Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1895-08-10
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night TO soc the foats Of Miss
Abbott.
Miss Abbott opened the enter
tainment with n recitation in
good elocution. Mr.. Abbott re-
peated his speech Of the former
evening, relating how the mys-
terious force possessed by Miss
Abbott was discovered when she
was little child, and how it had
puzzled physicians and physicists.
He added some fdcetious re-
marks about explanations local
sceptics had given Of Miss Alb
bott's performance. Scientific
mon looked further, however,
but their theories were often
diametrically opposed to each
other. As he had said the pre-
vious night, Miss Abbott could not
resist active force, she was not a
strong woman. He concluded by
calling list Of names of gentle
men whom he wished to serve on
the committee. Much mirth was
caused by his failure to catch the
names on his list in all cases.
There were Water something"
"McChickenY," Sorry-sir," etc.
The following committee
promptly ranged along the rear
of the platform: Senator Lyman,
B F. Dillingham;, Tom May, DR..
Cooper, Justice Frear, Attorney
General w. o Smith, @. ID. Chase,
Senator Waterhouse, l.. @. Ables,
F. b. Oat, F. w. McUhesney,
Senator w. Y. Horner and Judge
Perry.
At the beginning of the per-
formance DR.. Cooper took Miss
Abbott's temperature as SO 3-5, and
pulse ~. At the close the figures
were 9S As and l20.
The feats essayed by Miss Alb
bott were the same as on the pre-
vious evening, but she made
few failures. The Attorney Gener-
al overcame her magnetic" re
sistancs and showed her half the
breadth of the stage. Senator
Horner lifted her when she did
not want to be lifted. She more
than once had to readjust her
purchase when pitting her skill
and strength against members of
the committee.
A prominent member of the
committee laughed, after the
performance, at Mr.. Abbott's
assertion that Miss Abbott
was not a strong woman. He said
she was "a trained athlete with
muscles like steel" Experiments
made by many people since the
show prove that there is neither
magnetism nor hypnotism requir-
ed in the act wherein a child can
not be lifted by a strong man. 1t
was done by the writer this morn
ing with as light a child as any on
the stage last night, and that
without ten seconds of coaching
either. He simply took hold Of
the child's arms in the same posi-
ton as that of the child who stood
in the aisle last night, repeated
Miss Abbott's formula, Keep
your feet down" and then exert
ed his strength till his arms ached
without being able to raise the
child from the floor. Then upon
saying, Now let me lift you,' he
flung the child up to his shoul-
deis.
AS for the other feats Of Miss
Abbott. they were explained bv
writer in the Scientific American
Supplement and Nellie BLY, in the
New York World. 1t would DO
tedious to go into the explanations
here. Miss Abbott is extremely
clever and for her SIZE tremen-
douslY strong, but she is not a
magnet" and does not develop
more than high average of ami
NAL electricity,
The foregoing remarks are NOT
intended to keep people away from
the third performance this
evening. They ought rather
| to add zest to il. The nd