Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-06-12
CASE OF DOUBLE
PERSONALITY
Girls Strange Affliction and
Its Happy Cure.

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or twenty years than ]. But right here
in the beginning l must break away
from my subject to tell story.
Margaret May charmed me BY what
consider the higher traits. She was
sober girl Of an intellectual type.
with excellent principles and elevated
ideals. l am not man to be pleased
with a gay. frolicsome girl. however
kind hearted. however winning. 1t
was, therefore, natural that should
yield to the characteristics OF Marga-
ret. We became engaged. and every
thing looked we'll fer our future happi-
ness when my flancee began to show q
succession Of singular changes. One
evening when l went to see her she
bounded into the room like holden.
threw her arms about my neck. kissed
me several times in rapid succession
and. beginning with "You bad boy"
upbraided me for not having come
earlier. When ! asked her for what
she had wished me she said that a cir
Gus had come to town. and she was
dying to attend that evenings per-
Torrance. AstOnished. l asked her II
the next night would not do as well.
She said It would not. and when I
pressed her for Il reason the only one
she would give was that she couldn't
wait.
1t was altogether too late to 60 to the
circus that evening. so 1 spent the rest
Of it with her in the cOzy library where
we had passed so many happy hours.
often taking book after book from the
shelves. rambling in them together and
calling each others attention to favor
lite passages. But, alas. there was no
such enjoyment for us tonight. Mar.
garet spoke Of the books as "musty.
dusty things" in which she had no in
terest. and insisted in talking only
upon the most frivolous topics.
1t is needless to say that was not
only disappointed. but shocked. Could
this be my steady, well balanced, in
tellectual Margaret? I was inclined
to doubt it.
"And you will take me to the circus
tomorrow night?" she asked. with a
pOut, as l rose to 60.
Certainly II you wish It," replied
and, when I could escape from an ex-
uberance of caresses, left her.
That night and the next day my
brain was in a turmoil. was like a
man who had lost his love. brOoded
instead Of working until after Office
hours and in the evening called to
take Margaret to the circus. The
maid who received me at the door
went upstairs to announce me and. re-
turning. told me that Margaret was
not feeling we'll and had gone to bed.
There was no message OF disappoint-
ment at missing the performance nor
at not seeing me. Indeed. the maid
told me that she thought her mistress
had not expected me that evening.
This would have been natural had It
not been for the engagement. since It
was an evening l seldom called.
The next Of my usual weekly visits
was Sunday, and called. dreading to
again find the holden. was agree
ably disappointed. Margaret was her
usual self except that she showed
signs Of overstrained nerves. Some
thing told me to refrain from mention
ing her singular personality when l
had last seen her-tO wait and OBJ
serve. During the visit and the next
two visits she was her own sweet self.
barring her altered health. Finally
referred to her desire to visit the cir
Gus. She seemed surprised. mystified.
and. when I told her the whole story,
said with nervous tremor, "Oh. she'll
ruin met"
WAS some one else than you with
me that EVENING"" asked.
"Yes-no. was with you, but she
dominated me-" And she hurried out
Of the room.
was not admitted to see Margaret
indeed. l did not care to see her;
was dissatisfaction a month. Then
l called on her. What was my sur
prise to find her different person
from either of the two had known.
From the moment we met she talked
of wOmen's rights. women's voting.
women's superiority to men and final
ly told me that If interfered with her
In any Of these objects to which she
proposed to devote her life we must
proceed by separate paths.
l left her maddened. Had I not been
puzzled as we'll l would have broken
my engagement then and there, but
curiosity prevented. Several months
passed in which l continued to visit
her, hoping that she would settle down
into her old personality resolutely.
When she was another I would turn
away from her: when she was my own
Margaret l loved her still the same.
AS the holden l found 1t possible to
be amused with her: as the "strong
minded woman l could not endure
her. was not able to get the real
Margaret to talk Of the other two, but
from hints she dropped inferred that
she knew Of their existence. and she
hated them.
One day l received n call from a
psychical specialist He informed me
that Margaret was under his care: that
two other personalities besides her own
appeared to inhabit her body and at
times dominated her. BY psychic meth
DDS of his own invention he was try.
Ing to enable her to dominate them and
thus return to a normal condition.
He succeeded, the intruders were
driven out, and Margaret Is my wife.