What It Would Mean to the Public Below is Gabriel Consolazio, counsel for the at Large if She Succeeds in Estab¬ Caruso estate, to whom Mrs. Caruso telephoned lishing Communication and How It about the spirit * f / f message. At left is Mr. Might Affect the Career of Gloria, Consolazio'* bride. the Tenor's Gifted Child

of all singers. The whole life ceivable could never yield more than a at left the greatest Large picture is centered in the little mere probability, and such probability is .how* Mrs. Caruso of Mrs. Caruso being of Gloria. Gloria is the living, attainable on other and far better at the appears to-day. Below is breathing, promising monument to her grounds." a member the last photograph father. Through her heart pulsates the J. Godfrey Raupert, formerly taken in America of blood of Enrico Caruso, and in her future of the British Society for Psychical Re¬ Enrico Caruso, there is marked all tangible, earthly con¬ search, who resigned to devote himself to his wife and tact with that great man and good father. a campaign of exposure of the "false claims Gloria, just What were Caruso's ambitions for his of spiritism,'' writes in "The New Black as his ship fragile, flowerlike daughter? What had Magic," one of his latest books dealing was leaving he planned for her career? Silently he with the subject: "If spiritistic practices be resorted to in its have visioned her as a grown young Brooklyn muBt lie order to ascertain the conditions and char¬ woman, a great soprano.or, perhaps, acter of the other life, the inquirer will pier. preferred contralto voices.maybe as great And himself disappointed. We look in donna as he was a a prima singer. vain for any kind of agreement or one¬ do the future with their Fathers picture ness of idea on any single point of teach¬ ing emanating from the spirit spheres. All is confusion, and the inconsisten¬ cies and contradictions which we meet are sometimes altogether ridicu¬ lous in their character. The commu¬ nications conveyed through mediums would seem to reflect or express some interest subjective impression of the sensitive Following the war so i himself, rather than any objective in spiritism became preva¬ i truth, universally known and under- lent In England that churches ¦ stood in the world of spirit and dis- of all denominations united W closed for the enlightenment and in of its dangers, moral advancement of mankind. warning books were written "Sometimes these messages are and many nothing but the familiar jargon of the hy experts and members of seance room, delivered with a certain the clergy to offset the great air of superior knowledge, but new trend toward the psy¬ 1 wholly inconsistent In character back into and devoid of all credi- chic; and to bring bil,ty'' the fold those who had drifted from the church to the dimly Jjjjgtf|^ Incidentally a large ^*+0*part of Mr. Raupert's lighted seance settings in book is devoted to point¬ search of comfort and spir¬ ing out the danger'!! at¬ itual soothing. Social, reli¬ tendant upon experi¬ and welfare influences ments with the ouija gious board, and the author called upon the honest learn¬ cites several instances of ing of England to employ its persons who have knowledge to expose the reached a state of meq- "false gifts" ot those who tal and physical break¬ enriched by down be¬ were being through having whose come addicted to, spirit heartbcaken parents writing taken up origi¬ sons had been lost in the nally as merely a play¬ war. ful amusement, In this sense it is a serious Such opinions and au¬ subject in the light that it is thorities as this would sinister. But, on the other hand, it is a serious subject iu be inclined to make Mrs. Caruso or any calls parallels Sir Arthur's opinions UCH interest has arisen from the nothing to be taken at all seriously.and infant children in its center. Caruso must the meaning that it requires and practically for person more than skeptipal about the rea¬ of investigation and great in respect to the after life when he states: report that Mrs. Enrico Caruso, that there was no hitch in the payment of have had high hopes and great plans for great depth « sonableness of communication with the minds to become its converts. Altogether, "To suppose that the short period of widow of the tenor, Is deeply con- the royalties. Gloria. a to be dead. But, on the other band, there are from any angle, it is not matter earth life is sufficient to save or damn a with the effort to communicate She was apparently satisfied by his as¬ But what were they? about. .cerned such authorities as Sir Oliver Lodge and flippant soul to all eternity and that the act of with her husband's The surance. If he were present to direct her life how Spiritism has the support of men of let¬ spirit. question Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who argue most of death has the power to convert an ordi¬ with the dead alone is There are many things that Caruso would he guide it? It is likely that he had ters and science who gave the weight of communication the it a demon, a means of of forcefully upon the affirmative of their influence to the new cult.which, nary man into either an angel or a of much and when the might have to say were he to get in touch conceived Gloria expression point curiosity, was asserted then, was to revolutionize to make him happy in the society of the of the with earth It is well known that some fond thought of his.the instrument subject. effort to produce proof is inclusive again. the thought of the world and perhaps saint and be able to associate with his death came before of his desires by which it might be given to the world. Effect Certain in the highest great Caruso it is bound to be of surpass¬ many Widespread crumble the established religions to our dead do watch over us and Arthur Conan the Deity or to condemn him fraternize ing, rather than mere passing, interest. could be arranged or consummated. It is Then, if If Caruso's dust. England heard Sir Spirit Spoke a with the lowest of the low, amid whatever a some of those who if they do have the power to communicate Doyle, for instance, giving forth message His magnificent voice is an echoing plausible theory that If Caruao were able to project his per¬ Mrs. with the living, how possible it is that of this kind: physical or mental torments were imag¬ memory in the mindA of hundreds of thou¬ are interested in the report that once so vibrant with across of the sonality, life, "I seemed suddenly to see thkt this sub¬ ined as likely to accompany and empha¬ him for his His Caruso has taken up spiritism have ad¬ Caruso will share in the direction was sands who love gifts. the impenetrable screen of the invisible it ject with which I had so long dallied size his Tall from grace.all this was so is vanced. This is nothing less than the life of little Gloria! the