Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-09-11
He WAS HYPNOTIzED.
The Strange Power of a Homa,,,
Woman.
LOVED AS A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG Girl
The Queer Thraldom of a Wealthy No.
Who Is Being Stripped of His
Fortune.

People staying at prominent botel
at a certain seaside resort ON the New
Jersey coast have no longer any doubto
that there is such thing as by pnotism
as two of the guests at the hotel have
established precedent in that respect
that settles the matter for all time.
The guests referred to are man and
wife. The man is a well-groomed
polite.spoken dandified looking younp
fellow, to whom nine women ont of
ten would take to as a duck does 70
water. The wife is at least thirty
years her husbands senior, and she iS
55 if she is day. Furthermore. she
is homely. has spoiled her complexion
by theause of cosmetics and has rnined
her hair BY over bleaching it. To nse
the lingo of the street, she is washed.
out blonde, and an old, faded and ugly
one at that.
The power that impelled this young
Adonis, with an income of at least
$3.50 per week. to marry this penniless.
homely and uninteresting old woman.
was the gift of hypnotism she possessed
and still possesses. 1t was that and
nothing else.
They first met in the summer of
1891, when the old lady. who was a
widow of fifteen years standing, was
keeping lodging house on East Tenth
street, New York City, not many
blocks away from Broadway.
The youth, whom the old lady was
| dactinad t0 optap vi O in, tho n, tri Dopiol
meshes, was the son of a wealthy
brewer in the West.
To friend at the hotel the other day
he thus desert bed how this hypnotic
influence orept over him:
was seated in the parlor' he
said, reading book and half asleep,
when an arm was gently passed around
my neck and soft cheek pressed
against mine. The sensation was ex-
quisite-delicious I looked about me
to see who was my enslaver was, and,
although knew her to be the land
lady, she was in some way metamor-
phosed in my eyes into sweet young
girl, apparently not over II years of
age. and glowing with health, youth
and activity. l loved her instantly
oh, how ! loved her, but I was SO
completely enthralled by her-so much
in her power that it seemed to me had
entirely lost my will, and could not
breathe save by her consent.
"What followed seems like an ex-
quisite dream--a kind Of delirium. l
was willing slave to the woman's
lnagnetism-her Undesirable power
over me. I felt that l lived for her
and her alone. and without her exist
ence was worthless. Still dazed, she
led me from the house, and wandered
on with her I knew not whittier, until
at last I found myself beside her going
through the marriage ceremony before
somber man in black-a clergyman,
/ suppose he was. Then we returned
home and my honeymoon was passed
in bliss, seeing before me, not the
hideous old wretch have married, but
the nymph of my dream-the lovely
little seventeen-year- girl my wife
has the power to picture herself before
me when she so Wills"
When the young mans statement
got noised about the hotel, there were
many who utterly discredited it and
one wealthy but eccentric Philadelphia
broker who was stopping at the hotel
with his wife and children announced
his intention to test the truth of the
matter and ascertain whether the old
lady had any magnetism or hypnotism
in her composition.
No more was thought about the mat
ter until late that evening. when a
great racket was heard out on the
porch, when the guests. on running
out, discovered the inquisitive banker
and the old lady's husband engaged
in mortal combat-the latter trying to
cane the banker and the banker heroic
ally defending himself with chair.
The men were separated, and explana-
tions were in order, when it was dis
covered that they had been fighting
about the old lady. who. had hypnotized
them both, and the banker was as
madly in love with her as the old
woman's husband. The next morning,
however. the bankers wife took him
to Philadelphia and will see to IL
that no antediluvlan, yellow haired
blonde hypnotizes him again IN
hurry. -Buffalo Tins.