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Does Death
End All?
He Discusses Sir Oliver
Lodge's Assertion that
We Exist After Bodily
Death. ::::::
How to Cultivate Expression
Any Girl Can Do Wonders If She Henlly Tries To
AFTERNOON GOWN of white satin combined with
white tulle, trimmed with bands of ermine. The long
sleeves are of Tulle.
"I take a miserable
my look lie In my
By GARRETT P. SERVI88.
The old. old question, the question of
question!, which every human being, at
some time or other. asks himself or her
self '"Does death end all?" has been
brought to the fore ugatn by a remark
able statement made
by Sir Oliver Lodge,
in a lecture in Eng
land. Sir Oliver Lodge
Is at the same time
president ' of the
Society for Psych
ical Research and
a distinguished
physicist, who made
Important research
es in electricity, and
w ho holds a profes
sorship in a great
British university.
He now asserts.
"with all the strenth of conviction that
I can muster," that we are not limited
to the few years that we live on this
earth, but that we persist after bodily
death, and that people who have died
physically, still take an Interest in what
is going on upon the earth, that they
help us, and know more about things
than we do, and are alie, from time to
time, to communicate w ith us.
He declares that he makes this asser
tion on definite scientific grounds," and
then adds: "I say It because I know that
certain (dead) friends of mine still exist,
because I have talked with them, I
have conversed with them as I could con
verse with any one In this audience."
He goes yet further, and avers that he
knows that man Is surrounded by other
intelligences. "We here, on this planet,
are limited in certain ways and blind
to much that is going on. but I tell you
that we are surrounded by beings work
ing with ts, co-operating and helping,
such as people In visions nave had some
perception of, and that which vellgion
tells us saints and angels are. That
the Master, Himself, Is helping us is, I
believe, literally true."
Nothing could bo more straightforward
and flat-footed than these statements.
and no man of science, however much he
may differ from him concerning this ques
' tion, can dispute the soundness and accur
acy qt Prof. Lodge's attainments and
achievements In physical science. In that
field he is not only a successful educator;
he Is one of the original authorities. I have
met Prof. Lodge, and I believe that he is
perfectly conscientious, and very carefully
observant of the exact truth in all that
he says. . .-
This being so. what are we to think of
his assertion that he has scientifically
demonstrated- any rate to his own
satisfaction that dead people continue to
exist as disembodied spirits and are able
to communicate with aud . influence tha
living?
Unfortunately Prof. Lodge does not put
before us the evidence on which he relies.
He asks us to accept his Judgment that
if is convincing. He says that he can
converse with Ms dead friends, some of
whom wers distinguished sclentlfio men
and thinkers when living, as he could
converse with, persons yet "in the body."
nut he does not tell us what they say.
His testimony is not only confined to
gurieral assertions, but it is second-hand.
The jury, that is the intelligent public,
is not confronted with the witnesses, and
not permitted to hear, or read, their
vords exactly as they are given.
Kor this reason. If for no other. Judg
ment must be suspended. Prof. Lodge's
assertions would be far more apt to meet
with acceptance if we had not had so
much ujconvlncirg material of the same
kind from other sources. Prof. Hyslop
has written several books to prove sub
stantially the same things that Prof.
Lodge asserts about the dead, and has
given, in a good deal of detail, the "con
versations" that occurred between him
self and certain disecbodied spirits,
through an intervening "medium" usu
ally, 1 believe, the celebrated Mrs. Piper
but the matter of these communications
has been found, by unprejudiced and In
telligent readers, to be so Inconsequent,
so unlUumlr.atlng, and often so trifling,
if not frivolous, that no serious conclu
sion could be founded upon It.
Nevertheless, Prof. Hyslop himself finds
all this very convincing. The explanation
offered, both by him and by Prof. Lodge,
for the disconnected and Irrelevant na
ture of the communications is that the
"spirits" have great difficulty in com
municating with us at all. because of the
imperfections of the medium through
which the Intercourse must take place.
