Nostalgia From A Queen's Treasure
By Jack Sen
PRICELESS and
London,
Irre-
pinccable as the late Queen Mary's art treasures may be, they ure ulso 20 brilliant reminder of her worldwide interests.
And they recall, too, the 2 of Empire in its Vie forlun aplendour and the years when crowned heads ruled nearly every counEy in Europe.
More Dian tour Hunksthe of Queen Mary's Treasures are of display now aphras of the
If Mattbermagh House, Her favourite renadesive, erected By London's Victoria and Albert Maceum
" JALAN paratungs daparty, elaborately won ked chocka, cantonady Judijonasd stunt fark thelot arthel jewelled orionents There are pieces of farsiture torinally Could att ly
In a musUALITY,
FASTER EGG
Among them to Czar Nicholas I Faster eet. Dushionnd in pelullestir and diurnunds by Carl
Faberge for his Czarna There are infiilatuask of the Gʻzar's live
ז' tal
Inscriptions, bifle nostalgie, breathe Bife into the pleces,
In a gold, enamelled casket
a note from Princess Sophia
Genu
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1954.
"That's a nice thing to call a baby on the first day of National Baby Wook.”
THE GHOST GOES
W
see.
OULD spend
the night alone it CHAPMAN PINCHER begins today a new exploration of the World of the Uncanny
abuunted house? And if you did — what would happen to you? In June 1954! Well, let'>< And first, let's get the right idea about ghosts.
People do
ghosts. there is no doubt about that. Bat ghosts are not what they were. The clunking
HERO
HI's daughter which tells the casket's history in her kind with, in extreme cases,
wwn handwriting. beloved sister
"Froth mythe head beneath the arm. Mary; wall y has gone, mother's; after her death the Duke of Gloucester's and now given to me, Juru 31st, 1835," she wrote,
Yet the Paychical Re search Society, a body of From India Is a Jaipur: jude-impartial investigators, still trinket box encrusted with believes in ghosts-of u
diamonds kind. rubies und uncut gift perhap from some loyal
shurajah.
From Spain. an early 10th <ntury fari, presented Queen Victoria Eugenie, depict
Madrid Palace in utente
detail,
CHIEN LUNG PIECES
What kind? Well, per. haps you have seen or heard
Was
It started with a cable from America. New progress reported in the proof of telepathy "sixth-sense" the mysterious faculty. And all the unanswered questions that people ask about
T
the world, bayond the five senses came to life again. What is the TRUTH, in the light of today's discoveries? That is the question our Science Reporter has set out to answer in this new series.
YOU're the one
who
does the haunting!
To his horror the doctur, heard kit and naval cup. yone. Perhaps you HAVE someone shuffing about in the After a short talk spent a night in a “haupted" room, above, caring he had, McConnell left. house. Judge for yourself been mistaken in signing the A chock confirmed
by these
certificate, he took the that at that time experiences death
randle and went upstairs. reported
McConnell was ly- by intelligent.
The noise had stopped. The Ing dead 60 miles responsible people.
herty lay on the bed as he had away. left it.
From China there are 18th Century Chien LUTHE period picces, Two which arrest ul- tention are a par of pale blue und tin phrastunts, and a joven
de dish covered with pierced
and carved lotte
exhibits are evlar
the least speela-
*
came down
A message
WORD was dend.
The explanation? The doctor had experienced
auditory Lallucination- trick of the
man's errie suggestion
All that is need-
cd to explain this uncanny experience
of
brain brought about by the old is to accept the pas from the moors thai, an old
that tele- siblity pathy the trans- Dr D. J. West, of the Psychi-
for eat Research Society,
mental So my
reports s
across messages this case*-*
sometimes David McConnell, 18-year-old space
But perhage, the most moving doctor friend motored up to
Live three-roomed stone where she had lived They air a thesdest display off hovel photographs and dresses,
with her 84-year-old crippled hushant.
The photographe of the Queen from tier childhood days bring to mind generalla half- forgotten today. The dresses ressantes, the
tellared couls,
ac-
traince pilot, was asked to fly of crisis.
occurs at momenta
The
evid-
до
un acroplane from Scampton, ence is overwhelm- Lines, to Tadcaster where he
In ingly crashed
of 3.26 pm.
favour ut
this His room-mate reported that
belet thef that ume
to show in he was
sitting hope reading when he heard footsteps the
the next article. coming up the corridor and saw I suggest that at McConnell enter, wearing hle the moment of the
The deelor went up lo bedroom mene, vowed the body
and loft.
their and pale blue
Thpt night he called back to fur- the feathered : comfort the old man. "You toquex រភេ elegant parasols, know, she's not really dead. blog 10 Mincious. swiftly- ductor," the old
said. receding cra.
THIS
HAS
London.
IF you rose at five in the
morning, travelled
"Listen."
*
crpsh
**/n
Psychicul Researchi Today (Duckwurik, 129. Gd.).
of
passed from subconscious
McConnell
message the mind to
ACE JOCKEY'S
HER
HER BUSY
By Dorothy Barkley
WIFE DAYS
London Exprons Servico
1954
geista are not u psychic mani- testation.
When one is reported there is usually a child in the house passing through the difficult period of adolescence or some- one else experiencing a similar mental disturbance,
It is they who throw the objects and break the windows - often without consciously realizing it.
the
to
Haunted houSCI where same kind of ghost is repeatedly seen by different people over several years are dificult explain by the telepathy theory, but there are few, if any, which stand up to investigation
"the
most
My confidence in reports on haunted houses was shattered when Investigated the of Borley Rectory, haunted house in England" said to be haunted by the ghost of a murdered ñun.
