The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-01-10
HER SPANISH MAJESTY
PERSISTS DESPITE GER
TEIs' EXPLANATIONS

Don't be narrow. Dmdyf' / m,ld
| lining up on his side. as usual. Go
into the subject thoroly. do I'll get
book for you. know one on
psychic mystery that contains over
800 pagcsl why. even spirit chill.
dren have their say nowadays. one
I little girl spirit ndmonlshcr her fam.
ily not 20 pack five persons into the
family auto. which was built 10 hold
I FOUR
At this. Daddy ronred Ike a bois.
I ferrous boy. and. thus encouraged !
went on like bad little girl.
And one OF the most popular 81
deceased authors hands out this.
'UnderHtaud that love IL spiritual
and you understand all a truth.
We must admit. but hardly a rcveia.
| ton. In fact, as old as the hills
Say. Doc You ought 10 know
something about this business. see.
I inF idiots and the insane are your
/ speciality said Daddy What's
back Of all this bunk"
"selfhypnouam. answered Ger.
/ tets quietly.
Explain that" demanded Daddy.
Two big facts are attestcd by in.
yestlgators OF the ouiJa board. tip
ping tables. humping piano stools
and such bits OF athletic furniture"
said Certcia. "Ono IL that very
honest persons who DO not desire TO
deceive themselves or others do &C.
tnslly spell out sentences. sometimes
rather startling messages from
what they believe to bee spirit rap.
pings Sow. u IL asserted - sclcn.
7 tific authorities that these opcr.
ators never write ans thing which
WAS not stored up ia their own
minds 20 begin with. Get thatT In
their Aubconacioua minds
sure. ! grasp that" Daddy as.
scented.
Then cortcla proceeded in his sc.
rious professor manner.
when Miss Lorimcr learned
from "A control that Jim was To
have % planes 20 his credit. she
was writing down her own idea Of
Jim's prUwcra. She had stored up
that wish for him in her Hubcon.
scious mind. and Il popped out
| when she didn't expect IL. when she
didn't even recognize II as her own
idear'
And Jim never got over there"
was baddy's comment Your the.
DRY sounds perfectly good to me.
Ccrtcls. quite reasonable Good
thing to know about, too. Seeing
how daffy people get over this stuff.
It's time they had n line on the truth
about IL. silly to fool ones self But
say. Chrys. IL her Spanish majesty
can't help US about our fortunes for
1919. let's sec what she knows about
the past Have you got her on the
line stiilg"
Plainly. her majesty was still with
US. Chrys had become so cugroascd
with her new control that she
had failed 20 get Certeis' explanation
Of the science OF the thing.
Under her fingers. the pointer was
flying around with astonishing rapid.
ity. hitting the letters OF the alpha.
bet with remarkable accuracy.
had stopped jotting down the letters
as they were Indicated. In order that
might hear what the doctor had
TO say.
But Chrys didn't soold me. She
had played with her pet board so
much that she was an expert as well
as an honest and trusting reader OF
| it's messages She made "A most re.
markahlc picture as she resumed
| her scstnce. sitting straight and
rigid opposite Eloise. whose slender
| fingers also touched the pointer.
! Chrys eyes were fixed on the
board. her arm moved as II the con
troll" were pulling II about against
! her will. and her voice rose and
! fell evenly. mechanically. as she
| spelled out the messages"
Goodness graciousl hope she
! isn't going into "A trance" said TO
myself.