The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-10-12

Il rising quickly she came TO me | askt
II her what had been the matter wit
v me.
e Instead OF replying she ran ava
and called the woman OF whom
I rented my room AS soon as sh
I came | asked for my American trare
! ing companion. | was informed tina
she had left Inferlaken week before
! asked where she had gone and wa
told that she had directed her letter
forwarded TO America Had she lief
any word for me? None except tina
she had been suddenly called home
| passed period of convnkscence II
sight Of the beautiful Jungfrau.
remembered perfectly the characters OF
the stories | had concocted during ms
Illness. moving about on the noun
tain side. but the combination story
ithey had enacted I could nor call up.
However. | made no effort Mt anything
eithef mental or physical simply lay
waiting for strength This came at
/ last and since the hot season was over
| went down to Spczia In italy. where
| imbibed more strength from the sea
air. From there made brief visit
to Florence and Rome and sailed from
Naples TO America. BY the time |
reached port I was perfectly restored
to health
Soon after my return / became enam-
ored OF picture plays. These plays-I
refer to those of dramatic and artistic
morton llod out ~ ~ oprroo;o.to,, 80
the drama and art there was in me.
One day | saw an announcement of a
picture play. the scene OF which was
laid among the Alps. | went to see 1t.
What was my astonishment to see
the same views had looked upon from
my windows at lnterlaken. Then came
view of the Jungfrau just as it had
appeared to me while Ill. There were
the dots on its side, and when a nearer
view was given they became resolved
into human beings.
Here and there was unfolded the
play had dreamed The characters
did not look like those IN my dreams.
but they did the things had dreamed.
The play was rs 1t appeared to me just
before it passed out Of my mind-that
$, in Il finished condition.
To say that | was wonder stricken is |
o express feebly what | felt / was
frightened. Was | in my senses? Was
lot my Illness returning to me? |
vas about 10 leave the theater when |
vas stopped by curiosity. must see
he play to the end.
When the end came | was near col
apse. That night | did not sleep a
wink. How had play which had
yolved itself IN my brain been trans
erred through films to a screen in
america? No solution occurred TO me
hat had any element of probability in
= went to see my physician and
Did him what had occurred. He look
d at me scrutinizingly and. despite
Is efforts at concealment. anxiously.
fter some thought he gave me his
leory as to the cause of what | had
I'D him. He said that there was
othing unusual in the character Of
" previously written stories chasing
ne another through my brain. A drug
ould do that But when he came 10
count for the formation of a picture
my brain he was staggered. As to
g fransierence of this play to a
reen in America. he could only ac-
unit for it on the ground that when |
went to the theater | had tempo |
ry relapse of. my illness and saw
hat was not on the screen. He for
de me to do any literary work and |
live as quietly as possible.
The true solution came in time. One |
Y | was surprised by call from Il
len Trowbridge. She came to make II
she told me that while H
was lying III at Interlaken / was II
lch of the time delirious. While de- II
Gus was constructing a picture II
". going over and over it time and H
lin. Presently it occurred to her to IL
Ike note of what was saving. and II
: then secured an outline for the II
y Then 1t occurred to her to paint II
scenes for the play. some of which l
re before her. others she selected :
he had been deeply impressed with IT
play and yielded to a temptation IL
DO dishonorable act Being sud. =
ly called home. she took her notes IT
pictures with her and sold them II
n film company. The result was II
play that had seen on the screen.
minded me $500. which she had
lived for her stolen property.
ne scientific moral of this story is II
my dramatic and artistic proclivi-
came out while was in deirium. H
how ! was enabled to construct a II
under such abnormal physical II
litions is a problem for more an II
cal minds than mine to solve.
King Alfrsd's Bugls.
lie most interesting of all bugles is
famous blowing stone" first used
Alfred the Great to signal his
ps on the field OF Ashdown. 1t is in
historic Vale of the White Horse,
erkshlre, England and is mass of
stone so curously pierced with
) that when blown 1t emits loud.
: call. The sound travels over the
D meadows, through the woods Of II
river Ock. echoing among the II
te Horse hills and down 10 King