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The Herald, 1914-08-07, Page 5'an. all( •un 7ohi. ) • li r• a rat* 1 15,1 7��-1iAT YOUR DREAM BODY •• fou are as]eep- uneoneoioizs. Yot awake with a start. You have been in the midst of some strange scenes. Perhaps you have escaped an impend - 44^; danger. ThankfzillY you realize that the vivid episode which •a :second before seemed' so •deeply to concern you was no,onore than a dream. • But was it so unreal after. all?' A new by 'of dreaming :15 pro- pounded by no less eminent an au- thority than Dr. Frederick Van I9eden of Holland, who 'suggests, says the Boston Globe, that• dreams may be the adventures. of the astral body, which, released from its physical Nabi - tat by sleep, wanders off into psychic realms. That there is a psychic content in the human body, scientists laugh at. They call all such theories ghost stories, Yet Dr. Van Eeden, who iswell known in the United States; is himself a scientist of 'no mean note. Moreover, he has made a special study of hypno- tism as a curative agent, and founded a sanitarium in Amsterdam, where his theories have been tested, So what Dr. Van Eeden has to say on the subject of dreams cannot light- ly be passed over as unworthy of seri- ous consideration. Ever since 1896, Dr. Van Bedell has been observing and • analyzing his Homes of British F1onarchy==^Same of th Kings Most Famous Palace dreams, and has narrated a number of the most striking of these, as well a 'th 1 l' l h h s e cone us ons to w cic c e as thereby been led, in the proceedings of the English Society for Psychical Research. He bases his belief in the existence of a separate dream body upon such experiences as the follow- ing. He says: "In January, 1898, I dreamed that I was lying in• the garden before the windows of my study, and saw the eyes of my dog through the ' glass pane. I was lying on my chest and observing my dog very keenly. At the same time, however, I' know with per- fect certainty that I was dreaming and lying on my back in bed. "And then I resolved, to wake up slowly and carefully and observe how my sensation of lying on my chest would change into the sensation of lying on my back. And so I did, slow- ly and deliberately, and the transition —which I have since undergone many times—is most wonderful. "It is like the feeling of slipping out of one body into another, and there is distinctly a double recollection of the two bodies. I remembered what I felt inmy dreams, lying on my chest; but, returning into the day life, I re- membered also that my physical body had been lying quietly on, its back all the while. This observation of a double mem- ory I have had many times since. It is so indubitable that it leads almost unavoidably to the conception of a dream body." It is in this dream body, Dr. Van Eeden asserts, that many of our most 'wonderful dreams are experienced. We may go off in it to distant scenes and different countries; we may re- ceive thoughts and impressions from other minds—living and possibly dead —during the hours of sleep; in it we are open to thought -currents, to astral Influences, and are, quite possibly, clairvoyant. Of late years attempts have been made to classify and explain all dreams on a so-called scientific basis —that Is, one which is in keeping with materialistic philosophy. Dr. Freud of Vienna is one of the most proms- • vent exponents of this view. He be- lieves that all dreams are due to the same cause—the expression of an un- gratified wish." But 'Dr. Vin Eeden asserts positive- ly, as the result of his own experience, that this explanation does not cover • nearly all the facts: He arranges his dreams in nine classes or categories, only one •of which Dr, 1, reud's theories. explain. Thus, he has experienced: First— ordinary dreams; second- —.very vivid, unpleasant dreams; • third—symbolic or Mocking, dreams; fourth—general• dream sen'satians; fifth -lucid• (clair- voyant dreams; 'sixth—demon dreams —=not unpleasant; seventh-:detl1onia. cal dreams.