, 1922-01-23

who has not heard Of the ouija
board? who can unravel its mys-
teries7
A lady living next door to me in tho
same house possesses n OF these
boards. That you may know some
thing Of this board. IL you have never
seen one OF them. 1 will describe it's
upper side thus: II 10 about IL by Is
inches in size; has the alphabet writ
ten In a somewhat sens-circular form
near its middle; has The word yes"
In its left hand corner; the word mo"
in its right hand corner; n funny look
ing figure resembling somewhat the
human face in q black field. and q
half moon with n five pointed t
In It's crescent or opening. It also
has the numbers from one TO nought
written In a straight line e Its bot
tom side, and stars inclosed in circles
in both OF its lower corners. The
words goodbye are written near its
lower edge.
Now, L am an old teacher; have
studied many subjects OF interest that
engage the minds of mankind, bait I
am up against a knot in tho mysteries
OF this board. When this board was
brought into my room. my little son
and l placed Il upon our knees accord.
ing to the rules given for it's use. We
placed the small triangular hand
board. a thing having exactly the form
of the bottom OF a lady's smoothing
iron, on the board. We placed the
tips Of our fingers on the tor OF this
little board and proceeded to ask
Ouija questions. "OuiJa. tell me how
ia -. Z - l.ufart1xr fha gha I'm and 0f
the little triangle slid to the number
six, then to seven, telling US that
you are CT. Ouija, in what month
wore 1 born7 The little triangle pro-
ceeded quickly and pointed In correct
questions asked by US hero are some
OF the You were born Oh
the ninth of October" you were
born in Mississippi" He was born
ut Salon" "He Is 81 years old =
Your mother had seven children. five
boys and two girls" I am a sign
writer and have two small signs to
write. When 1 asked2 win 1 get
those signs written tomorrow. 1t
gpeiivd out correctly: mo o will
get only OK ard a half written"
When 1 remo,stratSd with the board
and told It hal 1t ce-tainly must be
wrong that I could easily do the two
tomorrow, 1t spelled ont Quietly: mo.
you will not get them written because
its going to snow" In answer to a
certain question It replied Damn II l
know" And to another question;
what is It. your business" And an
other question: why didn't you say
SO at first" Hundreds OF other ques-
tons were answered in one way or
another. To see the little triangular
piece slipping over that board. some
times whirling completely around. then
shooting off IN a straight line TO some
particular number or letter. or to the
words yes and mo" in the upper
corners was indeed a mystery and an
interesting spectacle to me. Now
don't say Dandy. you or your son con-
trolled the movements of the little trt.
angle you had your fingers upon. for
many OF its answers came to us as
a great Burpriss-something we had
not thought OF. Look at this. When
Mrs. q. asked. For what ailment Is
my daughter in Denver going to be
operated ONT" It spelled out quickly:
II do not wish to tell" Now, mind
you, Mrs. B. knows her daughters
trouble. and was expecting an answer
that was of curse in her mind: but
no. IT simply wrote out 1T do not wish
to tell"
Now. come forward you iogicians
and tell me what cause the move.
ments OF this little triangular pointer.
Do not question the truthfulness Of
what 1 have here written as to the
mysterious manner in which the lit