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SUPERSTITION IN FRANCE. THE CASE OF MME. MESMIN.
ARCHITECT'S VIEWS. A RELIGION OF DAMP.
Attempts are being made to "brighton" England, as evidenced by the decision to PARIS, January 9th. was a coloured concrete for the erection It is at first sight surprising that in of houses and the erection of a pink France, the country of clear, logical, and concrete bridge on the Dalemain road be realistic thinking. such a survival of ftween. Penrith and Ullswater.. superstition should be possible as that Mr. P. Morley Horder, an architect, which inspired the Bageliation of the of Arlington Street, S.W., writes: A curé of Bombon. When the case in the risk of being considered hopelessly I wonder if he realises what a large exception of Opinn, Treasure and Valuables hareby informed that their Goods with the examined, it may be found, to be reald-fashioned, I consider that England number of moh-and even
Down are being landed and stored at their risk that, once granted their fantastic pro- is not only bright enough but also beauti-already do talk without words.
the Godowns of the Honghong and miss, there was a perfectly consistentful beyond all dreams, and the only con- in. Bicily and Southern Italy, for i-Kowloon Wharf and Godaws Co, Ltik, Kow logic in the reasoning of the dozen fanscern of the true brightener" is to try stance, the peasants gabble away fluently, toon, whence Delivery may be obtained im. tics who travelled all the way from to prevent the people of England from when they do not wish to bo overheard, Bordeaux to tie the unfortunate priest expressing their brightness of every in a kind of deaf and dumb language to the floor of his church and take turns hillside in vulgarity of bricks and in which, however, not merely fingers but to flog the demon cut of him while the mortar. -
eyes, head, body, and feet all are others knelt around and prayed. He A journey out of London is a revelation brought into play. It is really fasciant was possessed of devil, whose spells of all the hideous untidiness of modern ing to pick up, if you have the luck to Bill of Lading will be countersigned by the found their way right across France to conditions, and it is difficult to find persuade a local priest or doctor to re Undersigned. Goods remaining unclaimed after inflict physical torture on the reverend within 30 miles of London any bright and veal it. It is spoken so quickly that for Tuesday, the 23rd instant, at Noon, will be mother of their religions association-an unspoiled spot where the vulgarities of a long time it will be as difficult for you subject to Rent and Landing Charges. association unauthorised by the Church. modern existence are not rampant.. to understand as is quickly written All Claims must be sant in to me on ar before indeed, but still commanding an cathu-
Chinese script to a student of ecpybook Friday, the 20th instant, or they will not be siastic devotion from its members.
Chinese I have seen hawkers in Patti-roognized. The real problem is that the majority cont Lane speeding up speech by shout.
All damaged Fackages will be examined on parishioners of the cure, in a village not of people have lost the power of appreing quite a long chunk of Yiddish with Tesday, the 23rd instant, at 10 am by
Her Goddard No Douglas. half an hour from Paris and adjoining ciating the true beauty of England and
out once closing their mouth. These the chateau which was the French army defile it with hideous, machine-made Southern compatriots of Mussolini go beadquarters during the war, should have tages, advertisements, and motor spirit
of various gestures of the limbs and con been so terrorised by the mere word stations with their glare of scarlet and one better. They can, and do by means "sorcery" that not one of them inter-orange There is not the slightest reason tortions of the features. say three or vened to stop the outrage until the gen" why these necessary adjuncts of civilised four things simultaneously perform darmeric appeared upon the scene.
life should not be interpreted in natural ance that cannot but rouse the envy:
It is no less remarkable that the
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To understand this attitude of mind, and beautiful designs, and a community and admiration of Mr. Chesterton, I the central fact of French society must who want "brightness" in the truest did not learn much of the silent Inn be remembered. France is a nation of sense must have the educated observation gunge in Sicily, but I picked up several No" is raising the chin peasants, and, however open-minded her to protest at any vulgarity in the ex nice words.
slightly and pushing out the underlip. urban civilisation, she remains attached Pression of these necessities.