- unpleaSaiit, near waking up;' eighth—initial dreams, pleasant; ninth. --pathological, dreams, due to the state of the body or some such cause. Of these, the two most''interesting types aro the lucid and the demoniac dreams. As to these Iatter, Dr. Van Eeden says: ? ' "In the demon dreams -I see the figures, the personalities of strange non -human beings 'One night, for in- stance, I saw such "a being going be- fore me and soiling everything he touched, ° each as' doorhandlesand chairs. "These beings are always odious, and try to draw me, into their acts and doings. They have no sex and appear alternately as a man arid 'a wo- man. "Their .aspect is very variable, changing every moment, taking all 1.he fantastic forms that thQ old paint, ers of the Middle Ages tried to'repro duce, .but with a Tcertain weird pIizs ticity that fro' painting; can oxp}•ess. Ori another oece,sion, while inhis dream body. %D,l. 'V„'nii bletlen e'vas join ed by:, a• mob ofvicimie'eli; lf-savego creatui es, wino surrounded bitn, gri1r nine• rind'" leering feai:•i'ull'y'„' Ile, felt th.a,t • b a,s begienrc>, ^,,;to Iose'self contl,ol Ise;ltd l:liegun to a.et -inert': and'iicoie. bell avagaartly, to °sii g loudly, and throw,, bi(i bedclothes about:• S it he. r iced one .,nc . , uddex x,. col denme who looked a little less 'Ilendish than the Buckingham Palace, where the Home Rule conferences are in ses- sion, is an ugly building, imposing only by reason of its huge size. It is the Ring's only London resi- dence, though he has several other palaces in, or near London. none of which, however, are occupied by him personally. Altogether the sov- ereign, as such, possesses no less titan fifteen royal palaces. They are Buckingham Palace ; Windsor Cas- tle ; Kensington, Kew, Claremont, and Hampton Court Palaces; St. James' Palace; Holyrood House, Edinburgh; the Palaces of Falkland and Lochmaben, and the Castles of Rothesay. Dunstaffnage. Dunoon, and Carrick, all in Scotland; and Dublin Castle. Of these, Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace are the only two which the King occupies per- sonally..St. James' Palace is used for a few official functions. Kew Palace is unoccupied and open to the public. Kensington, Claremont and Hampton Court Palaces are occupied by members of the Royal family and others to Whom his Maj- esty allots apartments. iolyrood Palace, Edinburgh, is used for a few official functions. Mr. Asquith's brother-in-law, Lord Glenconner, who is Lord High Commissioner to the Church of Scotland, holding court there for about a fortnight in the year. The other Scottish pal- aces are unused for any national or Royal purposes, that of Falkland having been restored by the late Lord Bute, who purchased the es - Duel ani Pabee tate some thirty years ago. Dnb lin Castle is the official residence of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. • Historic Windsor. Buckingham Palace is an enor- mous house, the apartments num- bering well over a. hundred. The drawingrooms, concerts and balls given here are the ;,irime events of. the London season. The State apati ments are of most imposing dimen- sions and well suited for entertain- ment on the Royal scale. The gar- dens are some fifty acres in extent —a very big size for a residence in j the heart of London, :where garden ground is at a premium. Windsor Castle however, stand- ing on an isolated hill overlooking the Royal borough of Windsor, is the residence above all others, associated with the historic mon- archy of England. William the :.'ongneror was the original build - 'r of this eastle—the finest Royal residences in the world—it was re- built in the reign of Edward III. and restored and modernized by George IV. and Queen Victoria The castle is, in itself a whole town in size. Here is St. George's Chapel, the chapel of Knights of the Gsfrter, as``aIo the Albert Chapel the most sumptuous ehapel in the world, restored by Queen Victoria in memory of the late Prince Con- tort. The State apartments, includ- ing the Rubens room and the Van Dyck room hung entirely with the works of these two masters, are superb. St. George's Hall—hung with por- traits of the Kings of England— where the State banquets take place is the grandest banqueting hall in the world. The park surrounding D mor 1 (a51le the castle is nearly two thousand acres in extent. King's Private house. The Ring has four private resi- dences. Balmoral Castle, his Scot- tish residence, is in Aberdeenshire, near Ballater, nine hundred • feet above the sea. This castle is built entirely of granite in the Scottish baronial style. It was bought by the Prince Consort and bequeathed by him to Queen Victoria, who left it to Kiiig Edward, who left it to King George. On the same de- mesne is A•bergeldie Castle which the King uses as a shooting lodge. York Cottage, Sandringham, the King's Norfolk home, is a modest residence adjacent