The Washington times., 1895-06-23

honest man, win be as easily deducible
facts as If proved by a mathematical dem
onstration.
1t is easy 10 juggle With the posi-
biDties Of this art 1t presents wide
field, much wider, indeed than that in the
field OF invention, in which the hope is he'll
out that men may in the future navigate
the air or make electricity do all the work of
the world
ABLE TO READ ITSELF.
One of the most suggestive OF the results
of this science or art is that society Will
be able to read itself 1t is maxim that
the highest test of development in society is
that perfect equipoise of character, that
immovability of temper, by which that
emotion is never outwardly expressed
1t is Well known that 1T is considered bad
form and a woeful lack OF social discipline
to gush or to be demonstratiye. The true
type of the modern exquisite is to be the
embodiment of the nil admiran.
What revolution then will be the edu-
cation of men and women to read each other
not from what they say. nor from more or
less studied phrases, or the expression of
their assumed sentiments, but from their
physique.
The eye, the brow, the shoulder the elbow,
the nose, the lips, the ear, the curves, the
right lines, and, in fact, the whole human
form divine, male and female viii be so
understood that men may judge OF the
character they enclose as if the soul itself
Were laid bare to the material vision
A fair deduction from this theory is, ap-
parently, that man viii always, If in
itiated, be able to read woman and vice
versa where the divine passion is con-
cerned
is not that so?" the lady was asked
by no MEANS" was the reply Love,
III.
eept by miracle, to teach the blind how
to see"
How to read the true intention Of the
lover and the beloved appears to be the
only exception to the power of this new
system of mind reading This, however,
is not an anomaly or a contradiction of
the theory for deceptive love was a part
of the original endowment of the human
race.
SHAMS AND HOLLOWNEss.
The special blessing of this cult is
that it viii make society shams and hollow
ness utterly impossible. Mrs A calls
on Mrs. B. and stays ten minutes at a time
when Mrs. B. is agonized by call
Now, when, in the near future, Mrs. B.
says to the retiring Mrs A. at the door:
Il have been quite charmed by this flying
visit" Mrs. A will say to herself: 20,
you consummmate liar"
Mrs. A. Will have arrived at this con-
cluslon not from general principles, but
from an instantaneous photograph of the
mental condition of Mrs. B. and her utter
incapacity for telling the truth under
given circumstances, one OF which is the
visit of Mrs A. This mental photograph,
by the way, is to be made not from mind
reading, but from a body reading of the
defendant, Mrs. B.
When the young Juliet and Eulalie, one
of whom is an adept in this cult, sit down
to discuss the same r omeo, in whom they
are both interested up to their arched eye
brows, and Eulalie, for instance, remarks
that she thinks him positively horrid;
Juliet viii inwardly think of the fate of
Sapphira.
When Mrs x. meets Mrs. Y. IS baby in its
carriage in the park aud the baby is Just
recovering from the chicken-poX; and Mrs.
X. stoops down to kiss it (but doesu't) and
says it is the sweetest, dearest, cutest
thing in the world and elsewhere Mrs.
Y. will know that Mrs. X. will leave this
country some day for a warmer climate
These are only few cases of the future
which will suggest thousands OF others to
people who are even the least bit imagina-
tive. They presuppose that only one
of the parties has been endowed with the
idealpower ofreading described.
1t will suggest itself to everybody, per-
haps, to ask what will be the result whena all
men and women can so clearly and un-
erringly read each other as that each
mans or woman's life will be unrolled like
a scroll. The answer is simple: The ideal
republic ofman willthenhave e been realized,
1t will only be possible to love ones neigh
Dor as ones self, when no neighbor can be
guilty OF hypocrisy. All men, and even
women, will be absolutely honest when tits
generally understood that they can be read
afy,l ~
correctly and as easily as children can now
take in the M elody nd harmonies o fmusical
notation by the sensation of sight alone