As one of the spirits is said to have ex
pressed It, the process of communicating
with living beings "Is like teUing a
vastly Important message to a sleeping
person." But this certainly can afford
no explanation of the utterly absurd
character of many of these communica
tions. Another thing which tends to cast dis
credit upon any communication, pur-1
porting to como from the dead Is that It
Is usually, If not invariably, sent through
a third person, the so-called "medium." j
This fast Inevitably affords an oppor
tunity for fraud and deception, but the1
public has seen so much of these things
m connection with spiritualistic perform
ances that a very sound foundation would
have to be laid amidst this medlumistic
quagmire before a logical mind could per
suade Itself to accept anything Issuing
from it.
It will be observed that Prof. Lodge
correlates the spirituallstio phenomena In
whose reality he believes with tenets of
the Christian religion. Here be will en
counter another kind of opposition than
that offered on the score of exact science.
He will probably be told that life after
death, as Christianity comprehends It, la
not at all the sort of thing which he
ascribes to his disembodied scientific
friends who converse with him about
former and present affairs oa the earth.
lie will be told that the Immortality of
the soul is a truth of revelation and his
attempt to prove it by scientific experi
ment a delusion.
Still, the great question will never lose
its fsscinaticn, and every effort to fur
tiiuli a definite reply to it will awaken
the interest of mankind.
tears In their eyes.
Picture, because all
facial expression."
Yet girls can make their pictures at
tractive If they will. They can force ex
pression out If they will exert enough
Kill power, and think hard enough about
the thing In mind. Notice In these pic-1
turcs that tho mouth 1s not allowed to
droop at thf corners. That Is' the chief
essential when the features are quiet. A
famous moving picture star said once,
"When I first went Into moving pictures
t had my greatest difficulty making my
features look .attractive In repose. But
I worked over It and finally won out."
Te rtireful to t'lwnys force a smile to
the eye. The easiest way to do th's Is
to think hard of some pleasant thing. To
have yourself In mind constantly fosters
self conclougncM, 'but It will soon be
come second nntiiro and tt Is really worth
fighting for after all. The eyes and Hps
are the most Important features to re
member and all details u?h ns the ar
rangement of the hair nliould be carefully
thought out si as to gain the most be
coming effect.
Unleca one has perfect On turps, to be
attractive In repose sounds d.fflcult, but
It is quit within the power of anyone
who will try bard enough and It is dis
tinctly worth while.
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Girl."
By JANE M'LKAN.
6ome people do not believe that repose
of feature can ever be as attractive as
vivacity, but In some cases It Is even
more beautiful, expression is a gift of
the gods; reiVe of feature or gravity Is
what we make It. We may make -our
faces express a great deal or we may
wear a mask when we are not smiling,
It Is all voluntary.
These pictures illustrate expression in
repose. The features are apparently
without a smile, which ordinarily re
lieves the general droop of the features
which Is almost sure to set In as a reac
tion after one has been taking and using
plenty of facial movements. But the fea
tures have not drooped, there Is a life
about each separate feature which shows
that although the face Is in repose ad
mirable control Is being exerted not to
allow the features to droop and become
insignlficane.
Many people when seeing the picture of
a girl considered pretty will gasp with
incredulity when they see her minus her
expression. Many girls exclaim wjth
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at theLyric.
, Laughing at Trouble --
By BEATRICE FAIRPAX.
Build for yourself a strong box.
Fashion each part with care;
When It's strong as your heart can make
It,
Put all your troubles there.
Hide all your sorrows in l, .
So the world will never dream half
Build for yourself a strong box.
Then sit on the lid and laugh.
There is a whole sermon In that little
verse. I suggest that everyone act upon
its advice at once .
No trouble In all the world ever be
came one whit more endurable through
being whined over and complained about.
And no one ever became a bit more en
durable to friends by sitting about
and singing the saga of his worn.
The popular Individual In this rather
selfish and materialistic world of ours
Is the one who can brng something deslr
.hi. am hi contribution to society. And
there is no contribution that Is more wel
come than a cheerful, even disposition
has the effect of sunshine ready to
dispel any clouds, however lowering.
But. of course, you cannot raaiate sun
shine If your heart la a leaden lump in
your bosom and your mind Is Intoning a
refrain of n.isery. If you have troubles
and are thinking about them ever so
little, you are bound to reflect a dii or
your mental process in your ran-
tion. And if you have trouwes ana uruuu
jver them they will enwrap In a cloud
of gloom you and anyone woo is un
fortunate enough to come wiiain vne
radius of your murky atmosphere.
