The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-05-04
A MIND-READER AND A WIDOW.
They Get Young Married Man into Very
Embarrassing Predicament.

a Il
Embarrassing Predicament.
"a friend of mine had very embarrassing
experience at one of Mind-Reader Bishops per-
formances at Masonic Temple couple of years
ago. said gentleman coming out of the Ma
tional Theatre after witnessing Mr.. D. Randall
Browns mind-reading exploits last Sunday
night. ''My friend took his wife to see Bishop,
and they sat in middle-aisle seat not far from
the stage. He was good deal of an enthusiast
on the subject of mind-reading, and when Bishop
wanted some one to aid him in his test of finding
face in the audience which the person he ope-
rates with has thought of my friend volunteered
his assistance. He is a strongly-built, full
blooded young fellow, the kind of man the mind
readers say makes a good subject Bishop ac-
cepted his offer.
"Now, it happened that in the audience was
gay young widow with whom my friend was ac-
quainted-too well acquainted, his jealous little
wife thought. In fact, his wife was particularly
sore on the subject of that widow. / think my
friend and the widow had been very good friends
before either of them was married. Any way,
my friends wife didn't like the widow, and he
knew it.
"Wen, Bishop blindfolded himself, as Brown
did tonight, grasped his assistants or subjects
hand firmly in his own, and told him to fix his
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on the face of the person in the audience whom
he had selected. Then Bishop and his subject
Tor victim, as it afterward turned OUT started
off down the middle aisle, went clear back to
the door, then returned almost to the stage up
one of the aisles along the side Of the hall then
rushed back again through the middle aisle.
Now, it happened that the widow also had a
seat on the middle aisle back a ways from the
stage and each time Bishop passed her he
paused for minute waved his hands over her
head, touched her pretty little bonnet lightly
with the fingers of his disengaged hand, and
then moved on again. My friends wife, of
course was watching her husband and the
mind-reader eagerly. She noticed the pauses at
the widows seat, and she began TO get uneasy.
The gray of her eyes grew deeper and little
fire flashed from them Bishop trotted my
friend up and down the aisle half dozen times,
then around the hall and up to the stage again,
just as Brown did with Congressman Stahlnecker
tonight, and every time he passed the widow
there was that confounded pause. My friend,
of course, grew frightened, as he knew his Wife
eye was on him. And his wife meanwhile had
grown excited that she could hardly keep her
seat.
"At last Bishop rushed back to the stage,
still hanging on to my friends arm, took the
bandage of his eyes, and proceeded TO glance
over the house for the face he had got an i'm
preston Of from his subjects mind during their
rushing around the house His subject, mean
while, was almost frightened TO death for fear
Bishop would make a mistake and describe the
face of the widow, who, of course, he had not
thought of-at least had tried not to think Of
during the experiment. And my friends un-
easiness wasn't soothed any by seeing his wife's
bellgerent eyes fixed on him with determined
look that he knew meant storm. AS you can
imagine he cursed mindreading inwardly and
wished himself and Bishop and the widow a
thousand miles away from there and solemnly
vowed never TO be caught in such snap again.
SAT last, after rubbing his eyes and Wiping
his perspiHng brow, Bishop spoke. lie said:
u have had very vivid impression conveyed 10
me by the gentleman who has acted as my sub