to Sandringham House, which Iatter belongs to Queen Alexandra for her life and thereafter will pass to the King. The estate which •consists of seven thousand "acres, with a park of two hundred acres, is already the King's property. The shooting at Sond- ringham, like that at Windsor, is renowned for its excellence. San- dringham House is a huge country mansion built of brick and stone in Elizabethan style, Barton Manor in the Isle of Wight is a house of the King's which he generally lends to friends. And Ken Hill Hall, a medium-sized country house, Web he built last year, completes the list of his residences. rest, and who was watching him close- ly, with an expression which said: "You are going wrong!" "Yes," replied the dreamer, "but what am I to do?" "Give them the whip on their backs," came the answer. Dr. Van Eeden at once thought of Dante shades, who also feared the whip. He made one of leather strings, 'with leaden balls at the end. With this he threatened the demons, and struck some of them across the back with the lash. Then suddenly all seemed to grow quiet about him, and he observed the creatures slinking away with hypocri- tical faces, as If they knew nothing about it at all! Dr. Van 11/eden has been led, 'very gradually, and, as • the result of his own experiences, to believe firmly in the'realitY of these demons.• He says: "I call demoniacal those phenomena which produce on us the impression'61 being 'in 4ented or arranged"by intelli- gent beings of a very low' moral or- der." IIe quotes the authority of the late Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace in support of his belief, and thinks that many insanities might also originate in these demoniacal influences which are brought to bear on magi. In any case, • he siinpports Christian of Pilgrim's Progress, 'in saying that whether these beings Dave a real ex- istence'or whether they are only crea- tiona of my fancy; to see them and to fight theca 'takes away all 'their ter- ror, all the uncanniness, the weird- ness, of their tricks and pranks." And .this agrees with the • advice .given `by another wise man: Resist the'devil,'and he Nvili flee from twee!" The' world inti which the dreamer Is introduced In dreams. of . this na- ture is a peculiar one indeed. •It seems to be :made of a se, $ ef. plastic mater- lai,!Will ch. .ismolded by thought. ,The intelligelices which inhabit this pa%ileti.lar.' space teem` to be evil and i>xaliciousyfoc jhe.most judrt. They+';'de= collie As it welt ee .they, cans For instant ;-Pr. Van 1?ieden tells us that ',on 'Due"bacasidre lid saw elle, face o his "fattier' in.'a. dream exacfl'�:�. c.isllie Irad-;teen"oiler in.life;'a,nd yetsp»sebow lie knew It":;ivas the, deceit: cif•a,dernon. He-tcever..had:the feeling that its*'tas a roil pereee. '• "AM 1•not.exactly, l' " ilte`in,vself , the fake, spirit ;irsicsd, .:And Dr- Veen Eeden bad ito •cdntess that the likeness W perfect; yet he denied positively that it was his father. "The following dream gives another example of this illusion: "On September 9, 1914, I dreamed that I stood at a table before a win- dow. On the table were different ob- jects. I was perfectly well aware that I was dreaming, and I considered what sorts of experiments I should make in, my dream body. "I began by trying to break a gfass, by beating it with a stone. I put a small tablet of glass on two stones and struck it with another stone, Yet; it would not break! "Then I took a`fine claret glass from the table and, struck it with my fist with all my might, at the same time • reflecting how dangerous it would be to do this in waking life; yet the glass .remained whole. But lo! when I look- ed at it again soon after it was bro- ken. - ' "It broke •all right, but a little too ;ate, like an actor °who misses his one,. '1•lus gave me the very curious impres- sion of being a fake -world, cleverly, imitated, but with small failures. "I took the broken glass and threw it out of 'the window, in order to ob- serve whether. I could hear the tink- ling. I heard the noise all right, and I even saw two dogs run away from it quite naturally.. I thought what a good incitation this comedy world was. "Then I saw a decanter with claret and tasted it, and noted with perfect clearness of mind: Well, we can also have voluntary impressions of taste in this dream world; this has quite the taste of wine!' " All these experiences took place, be it observed, when the sleeper was ap- parently travelling in • his dream -body -u -that body which is loosened during sleep, to roam in, a world of which we remember little when we again wake, But. such a world, does it exist? What is it? And What' ie this dreanc- bd'cly In''which we can "travel,• appear, speak, influence,' people `;aifd,: move'ob- jecis" These are questions ;which the, psy- chic ncience of -the future must solve. .i, • TonseeT, wish rI knew what icy girl would like for a birthday present. Sack. -Why don't yon able her '? Tom :Olt•; I haven't 'money 'enough to buy •anything so expensive. HELPING THE UNFORTUNATE. 