The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-12-26

her kindness and disappeared The like
ness was very natural, but the girl had not
appreciated its beauty. 1t was stored away
and not framed until placed above her bed
at her request few days before.
Now, look at the picture steadily" she
| said; ''it does me good. l never appre-
ciated 1t before she went on.
For experiment DIR. Kinget looked the
other way, and she said in whining tone:
"Win you not even do me that little
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TESTING HER STRANGE GIFT.
He asked how she could tell whether he
was looking at the picture or not. She an
swered that when he looked at it she could
see it as plainly as he. ''Now, you are look
ing at the feet-now you are studying the
large piece of bread and molasses,n she
made answer
Her thoughts seemed surely TO follow his
eyes as she mentioned the fact each time his
attention passed from one detail of the
portrait to another.
The fact was clear beyond doubt that a
single pair of optic nerves, and those the
doctors own, were the means of carrying
visual sensations to two distinct centerS of
thought at the same time.
AS he looked about the room the girl con-
tinued to name and describe the various
objects he was looking at. She appeared
as happy as if she had regained her sight.
II can see everything as distinctly" she
explained, las when my own eyes were
sound
During the evening, however. she became
so weak that for an hour she had no per-
ceptible pulse and only a practiced ear
could discern any pulmonary action. For
several days she was melancholy and ate
but sparingly. Everything was now done
to discourage the abnormal manifestation,
and whichever she began to get in such close
sympathy with any one, the use of whose
senses she could appropriate, she was left
alone. She improved steadily, occasionally
describing what others saw but remaining
as negative to this influence as possible
The day preceding Christmas, 1889, the
whole house was aglow in preparation for a
Christmas tree Toward evening the
younger sister went to the bedside of the
invalid and started to tell her something of
the anticipated Christmas party. The in
valid interrupted her by beginning to re-
peat exactly a conversation held III another
part of the house about her own presents.
Besides initiating the affectionate tone of
voice used by her mother III pronouncing
her name, she repeated over the list of
presents mentioned and the conjectures
made by both as to how each article would
please her. She said that she heard every
word as well as if the conversation had
gone on by her side.
For weeks following this her name could
not be mentioned in the house, nor a word
spoken about her but she would repeat
them when the speRSer appeared. Soon
after this came the remarkable phenomenon
of vicarious taste.
ACQUIRING 4 SENSE OF TASTE.
One day her mother sat in her room eat
ing bowl of chicken broth Mamma"
she broke out, that broth is too salty.
Empty half of it out and then fill it again
with fresh broth and | will enjoy it more
You know l never enjoyed anything that
was SALT
The mother replied that she knew 1t was
quite salty, but asked her how she could tell.
She answered that she could taste it as
though she were eating it herself. She en-
joyed it through her mother and felt hungry
for her to eat more.
When DIR. Kinget next visited her he ate
a piece of pie In her room and she described
his sensations perfectly. And she said
weirdly that she did not enjoy cold pie.
At first she was able to appropriate the
use of but one sense at time. She could
see through another's eyes; she could hear
with another's ears, and she could taste food
as it passed another's palate. But as time
passed by she also gained the power to see.
hear, feel and taste vigorously all at once
TWO DOCTORS EXPERIMENTING.
WI WbekS ago Tue QOCUOT VlblbSQ MS pa
tent, in company with a fellow physician.
He opened book after book. all of which she
had read at some time during her life. AS
he read in silence she repeated the words
aloud With the books and newspapers
that she had never before seen, for some
unexplained reason, size was unable to fol-
low him. This is the one circumstance in
opposition to the hypothesis which Classics
her power as simple vicarious perception.
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contradictory phenomena, so experts say.
The doctors friend gave him SO pills, which
he placed in his mouth.
The girl said: They are nice and
sweet
He began TO chew them when she ex-
claimed:
Spit them out! Oh, how bitterl" He
took drink of water and she said THAT
Is nice and cool; it does me good.n
One doctor pinched the others ear. The
girl said: LET go of the ear; it hurts me. "
Then one pulled the others hair and she i'm
mediately cried out; Don't, don'tl it will
bring on one of the headaches. Why do you
cause me pain for mere curiosity ~
They then walked into the next room and
one doctor whispered several observations
to the other so low that no one could have
heard a word ten feet distant They walked
back to the room and she repeated the
words that had been whispered.
WHO CAN EXPLAIN THE PHENOMENA?
The case is one that cannot be explained
by hypnotism nor by any Of the general
laws heretofore given to the public" ex-
plains DR.. Kinget. at is not clairvoyance,
because the patient cannot perceive objects
except through the instrumeutality of the
senses Of some other person, 1t cannot be
hypnotism, as the girl never goes to sleep
nor loses consciousness, and is never under
another's control. 1t cannot be simple
transference of the impressions of the senses,
because the fact that she cannot read
strange books by the eye of another would
destroy this explanation. This poor blind
and partially deaf invalid, without the per-
feet use of single one of her natural facul-
ties, presents a case that science at present
cannot interpret"