GHOSTS ARE FASHIONABLE.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 3385, 4 May 1920, Page 2

GHOSTS ARE FASHIONABLE.

By Twells Brex

Until a year of two ago I had never met any credible person who could assure me that he or she had seen a ghost. To-da"y, if you have not seen a ghost, or at least talked to a ghost, you are out of fashion. Some time ago, before I became ill, I "went to a dinner party. The other members of the party were a judge, a naval commander, an army officer, a barrister, and a woman writer. The fashionable subject of spooks cropped up. I expected scepticism, but found that they all owned ghosts. As the only sceptic I was impatiently heard. The atmosphere became so frigid that, had a ghost appeared, it would have complained of cold. Everybody, except myself, believed in spiritualism. All had their story of how they went to mediums (who, of course, knew nothing about them), and were introduced to departed friends and relatives, who told and reminded thjm of things that none but themselves and the departed ever knew. Some of them had even seen ghosts without the aid of "mediums" (the mediums trade__union, if there is one, ought to look into this and have a stop put to it). The woman writer had seen lots of ghosts. I should imagine that it was a dull night for her when a ghost didn't appear. She had seen ghosts of living persons as well as ghosts of dead persons. She told us that everybody has his own ghost of himself. I suggested that it might be sometimes a very useful story, particularly for husbands. The suggestion was received as coldly as any other comment I ventured. I became so disliked that, on the way home, I saw a ghost myself—it was the ghost of a friendship. I have not been ?.skcd to dinner again. Aforetime, when people fell l", w was customs frr th.ii friends to write recorr, dnss or diet When I fir, friends wreie in u<\ me -.'hat their ghosts said bout my were good-;;e , tv> *« - e to pay a gu.u.. t ,e vice for me A ■ '■>•>'•/' ~,,•„„ »,, to tell me that !. had r. thing .to worry about f;ln- ■'■■■■■ , * O . M with a frier 1 - v who remark t^v Le _ about someov tli a ren cause I see 1 uscript." in his hand a a tvpe--(I work at is writer—but , re head." in pain. H« waistcoat.*) (If only she . "Tell him n '_< ;.. more ing t0 money than »« insurance could h?ve ' ■ ' . ' ' ~,,.„,,.- tax > ■SbWtttattfl.:^^^ My correspond' •-■ . • „ and -then remarke.. I - - spook •her voice fad< : •• ? . ,'• aml tnen says that it is ; : .„. ;■ ruUantß fades away . •■■ ._ , ect of 'could keep gh0, ..->_. ti happiness the- -- .'- _ •enough to tell .-■■■'''. ''--