THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1906.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8203, 6 August 1906, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1906.

Writing in the Nineteenth Century on the old, and always absorbing, subject of the convictions that suddenly arise in our minds that we have seen new localities before, the Rev. Forbes Phillips advances the theory that those strange recollections of experiences outside our known experience, wbiob have profoundly impressed thinkers all through history, are due to memory inherited from our ancestors. Ihe soenes which we feel we have seen before were witnessed by ancestors and the mental photographs formed by them have come down to us. By this theory Mr Phillips explains the habit of looking to right and left and behind when going along a dark road, and of clenching the handß and tightening the lips when indignation seizes us, habits formed by auoetois iu the pre-historio days, when every sense had to be on tlie alert, and the natural result of anger was a fight. Darwin tells how be put his face close to the glass of a puff-adder's cage at the Zoo with a determination not to draw away when the snake darted forward. Wheu the movement was made he sprang baok several feet; the influ> enoe of anoestral memory (so Mr Pbillips believes) was too strong. Mr Phillips lives near a well-pre-

served Roman fort, and he was visited one day by a clergyman who wished to examine the rains, saying that he had a distinct reoolleotion of living there. The two clergymen visited the place together, and the stranger insisted on examining a ruined tower which had bodily overturned. ''There used to be a socket in the too of it,'' he went on, "in which we used to plant a mast, aud archers used to be hauled to the tup in a basket protected with leather, froa which they picked off the leaders amoag the ancient Qorlestonians." They found the socket be had indicated. Then there is an equally, authentic case of a son and grandson inheriting trie habit of dropping their arms on their noses when asleep. The curious habit was purely unconscious, and Mr Phillips' explanation is that it was a case of ancestral memory. Mr Phillips thinks that the problem of apparitions oan be solved by his theory. When one sees a ghost one does not really see anytding; it is merely the working in the brain of the memory of an ancestor who saw the original of the apparition. Here we have an explanation of tne grim figures whion haunt castles. Jones (if a Jones could be found in a castle) sees an. apparition, which he identifies from his portrait gallery as that] of an ancestor. What happens to Jones is really the working of an ancestral memory cell transmitted through centuries from some one who actually saw the so-called ghost in the flesh.

The aims of the various Eog lish societies for the emigration of women seem to be frankly matrimonial, said Sir John Oookburn, at a conference in London recently, oalled by the Central bureau for the employment of Women. "Colonisation by Educated Woman," he exolaimed, "Talk of positions for women in the colonies 1 When there are 250,000 pairs of vaoant arms awaiting them there are surely plenty of positions!" A number of speakers explained the needs of different colonies. It was at this conference that Mr W. J. Napier, o? Auckland, declared that New Zealand wanted 54,000 women. Dairy farming had lately developed greatly in the oolony, he said, while in the North Island, where there was practically no winter, fruit-growing was being greatly extended. They wanted adaptable common sense were not ashamed of doing the work of a household. He thought, however, that such women would find fruit-growing, or the like, only a temporary platform; their true career would be matrimonial. Mrs Glare Fitzgibbon, speaking for Canada, suggested that the conference should communicate with the National Councils of Women throughout the Empire in clearly defined resolutions. They were, she understood, discussing the colonisa tion of women whose sole capital was a thorough education in one of the spheres of labour open to their sex. In Canada the supply for the soholaßtio and clerical professions more than met the demand. The disproportion of the sexes in England was due to unthinking Imperial expansion. Men had been given 'every inducement to be pioneers, whlie women had been left at home to do as best they could. They hadjto set, the balance right by a well-considered scheme for the migration of women to the colonies. A paper by Mrs Joyce was read, in which the writer advooated a training in gardening, dairy work and the like for women proceeding to Canada, and pointed out than in that colony there were abundant opportunities for women to have comfortable homes if they choose. Mr Bernard Wise, speaking for Australia, said he believed that there were openings in Australia for educated women for flowergrowing, for scent-making, for beefarmiog, poultry farming and the liko. And Sir Horaoe Tozer observed that Australia now offered ooportuuities for women in butter making and other dairy work, and lambraibing, while fruit-growing was even now only in its infancy.