South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-14
YOUTHFUL ENGLISH
GIRL CLAIMS She
USES TELEPATHY
Sketches Accurately Things
She Has Never Seen-Re-
iects ReincarnatiOn Theory.


NEW YORK. May 1911 suddenly
out OF nowhere came a picture 10
your mind which you proceeded 10
paint or draw. that would be no very
extraordinary affair. would it?
But. IL weeks later. in & new land.
perhaps. or in book Of photographs
you saw the Identical thing you had
painted-what would you say? Es-
pecially If your sketch showed an
ancient temple or far-off villa whose
lines you had never seen before?
Transmigration OF the soul. or the
theory OF reincarnation. might, 20
some. explain such an occurrence.
Butt Miss Sydney Dyke rejects these
theories. or rather says she simply
doesn't try 10 account for her mem
DRY" picture.
On the walls of THE Oasis at No.
10 East Forty st. Miss Dykes
paintings hang at present. To the
uninitiated they look like very inter-
esting water-colors of landscapes
and design. But they are OF two par
ticular kinds. those called symbolic
portraits and the others memory
pictures"
Sometimes I have thought" says
Miss Dyke. that have looked upon
certain scenes in another age, an
other place. But I do rot like 10
talk of transmigration.
yet 1 do believe in something like
certainty of life. For instance,
- 4. a. sHv;rt, 5sE--+os 4t,o Dofp4
ing over there with the cypress trees,
little pond, and a villa in the dis
lance. When 1 made that I had a
strong feeling that l must put pin
nacles on the building. although 1
thought they would hardly be the
thing. Later l saw some one who
saw the picture and discussed it with
me.
II wanted 10 call il the villa d
Este We got book Of villas and
found that one really called by that
very nanle--a fifteenth century build
ing-had pinacles such as l had
drawn.
"Reincarnation, as an explanation,
| don't like The word is used by so
many takers that I must reject it."
Miss Dyke is a tall, striking-loOk-
ing young woman of handsome and
wholesome aspect. Her findings are
not the result Of incoming over weird
psychic, subjects, but have come sim
ply and naturally TO her attention.
! She has made pictures, the ideas of
which interested her, and later found
/ that they had an odd significance.
From that tbeginning she perfected.
| by self-teaching, her technique in
water color so as better to present
/ her subjects.
Remarkable Paste Picture.
From the pages of a novel treat
| ing OF Irish life Miss Dyke showed
me another of her memory pic
lures" 1.-THE interior of a quaint old
castle hall. oddly constructed. the
plan Of which came to Miss Dyke
/ like a flash of intuition" as she
explains.
Later. after I made the sketch. 1
went TO Ireland and met the Coun-
/ tess ClOmortie, who was writing a
book I told her Of the drawing of a
room I'd made. She looked at it. 1t
was just like the one in her home.
So she put my drawing in the book. "
Miss Dykes experience is a strange
one. Fe wof US there are who have
not seen something in a dream and
later seen the original of our fancy,
and then became bewildered as TO
which we really saw first.
But this artist has visioned scenes
/ in Egypt where she has never trav-
/ eled: scenes in Ireland in a castle
she has never visiteu. And starting
with only an ancient head, Of which
she made a sketch in the British
museum, Miss Dyke fashioned a
painting which make the most skep-
teal tend 10 listen to tales of trans
migration.
Mental Pictures.
"I don't try TO see these things Wis
ually. 1 get mental pictures of places
in which I feel 1 have lived in pre-
vious days.
Sometimes we meet people that
apparently are strangers. men and
women we are not conscious OF ever
having met before. Yet we feel. and
they feel. that a previous acquaint-
ance in another age, in another pre-
viOus life. has existed.
Meeting a person IS like striking
a chord. Marconi, for instnce. gets
messages off the wireless. He doesn't
know what this force is: he knows
that he has learned no 10 put II TO
work And a current is of no use
without a connection.
In painting portrait I determine
what planets govern my subjects life,
Jupiter, Saturn, Venus. or whatever
they may be. All have their own
colors. Therefore. / take the hues
which shine over the persons ex-
istence and put them into appropri-
ate form.
Placing myself in a negative, or
passive state of mind when 1 come
in contact with a person, my sub
! conscious mind seems TO be free 20
receive impressions. These gleanings
- character I use 10 make the por-
I traits