The Washington times., 1917-03-13
Don Marquis
Column
The Thoughts of lIermione.

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Have you read dear Sir oliver
Lodges new book about the spirits?
Positively. It's the most thrilling thing !!
We took it up the other evening-my
little group OF progressive thinkers. you
KNOWN quite a serious way. We got
lot Of hints out Of 1t. For table tip
ping, you know, and Scientific Research
of that sort.
One thing was terribly disappointing
to me. though. It seems that as soon
as one dies-Passes over, you under
stand-one puts on a white robe.
Everybody wears thems everybody!
Frankly. sha'n't like that at all.
Black and white would not be so bad.
And OF course there are some girls who
always look their best in white. But
am not one Of them. L am the type Of
girl that must have touch Of color,
somewhere about her costume.
OF course. suppose some OF them
rouge a little. But ] never cared to
rouge much. And l don't know that 1t
would be exactly the right sort OF thing
on the Other Side. Would 1t be-well,
reUerentt
One would not care to fail in rever-
ence. would one?
Reverence! Reverence! What would
we do without reverence? Nearly every
night before l go to bed I ask myself:
Have 1 been reverent today? Or have
fd:ledf" -..
But white robes dItodys! And on
everybody! l should think that white.
white. white-white everywhere and all
the time. and nothing but white any
tOhere-would grow frightfully monoton-
Gus and tiresome.
am sure It would fail to create the
proper Environment to hasten my Spir-
itual Development.
And unless dress to express my Per-
sonality 1 am dreadfully unhappy'
My costumes must harmonize with my
moods, and my moods are changeable.
II ! have to go through eternity all
III Wnllcp L lubl hUOtU BCL tcitl-
bly, out Of tune-psychically speaking. IL
you get what / mean-with the Cosmic
All.
We're taking the problem up with our
own medium-the one my little group
has hired for our own seances. you
know
Isis thinks-her name Is Isis-that
possibly Sir divers spirits and me-
diums are talking about just one Plane
Of the hereafter, you know. They have
only progressed to some Plane or other
where white Is worn. And there may
be other planes they know nothing
about, where one can wear what suits
one psychically.
So we are drawing up a list of ques-
tions about costumes and Planes and
things for Isis to ask her spirit control
at the next meeting.
And il We find that they are just
wearing white because they want to.
and not because they are made to. we
are going TO start a Movement on This
Side to get them to broaden their ideas
a bit on the Other Side. you know.
How glorious II would be to feel that
1 was one OF a little group who got
Advanced Ideas across to the dear. |
sweet spirits on the Other Side for their |
esthetic growth and guidance,
One must do what one can to lift up |
and lead ahead those who need 1t. who |
ever they are or wherever they may be- |
If one spends ones life and gives ones |
best and sincerest thought in uplifting |
the people on This Side who are in the |
flesh. one Is gaining power to use In up |
lifting those on the Other Side. don't |
you think?
And my Ideal is to go on and on and |
on. from world to world. progressing. |
progressing through etern-
ity. From star to star. il you get what |
l mean. and from Plane to Plane, and |
all that sort of thing.
Once an advanced thinker. always an
advanced thinker.
And ! will not appear exclusively in
white when l Pass Over! I am de-
termined on that. And several OF the |
other girls feel the same way about it.
But the Swami Bhandranath says he |
is certain that Sir divers book Is right |
about the white robes being mandatory |
all over the place. II you
get what l mean.
But the Swami may be prejudiced. He
always wears white robes himself. you
is. when he is out Of Jail.
Just now We are terribly afraid that
the poor. dear. prosecuted man will be
back in stripes again before long.
1t seems the Swami Is in trouble
about some secret service people.
These secret service people got him
to help them somehow or other. Or
maybe II was some one else that got
him to help them and the secret service
people didn't like 1t.
Anyhow, il was something about Ire
land or India and the freedom Of the
seas. And it Is all frightfully compli-
Gated with the Swami having known
some Germans.
One has only to look into the Swamis
eyes to know that he is innocent.
OF course, II he doesn't actually have
10 20 to jail all the talk about 1t will
help his poetry to sell and help him to
get lecture engagements.
Not that the Swami cares for the
money at all He scorns money. He is
On a Plane where money doesn't exist.
he says.