Evening star., 1932-08-28
MRS. McCORMICK'S INTEREST
IN PSYCHOANALYSIS RECALLED
Chicago Society Leader Believed Herself Rencarnaton of
King Tutankhamen's Child Wife.

I words: "I believe in Government own
ership of all alcoholic beverages, the
Government to have the right to con-
troll as to quantity and quality of alco-
! holic beverages manufactured and the
method Of its sale and distribution, and
the Government to receive the revenue
from its sale"
| At her dinners, Mrs. Mccormick led
the conversation. She liked to talk best
on present-day topics, and those invited
to her home learned to Cram" on cur
rent events in advance. For a nom
! traveller she had the most remarkable
/ knowledge Of the world, its buildings
and show places, gained principally
! through going to the movies regularly.
After dessert on opera night, the men
we're given about seven minutes for
coffee, cigarettes and small cigars and
! the party was always in Mrs. McCor-
mick's box before the conductor lifted
his baton. Some of the most "notori-
ously late" individuals in Chicago never
! INDUCED their impolte idosyncrasy
when Mrs Mccormick was hostess.
Mrs. McCormicks belief in psyche
analysis was immutable. She regarded
the practice of it as her particular serv-
ice to her fellow men, and she never
turned down any one who came to her
with earnestness and the recommended
ton Of a physician.
Mrs Mccormick believed that in her
previous existence on earth she was
Ankn- n-es-en-pa-a -aten, the child wife Of
Tut-ankh- Amen.
How she identified herself this way
was explained by Mrs. Mccormick one
evening shortly after the opening of
the inner chamber of the Tut-ankh-
Amen tomb in February, 1923. 1t was at
party given by the late Mrs. John
Alden Carpenter, at the Carpenter home
on Rush street, that Mrs. Mccormick
explained to Mr. Carpenter, Arthur
Heun and several others around her
how she felt when the inner chamber
was opened by Lord Carnarvon's party.
Felt Something Impending.
II had long known that I had pre-
vious incarnation" she said, "but
did not know who had been. When
they began to dig in Luxor had a
vague sense of something impending.
AS they approached the inner chamber
Of the tomb the feeling grew stronger
until felt that curtain was about to
be lifted in my life. Then they opened
the mummy chamber, and when saw
the pictures of it I knew. There was
IAy 1AIbAC OA4dAs was pa
aten."
Mrs. Mccormick was an ardent as
trologist, and her Christmas was not
our Christmas. 1t was fixed by the
stars and occurred about December Is.
Mrs. McCormick's daily walks were
as punctual as her dinners. Promptly
at noon she left her home, on foot. Al
though daily besieged by photographers.
she refused to vary her route until
about year and a half ago when she
changed from stroll north to one di-
rectly south.
When some one suggested that she
return to the north walk, which was
prettier, she said: 1T doesn't matter.
I'm not really here"
She liked to read in bed, and retired
nightly armed with the London Illus
trated periodicals and thick German
and Swiss newspapers. She spoke sew
eral languages fuently. Three or four
years ago she took up the study Of
Spanish and was delighted to be able
to understand perfectly an address in
Spanish that came via radio from Cuba
about year and half ago.
Mrs. Mccormick dressed in good
taste. with a discrimination in the
use OF color. She wore her street
dresses short even in "long skirt sea-
son" and was credited with being the
first woman In Chicago to wear an
anklet, a slim gold chain which she
had designed herself 20 years ago.
Fowler Mccormick was his mothers
favorite child, her friends say. She
wanted him to be either a musician,
a psychoanalyst, or a manufacturer of
farm machinery as his father and
grandfather had been. He preferred
farm machinery.
Although Muriel was married in the
East without presenting her fiance to
her mother, Mrs. Mccormick wrote a
gracious letter to her new son&n-law,
Elisha Dyer Hubbard, on his wedding
day. and was deeply panied when he
neglected to answer 1t for many weeks.
When some one told her recently
that it was said Muriel was expecting
another child she smiled happily and
nodded, saying, THAT is right. That
is as 1t should be-"
During Mrs McCormick's last IL
ness. of course, she was reunited with
Muriel and met Mr. Hubbard.
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