Arizona republican., 1920-05-04
Set Down Ouija's Prediction O

OCT OOWn FrediCCiOn OT
 Daddy's Blindness a Coincidence
 What Chrys might do in Honolulu and how far her daring might carry her when impelled by her hatred of Certeis, Bob couldn't guess better than 1. When we discussed the strange sit uation of our relatives, we had no fear that the plans Daddy had outlined would miscarry. But what might hap pen, outside of his regular program, might prove most annoying to all of us.
 There was one statement in Daddy's letter which I could not discuss with my husband. Of course it distressed Bob to learn that Daddy had had a slight stroke which had resulted in his temporary blindness, but Bob didn't care to be reminded that one of Chrys' controls had given her the same information week before Daddy's letter arrived.
 Bob remains deaf and dumb to every phase of his sisters mysticism. and 1 didn't dare to ask him to account for the revelation" as it had come through Chrys
 Perhaps it was only a weird coinci- dence that Daddy had been blind a a time when Chrys was considering the consequences of stroke" If so it was just the kind of a coincidence which makes converts for Mime. Ouija.
 l found the only explanation which satisfied me when I went to Chrys' room for a book I had loaned her. On her desk were others which she had been reading. One was a medical work with Jordan Spence's name on the fly leaf. It had to do with the results of cerebral hemorrhage
 How characteristic of Chrys to se- lect the unusual before she considers the commonplace,'' was my comment as l turned the pages.
 Several cases of transient blindness nd @l, these had made a very deep impress sion upon Chrys mind
 She had worried-with the rest of us about Daddy'S condition She knew that his first attack of paralysis had been brought on by fit of temper Evidently Chrys had read up on the subject. had registered the accounts of blindness accurately, and then quite unconsciously had passed along the theory as fact in one of her seances. And 1t happened to be a fact too. Condolences of this kind fascinate many devotees of the ouija board
 The explanation convinced me, but l realized that it>would not satisfy person who desired to believe in spirit ism.
 communicating with the dead, I was forever combating some new ''revela- tIon- l kept busy. too. for many of my cleverest friends give the weight of NHch "iSuoAi dlu personality to the cult
 Since the "ouija girls" and Mime Planchette" now have an act in Broad ways latest successful revue It looks as If the fad had reached it's apex.
 I hope our girls took their ouija boards along" I said to Bob. And | wish they had taken me with them"
 'Why?"
 Maybe I could have trapped a spy by new process Perhaps I could discover the secrets of the plotters by reading their wishes, spelled out, sub consciously, by the ouija pointerl"
 Write to Katherine said Bob en- thusiastically
 Katherine is not sincere devotee like Chrys. She's quite interruptions She will trap her prey by any pro- cess. I'll tell her what you and I be- lieve about ouija- I'll try to show her that the subconscious mind tricks us. It stores up songs, ideas, scenes, all sorts of impressions, .on the side