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Hokitika Guardian, 6 December 1923, Page 3

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KX-KAIKEH’S WIFE. HOORN, Oct. 17. Alter ii visit to her estate in Silesia, Princess Hertnine, the ex-Kaiser's wife, lias again returned to her liu.s----i hand here, dispelling rumours which still persist regarding an estrangement. Until the ex-Kaiser and the Princess have been much annoyed by these rumours and have tried to disyj. credit them. The day alter the Princess returns from one id' her trips tithe Fatherland the couple stroll arm in arm through the village. Princess Hcrminc recently stated to a Gorman friend : “The education of my children takes half my time; the other half f devote to my husband, and with all my heart too. He is so lovable, dear, and good, but his fiery spirit and Ids versatile knowledge sometimes demand the supernatural from me. I have to muster all my intelligence to follow the rapidity of his thoughts." MAKING EYEBROWS Si lt AICI IT. LONDON. Oct. IS. Is the arched oyebrow--for centuries regarded as one of the chief beauties of a woman's face—waning in favour:-' West Km! beauty specialists are being asked by many wealthy women to take out the curve of their eyebrows and to make them as straight as possible without disfigurement. ; Some women are taking a regular course of eyebrow-training. Every time they have their hair dressed tin", also have the shape of their eyebrows altered hv a fraction id' an inch. At the end of the training the type o j their beauty is subtly changed. A Bond-street specialist stated vesterday : The new mode is not likely t > last long. Most women and men look upon the arched eyebrow as the ideal. But it all depends on the type of face. The straight-line eyebrow sometimes effectually lifts a woman’s face out or mediocrit v.

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The Scientific American, which early this year offered a prize of L'dlKl for the production of psychic phenomena, announces that the Rev Mrs .losie K. Stewart, pastor-of the First Independent Church of Cleveland, Ohio, has made out a prima facie ease of comtion with the dead. A distinguished board of scientific observers lias been engaged through-

out- the year in examining competitors. It declares that after yesterday's seance it is sufficiently impressed to proceed further. After three failures Mrs Stewart asked that yesterday's trial should be conducted in the country, where she could he closer to nature.

At a country house she was examined in broad daylight. She is a short, rather plump woman, past middle age, who has been married three times. In a flower garden, after being searched, she plucked some phlox, asters, and ferns, which she placed between white cards handed to her by one of the observers. The cards were placed on a flower bed. After a quarter of an hour the medium cried; ( ‘Se<>, do see; look at- tlm

cards ami see what vuii can read. The waves passed through me. The observer, examined flic cards. On the first, amid the stains of the crushed Hovers, there wax written. Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again. On the second, in heliotrope colours, were Ihe words. How happy I should cave heen for such an opportunity as this, —William James. The third message was inscribed in a pinkish fluid and read. May this demonstration be conclusive evidence

of the return nf spirits to enrih. It was signed with the name of a living New York aerpiaintam-e of Mrs Stewart's.

On a second series of cards, amid crushed given fern, was the .signature of Mr William T. Stead and a # niessage from Ktlie, the guardian angel and spirit guide of .Mrs Set wart, reading, We who love you are doing all we can to est ahlisli Truth.

The Scientific American states that it intends to -object Mrs Stewart to

further drastic tests. William .lames was the well-known American philosopher and p-ycliolo-gist. 11<• died in 1010.

i:inci xr; fob gofer. LONDON. Oct. C. A curious custom, known as ''Binging for (biter,'' am! dating back some centuries, is now being observed at Newark, Nottiughamshire. defer wa- a merchant, and the story is that he was travelling to Newark nil a winter’s night when in a fog he was lost in Sherwood Forest, which thru extendi- I to Newark. He had a considerable --urn of money with him, and when lie was giving up hope of finding his wav he heard the hells of Newark parish church ring and, guided hv their sound, found his right road in time to escape a hand ot thieves. As a result he bequeathed money tu pay for the ringing of the bells on winter nights for the benefit ol lost travellers. Nowadays (lie ''Gofer” ring takes place annually on six successive Sunday evenings, kegilining twelve weeks before Christmas, ittst before the or Binary Sunday evening peal.