A SHOP FOR GHOSTS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 40, 10 November 1937, Page 14

A SHOP FOR GHOSTS

"Eyes to. See Into Ihe Next Worli Celluloid trumpets for spirits wbo Bpeak at seances, electric vibratots to lull the sitters into the proper state of mind, and violet gogglcs for training the eyes to observe psyehie, phenomena are among the articles sold by Mr and Mrs . Roden White, of Malden, Surrey. Spiritualists all over the world send orders to them for psychic • apparatus and accessories of every imaginable . kind. Before showing a reporter round, Mr Roden White — twenty-nine, goo"d-look-ing, with fair hair and a ready smile — was anxious to dssu^e me that nothing sold here was intended for spiritualistic faking. "When l became keen on spifitualism four years ago I investigated the itubject thoroughly," he.saitl, "and I was * convinced as tp its , genuineness. ' 7 "I forihed a circle" which used to meet" for seances in my house. X made -aE the apparatus we-required, ' and it prov-;. ed so successful in attraeting spirits that other eircles began asking me to do the same work for them. 7 'That was how the undertaking began. My wife has most to do with the - xunning of it now, beeause it has developed so mueh that I could not possibly handle it all myself in eddition to my other job. You see, I am by profesgion a quantity surveyor — a calling* almost as unusual as my sideline, "Thero is hardly a country in the; world to-day where my shop .is without customers. We even supply psychte ajH paratus to a monk in a Tibetan monag* tery.'7 Most of .this apparatus is made else« where for the owners of the shop, but tall, tortoiseshell-spectacled Mrs Doreen. Boden WHite herself constructs the cel« luloid trumpets through which velees 'com© out of the ether. "It looks very simplo work,** she explained, "bnt actually it roquires ai peculiar knaek, We tried getting ei few trumpets made elsewhere, but they, earned such a poor.response from thei spirit world that we had to give that up. '•Here,'" said Mr Boden White, "we have the pendula— a new departunS in instruments for spirit communication. ' * He appeared to be holding a small fishing rod over the sort of Jettered boaxd an oculist uses for testing 'the eyes. .."When a spirit wishes to esercisav eontrol over the haud, it causes the pendulum to swing aud iudicate certain letters of the alphabet," he continued* ' ' &