The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-12-25
CHRISTMAS TREE
MAY SAVE GIRL
FROM EVIL SELF
Novel Test Arranged to Enable
victi moi Dual Personality
To Danish polly"
HYPNOSIS so FAR FAILS
Eight Times Since Sunday Ber-
nice Has Lapsed From Woman
of Dignity Into Naughty Child.
BY Universal Service.

BY Universal Service.
CLEVELAND, Dec. 24.-Eight
times since Sunday, Bernice Redick,
the girl of two personalities, has
thrown off her real character of Ber-
nice and has taken on that of mys-
FERROUS "Polly," a naughty child who
cries and stamps her feet and slaps
those who would be kind to her.
To Give Polly Tree.
The girl has lapsed twice into the
personality of Polly" whose exist
ence DR.. Goddard is seeking to obliter-
ate from Miss Redick's life by means
of hypnosis.
Preparations are afoot today at the
Bureau of Research to give Polly" a
Christmas tree. 1t is believed and
hoped that the sight of the tree, with
its trimmings, will so disgust Bernics
with herself that she might, of her
own sheer will, throw off her other
character.
The girl, while calm and in her own
personality, talked for more than an
hour today, reiterating her belief, eX-
pressed Monday, that her body Is
shared by two souls-one her own
and the other that of her twin sister.
who died at the age Of eight years.
Her theory is borne out by the fact
that when in the grip of this other
personality she calls herself Polly.
This was her pet name for her sister.
Physicians, while scouting the
spiritual phase of the case, admit in
a few instances, that there may be
some physical or mental alliance be-
tween twins to the end that a sensa-
ton felt by one might be felt by the
other
Discusses Twin Theory.
DR.. Oscar Thomas, obstetrician, de-
clared it quite possible that the sub
conscious minds of twins might in
herit the same thoughts from the
mother and other predecessors, that
with the death of one of the twins
and cessation of thought in that par
ticular brain, conscious or subcon'
scious the same subsconscious brain
action would continue in the living
twin.
Even her tastes for food change
with the transition from one person
ality to the other. She said today:
II do not care much for candy, out
love apples when l am myself. They
tell me that when l insist that l am
Folly | will throw apples and other
fruit from me in a rage, and Will be
racified, If at all, only by candy.
Girl Can't Understand.
Il don't recall that any of py sis
ters or brothers were afflicted as l am
I cannot understand it. DIR. Goddard
tells me that my condition is due to
nervousness, probably produced by
shock. | do not recall ever having
cxperienced a shock. When l went to
school l always got passing marks.
Afterward, when l went to work In
offices, my employers never complain
ed about my work. On the contrary,
they praised it.
why must my life be darkened by
this terrible affliction? I'm young
woman one hour and crying child
the next"
But, as has been pointed out be-
fore, Miss Redick knows only what she
is told about the dual personality. AS
Polly she has no knowledge, no mem
DRY of Bernice, and as her true self
she knows nothing of what she does
when the personality of Bernice is
submerged and that Of Polly gains the
ascendancy.
The change most frequently takes
place fhen the young woman is
awake. She turns pale, sways a few
moments, and becomes in few
minutes either Bernice or Polly, de
pending on what state she Is in when
the transformation begins.