Evening star., 1923-04-05
LADY DOYLE CLAIMS.
SPIRITS GUIDE PEN
Wife of Creator of "Sherlock
Holmes" Has Gift of Au-
+ tomato Writing.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
NEW YORK. April 5.-Lady Jean
Doyle. wife of Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle, today held the spotlight
focused on the second American visit
of the author of Sherlock Holmes,
who is here to tell America more
about the spirits and the fairies. Lady
Doyle has the gift of automatic writ
ing. 1t is through this gift that much
material has been collected by her
husband.
Tall and slim. strong. likable
face. a black hat Surmounting her
curly brown hair, and gray suit
topped off with gray fox scarf, she
sat bolt upright today on a couch In
the biggest suite of the Hotel Bilt-
more and discussed Spiritualism and
its detractors. The latter caused her
a.. to rush into an enthusiastic defense
of her husband, both as an analyst
and a man.
against yielding to her power for
automatic writing. 1T seemed so
weird" she said but when her
brother was killed at Mons she found
one day that her hand insisted on
sD<ilins out messages.
They come fast ! hardly can
keep up with them she said. some
times in a frenzy of impatience the
spirits lift my hand and beat it on
the table as if they would break
every bone.
No Irritation In Heaven.
"From messages We know that
heaven is d place where there is no
irritation. They do not eat, in our
sense. and they do not kill animals.
thank goodness. There you can fol-
low some such work as you enjoyed
on earth, and YOU progress toward a
perfection so remote from human ex-
perience that even the spirits don't
know what it is. Nothing hurts or
annoyS there If some one irritated
you on earth they do not come near
you there.
There are bad spirits as well as
good. There is no hell but a purga-
tory. sort Of slums on the outskirts
to which spirits in the higher spheres
send miSSionairtes There even Is
Yachting there and one day the late
Charles Kingsley entertained US with
a description of the suit he was wear
ing"
While Lady Doyle talked her young
sor Malcolm sat near by. Sir Arthur.
ruddy his gray hair untamed. his
manner unfailingly genial. stretched
out in an easy chair near the gas log.
Doyle Family Discusses Fniries.
Thus in the electrc-lighted suite
of modern hotel. surrounded by
their twenty-three pieces of luggage.
and with the rumble of trafhc un-
heard by them. this remarkable fam-
lily spoke Of ghosts and fairies nat
ural AS mirage. even though as
unusual. and quite as capable of in
depreciation through common sense =:
at least this is the Doyle attitude of
discussing the dead.
Sir Arthur suggested today that the
fairies in the now famous photo
graphs may be- Thought FORMS" but
he was sure the children and the
photographs were honest. And the
fairies. anyhow, are relatively un-
Important" he said.
Frankly proud of her husbands
cIear-cut explanations. Lady Doyle add
I'd Il word.
More than once when the police
have failed" she said. my husband,
alone in his study. has worked out
the correct solution of a mystery.
Yet despite his marvellous powers of
analysis, shallow -thoughted people
dare to say there's nothing in his
Epiritualistic Investigations. 1t makes
me furious"
In the face of her laughing in
diEnation you can we'll believe she
is the lady who cries to impatient
spirits; "Oh. for goodness sake. don't
send messages so fast I can't write so
quickly as all that"
They take their ghosts as matter
of fact as that, these Doyles.
Copyright. 1921