The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-19
SURPRISING AND FUNNY.
The FIints Entertain Big Audience at
the Crawford Opera House.

The FIiuts Entertain Big Audience at
the Crawford Opera House.
The FIints, Herbert l. and his
daughter, Marina, in hypnotic and mes
meric feats last night attracted good
sized audience at the Crawford opera
house. The first floor was packed and
there were good spinklings in the bal
ceny and in the gallery.
After considerable persuading twenty
five men and boys went onto the stage
and after the professor and his daughter
had made test of the semicircie the
wedding out began with the result that
more than half of the number were to re-
turn to the audience as they did not
yield to the influence
Then the fun began and the audience
writhed with laughter as it progressed
The subjects were made to do all sorts
of outlandish and surprising things both
under the inf uence of Prof. and of Miss
Flint. They were made to shut their
eyes and unable to open them, bend and
stlffen their arms against their wills,
open their mouths, forget their names
and stutter at the will of the operator.
One of the very best feats of the even
ing was the one by Miss Flint in which
she made four young men believe they
were almost frozen. They turned up
their coat collars. stamped their feet and
whipped the N selves with their arms in
dead earnest while the audience roared.
Suddenly Miss Flint created hot stove
in the mind of each of the subjects and
the audience simply roared as the young
men lifted up the tails of their coats and
backea up against the supposed heat
and held out their hands and their feet
to it with the utmost satisfaction.
The subjects were made to laugh and
cry and laugh again. Two of them Miss
Flint made to crow aud fight like roos
ters. The imitation was as near perfect
as human could make it.
The driving scene also was good, in
which each of four young men imagined
he was driving in a trotting race.
The funniest thing of the. evening was
the oratorical contest.
Prof. Flint took two young men to the
| footlights and told one of them that he
was to talk for the candidate for mayor
that was in favor of free beer. The other
one was told that he was to represent the
candidate for mayor that believed in pro-
! hibition.
The professor had good deal of trou-
BILE in impressing the situation on Fred
| Vesper, who was the champion of prohi-
bition. Vesper was only partly under
the influence and said to the professor
"Who are you? What have you got to do
with this, anyway"
"Fm the chairman" said the professor
"WeI, them" said Vesper with his
hands in his pockets, $50 over there
where you belong and sit down and shut
up. Let that other fellow talk if he
wants to-
Both of the young men talked at the
top of their voices, while the audience
doubled itself up with laughter.
Free beer we want" said the beer ad-
vocate, land free beer we must have if
we have to fight for it. l never could
get along in the world without my beer. y
81 call on all fair minded citizens, u
creamed Vesper, ito witness that the hon.
orable gentleman on my right doesn't
know what he is talking about He
doesn't know ANYMORE about beer than a
rabbit"
Vesper was a hard man to stop after
he got start, and insisted that the pro-
lessor go away and let him finish his
speech.
There were a great many other feats
fully as astonishing, and the audience
was we'll pleased.
Tonight the four hundred pound rock
will be broken on NJ ISIS Flints breas
with sledge hammer while she is in the
magnetic cataleptic state.
The Flints will be here only until Sat
urday night. They open in Wichita fol
a week next Monday night, and then &c
to ST. Joseph