And you will get a reputation for being
a "wet blanket" for all Joy that won't
be the least of your troubles.
iia qow suppose you consider the archi
tectural suggestion with which we started
out.
"Build yourself a strong box." It can
be done. Just use grit for the flooring,
and for the sides Invincible determina
tion not to give in to ny mere feeling of
discouragement or liiii- (lamp the cor
ners with the shining stel cf hope that
things will take a turn for the bettur.
Thtre la no leason why- people ahuuid
know of the woes that attack you. The
world's sympathy won't help you to en
dure t early so much 'as will your own
refusal to suffer. And the world's half
sneering pity will only make you pity
yourself for having become an object of
pity. So you see there is another definite
gain in having your woes hidden away In
that strong box.
As for sitting on the lid and laughing
that is not quite so eaxy. But it can be
done. Do it first to hide any trace of
suffering from prying eyes. Boon you
mill come to fool yourself and presently
you will be laughing, not as an exercise
In gaining strength of character, but be
cause laughing has come to be the natural
expression of your cheerful nature.
Take my word for It, this ran be done.
Try It now today. ,
Advice to Lovelorn
7 By SZATbUCK tjjmtax
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llemr Happy old I Me with Ellhrr
b-ar Miss Fairfax: We are two young
ladies, each lfi, both deeply In love With
a young man three years our senior, lie
has not yet expressed Ms love for either
of us, Dtit has always paid us more at
tention than uny of his other young lady
friends. As we both adore this young
nan, And it would surely break the
heart of the one who gave htm up, and
as we dearly love each other '(we are
lifetime friends), we are In a dilemma
as to how to settle this matter wtuiout
breaking the bonds of so lasting a friend
ship. KDITH T. H.
HARRY YET K L.
You would better keep the "bonds of a
lifetime friendship" for each other than
to try to Induce this young man to show
a preference for one of you. Probably
he cares seriously for neither and is at
tentive to you because it Is pleasant
and safe to take two good friends out
for an evening's entertainment If be
cared particularly and especially for
either of you he would show It. .
Bashfalaess aad Ulrls.
Dear Miss Fairfax: Will you tell m
now this ireakliih man, as you call thtun
can do away with bashfulnets. I use no
fibacco of any sort, nor da 1 drink, but
to rtna one or those nice girls on the
shelf, as ynn talk about. Is hevond in
knowledge how to get one. I don't darn
nor attend chunh. Ian you answer?
LONKSOME.
In order to meet the girl you want, you
must go seeking her. Hhf is not at al
likely to invade your hauhful biuiie'r
quurters and hunt you out. If you to
not dance nor go to church, try vising
among your married friends; you surely
have some, and there you In all likeli
hood will meet some girl who Is worth
knowing. And with this start. It will be
easy to widen your circle of acquaintance,
and maybe In time you will find the one
you are looking for. Don't worry about
your baalifulnesa; it has been aaJ4,to re
semble the plating on cheap spoons as It
wears off it shows the brass underneath.
I.ove aarf Jealousy.
Dear Miss Fairfax: Please tell nie In
your Lovelorn column about what age a
girl should marry. I am a young girl 20
years of sge and have had several offers
pf marriage, but have declined all, as I
em not reaiy for any such adventure.
As I don't have to' make my own living
and havt- everything I want at home, I
am not comr-ollml to marry at all. I
ahould also like to know a cure for
Jealousy. I am insanely Jealous of the
young man I am going with at prowrnt,
and he Is equally as Jealous. Jealousy
la a danxerous monster and I would sure
aipreile knowing how to even conceal
my feelings, as It seems to please him to
think that I care enouvh for h'm to be
Jealous. KATHERINB W.
The right man has not yet asked you to
wed him. or you would not be speculating
so calmly on the proper age for marriage.
When the "prince" comes along, and he
will In good sxason, you will know with
out being told. There Is no curs for
Jealousy. It Is "the green-eyed monster
thafdoth mock the meat it feeds on,"
and while lago warned Othello to beware
of It, he, too, was consumed by the
passion and led into the commission of
crimes that .made those of the Moor seem
mlU by oonlrast. It i useless, unreason
able, and all the more peralstent because
, it Is uclt-s and unreasonable.
