Review of reviews and world's work . e the lights are turnedup. The purely photographic part of the mat-ter is so simple that spirit photographs in allstyles and in any quantities can be ordered anddealt with just like other articles of success of the business is only limited bythe fatuity and banking account of the dupe. A friend of Mr. Beddings once showedhim a photograph of his mother who hadbeen dead many years, and whose spirit wasreported to have appeared at a recent this picture Mr. Bedding says: The lady in question seemed to be wearingher earthly garments in her
Review of reviews and world's work . e the lights are turnedup. The purely photographic part of the mat-ter is so simple that spirit photographs in allstyles and in any quantities can be ordered anddealt with just like other articles of success of the business is only limited bythe fatuity and banking account of the dupe. A friend of Mr. Beddings once showedhim a photograph of his mother who hadbeen dead many years, and whose spirit wasreported to have appeared at a recent this picture Mr. Bedding says: The lady in question seemed to be wearingher earthly garments in her heavenly home. Iwas under tlie impression that tailor-madegowns and fashionable millinery formed nopart of aji iannortal souls stock-in-trade. Onthe other hand, if they do, it is curious thatthey do not wear out I pointed this out to myfriend, and his explanation of the phenomenonwas that the deceased ladys clothing becamespiritized after death. Incidentally, as illustrating the humorousside of spiritualism, Mr. Bedding relates the. .ALLEGED SPIRIT I Iliotograph of an .<-iiiit Spirit, taken by manat following incident, in which a friend of his was the central figure: At one of tlie seances, which of course wereheld in the dark, it was announced that JohnKnox would shake hands with any one presentwho desired to have the honor of doing tangible spirit of the great Scottisii relig-ious reformer duly appeared according to pro-gram. Among those with whom he shookhands was my friend H., who was a jocularperson. H., during the seance, smeared hishand with aniline violet, and so grasped thespirits hand with his palm and digits thorough-ly wet with the dye. When the spirit had gonethe round and vanished in the darkness, thelights were turned up and one of the party, anelderly gentleman, was seen to have a violetstain on his hand and violet stains on his whitehair and beard, over which he had, presumably,passed his hand in doffing his spiritualistic
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