South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-06-22
Ghosts
you believe in ghosts?

n o you believe in ghosts?
II i SGS ,SSG will tsb Here n ii is a n she't .: :tS5y: m i s s%@g: .. the + ages Ss t6 sS. 5
sisns %a.ls' Il n Bd sGE sT s c9e eia. D'{ gs. % D' a EH psychic + f. .nd 20 ps se % sat
and there you g are s face to Of face with a ghost ; Ps agntf atf sG of all that has
1t struck this man as the story goes, with a sege of insomnia, or deepless-
ness of m other kind, and led him to a physician for help.
Every night with the approach of the dark" he said to the doctor, my
ancestors n;es1@ come and sit IN the fence posts about my home, N there they ST.
p0 6Hns mo ~I " far c +mrdS . Il 10 ,m nu fro%u me ab be4 business hsH ".p;Gon: e
eve myHs H% hn @m re% mT ~ wsfo a0d children I% neI IoIn aOo oon6 Usme svsu SP n @Vse Ts
Naturally cannot sleep in such a terror.
Doctor, what would you advise m e to dc? he pleaded.
The physician was nOnp1ssed TO! a moment 1t was such an extraordinary
materia medca aside, common sense rushed to his rescue. WIN" N~S
81 would advis you" said the doctor ito sharpe" the tops of those fence
W7sE medicl The world is full of that type of ghosts, looking down
w through the ages al u.s. ven from earliest antiquity, and frightening US
al times quite out of our wits
The ghost Of I'D Ad o.i is hs% uni n i: , you right n f5I g%Pt" s, hi: waning od %ht finger niger
of ySe sE kao~He %eG Of ~oOdS and M n Of eS G'$R fer Gn.sn ~sa and @thou shalt t" su re
Thanks to the serpent. the wise physician, who put it up to Eve; thou
as gods, knowing good and evil"
And thereupon Adam and Eve discovered they were naked, and we're
ashamed, and they covered themselves with leaves.
The Sa ghost. % of Adam and s.1, EVE in their 6 6sis: ARE. ARE pr: sen in s every fash:
wherever clothing is bought and sold.
nv ancient times WON was the slave of man. She bore the burdens of the
L entire family. Barbaous man Wa moi satisfied that she should bring forth
children in sorrow" but insisted that she should work in the fields, tut the
wood and kindIe the fires as well as cook the meds-whle he hshed and
went hunting, and slept in the shade of his grapevmes.
Now and then a woman exceptionally beautiful of complexion, of face or
peoples ss,a in the 81 bG luton dhGds,,~ "hg special it favor invita-, with the ii, soP per f,1 l0Td. az and
the "fowhmdred."
1t vas away back there, in that dark and dismal past, that the cyic said,
and not SC cyncany either, considering the times, that twas better to be IN
% fJ R'S to ; . apras : nR d q sTn % @nth th bGrS wfely e slaves % had T become ss Sc oS ~or na
and haggard as o be thought fit for the discard, while making their husbands
rich, that they might afford "darEngs"
Witness the ghosts of that ancient practice among the people you know; of
husbands Sss ys oh s1 to be t j sGa aside p ~as ae a1t ds sGnSs O ye. n0P iSat s %e G nsn
who had promised to love, honor, comfort and keep hem until death"
women unbroken by age, un~rnnkled by worry and with beautiful hands.
And behold the ghosts of those aboriginal feminine slaves, and their more
delightful asenspnIng sisters, dressed In their beSt-OrS meWha dressed,
-peedng down through the ages and pointing their warning fingers at the
wives and daughters of the household.
Do you wonder that woman's mind rn to clothes, and shapes, and Co.'S
meics, and han-dressers, and manicure artists anything to make her pleasing
in mans sight? It's al instructive inheritance Of tn ages
Do you wonder that with the advance of feminine enlightenment, and the
other equal privileges to maintain herself, without fa~ning forever al the feet
of MANN slavery or to advertise her more Or less boughten charms?
Oh yes, there are such things as ghosts; such things IS our ancestors perch
ing themselves on the fence posts-and giving us gooseheh,-and the
sharpening o the tops of those posts to Pn-Ponts is a very good remedy.
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UST recently some such cwe was applied to the ghost of julius Caesar as
J he st in muhipIes, Perched behind trees machine guns and oceans of
camouAage, in Banou wood and Argonne forest.
For four years the ghost of Caesar, appropriding the bodies of the HUBS,
had been pointing warning fingers at the allies; might makes right" they
sad-and the spirit of world empire that Wilhelm had imbibed from Julius
and from Alexander continued to drive those allies back.
True, Caesar would not take the crown" He wast % much of a dena-
gogue for that AS a "monycodder" of the people the mighty Caesar" kept
his ambitions well hid for a considerable season; mind you, he would OF
take the crown" though as emperor he did not decline the power.
The difference between the caesar and the kaiser is that the former set ut
to sapoEo the world with sohsoap, while the kaiser, noting his predecessors
failure, concluded THAT the BETTER prescription was tHentymule team borax.
twas the same old spirit; the ghost of Alexander that inspired Caesar, and
the ghost of Caesar that inspired Kaiser Wilhelm. The difference vas ne of
processes rather than of purposes. Every Hun soldier was a Caesars ghost"
and it took IN allied world to didodge them
GAME as the ghosts of Washington, and of Adams, and of Jefferson, and of
- Madison and Monroe, are sitting o n your fence posts, haunting you with