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Science for
Workers
By EDO All LICIEN LARKIN.
Fashion has' been kind this season to
the women who must continue to combine
the qualities of the evening gown with
those of the afternoon frock. Tho wide
introduction of dlaphonous sleeves and
the seml;low neck, that are features of
the daytime dresses, make the combina
tion less difficult than in other seasons.
The gown in tho sketch offers a good
Illustration of that sort of model. It Is
made of white satin combined with white
tulle.
The corsage has a V neck, outlined with
a narrow band of ermine to match the
trimming about the armholes. The sleeves
are xl tulle, made very long and held
In about the wrist by ermine bands.
At the back of the neck there Is a col
lar cut a la iriUltalre and made of white
velvet. Its shape Ms very much more
becoming and Infinitely more comfortable
to the majority of women than the de
parting Medici effects. The women in
possession of odd pieces of fur may have
the collar of her frock made of fur,
This model suggests to the Inventive
woman all sorts of combination possl
blllties. For example, the foundation
skirt can be made of some one of the
rich, dark plaited velvets with the long
over-panels of plain velvet or of cloth.
In that cae the sleeves would be of
chiffon, matching the color of the plain
fabric, and fancy braid could be sub
stituted for the-fur bands of the original
garment.
By cutting the neck a little lower and
using lace flounces where the original
model shows tulle, a full evening regalia
could be evolved. The upper fabrlo might
be of metal ' striped satin and velvet In
some delicate nuance, .
White Is the supreme choice for the
evening gown this season, and In cloth it
Is highly favored for daytime garments.
Made of white chiffon velvet or white
peau de sale, trimmed with sealskin 'or
otter bands, the model In the sketch would
be immensely attractive and not alto
gether unpractical. i
Question "A certain astronomer or
professor some time ago published an
article in a Wanhlngton paper claiming
that all suns, our own Included, are abso
lutely ro d. If he Is right, will you
kindly explain why we on a hot summer
day feel an Intense heat descending upon
this earth? Where docs this heat come
from?" Florence II. Plath. Oakland, Cal.
Answer Energy comes from all sourses.
but what It Is la entirely unknown. It
traverses trillions of miles of space at
absolute sera of temperature without any
effect until It hits matter. It travels In
free spaoe with set specific speed of
1M.9N0 miles per second. If this energy
strikes the retina of the eye we say that
the effect is light. If It strikes various
kinds of matter, we say the effects are
various rates of heat.
In the spectroscope up here I have seen
gaseous metals glowing with intense
brilliancy In the galea surrounding the
sun, and also far less Intensity In the
distant suns, Blrlus, Hegel, Vegg, etc.
One asked .what caused the Iron In the
sun to turn to gas would answer, heat.
But how does heat come hither through
92.S2,0o0 miles of absolutely frigid spaoe
and not vanish as heat?
How does the energy of the sun pass
through a globe of frigid liquid air at terX
rifle cold, converge to a brilliant, hot
focus and set paper and shavings on fire?
I do not know, -1 do not know what heat,
light, energy, matter nor anything nor
any entity la.
All I can say Is that energy reaches the
earth from the sun in 9 seconds of
time, and when It arrives and strikes the
mrtlecules of matter we change the name
from energy to heat and light. And also
chemlsm. 1 Alt of whlclr- are at present
beyond the understanding of man.
Q. "Would you kindly explain why a
rainbow.. In always circular?" Lillian
T. Llsae, San Francisco.
A. A straight line drawn from the cen
ter of the sun through the back of one's
head through the b.-aln and out through
the retina of the eyes to the sheet of
falling drops of rain la scientifically
known as the axis of any rainbow. If a
person I on a mountain, with sun In the
eactern Vy and a rainstorm in the west
ery sky, he . may see a complete circle
of colored light fteml-rlrcles ar when
the lower half Is cut off by the hortson,
and bows, that is, Uio appearance, may
be arcs of circles greater or less than
half.
Three great standard laws of light are
involved In the production of colored
circles and arcs of . circles In falling
rain. The word bows Is not strictly scien
tific; arcs of circles arc , the accurate
terms. Lirht received by a drop of rain
from the sun Is subjected to the laws of
light called refraction, dispersion and de
flection. Light rays entering the front
side of the drop are refracted, bent out of
their straight course and reach the rear
of the drop. But the ray la composed
of many colors and these are bent aside
unequally.
