The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-12-30
HYPNOTISM MADE EASY.
SOME PRACTICAL sUGGRsTIoNsoF
WAYS TO AMAZE YOUR FRIENDS.

Performed-Old Tricks OF Spiritual
istic Mediums Described - practices
Said to Make Perfect.
From the NeiO York advertiser.
How difficult it is always TO find some
novel way Of amusing your friends when
you invite them to your house for social
evening-not one Of your formal, full-dress,
swell affairs, but just for a social, Jolly,
good time. Subjects of conversation are
many, to be sure, but it is a rare thing to
select some one subject that interests all.
Music is always enjoyable, but it does not
always happen that any one is present who
Is capable and at the same time inclined to
entertain the company. The host or hostess
who succeeds in Offering something TO his
or her friends that can be said to be en-
actual novelty is bound to add cousid-
cradle to his or her popularity. Com
paratively few people have witnessed sue
cessful experiments in hYpnotism or mes
merisnl. mean experiments that they be-
heyed were genuine results of an influence
OF one person over another. Why were
shey incredulous! Because they believed
wnen they sal persons go through expert
nents In mesmerism on a stage or in any
public place that the performance was pre-
arranged between the subjects and the
operator, and mentally accused them of
perpetrating fraud upon the public. The
performers Of the queer antics were
strangers to them. They themselves had
never been mesmerized. so OF course it was a
hoax.
That is a mistake. Every human being
is either susceptible TO mesmeric influence
or can influence others by the same, and the
person influenced thus need not be weak
minded, either, as is popularity supposed.
Let me tell you how to 60 about il soien-
tifcally, and frequently with results that
will surprise and entertain any acsemblage
OF your friends. Let some one Of a positive
temperament gather the company around
him in a semicircls. There should be at
least dozen or more In the circle The more
tnere are the more favorable the conditions
ier the operator. Now, let all who have
consented TO allow the experiment to be
tried upon them close their eyes: let the
hands rest upon the knees; let the mind be-
come passive and count slowly up to fifty
The operator will then approach each one.
pass his hand lightly over the subjects brow.
rubbing the thumb downward between the
eyes, at the same time exerting ell his will
power that the subject shall not open his
eyes. be must then press the thumb firmly
between the subjects eyes and tell him ia
Try this with every one seated in the semi
circle. Do not be discouraged IL you fail
several times, for unless the conditions are
quite unusual the operator will be repaid
by finding two or three in twelve quite
susceptible to his magnetic influence
The operator will soon learn to recognize
an affinity even before the experiment is
tried.
When the operator finds one whom he
fnftnAnnA
that no matter how hard be may try TO
open them he cannot. almost any tricks may
be practiced. Place the subjects palm
against the palm of the operator. The
operator with his othershand passes over the
others, all the time looking him straight In
the eye. Then tell him it is stuck fast, and
he cannot take It away. His struggles to do
hand him stick and tell him he can not
drop IL.
These are but few experiments called
physical impressions. Let the operator
next try to make the mental impressions.
Proceed thus; First ask the subject 60 pro-
Dounce his name. He will do SO. Pass the
hand over his brow, look him in the eyes
ard tell him he has forgotten it. 70 ell ap-
pearances he does forget, and IL you tell
him his name is Smith or Jones he will as
readily accept 1t as his own. After making
these physical and mental impressions any
impression can be made with him that is in
harmony with his nature. II. be is naturally
pugnacieus he can be very soon wrought up
TO fighting pitch by your telling him that
some one in the company has injured him.
1t is well TO stop him before he does any
harm.
Here is en- experiment tried upon a re-.
fined and cultured lady in the presence of
forty persons, by the writer. | found this
lady perfectly passive. The experiment be-
gan as follows: To develop the sense Of
smell, or rather 30 subordinate the other
senses to it, took her, by magnetic impress
sion, through a beautiful flower garden
There we're all kinds Of imaginary flowers,
which told her we're highly perfumed
their fragrance excelling anything she had
ever experienced. My handkerchief acted
as substitute for the imaginary posies
plucked and handed to her to smell. as she
inhaled, what really seemed to her the concen-
trated essence of fora, ner facial expression
was ecstatic In the extreme. When con-
cluded that the sense of smell was suffi-
clently acute, q committee of three two
ladies' and gentleman, waited upon u.s.
These being selected from the company, the
subject, the committee and myself retired
60 another room, two of the committee
going back to the company and collecting
such articles as they wore about their per-
SONS, brought back to me a miscellaneous
assortment OF nandkerchIefs, knives, coin,
pooketbooks, spectacles, etc. Giving these
articles to the subject, / directed her TO
return them to their owner. She did SO
taking each article, she would smell of 1t
and going TO the room where the
company was, she would !. find the
owner as readily as a hunting dog
would follow his masters tracks by the
sense OF smell. Another experiment have
tried in private parlors is that of Hthe red
hot nickel" Let committee select from
those present as many "nickelsn as he can
procure, Of different dates; let the COM
mittee retain one, examine the date and
exhibit it to alt others present except the
operator and subject ALI the ''nickelsn
except the one held by the committee are
placed in hat. then thoroughly mixed up.
The subject Is then directed t0 hold his
hand at full arms length The committee
places the nicksl in the palm extended over
the hat. The conditions must be such as to
make it impossible for the operator or sub
Ject to see the date OF that nickel.
The operator then tells the subject that
the nickel he holds in his hand is redhot,
and to drop 1t in the hat. de usually ebeys
the command with alacrity. Then the coins
are well shaken up ia the hat, and the sub
ject directed to take the nickels out Of the
bat. He does as directed until but one re-
mains. This he positively refuses to touch.
Upon examination it will invariably be
found to be the one be was told vas redhot.
There is one more exDeri II ent the writer