate, assinil- ate, eliminate, and go tangoing, and Il lgolhng. and gardening,
 Politically this fair preacher of a lnew religion is a 1dooser and she was 2 Ia delegate from Massachusetts to the Progressive convention in Chier 70. I She believes ii suffrage for her sex. land tells why: sw NzE5 S 1Enyironrnent makes the man and 1.-the woman. But who makes the en- lvironment, and how. In America up Ito the present time men have made it, lby vote and boss ru1e Men boosting the voting have made the present hu- { Innanity for money environment< Men Fl think in terms of money. It is time ] to give the women opportunity to help
 vote into existence q money for men lenvironment. Women think and feel in terms of humanity. of children and fathers,
 As to that belief in immortality (which is common to nearly all religions
 Mrs. ToWne says.
 *sI know that by doing my best with 5I this life shall be ready for the fife to leone, whatever that life may be- or
 whenever 1t may be-,
 l lTowne. lis the name given to the great spiritual movement of the nineteenth land twentieth centuries, a great move tment of religious thought and feeling
 directed to answer individual needs of :. ibody and mind z f