*
After questioning witnesses at Barley. I left convinced that the reports, works' worthless.
The main,diffoulty with, the telepathic theory of uncanny. experiences is in explaining those which are seen by twp or more people at the same time
Again I have never been able to track down such a case, but there are many on the Psychl- cal Remurch Bocjely's records. Thus:-
Two young Englishwomen on holiday near Dieppo three years ago claimed to have heard ghost men, ghost ships, and ghost the Com- planes re-enacting mando rald which had taken place there nine years before.
They made full notes of the Holses and the times at which they heard them. These times coincided almost exactly with the main events of the Dieppe ruid ng recorded in amcial re- port which the wqmen had that of his room-inate, whose never seen.
Drawing by HOFFNUNG
brain then produced the hallu- A case, reported by Tyrrell in cination by filling in the details in his scholarly book "Appart- of the footsteps, the clothing, long, saw a man standing Is even more starting- and the voice.
Mrs
This theory that ghosts hallucinations triggered off by husband to look.
at the foot of the bed dressed are in naval clothes. She told her
of
falopathy was first put forward The figure, an apparition
in detail by the distinguished his father who had been dead
horses all day long and she just | British psychic researcher 14 years, spoke to him in
wishes she were a boy,"
a
Switching. to clothes, Mrs eighteen miles to Epsom to as they are in Britain. We
Longden pronounced that watch your husband exer- have a season of races -
By now she has learned not to
fills the cise his horse, flow seventy- usually three months-in big race,
worry overmuch even before a Food, woll-out sult
And, if she worries fashion picture. five miles to visit friends, the same place. In Santa at all, she conceals it. then returned to London to Anita, there are two racing
"Sults are just right for race do some last-minute shop seasons enchi year. We have the
As the racing season lasts all courses. Your Royal Ascot
year round in Califorula, but of course there's nothing ping, how would you feel?
a house near there, so it the Longdens have few outside like that in the States. Feopla Tired..., worn out?
means Johnny can be home interests there.
go for the races. Women don't for six months," Maybe.
"There's no time for anything bather avormuch about fashion But that's the way Mrs eye of a woman who likes
She added, with the twinkling I play an occasional game so long as they look smart.
of golf. But I play, at, it; I don't Hazel Longden lives.
take it seriously. Really, change from home chores now and again: "The of the lead a quiet life. Most evenings Packed Time-table
rest
at homo watching around WC spend.
television.
on When we're away,
Mrs Longden, slim and your I enjoy travelling fair-haired, is the 30-year- with him."
old wife of Johnny Langden. America's champion jockey
who flew to England to ride
In the Derby.
She greeted me with the
Perfect Partner
Marked on a map and dated
we
G. N. M. Tyrrell. There
reproachful voice and vanished. growing evidence to support it. Later the husband disclosed that he was in financial trouble The fact, for instance, that and at the time the ghost ap people seg "ghosts" of them- peared had
been considering selves shows that apparitions need not be spirits from
doing something discreditable to an get out of it the casebook of Professor Jean other world. This example, from Lhermitte, Paris neurologist, is typical:-
A woman saw her own Image It could be argued that the dressed in clothes she had not by both people because it wON DI bonding over her child's bed apparition in this case was seen, worn for some time. The face real ghout — a spirit returned of the phantom was extremely from the dond
་ ད་ ་ ཝ་ sad:
However, that argument is
tho destroyed by
following She remembered that when equally well-documented report we feel we have to be gut every But there is just an occasional one of her children had died of the "ghost" of a living perm minute finding out what's going moment when Mrs. Longdon
monika previously, its seem by two people:- Pa
A woman asleep in her home on. But in California, we know might wish she had more time body had been placed in that
slay at home.
three
exactly what's going on so we on her hands when she is away were the mourning clothes she cabin
[bed. The phantom's clothes dreamed the entered a 'ship's
"In New York or London
her and new
stjör fram home.
had worn thon.
husband and another man In London, she has visited re- in her diary are visits to Cal- pyo been here several
There are even corroborated asloop. times intions and friends, done a lot cases in which people have reamed that his wife entered words: "Gee, I am tired."
At the same time the husband gory, Canada, for a wedding at the end of this month, and an before we try to pack as much of sightseeing, gone shopping willed phantome of themselves the cabin in her nightdress, After this particular day's nutumn hailday with friends in as possible into the time. We've woollen cloth for herself, trin- to appear to someone else! by
seen three shows in the a cota for the children
his berth excursions, she had changed Vancouver.
and klawed fortnight. They were a musical'
COME talopathy, and " have apparaply leaned over · from smart tweed suib
him. He then woke up to find Then, if are the wile you are
mucomedied. of mud into a comfortable black partner for her jockey, husband, and a light comedy."
Mrs Lorigden is the perfect review, a psychological drama a champlont
his companion staring as blm,
aweater and skirt. And we
`a pašked"tree", sa ** for letha moderný 3d04; ond - mecusing him of, admijting "I have known Johnny sineo. I. "Home" is a luxurious or products of the
E the snowwer to at night in G Bottled down to talk about was so high," she went on.. the kind of life led by a "When he came to the States, house near Santa Anits, a citie almost the moment the big race what would happen if you mont Later the wife twenty-seven years ago, the first ranch In Nevada and two lover Maybe there is an night alone in anamed described the cabin person he rout for was my children, Erle, two, and Andres, and poly coming of soon as 16:16 was really haunted had never den in We
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