FASHIONS IN THE GHOST WORLD.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1722, 12 April 1913, Page 21

FASHIONS IN THE GHOST WORLD.

4 SPOOK WHO APPEARED IN A SHOOTING SUIT. DIAPHANOUS GARB NOW OUT-OF-DATE. Tho clothes that gliosts aro in tbe habit of wearing aro described at length— "from personal observation"—by Mr. M. Hume in tho "International Psychic Gazette." Mr. Hume says that though walking and wailing are quite correct things for ,a ghost to do, they aro not sufficiently evidential for identification as tho wraiths of departed friends. "How," he asks, "are wo to bo sure that tho apparition seen and heard is tho actual double, astral bodv, or gliost, of the departed? "Tho quite natural thing for an 'ousted' double to do is to wander about and haunt its homo or tho placo of the disaster which turned it into a 'wanderer.' It would, naturally, appear in its own form—i.e., the form of its body—and in order to secure recognition it would probably assume clothing made out of the samp flimsy material as itself, the counterpart of what it happened to bo wearing at the time of its decease." Ghosts, as.a rule, do not. givo themselves more troublo than they can help. They aro human, and such is tho way of humanity; also from tinio immemorial the proper clothing for ghosts has always been a sort of white, filmy shroud, very easy to concoct. Mr. . Hume adds that of tho many ghosts ho has seen and communed with in his time, only one woro tho correct filmy, cloudy, transparent drapery. "Another ghost that' I saw twice was each timo immaculately got up in his Sunday-go-to-meotings. Another woro a rough shooting suit, with a felt 'hat, and another was in a workman's clothes. Ghost-stuff is admirable material; it makes up into any costumo yon want to copy," It is not only tho clothes of ghosts that vary, but the substance of the ghosts themselves. According to the nature of tlio person they aro "out" of, so the stufl they are made of will bo thick or thin. Somo ghosts are almost as dense in substance as the bodies they inhabit; some aro transparent, some so fino and so ethereal that you can hardly seo them— you "feel" them, rather! With these it is moro "tho perception of a presence of something wholly invisible," yet occupying space. . Another strango thiug about ghosts is that, they sleep. "Tlio nuly time I ever saw my own ghost," .says Mr. Hume, "it had 'gone out' without my knowledge, but I saw it 'come in' all tidily folded up in a wco littln cloud, and fast asleep. "Tho ghost of a man who visited me once was sound asleep. I watched him wake, and was greatly amused at his annoyance upon finding himself where lie was."