SPIRIT DRAPERIES.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 8 September 1916, Page 3

SPIRIT DRAPERIES.

MYSTERIOUS MATERIAL WHICH CANNOT BE MATCHED "Such stuff as dreams are made of." That is apparently the best way to describe the mysterious bits of materials which psychical devotees have at various times managed to snip off th e astral garments of the spirits they conjure up. In the "International Psychic Gazette" some interesting facts ar e recorded on this subject. It is stated that these snippets of other-world stuff have been submitted to cotton experts, who report that htey know of no material manufactured on the earthly plane which coincides Avith the spirit material. Miss Estelle W. Stead states that her father, Mr W. T. Stead, had once been permitted to cut off a piece of spirit drapery a 4 t a seance, and she had go«e to nearly every large drapery establishment in London to see whether it could be matched, but it was impossible. The drapers all said they could not tell what the stuff was. Sh e kept

the material for some time, but it gradually faded away. Mrs Etta Duffus says she had a piece preserved in a glass case, and Mr Mas-sey-Taylor states that "Katie King" (who used to manifest for Sir William Crookes) had once permitted a part of her drapery to be cut off,, and it had lasted three weeks. It resembled nun's veiling. Miss Stead said her piec e was more like coarse gossamer.