Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-09

cision of parrots that they could do both
physical and mental hypnotism"
That's very good" I said; sit down
there and well have a test. You can eat
glass. smoke candles-stand all those
things, 1 suppose"
The fellow f1inched and said he'd rather
not.
- But" said, 81 hope you can at least
have needles run through your cheek
Yes" he said, 1.-The doctor done that
once, but it left sore that was long
time in healing. and don't believe would
care to try it again.
So we agreed upon something easy, and
holding small mirror the size of a watch
just above his nose, the lady professor
do his. He gazed at the glass until his
eyes were red and there was an expression
on his face which told how honestly he
strove to yield. Meanwhile, the lady pro-
afraid to. look anywhere lest she get hyp-
Noticed herself. The fellow finally said
that somehow it didn't work. l can't say
l expected it would. for my will and my
and all the rest of my interior being were
working against 1t. Moreover, the fellow
was not accustomed to being hypnotized by
the Braid method. The doctor. he said,
nerves of his eyes. In that way, he said,
he was capable Of being hypnotized in a
minute or two.
To save his life or my own. might have
circumstances. I therefore amiably scored
a failure on this subject, and CORE
spending one on his brother.
Thought She Could he Developed.
Following in the train of these came a
woman who took my breath away by her
refinement and elegant attire. She said
she had never before offered herself as a
subject, but that she understood hypnotic
methods. and being very sensitive to nerv-
Gus Impressions she believed she could be
developed as a subject. She looked just
like an aunt of mine. who from the time
was a youngster has been able to practi-
cally hypnotic me by the decisive snap Of
her thin. tight lips. 1t was, therefore, with
a weak spirit that babe this lady remove
her gold pince nez and fix her attention on
the mirror held at the point of her nose
The longer stood looking at her delicate
face and good clothes. the more marveied
at what on earth had prompted her to go
into such thing as this. When she gave
it up couldn't help asking her, why. If
you have never been a subject. did you
think of coming to me?"
"Simply because" said she, st am in
need of money, end you advertised good
pay"
1 have heard ofsclinic subjects who, hav-
ing an interesting disease. abandon other
pursuits and hire out their disease to
medical school, but that woman should
be driven to strive to acquire a disease Of
the will for the money there is in ft-well.
personally speaking, DelOre q 40 II
take boarders or marry second time.
Leading n Man by the Nose.
The next subject was a wizened, we'll
dressed middle-aged man,who said he had
been hypnotized most of the time the past
twelve years by Prof. who had hypno-
tized pretty much the whole family. He
went off into a rambling talk about not lik-
ing to be hypnotized save in the best society.
and it was not until assured him that l
am from Prince Georges county myself.
and have only the first families OF Fir-
ginia to witness my performances. that I
was able to get him quiet in a chair for
test. I used the mirror before his eyes, ana
my conscience was getting SO tired with
the rest of me by this time that I didn't
care If I did hypnotic him. Indeed. I
felt bit nicked, and with the necessary
calm serenity of mind 1 said in my soul
to this man: BE hypnotized and be hang
ed for all of me-"
In few minutes his nose seemed to be
reaching out to smell the mirror, which 1
withdrew gently. and he followed, just as
leading one man by the nose If I never do
another. When 1 had him back In the
chair told him to shut his eyes. Then l
said: You can't open them now; see II
jack pot in the club across the way. but
all his monstrous efforts awaited nothing
in opening his eyes.
TRY him with pin," said the doctor.
I took out my hat pin, and-well, I
couldn't do it. Some women love to stick
pins in human beings. I don't. might
cut throat II necessity demanded, but to
do anything SO little and mean as to stick
a pin in a man-not l. Besides. he wouldn't
feel It, so what was the use? I put the
pin back in my hat, and-now, watch the
professor, gentlemen; watch the professor
i snapped my fingers in his face, COM
manded him to awake he jumped at me
as If I were cat In the Oakland was
awake.
The Dude md His Poetry.
The man to follow next was almost
dudish in appearance, he was so well
dressed. He was first hypnotized ten years
ago. he said, and had Travelled at intervals
ever since with professional hypnotist.
He was rather wild-eyed and weird in the
face, and l didn't altogether enjoy toying
with his inner consciousness. Nothing but
the recollection that DR.. Rose Is accuS-
toned to dealing with crazy people gave
me any degree Of serenity as l proceeded
to hypnotic him by pointing my finger
close to his nose and staring him In the
eyes.
You know the story of the wolf who
would huff and would puff and do dreadful
things thereby. Presently this man began
to huff and TO puff. and, nervous as it made
me, / couldn't stop looking into the funny,
fascinating black holes that in the begin
ming were his two untamed eyes. Finally,
with mighty effort, I rolled my eyes to
the ceiling-in prayer. I will tell you con-
fidentially-and in another minute he was
asleep.
At first he needed not my order to turn
around to the desk and write. Then the
sec ond third time spoke he did as he
was hidden.
What shall writer he asked, when he
had a pencil ready on the paper.
"Oh, write some spring poetry I said,
whereupon he wrote the following:
when winter gives away to gentle spring
And verdEre clothes the earth with green,
IT'S then that nature smiles on everything
And flowers and fruit are to be seen"
He wrote so laboriously that 1 said. st
think you could write better if that silver
were out of your finger"
YES" he said, that bothers me a great
deal" Then handing the doctor my UNI
brella, 1 told the fellow the doctor would
cut the silver out and he reluctantly SUBJ
mitted his finger to be cut with the UNI
brella, saying afterward that it only bled
a drop.
For stage purposes, as 1 have seen hyp-
notism done on the stage. this subject
seemed to me a star, and, for that matter
his acting would, think, do him credit on
any stage. When had awakened and dis
missed him there entered another woman
She had been recently hypnotized by a
professional, appeared in public with him
for several weeks and has lately been go
ing out to private exhibitions of hypnotism
which are a popular form of social ga ther-