The Washington times., 1924-10-02

Of Senator Fletcher Of Florida, Is
president and moving spirit OF the
Physical yReaseatch Society of Wash
ington. The little book 10 Walk
With God. which purports to be.
islessofA received from q spirit
which has never been on earth and
which was published BY Mrs. Frank
lin II. Lane and Mrs. Harriet Blaine
Beale, daughter .of James g Blaine.
has been widely read: and whenever
The two women are together they
continue to receive messages which
they are. convinced come from the
spirit world.
Mrs. Newlands Johnston, daugln-
Ter OF the late Senator Newlands,
ID in constant communication with
her father in the beyond, to her
own satisfaction at all events. Mrs.
Minnigerode Andrews, hilanthropist
society woman and organizer for
Washington Of the drive to pur-
chase Monticello and make Of II p
national shrine, is guided in all her
activities by the spirit of her daugh-
ter, the late Mary Lord Andrews,
who died Just as she was growing
into womanhood. Other well known
women who have made occasional
excursions into spiritualism are
Mary Roberts Rhinehart and MIS-.
Henry Wilder Keyes.
1t has been repeatedly stated that
Mrs. Harding is keenly interested tn
spiritisfm and that when she was
mistress Of the White House she
used to go frequently to q medium
in the hope of getting q peep into
the future or advice on matters
which were troubling her. 1t has.
however, been difficult TO obtain
yerification OF this fact; and when
3 story became current during
President Harding's lifetime that he
had been persuaded to accompany
his wife when she was making an
effort to get into communities ton
with the spirit world, II was denied
II the White House.
Consults Medium for Advice
IN Spiritual and Temporal Matters.
IN most Instances. however, the
devotees Of spiritnalism like to tell
of their experiences. Mrs. Fletcher
consults medium for advice and
counsel as regularly as she consults
q doctor and much more frequent.
~. She is thoroughly convinced oi
the authenticity Of the 1aessa ges
which she receives and u very de
pendent upon her spirit guidance
Mary Roberts Rinehart approaches
spiritistic phenomena more in the
role Of arsipyestiEator determined
to keep an open mind. To date
she has not announced herself a
believer, but in the numerous
articles she has written on the
subject she has admitted many
happenings in q long series Of
seances which it was beyond her
power to explain. " 4
1t win be remembered that Doc
tor Stanley Rineliart first came to
Washington during the war when
be was given an important post In
Government welfare work. His
famous wife accompanied him and
they settled down for a time in, the
spacious apartment at Wardnnan
Park Hotel which had long been
occupied by Senator Boise Penrose.
This was shortly after the Sena-
tors death and Mrs. Rinehart, even
then much interested in spiritualism,
used to enliven many dinner
party by tales Of ringing bells,
rocking chairs and many other in.
explicables phenomena which she
said occurred continually.
Suddenly, however, some enter.
prising newspaper reporter seized
upon the occurrence and wrote 4
rather yellow story about the Sena.
torial ''haflt.'' Whereupon an in.
dignant denial was Forthcoming
from Mrs. Rinehart. She had ap.
parently been willing to tell good
dinner table story. but It was quite
another thing TO be pictured in
print as hobnobbing with ghosts
and believing in 'enn. Since that
time, being frankly interested in
the subject. she has made study
Of spirit communications and even
now continues to delvA into mystic
ries of the other world with an en-
quiring mind.
Mrs. Keyes, wife Of Senator Reyes
Of New Hampshire, who is known
to readers all over the United States
for her Letters OF d Senator
Wife" has been an exceptionally
busy woman all her married life
keeping house, raising a large fam
lily of boys, helping her husbalif
with his political fences, writins
prolifically, lecturing and gin1ina
time for all sorts OF philanthropig
and civic activities. Consequently
she has been too numbered with
the cares Of this world to make i