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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1957-09-05, Page 7•c: Loss Of Mlernory Causes Odd Results Twice in one clay recently Teople hit the headlines through oss of memory. A Somerset girl picking primroses in a glade lost as day out of her life and came hack to find herself in a country road—wearing different clothes. A trade union secretary found himself in Geneva—reliving a trip he had made tour years previously! They are just two of the 10,000 eases a year of people in this country who leave their homes reytseriously—some never to 're- turn. It is usually while doing the most mundane things that people vanish, Like the Dorking, Sur- rey, man who left home to pop into the "local" a hundred yards down the street to bring back n pint of beer. Nine years later he walked, in his front door grinning cheerfully—and brand- ishing a pint he had bought when kis lost memory suddenly re- turned! Even longer away was the 18 - year -old boy sent by his mother to buy a pound of liver. He came back 28 years later—with the liver. When his memory re- turned to him he found himself working in Alaska. He travelled straight home and bought the liver on the way. You wouldn't think a honey- moon was the ideal time for vanishing, but one man did so while his wife was shopping and walked about till he wore out his shoes. He returned after three days with no idea of what had happened. Seven thousand out of the $0,000 who vanish in Britain each year are men and a quarter of all cases are due to loss of memory. Spring is the most dangerous time, say the experts. In. April and May men, generally` aged from 30 to 40, find the urge to wander irresistible. Another clanger time is after five years a marriage. But many return to their wives in time to share the winter fireside! For women the dominant rea- son for disappearing is the sheer drudgery of housework and the feeling of being taken for grant- ed. "I'll show them!" says the woman who doesn't think her family appreciates her, and off she goes. And, of course, there are those who vanish with lovers. A fairly frequent cause among boys is a feeling of social in- feriority. They pass scholarships, go to better schools and mix with richer boys whom they can- not take to their own homes. So they go off to seek a fortune. "Did you tell your young man that I think he's no good?" a doctor inquired of his daughter. "Yes," she replied, "and' he said it wasn't the first wrong diagnosis you'd made." A NEW CAR—The long awaited Edsel, newest car in the Ford line, madeits debut recently at a series of press conferenies across the country. Aimed at the "medium price" market, the Edsel will have 18 models in four series—Ranger, Pacer, Cor- sair and Citation. Atright is the driver's eye view of the instrument panel and "Tele - touch" push button transmission controls located on the steer- ing wheel hub. The speed- ometer is drum type. Heater, defroster and ventilator are operated by a single control, right, centre. Front and rear styling are shown in photo be- low of a Citation two -door hardtop and a Citation convert- ible. The car has a vertical grille and concave sculptured sides. Horizontal taillights blend into the flight deck luggage compartment to provide a solid bar of illumination. Each bar has two segments. Turn indi- cators and brake warning lights are in outer segments. ;.:`, ,ia IX}Q',.. .^3G'.:L "'kte,ef'r,K•.?n"y"�: 40, eeese Zee „^ s Hwy x.777.,! .try?N,"'dm.`/.ri'''xS`.Y. • Can We See The Future? The death -cell silence was broken by the condemned man's groans. "What's wrong?" inquir- ed his jailer, holding up a flick- ering candle. John Lee, called the Babba- combe Monster, and due to hang next morning, stirred on his nar- row prison cot. "I had a strange dream," he muttered. "I was pinioned, blind- folded, and with the rope round my neck -on the drop. And when the hangman drew, the bolt it wouldn't work." "Nonsense!" declared the jail- er. "It always' works" But he was wrong. For just as in thedream, the drop failed to work. They took" the condemned man back to the cell and worked on the mechanism. They tried again, and once 'mete it stuck. There are thousands of cases of dreams such as John Lee's which revealed future events to the dreamer. And there have aeisSelie MISS ARIZONA—The drawing board where Major Hoople is produced holds an especial fascination for Miss Lynn Freyse, who is Miss Arizona and a candidate for Miss America. Her father, Bill Freyse, draws the famous cartoon, Our Boarding House, and in addition to drama, art is one of Lynn's talents. w been many attempts to explain this astounding faculty of seeing into the future. One day Charles Dickens, the great