' This being, a fact, a minute band of
colors, known as the solor spectrum Is
formed on the rear Interior side of tht
drop or sphere of water. The bending
aside unequally is called dispersion. But
the molecules of water In the rear of the
drop reflect the colors out of the front
of the drop to the eye of the observer.
But If a ray of light straight from the
sun enters the top of a drop It meets
Kith one Internal reflection and one dis
persion; while if It enters the bottom of
the drop as It falls the ray suffers two
! Interior of the drop reflections and two
dispersions.
Case first causes the eye to see the
primary circle or aro of clrcla of colors,
and case second, the secondary. Exalted
mathematics, without which the cause
of rsin-clrries cannot be known,' proves
that the difference between the entering
and departing rays of the primary arcs
and complete circles for ' red rays Is
angle of 41 degrees and I minutes; and
fof violet rays 40 degrees and IT minutes.
But the secondary arcs are due tq. the
secondary angles of 60 degrees M minutes
and, (4 degrees t minutes.
Women as Hobbies
By GRACE ELLlSTOSf.
There' Is so much beauty going to
waste In the world! And. what Is more,
there are so many useless hobbles! It
women would only combine the two, how
much better It would be for everyone!
The thing to do, then. Is to make a
hobby of one's self. That may sound
selfish, but it isn't, when one considers
the attractions to be gained. Then, too,
I don't think It Is ever selfish to make
a hobby of one's charms to the extent
of preventing the world from producing
one more homely woman. Yes, It Is
really as . Important as that.
The thing that women of today are
doing is frequently obliterating any
beauty that they may have through a
misunderstanding of what they possess.
Unless you understand your type and
know exactly how to go about bringing
out your good points you will frequently
go too far In the other direction, quite
ignorantly, until you come up against a
good friend who may give you a pointer.
Often girls come to me and in despair
ask ms how to maks up so as to accentu
ate their good points. On the stage we
use "makeup" to give us what we really
don't possess." Horns of us are fortunate
enough to bo beautiful, others are not,
and soothe clever girls Ingenuously pick
out the bt features they have and go
to work to accentuate them. That Is exactly-
what must I done off the stage.
A girl should pick out her best feature
and subordinate all her . other less at
tractive ones so that a person In talking
to her would look no further than her
prettiest feature and Judge the rest ac
cordingly. It can be done, I assure you,
but It means lots of work. All beauty
comes essentially from the brain, and no
brainless woman, I don't cars If her fea
tures are perfect. Is attractive.
"She must be clever about something,
or else she won't have the brain capacity
to live up to her features, and people
will say after she has lived a lifetime,
that they never thought her pretty. That
la bocause she had the features, but she
didn't .understand how to make them
stand out.
"1 should advise every girl to wake up.
Look in the mirror and see If you can't
face some feature that is worth Improv
ing or putting on exhibition, as It were.
I onoe knew a girl who had the most
marvelous eyelashes I have ever seen,
and yet -there was nothing else about her
specially attractive, not even her eyes.
"But she -was determined to he pretty,
and so she cultivated her yelahes. . Ph
made them even more curly and beautiful
than they were, and In time people no
tlced the way they curled away from
her eyes, and remarked about IL One
thing led to another, and she was soon
considered dingeroualy attractive, Just
because of her lashes.
"Any girl can do the same if she wants
ts badly enough, and any on can look
homely at will we all know that. I try
never to look homely, even when I am
alone. I think that helps, toe."
' Q. I am desirous of knowing the exact
definition of "free moral agent." M. IK
B a schoolgirl, Santa Ana, Cal.. .
,A. I have studied this question during
fifty-four - years, snd know, precisely as
much as when I began as a diminutive
boy. I have probably fifty tooke on this
subject which I never open. A free moral
agent Is a human free to do. to act.
But such a delectable person never ex
isted. Each human being Is a creature
of environment, or. In more accurate lan
guage, is a slave. To the school girl or
toy I would say; Do not even open a
book on this useless subject; every second
or minute devoted to It would be time
wasted.
Hut Instead, study the laws of nature
never less than ten hours dally, and from
ten, go up to eighteen hours per day on
special occasions.
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