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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 112, 1 November 1911, Page 8

[ ' Lord Roberts' instinctive horror of cats is well known, but a correspondent of the British Medical Journal tells an even more remarkable story. My wife, he says, has since birth suffered from an absolute horror of spiders—in childhood «his used to give rise to dreadful screaming fits, lasting until the offending spider was removed—and at the present time the horror has not abated at all. Only two nights ago I was hastily summoned to her 'bedroom and requested to "find the spider." A short search revealed a large spider at rest on a dark patch on the wallpaper, and all the time that it was there my wife evinced this horror of it. The signs by which she tells are a peculiar spinal thrill, and then a kind of mental "aura" proclaims the presence of the spider. The test is, so far as I have in four years been able to prove it, infallible, as I have never been needlessly summoned; and, moreover, she can tell at once in an absolutely dark room on which wall it is probably crawling—at uiyrate which of the four corners it is nearest. Her father's sister suffered from a similar faculty, only not nearly so well developed. It seems to mc that, in the absence of any other explanation the phenomenon should be regarded as an extra sense. My wife frequently laughingly says that she must have been a fly in a previous state of existence. VISITINb rJARDS.—When you rati out of cards, Bend your order for mom to the Daily News Printery. 3/« for 56, or 6/- for 100 (postage paid). For chronic chest complaints, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. 1/0 & 2/G. Ladies, be considerate and tactful, yet firm, with any refractory draper who may try to substitute any other make for the famous Warner's Rust-proof Corsets.—Advt.