novelist, came down' to breakfast and said: "I had a very curious dream. I dreamed that a lady in a red shawl 'called on me and said: 'I am Miss Napier.' I -don't know any lady, of that name. Yet the dream was most. vivid" The following day two ladies. called on Dickens. One wore a red shawl. She introduced her- self as Miss Napier. She. was an admirer of the novelist, but un- known to him. Lady Hester Stanhope was, one of the most remarkable wi1'ne, of the nineteenth century suddenly turned her back on' glittering London society whic had been her life arid set out for the East. She settled among the Druse people of Mount Lebanon and adopted their way of life. When they carne to be- lieve she had the power of divination they made her their uncrowned queen. Had she this strange power? It would seem so. For one day, before she left London for her strange new way of life, Lady Hester was enter- taining in her Mayfair mansion a number of guests, among then a Mr. Wolff. She turned to Mr. Wolff and said: ."You mentioned at lunch time that you were going to Aleppo and Antioch shortly?" He agreed. "That is my plan." "Well, don't go," advised his hostess. "Both those towns will .shortly be destroyed by an earthquake." Mr. Wolff did not take her warning seriously, and went to Aleppo. One day he was dining there with de Lesseps, the famous engineer who built the Suez Canal, and a Mr. Barker. "We are in peril here," he re- marked, half -jokingly, remem- bering Lady Hester's warning. "The town is about to be de- stroyed by a fearful earthquake." They all laughed at this and thought no more of it. But a few days later both Aleppo and Antioch were, in fact, destroyed. Joseph de Lanyi, Bishop of Grosswardin, had a strange and disturbing dream. He wrote it down and sent for his servants to tell them of it, while still in his bedroom. "I dreamed," he told them, hat i had a letter with a thick lack border bearing the arms i? the Archduke of Austria- ungary, formerly, as you all low, my.pupil. "When 't opened th• etter it vealed a picture, saw as reet with an alley off. Seated a.: motor -car were the Arch- uke• and Archduchess. An of- cer 'sat opposite tem, and a auffeur was driving the car. "Suddenly two young men ashed forward and fired several eer sat apposite them, and a uchess were shot. A crowd g -ed forward. in great eonfu- an , en., the picture faded and rv. riting of the letter was 4wriq.,.\- Y then read this: "1ainence, dear Dr. Lahyia lfe and 1 have been vie- s `of' a political crime at Sara - d We commend ourselves to Ur prayers. Sarajevo, June h, 4 a.m." 9; Later came the news of the fateful double murder which etarted the first world war. One night there came a fright- ipg dream to Dr. von Gudden, iia was the medical attendant :the mad king of Bavaria, Lud- 1'g II. The doctor dreamed that he a in a boat on the Bergersee ie with another man, when the ther attacked him and both fell to the water and were drowned. AA few weeks later, the mad 'iiri:g suggested to Dr. von Gud- that they went for a row on e lake. The doctor had evi- o ntly forgotten his prophetic. am. h''or a time the king rowed the at quite sanely. Then, sudden - he attacked the doctor: There tas a fierce struggle and both ere flung into the water and i'owned. ";Sometimes quite a trivial mat- ter is revealed in a dream. :For instance, the great Ger- man philosopher, Schopenhauer, spilt a lot of ink all over the floor of his study. When he rang tor the maid, she came and said: "Well, isn't that strange! I dreamed this last night," "Nonsense!" exclaimed the philosopher. "How could you dream what had yet to take Place?" "Oh, but I did," persisted the girl. "And what is more I told cook and the manservant." When Schopenhauer had cross- examined these witnesses to the girl's dream of the future, he Was convinced of its truth. This is what he wrote about it: "This story, whose truth I guar- antee, puts the reality of such dreams beyond question. There- fore all that happens is fated. Mr. J. W. Dunne, following a dream in which he foresaw in detail that: terrible disaster when the Flying Scotsman jumped the tracks north of the Firth of Forh bridge with great loss of life, studied the subject scien- tifically. His method was simple, He be- gan to keep a dream diary. By reading back he found that he frequently had dreams of the future. Ile asserted that, if anybody cares to take the trouble to keep a dream diary, they will find, as he did, that this power of dream- ing into the future is not limited to a small number of people, but is the undiscovered alw?"vity of us all. ON SOME FORESGN cemetery for allied Graves Commission, Tritons, Australians, isEk Burma. 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