COLOURED GHOSTS

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 261, 4 August 1928, Page 24

COLOURED GHOSTS

It is an age of progress. The powers of mankind extend yeatj by year. Why should the ghosts remain subject to their old limitations? We can' feel no surprise at the news that in America the ghosts have done with black and white and are coming in colours (says the London “Daily Telegraph"). An American ghost, it was to be expected, would lead the way. The inventive genius of the nation naturally leads in ghostly as in material conditions. "The actual colour of a ghost,” it has been announced by the head of the American Society for Psychical Research, “is now reddish brown, about the same shade as liver." For a lady ghost it does uot sound becoming, but perhaps that is not' the first consideration, for upon the ghostly plane there may be other standards of complexion. But we must ask for a more detailed specification. The ordinary old-world ghost, from him who was seen at Endor to the last catalogued apparition, appears in his habit ns I.e lived. It is necessary for the purposes -if identification; There may be, ilinugh tins is rather of the romances, fan rustic accessories, such as a head under an aria, or the ironmongery attached to Marleys ghost and suite But there is no colour in the scheme, all ghostly phenomena arc white, or black, or grey, more or less luminous, - never in anything more billliant than this Imlf-inourning. It is not vet' clear whether the modern 100 per cent. American spook is livcr-rclour nil over, body and clothes, or whether the corporeal part only is liver, the attire variable according to the individual. A liver-coloured dress coat or morning coat would be a striking sight, it should compel belief of the most hardened unbeliever.