A HAPPY MOTHER

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 June 1937, Page 3

A HAPPY MOTHER

TALKS WITH DEAD SON. LONDON, April 2. Beautiful Clare Sheridan, sculptress, novelist and celebrated explorer, leaves for America to-morrow, filled with a happiness that has come from without this world (writes Joan Coldthorp in the Sunday Chronicle). For she hits talked through a Spirit!! . medium, witii “Dick,” Sheridan. her son, whose death, at 21 years of age, three months- ago. ended a brilliant career and fulfilled an ageold curse.

In the quiet room of a tiny house at Notting Hill Cate, Clare Sheridan heard her son say he would go with her to America, guide and watch over her.

"1 have jitsl seen myself in a mir ror,” Clare Sheridan told me. “I am. looking happier than 1 have done foi three months. For 1 know now that Dick will always be near me. no matter what Imppens, lie is pleased that I am going to America. He is with me now. even as 1 speak to you.” As I looked at this talented woman, whose travels in themselves make ■: romantic, exciting story. I could set that some joy had come to her to east the tragedy of the past three months. For it was a tragedy—a pitiful story of a. fine young life abruptly ended when an tittack of appendicitis killed young Richard Brinsley Sheridan it. Algeria.

There was a curse on the eldest son of the Sheridan family. An abbot, evicted by Henry VIII.. from an abbey, decreed that the eldest. Sheridan, son should never inherit. Richard’s father was killed in th< war.

Up io his 21st. birthday. the cities; son had led an adventure-filled life_. He trekked across the Sahara: sailet.

"before the mast"; acted on Hie stage. Danger passed him by. Hut soon allc.’ his 21st. birthday a sudden mysierioti ■ illness killed him. "I thought I couldn't possibly live through it." (.'litre Sheridan told m<, "hut these things change one. I lost myself in my work. lint now i am happy again. I have spoken to ‘Dick. He told me that it is his duty now to watch over me from the other world. He told me that the other world is not unlike this but very much belter. He tells me he is working hard in a college whore he studies spiritual advancement."