Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1845-03-26
MISCELLANEOUS.
KITCHEN MESMERISM.

| MI CHEN MESM SMEhiSM.
Mr.. Hood in The last number of his ma.
gszine-and capital number it is--has
some witty remarks on Miss Martineau's
letters. lie concludes them with an epis-
lie from Que Of the inmates Of the kitchen !:
"Dear Mary,-This Gums hoping yure
well and to advise you to larn Mismers
ing. lis dun with yure Hands, aud is as
easy as taking sites a: Pepel, or talking on
yure fingers. If was nigh you I'D larn
you in no time to make Passes, which is
only paving like, without touchin. at
someboddys face or back. which gives
them tilrevating feeling on The galvanic
nerves, And then off they go into Trance
iu gi1y, aud talk in their sleep like Ora.
tors, should say Oracles, and anser what
ever you az. Whereby you may get
your Forth told, and h"d ont other foxes
swealharls & love secrets. Aud diskiver
rheaves better then by Bible & Key. And
have yure inward Disorders told, & wals
good for Them. Sukey's was the indiges-
| tibles, aud 10 take as much rubbub as
would hide shilin. All which is doue
by means of The sombulist, that's the sleep
er, seeing through every think quite trans
parent, in their Trance, as is called Glare
VUying, SO that they can pint out mummy
hid under the Erlh. & buried bones, g.
springs of waller, and vaGes of mettle, &
menny things besides
Yesterday | was mismesized meeself
into Trance, and clare voyed the chork
Gout in Johns stomach as plane as Mar.
git Cliffs. So prescribed him to take
Collyfower, witch by rites should have
been Cellycinth, hut forgot the proper
word. iloUsummever he did eattwo large
ones. and promises TO cum round.
"lt would make you split yure sides
Latin 10 SEQ me mislnerize our Thomas
and make him go into all SORTS Of odd pos
lures and anticks and capers like a Dot
ere, for whatever do he must copy TO
the swapping of finger, and cant object
to nulhins for as The song says I've got his
Will and his power. Likewise you can
make The sombulist taste whatever you
rhiuk proper, so gave him mismerized
War'er witch at my Command is trans
mogriied on bis pallet inIo Shampain aud
makes him as drunk as Old Gooseberry,
aud then he will jump Jim Grow, or go
down on his bended knees and confess all
his peckadilos Witch is as divertIug as
reading the Misteries of Paris.
THE wust to mismerize is Reuben The
Cotchman, not that hes too wakeful. for
hes generally heery, And goes of like
shot, but he wont talk in his sleep only
snores.
"The page is more passable and very
clarevoylug. He have twice seed a pot
of goold iu he middle flower bed. Blu,
the gardener wont have it dug up. And
he says there's skellion bricked into the
stair case wall, so that we never dares at
mite to go up alone. Also. be sees Yis-
ions and eau profesy and have foretold
Two Earthquakes and CRATE Pleg.
"Cook wants 10 mislnerize loo but wat
with her being so much a. the fire and her
full habit she always goss of to sleep. afore
the Sombulist. But Sukey can do it very
well. Tho in great distress about Mrs.
Hardin's baby witch Sukey offered to mis-
merze in loo of surrup of Poppies or God
frey's Cordial, but lbe pore Innocent wont
wake up agin, nor haven't for two, hole
days. As would be real Iessin TO Mu,h-
ers and Nussus in moderate way. but
mite be carried 100 far and require a Crown
ers Quest. As yel that's the only Trial we
have made out Of The House, But we mean
to mismerize the Baker, and get out of
him who does he really mean to offer To-,
for he is quite General Lover.
"Sum pepefis very dubblus about Mis-.
merizing. and sum wont have it al any
price; but Missis is for it. very strong,
and SAYS she means to believe every atom
about it till sumbody proves quite the re
verse. She practices making passes every
day, andis studying Frenology besides, for
she saws between the two you may play
upon pepel's pennycraniums like Piany,
and put them into any hey. you like
And o. course her fusl performance will
he Master piece on The Head of The
Family.
ITO be sure il seems wonderful pow
er 10 he give 10 one over ones Fellow Gre
i.turs, and as mite be turned to Divil!ish
purposes. Bur which I cant stop to pin,
OUT, for making The beds. To tell the
truth. with so much Mesmerizing going
on, our Wurks hos got terrible behind