The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-03-08
A PSYCHIC MYSTERY

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In the Fourth Estate of February % John F
Rathon editor of The Providence Journal at the in
vtatlon OF the editor of the Fourth Estate. expresse
his opinion of Mrs. Curran of st. Louis, and he
communication, through the medium Of the QUIZ
board. Mr. Rathom says in part:
II is quite true that have known of Mrs
Currans work very intimately for some years.
and that have been convinced from the be-
ginning as far she is concerned that the COM
munications which she receives genuine in
every way. and that while she and differ as to
their real origin, there be no question what
ever of her honesty of the marvellous charac-
ter of the mind that directs the Patience Worth
communications.
That the source of these communications is
super normal and has nothing to do with any
embodied personality is, in my opinion not open
to question The thousands OF people including
many OF the keenest minds in America who have
had the privilege of being with Mrs. Curran dur
ing these periods of so-called control, have no
question as to her entire honesty.
find the best answer to any claim to the con-
trary, the fact that human being living today
has produced such of marvellous lit
erature as this disembodied personality known
Patience Worth.
The testimony Of Mr.. Rathom is brought on
because OF a recent dispatch to the New York Tri
bune, dealing with the controversy between Mrs
Curran and Joseph Rim to the so-called super
natural communicatons-Nirs. Curran had given tn
name Of Mr. Rathom convinced of the gen
uineness OF her claims. AS. Mr.. Rathom has beel
known as one of the leading 'spoek chasers" o
America. the exposer of many fake mediums, anc
as he is pitess in exposing anything he believes
to be fraudulent he asked by the Fourth Estat
as to his views, with the result that he exoneratet
fraud
Joseph F. Rim has recently challenged Sir Olive
Lodge, offering 5000 to the endowment fund of th
society OF physical research. if the society or ST
Oliver or anybody offer under scientific cohd
tions the slightest tenabIe evidence of communica
ton with the spirit world or supernatural feats
any kind"
Mr. Rim is the former member of the society 70
psychcal research who took part in the exposur
of PaIladino and of many other mediums whose so
called supernatural phenomena proved to b.
fakes
Elizabeth Towne. New Thought editor of The Nau
titus says reference to the recent wave of PSYCHE
cal Interest: There is nothing that shall not b.
revealed" in due time. Between Sir divers ant
our Rims we ought to learn something abou
spirituaIisn And she comrnends The New Fairy
land by Harry Leon Wilson. in the Saturday Even
ing Post for January nth, as the pest or antdote
to the recent mad of fiction writers in spfr
itualistic moonshine."
The New Fairyland is worth reading. It is witty
and in part, it is quite wise But the writer o
his has come to the point where she longe
seoff Such articles as that written by Mr.. Wilson
are good for to read. They make US see the hu
Ynorous side of the subject which he clever1!
holds up to ridicuIe If we have not seen it withou
his aid and he gives something to laugh over.
But so far we have not seen one person who ha:
read the remarkable productions of Patience Worth
Who can laugh over them.
The first time heard Of Patience Worth.
was on ferry boat hot afternoon in July, trying
70 get cool. was sitting the upper deck witt
n young woman whom I had placed as the best
poised most busnesslike. most able younS person |
had ever been my lot 10 meet Perhaps 1t was th'
heat Perhaps it was just that had only reeentl!
met and needed a neutral topc-at any rate oul
desultorv conversation fell the occult and she
asked me If 7 had ever read Patience Worth. Thi.
was in the summer Of 1917. and Patience Worth made