The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-01
DOINGS OF WOMEN.
Advent of Madamoiselle AGNES
CharcOt.
THE GAEEK LETTER CRAZE
He Would Beat Her Until He Secured Har
AffectiOns"-As Three is to Five
Thumb Rings

New YORK, Jan. %, 1S91.-TSpecial cor
respondence of The HERALD. IL was talk
ing this morning with Mile. Agnes Charcot.
whose private exhibitions of hypnotic
power are the latest things to set our
tongues buzzing. She is a niece of DR..
Charcot of the Sdlpetriere Paris. the
greatest living authority on hypnotism, but
had an English mother. She looks. accord
ingly, like Frenchwoman who has Dor
rowed an Anglo-SaXon body, being tall and
having British breadth of shoulders. but
combining with these clear pallor of skin.
a general trimness and a brilliancy of dark
eyes and hair which do not belong to per-
tidious Albion. If you see her on the street
IN tailor gown and jacket, with great astra-
khan collar coming up about her ears, you
wonder was ever Londoner so chic or
Partisan possessed of such calm, Rotten
Row reserve.
Ia parlor when she begins an expert
ment you loose all sense of the interna
tlonal puzzle; warming to her work she is
French utterly. The spectacle is weird.
The young mani have not seen her op-
crate on woman-is asked to sit, place
his right hand on his left wrist and plant
both feet firmly on the floor She stands
before him, handsome figure with no OBJ
servable popularity but slight muscular
prominence of the eyebrows-something I
often notice in business women and others
VINO arc called upon TO exercise acuteness
OF perception. She does not touch him nor
make passes before him, but looks steadily
at him, her arms at her sides. On the in
slant tremor passes through her. Her
mead bends TO meet his head Her hands
are clenched. 1t would seem the nails
must pierce the skin. Her arms culver.
her whole body quivers with mighty ten
sion. She Is Slightly crouched, as if to
make spring. Her eyes fasten themselves
on those other eyes. They send out white
lghts. Inc woman is terribly alive She
is putting INTO one moment the vital power
OF year: IL Is afr1ghtful lashing and com
pelIng of the soul
Ii is but for a minute. His feet draw nm
from the floor. His face comes forward RI |
meet her face, his eyes dilate wildly. then
they close, his head falls
IL Is only In bringing a subject from
under hypnotic influence that Mile Chariot
lays hands on him. Then she uses manjn,,
lations behind the ears. If subject is re
fractory while regaining consciousness she |
cuffs his ears. Some of her feats. as hvn- |
nothing an entire stranger whose back is /
turned to her and who is sitting at tho
other end of the room, Illustrate the danger |
Gus nature of the power we are meddlino
with. She is probably the strongest operator
of the day-curiously enough seeing that
she is the only woman-and there may be
grains of comfort in her assertion that she
cannot hypnotic drunken person nor one
who has resolved not to be hypnotized She
tells me she has confidence in the future of I
hypnotlsm as curative agent and sub
stitnte for anaesthetics in surgical opera
tons. These things aside, she is our com
ing sensation.
WITH SIDE SADDLE OR AsTRIDE?
Not in open exhibition in park or boule
ward, but In those secret conclaves where
the riding OF the goat is supposed to form
part of the inItiatory ceremonies.
The placing of a chapter of Kappa Kappa