4 Chicago Institution Which Is Do- . ing a Good Work. "A Ladder for the Down and Out." That is what a 'building in Ohicago is often called, although it is actually named the Rufus F. Dawes Hotel, after the man to whom its erection is due. It was 'founded to carry out the desire of Mr, Dawes's deceased son to give men who are "down and out" a lift. He had often spoken of the need of an institution that should give a, helping hand to the man 's ,no ear- nestly desired work, but who could not afford to nay for food and shel- ter -while •seeking it. The building is the •fatther's me- morial to his son. It cost $10Q1000 to ''build it, and on the opening night three hundred down -and -outs straggled in from a snowstorm that "raged outside, Some of them sat down .before the •broad open fire- place, in the spacious Iobby, which soon assumed the appearance of a clubroom. Others, who had a few coppers, bought strings of tickets, which entitled the holder to soup at two Bents, coffee, at the same price, rolls and doughnuts at a cent each, and -pie for three cents. • The men were desired to use the bathrooms, and then each pian re- eeived a night' 'Shirt and a pair of bath slippers, and was shown to his sleeping quarters. The charge for beds is five cents. They are in dormitories that are equipped with an exhaust fan sys- tem of ventilation, Each bed has two'Sheets, apillow Slip and a'blan- ket. Por -those either prefer to b6' aloe e; • thei'e are rivet" --f vie "et/bi- de" rooms on the third floor. These roo•ins-are"rented for ten' cents' a night. . . ..•..The'ho tel -is not intended to pro- vide p vide eernanent lodgings. Men a are "P accomiiioda,ted''while they 'are- look- ing for work. but 'the professional. idler will not be welcome, The man- agers of the hotel endeavor, without A, eh�A ge, • to' find r nifrloymen t; for men in hard luck. The institution is not endowed, and is not expected to be self-eupporting. The founder will look out for the deficits^ -- ATLANTIC LINERS. May Be Fifteen Hundred or Two Thousand Feet Long. All transatlantic lines are imbued with the spirit of progress. The Hol- land -America has some very good boats of the Rotterdam type, large, steady and well appointed. In a gen- eral way they are in the class of the George Washington of the North Ger- man Lloyd Line. And the French Line has, two fine express steamers, the Provence and the France, the lat- ter only two years in service. The French Line is fast coming into its own with its new boats—boats that speed with the best on the' ocean, ex- cept for the Mauretania and Lusitania. And landing its passengers at Havre, near to Paris, has a strong appeal to the travelling public. The fifty thou- sand ton boat makes possible a mea- sure of comforts and luxuries that cannot be had in the smaller steam- ers. Moreover, the fifty thousand ton boat is the only insurance policy against seasickness that counts for much. And it isn't a dead sure guar- antee, but ,it comes to close to it that no one need worry much about mal de mer on such a boat. There are times when old ocean, in angry mood, has things pretty much its own way. But in its ordinary mood a boat of this size carries itself with becoming dig- nity. But the fifty thousand ton boat isn't the end; it Is the "croivning achievement of the old type and the beginning of the new and greater type. A sweep from the twenty thousand ton to the .fiftythousand ton boat In something like a. dozen years is going sorne. And if doesn't require , great vision to 'see' in the comparatively near future tile seventy-five thousand or even hundred thousand,ton boat—a boat measuring fifteen hundred or two thousand feet In length. ^Boats of this. size "may never dome; but it's more probable that they will than they.will not. Anyway it is certain that thee. fifty thousand ton boat has some to stay, and has already become a'stand-, and type.