The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-10-29

While songs OF this Kind. intended 30
touch tho hearts OF tue susceptible, are
being sung, Mr. Hollis keeps asking
"Dj you zee anything yol ?" and ire.
quen,ly says "If they are going to 90
anything wish they would do il. tsllme
the reason why" After awhile, il there
is any present known 90 be looking for
the appearance o. n child or friend.
face as Hat as n pancake appears at the
opening in the cabinet. and only remains
an instant, unless some person in the cir.
CO recognizes it, when 1t tsrries mo-
men. longer, and whisper within the
cabinet says: Mamma, | am jane
Then voice, alias Mrs Hollis, says: II
AN weak good night, mamma; good
night, papa" If tho child is recognized
distinctly; if tho mother Gays at is
So" and the father echoes, "Il /, She
the face may and generally does remain n
longer TINS, aud returns ~ often M the
friends desire to sea it, and Mrs
Hollis having received information con-
corning the life and death Of the chili.
talks for 1t IN very plalntive manner, tie
parents believing all the time that their
child is talking with them Around the
h 'ad is halo OF light aud the face, to the
friends who believe it to DO that OF their
child, is picture Of glory. Thus
Imagination body forth the form Of
taings unseen and give to airy nothing
a local hablation and name.
THUS THE ILLUSION.
Mrs. Hollis learns that Jare is dead :;
tina. Jane was about three year. old may
be Mrs. Hollis sees picture Of Jane
Mrs. Hollis has on her person crsyon
| sketches o. children's faces on card board
| LOid fellows with bald heads and long
whiskers never mlterisizs in circles
where relatives sre present. II old Eel
lows appear their friends aro far away.
1t is children who malerializo. 1t
Is difficult to produce old faces that would
deceive. Ola faces are usually marked
faces and If face pgrpcrlng to be that
of Jones father should appear at the
| opening Jones would know it,
could examine it calmly. because the Of.
fections of no man run IA fon1ly acros.
the boundaries of the other world after a
father who has filled his years ana gone
his wey, as after child, the fruit Of love,
that went away IN youth and in helpless
ness, beclus.ered by the flowers Of faith.
erly and mo!heriy love. And more al
| child faces. cherished, have n similar
appearance and when the face of an
angel, hsloed with light, appears before a
mothers or fathers eyes, and the lips
seem to say ~ am your child" judgment
lilies away and the heart gives to the de.
ceiving wretch tho victory
To return 4 Mrs. Holli. has on her per-
son crsyon sketches Of the faces of chill
dren on card board. The card board is cut
to the circle Of tho head. so as to leave two
to three inches Of white border around the
head and face. These sketches are easily
altered A dash or two Of crnyon
pencil changes the features. Mira. Hollis
can usa the pencil She often ventures to
show child face she does not know to
resemble that of the child of tho parents
with whose most holy feelings sho is toy.
ing, and often succeeds; bu. when
she can geo picture Of the
dead child or learn its features by the
fond description OF mother or fiiend, her
cunning crayon pencil makes ono of her
crayon child faces put on the dead child q
features. Then sho takes tho cardboard
on which is this sketch and shovcs it up
inl front of the velve.In4p over tho open.
ing in the cabinet, aud tho illusion is per
feet The dark blanket aud black velvet
flap absorb the light, while the white Dor.
der Of cardboard lying against tho back
ground of black velvet reflects tho light
and the head and face seem to DO sur
rounded by halo. Then Mrs. Hollis talks
Tor the dead child, and the poor deceived
parents weep and believe.
OTHER REMARkS.
This ID shameful deception, and we
would be sstonished that so many sensible
people become its dupes, il We did not
know how supers,itious men are and how
tender and weak is tho human heart.
Here is a woman whose whole stock in
trade ia nickel slate, half dozen peices
OF a cardboard and sIx-bit tin trumpet
She says she can call spirits from the
vastly deep, and they will come. The cred
ulous flock to soc her and in dark rooms sh,
dupes them, taking from the pocket of each
an amount of money that makes her ac.
gregated daily earnings S32-t22i
week Take away the witch of Endor
story, and shove tho miracles aside In
these days 1.-Two those who belive unreason-
able things whom mor.als bid them do go
that the ghosts of good mon gone hence
ring horrible bells, play dreadful tunes
b,dly upon Stacking accordeons and talk
foolshno,s through trumpet in a d,rt
o IN, so that some person may put money
In his purse. Let as no longer laugh at
the foolish Puritsns who roasted witches
We nust at once teach ourselves to be. |