I have seen quite beautiful cottages
THE to the soil and to the primitive beliefs
A more em be almost imperceptible. have had to do with savage races know is no reason why this material, rightly phatic No is conveyed by at the same having arrived. Consignees of Cargo are which spring from the soil. All those who and bridge designs in concrete, and there it can be done so inconspicuously as to that one of the most constant of those used, should not be beautiful; there is time raising the right hand to your chin, primitive beliefs is that pain and death also no economic reason why the mate with the knuckles outward and Engers are never the result of natural causes, but rials which nature has supplied to suit alightly bent, and scratching under the "Go. to-day" can always of a spell cast by some malignant the different districts in England should chin for a moment
not be made available if ordinary basi-be spoken simultaneously by using both enemy. So it is in this case.
ness methods were adopted for procuring banda With the right hand you say them. 1.
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"to-day" by closing all but the first Why adopt Norwegian types of cottages finger of the right hand, pointing that when there are dumerous examples of downward, and moving the hand quickly simple English boarded cottages, which up and down; and with the left hand by holding it palm per have stood for at least 200 years and are FOR SAY "go still comfortably inhabited? Why not pendicular to the ground and shaking it standardise a Kentish boarded cottage up and down, stretched alightly toward with a simple stone or brick base instead the direction in which you wish your of standardising an inhuman steel house? companion to go. How this silent tongue Why sacrifice our heritage of beauty cincensed the police sent South in the the unworthy altar of machine-made troublous political days of 1860, and architecture.
doubtless innoys Mussolini's henchmen to-day! All sorts of rumpuses can be plotted right under the noses of caves. dropping detectives without their being
The Italian Camorristas, too, had a secret language without words; they bad
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Marie Mesmin lives in a very "damp house in a very damp suburb of Bordeaux She has a statue of the Holy Virgin, and the condensation of the damp upon it persuaded many of the credulous to be lieve that on several occasions it wept real tears.. This miracle enabled her some years ago to found her seat of Notre- Dame-des-Pleurs. The damp also gives her rheumatic pains, and as these must have a supernatural origin, they are attri- buted to the Abbé Desnoyers, who had, Again, why is the successful business some time since, been called in to exer man allowed to impose his particular cise the evil spirit which afflicted her, but type of house on the community and as evidently bad not done so, for the painssume that his formula is the most suit- have increased, and he must have put a able for human beings to live in? Hany the wiser. new and more powerful spell upon her would he like, to live in the machine instead of taking one away. Madame made cottage!
a certain sort of cat's mew to warn com- an elaborate code that would delight Robert; the widow of an officer recently
rades that the police were coming and a the Chestertonian: mind. The way SUBURBAN DEPRESSION.. killed in Syria, also attributed ber hus
raucous cockerow to they put down their umbrella, maria band's death to the sorcery of the abbe, All these questions demand only one certain sort of
sawer. The country cannot be brighten summon scattered members of the local pulated a bowl of tea, parked ther and herself tock part in the flagellation.
shoes, touched their pipes, and crossed It is now recalled that certain memed until the community regain some of gang for an ambush.
Police detectives in nearly every big the street all meant something. A Tai- bers of the sect made a similar attack at their joy in its beauty and feel it is a Nantes, five years ago, upon a Syrian pre privilege to live there until they are city in the world use a code of natural ping would stop, for instance, at an late who had not shown sufficient faith jealous of everything that brightens it in gestures for talking to each other in open-fronted pottery shop which, without in the aforesaid ziracle, and it was ta strident way. The modern suburb has public places about a suspect without his the owner knowing it, had bega, chosen this time that the Archbishop of Bardeandopted every device forcibly to brighten knowing it. Its use is seldom general, as the rendezvous of the local plotters.. forbade the faithful to frequent the chapet its existence with variety of building and but two or three men frequently working According to the nature, colour, and size new ait, and the together devise a code for themselves. A of the various pieces of porcelain and of Notre-Dame-des-Pleurs, or to have any advertisement and relations with the sect a prohibition result is the most appalling depression, very effective one, common in Paris, earthenware that he picked up and put Munich, and other Con- down again, casually examining them, to which, by the way, does not appear to and its untidy tawdriness creeps fur- Marseilles, have prevented a certain Father Clemens ther and further out into the real country.tinental cities, consists of Edgsting in all seeming, with a view to purchase, he
various ways with your glass of beer, ne attaching himself to the organisation. Where is it to and In fact, it is suggested by the members Education of the real resourceful kind you sit at a café. table, now with this of the sect that the Abbé Desnoyers him and of people's neglected sense of beauty hand, now with that Two or three years self, no less than the Syrian archiman and fituese is the only real method of ago a Canadian Board of Health in drite, began by pretending to be a fol brightening-A brightness which will spector from Montreal tried to sell to the lower in order to try to obtain control of worthily match the brightness and beauty New York, police force a very full system of inconspicuous speechless speech, which an organisation which was not without its of the English countryside.
