The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-07-16
EXHIBITION By MISS HURST
HER POWER DISPLAYED ATwALLAcK'


yesterday afternoon. The footligh
We're lit, and the company gaxe
over them upon the white hollan
shrouded auditorium in solem
silence, which was broken by th
voice of Theodore Moss, who throw
ing q handkerchief over his knee i
orthodox minstrel fashion, called O
"Brudder Bones" for a song. A
signs Of levity, however, disappear
ed when group of four person
came on the stage from the left low
er entrance. They were Mr.. am
Mrs. Hurst, Miss Lulu Hurst, and .
young man from Georgia. Mr.
Hurst is a good specimen of th'
average small farmer, with heavy
face and long sandy goatee. Hii
wife a motherly-leoking person
while the daughte abont whom SC
much has been heard, is tall, large
boned, not ill>looking country girl
She was dressed ia a plain, closer
fitting black silk costume, while her
dark hair fell in old-fashioned rings
let's about her high-colered and
heavy looking face. She took seat
with her parents on the stage, while
the young man from Georgia pros
ceeded to deliver a little address.
He said they were plain country
people, and could give no explana-
ton of the remarkable power pos
sessed by Miss Lulu. 1t was a
"force," " he said, and one which here
tofore had defed all investigation.
The young man from Georgia fur
ther, said that he earnestly hoped
that every one present would test
for himself the "force" possessed by
Miss Hurst. He then commenced
the exhibition by asking if any one
present had an umbrella he did not
particularly value, a cheap umbrella,
in fact. An Obliging reporter hap~
pened to have a cheap umbrella
which he was induced to hand over
to the young man from Georgia up-
on the understanding that if it were
damaged it should be replaced by
one of eqnal value.
Miss Hurst STEPPED forward to the
center of the stage and her manager
explained that an umbrella was the
only article over which she could
exercise no control. AS soon as she
grasped one the consequences were
apt TO be disastrous. In proof of
this he exhibited his damaged eye,
which had been struck last week by
an umbrella in Miss Hurst's hand.
Miss Hurst opened the umbrella and
held it lightly between her thumb |
and open hand. The umbrellas |
owner stood opposite. Suddenly |
the umbrella plunged viciously for
ward and despite its owners strenu-
Gus efforts forced him across the
stage. A Tribune reporter was
then experienced upon. He stood
the young woman, while
she held the umbrella loosely clasp
ed as it came toward him he siezed
it firmly with both hands and tried
to stand his ground. His next pro-
ceeding was to try to extricate him
self from a heap of chairs at the back
Of the stage with as much grace as
be could command. He didn't try
again. The second test then took
place. A billiard cue was grasped
firmly in both hands by one of the
spectators. Miss Hurst put one
hand lightly uponi it, and dragged the
cue with the man after it all about
the stage. She then asked him to
force one end of it down to the stage
in a perpendicular direction. His
efforts to do so were vigorous, but
avail, as Miss Hurst's open
hand resting upon the cue, without
fingers being closed upon it, restrain
cd it. A common chair was pro-
cured, which a muscular reporter
firmly grasped. Miss Hurst laid her
hands lightly upon it, and chair and
reporter spun about the stage like
q top. Several others present tried
this with the same result. Putting
both hands at the side of the chair
without grasping it, Miss Lulu asked
the reporter to force it to the floor.
Upon his failure she asked for an
other and another, until there were
four men doing their best to over
come the resistance of Miss Lulu's
lightly imposed hands. Finally she
lifted a chair with a heavy man sit.
ting in it clear from the floor, with
out closing her fingers around it.
Throughoutall these performances
the girl kept up aconstant low, ner-
vous giggling, while the exercise of
her SO called power was continuing.
At the close she displayed no mark
ed symptoms of fatigue. 1t was
noticeable, however, that though
the hands seldom grasped the object,
a distinct muscular contraction and
movement of the wrist muscles in
particular was apparent. The mus
cles of her forearm are large and