study of a force outside the amazing talent impersonally preserved would no doubt have the effect of giving not merely to common sense that as a that the famous tenor died before It may be that Mrs. Caruso is not seri¬ rules of science but that it was really repugnant in two million phonograph records. It is belief a tremendous to the cause of the of com¬ impetus tremendous, n l raking down of matter of fact it was not believed." little wonder that the mention of com¬ his financial affairs had been completely ously interested in possibility something spiritualism in this country in much the the wall between two worlds, a direct mes set in order, and his relatives are seeking municating with her husband, for it may No Inroad on munication with the spirit of this golden same way that Sir Oliver Lodge's com¬ from beyond, a call of hope and of Religion desires and them out be she does not recognize that such a pos¬ saf/e voice should excite vast interest. to find out his carry munications with his son, Raymond, guidance to the human race at the time of Made by Spiritism Here. exists. But It is far more likely All over the world people are asking as he would have done had he lived per¬ sibility of the of its deepest affliction. Spiritism has never made any serious us we started half Europe along paths me in the each other: "What if the immortal Caruso haps a few months longer. that she is like the rest of in that "A new revelation seemed to inroads upon religion in this country, psychic pursuit. of to the human race, into communication with the Every effort has been made by Mrs. hesitate to confess our belief in the plausi¬ course delivery partly perhaps because of the skeptical should get The discovery of scores of accountedly how far it is still in what I may of American and to her husband's name bility of the psychic because human beings though attitude the people dwellers of earth?" Caruso perpetuate cases of communication, said call the John the Baptist stage and how because an ex¬ and to out the work in the of the rest of the authoritative partly perhaps antipathy And the answer is that Caruso should carry philanthropic are skeptical sight far some greater fullness and clearness ists savoring of the ex¬ which he started in ways he would have new to be actual and proved, could hardly against anything men was world. We fear to countenance any may be expected hereafter is more than otic or Oriental.an association w9iich if any spirit should, for of all he directed had he been a business man in¬ create the same amount of interest in the for we fear that other people might any man can say." has always had in the minds of in some elusive but evident way the pos¬ stead of an artist. The Caruso Memorial thing, as the spiritism mind of the public the report that The direct contradiction to the teach the Foundation is no more than an ex¬ accuse us of. lost balance. workaday public. sessor of the most unearthy gifts. .Fund great singer had sent one tender word for ings of the major religious faiths is shown Those who are interested in the study pression of Uie great tenor's Interest in It is a fact that we are unlikely to ac¬ the guidance of little Gloria, or some mes in the following pronouncement gained from a scientific standpoint deplore the How the First Message cultivating tire talents of those unable to cept the theory as long as it remains an author's love the wife Srom from the eminent experiments present laws against the practice of afford an musical education and , sage of to devoted *Came to Mrs. Caruso expensive evenly balanced point of argument. That* with the psychic world: psychic powers, and regret that legisla¬ to further the interests of the musical so as those who argue whom he was taken after a brief and In Mrs. Caruso actually trying to get into is to say, long tures do not see fit to differentiate between world generally. its likelihood outnumber and out¬ happy married life. Controversy Over Subject and mercenary char¬ with her late husband? In the vast mass of financial detail sur¬ against sincere investigators communication weigh, or merely balance, those who do, And that is really the reason why so ' Had All at Odds latans. it. She rounding the various activities of Caruso England She smilingly refuses to admit we are generally bound to take the stand a there are sincere Investigators Is there have been some obscure much interest is being manifested in the "The spirit is not a glorified angel or That intimates that she does not take seriously might not that there is little foundation for the be¬ be doubted. That the authoritative the of a cer¬ that Mrs. Caruso has become a damned, but it is simply the per¬ not to the realm of the psychic. But the fact point regarding expenditure lief that we can really communicate with reports goblin of the of com¬ tain fund or the investment of certain and has been son himself, containing all his strength establishment possibility remains thaC not so long ago Mrs. Caruso the dead. devotee of spiritualism lately munication with the dead would be a great Interested in what she royalties that could be cleared up by a at seances of some of the best and weakness, his wisdom and his folly, did become quite A personal message would almost con¬ present his ap comfort to a large part of the world is a communication from him. whisper of the magic voice beyond? mes¬ known mediums of the country. Even exactly as he has retained personal thought was mystic vince any one of us. t Two personal as it even less doubtful. Rut In this country at the rang and when Many conflicting wills were said to have would. But the though she denies she is seeking spirit pearance. Hell drops out altogether One day telephone sages absolutely skeptics out of the thoughts of any rate there has been no really great she antfVvered it she was told by a spirit been in existence at the time of Caruso's in of the messages, and even though she may pre¬ has long dropped remain skeptical spite personal reasonable man. This odious con¬ instance.with great principals.to estab¬ whose name has frequently ap death, and although the question seema to of other men; and perhaps it tend to ilnd only amusement in the activi¬ every medium been to the satisfaction experiences ception, so blasphemous in its view of the lish such communication. peared in the papers that a message had have straightened is with sound reason that they do. ties of mediums, it Is nevertheless argued of If Mrs. Caruso.assuming she is inter- to of the as well as the legal authori¬ a woman of Mrs. Caruso's education Creator, arose from the exaggerations Just been received from Enrico, be re¬ family that have for the mere sake of assumption. ties. might it not be quite possible that Oxford Professor's Opinion mental and religious con¬ Oriental phrases and may perhaps esjte