be termed The Language of the Eyes material rewards.
Whether or not he brought off the dea! I don't know,
',
conveyed all sorts of information to fellow-conspirators with whom it was more circumspect to appear not to te acquainted.
Talking without speech is, of course, commonly used on race-courses, among
of cardsharpers on land and sen Talways sit with your back to the wall, sc that nobody can stand behind you, ses your cards, and signal by gesture, when: "How many people know that the signal
in a ship's smoking-room), in salerooms, for the Indian Muting itself was given you are playing cards for a money stake by speechless speech. Shortly before the and in the streets outside Stock Ex- outbreak, certain mysterious chupalli changes. One of the most extraordinary (at loaves of bread) were swiftly passed city spectacles I have seen anywhere in The Taipings, who rebelled speechless speech passing between high from village to village, to tell them to the world is the violently gesticulative
THE WERE WOLF OF ETTENHEIM, This outrage upon the Abbé Desnoyers is not the only recent instance of the recent were-wolf case, and used it in his belief in witchcraft surviving to our time books, especially in La Collias In- spirée. Huysmaas found in the Athé It was only in November that the garde Boullan an adept who initiated him into champêtre, or village policeman, of Uttenheim, near Strasbourg, was tried some of the mysteries, which helped to for shooting dead a boy, who had mis-supply the material for his book, "Là chievously worked upon his belief that he bas." In this sceptical, scientific, and be ready. was haunted by animals with human faces. common-sense age there are still some against the Manchu dynasty in China, office windows in Wall Street, New York, ed to each other without words in informing them of sudden price fluctua- He knew that the boy was playing tricks whose lurid fancies take them this way. in the middle of last century, talk and the kerbstone dealers down below,
(Continued a next column.) tions and such-like matters. upon him, but declared his conviction They may be mad, but it is with a very that, by means of sorcery, the fad had thorough method.-The Observer.. acquired the power of turning himself into the forms of other animals-the. were wolf, in fact and the whole village t lieved him.
However, these are the delusions of peasants. What is most astonishing ia that there are plenty of town-dwellers who are equally credulous. We had only few weeks ago the supposed ghost in the. cottage at Rorquerolles, which attracted hundreds of the curious from Paris by motor-car and on foot, and turned out to be merely another mischievous boy-who, by the way,. has just been forbidden by the Prefect of Police to turn the advertise- ment and his supposed talents as a ven triloquist to account by appearing on the music-hall stage Last year a similar ghost brought temporary fame to Ardon," A village in the Ardennes, until a doctor" discovered that the whole thing was the invention of a hysterical woman who suffered from chronic rheumatic pains and auto-suggestion, which he easily cured by hypnotic means.
This very week a number of credulous people in Paris-are being moved by the case of a certain Madame Picquart, a medium, who was convicted of having stolen certain articles from a house where she was employed as a daily dressmaker. After having first denied that she took them, the now pretends that she must have done so under the influence of a spell cast upon her by some enemy, and many kindly spiritualists believe the story, and have appeared as witnesses in jaup port of the appeal which she has made against her conviction, but which has ended in merely confirming it.
DARKEST ALSACEK They belief in the power of sorcery, and in fact in Satanism, is, bowever, another matter. To outward appearance dead, it has survived from the Middle Agen in many dark corners of Europe, especially among peasants, had its ritual, apparently forgotten, has been secretly preserved. Maurice Barrès knew something of its hold upon the imagination of the peasants of Alsace, demonstrated again by the (Continued on next column.)
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