--Munseg's Magazine. • A GREAT FRENCH' 1' A.I] TEai. -� 1 Two Interesting 1nc•idents i'3itiotting. 1 ;HIS Chur,ietcr. l- l' C'ui•,t. the great 1. reoult landscape artist, w i A a pian of aite tetiptrtt- tient tiaditionally asseeiated with genius—irritable, iruprtet+pus, tare less. generous, ansi l,.at•able. Monts Albert llubuisson ;she father was the great painter's friend, has re cently publisl :d :-eyriee iii :ere -sting reinrscencee of l"ini .'r the L.r(Ii+' He first met Cor, LI the parr; i i' itntxy House the- eler ]l�rLii��„s leewd talion fof' the ti t•InLi a ina! nrfx fieent old man in a white painter's blouse, standing h f ,re his e,r-•el. under a tree and 't�.iting with hishost. Corot tried kindly to put the shy youth at l'is e.a•-e. . Suddenly he rushed forward tai his palette and :;na.tehed tip ilk brushes, crying, `•Ah, tate li '•.;and l the scoundrel: Be shan't e'cafre me a second time. rye' ;t„t him:'' And seating himself qiu 'kly before his easel, he sclue. e,d +.vut a tnhe ,..f.f white, and started to model <..i lid; canvas a big white senlit el•,,Rl ;,fiat was just appearing :above riga ;nixes of foliage that formed part -'f iris picture. "We are like cr•at,, :i.::..facer.• he added, as he made ter;,:d-t,•'•i;ty with the brush ; '•we have t+) seize the propitious Moment tie make th fish fall into our net.” seine n: ,. mentis later the claud was,fixed i,'• on 'the eanvas, imparting an extr'. ordinary life and charm to the p ture. "Now that we are at re again," said Corot. •`we can Iu on and talk a bit." Before doing so. however, he nose and inspect;d his work from the proper distance; he we-, so deii zbt- ed with it that he brtke into a little dance of joy, singing _ayly an old operatic air as he danced: "Speak low, Fisherman, if you please ; And you shall catch the King of the Seas." tn • At another time during their ac- quaintance, the fine old artist show- ed himself in an even more simple mad amiable aspect. A knock at • tthe door—the last straw after severe annoying interruptions — caused him to fling the door open a•hr?eptly with flushed face and lire in his eye. "What ;s it now -' Come in'. Who are you? What do you come and disturb me for V" he demanded, an graly. The caller. much diQeoneert- ed, stammered 'his exralanation "I came, Monsieur Corot -1 it's about an accident. A workman en- gaged on the 'building has had a fall. His condition .s very grave ; they have just taken him off to the hospital. We. he poor chap. He's a workman wil-, :eaves a wife and four children. We are getting up a subscription anteng the lodgers in the building for ehe family. 1 thought you wotcra perinaps like to join us." •Cooro't's expre:3s;leant-_nance sfhowed clearly hie quick regret for his roughneas te the messenger and his deepening eymoat lsy for the in- jured man. He made prompt amends. "The poor fe l:') a t" he exclaimed. "The unfortunate family—a wife and four children , We must do everything that ie poeeileie to help theta. Now how v.tn I be of use to you—I who only know how to amuse myself with painting; trees and streams They tnu3t be aseured food and shelter. and they'll need money. Here! You sae that little bureau? Do. you mind going to til: first drawer' Good! Now take ou, what you think necessary, and beg of you not to /lee toe much die cretion. My hack if; earned. and 1 won't lock. You can't think how glad I am to'bs allowed to.,share in your kind efforts •on their behalf, Obeying these ii'irectiens, the vis- itor opened ,the 'drawer, and pans. ed, -thunderstruck; for it w -as full of gold and 'bills. taesed in heiter- skelter as the ,a'rtiet had received them. With some•enebarra.ssment.- while Corot worked away busily at his easel—the visitor helped him- self to as large a sum his con- science permitted Ecru to 'take, mur-. inured his thanks and, departed , ('t- rot never inquired *hat the had tak- en, or looked bo Kee -•-although, in- deed he would not have known if he had. 4 Bagpipes I. saM1 r. Ilithen^ Nantes. in .Bagpipes .a,r4;•t.ntong• the oldest of: musal. icetruan its, or in alightly different forms they were known to; the Chinese Assyrians, Greeks andi t o nares, centuries before Christ.: They figure upon a: cnen of Nero: iri;,. mocierxi.times ria e:ntntty caw r'laim, a mo'reop oly of the ictiitrutuent, felt . the Breton "bigtntu," the German "sachpfelfe" and Ine French '`eol- nemeure" are all. 'bagpipes under • another naxne.