The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-12

because Of the peculiar characteristic
winch renders them sensitive to the in
nuence. OFTEN, however the travelling
professor win take subjects at random
from the audience. When the reporter
was at. college in a small town i'm this
state, a hypnotlst named Carpenter adj
NeIIsea a performance in the local op-
era house. Nearly the entire college t,1rn-
ed out, with the intention of having finn
with him, but those who came TO sc0ff re-
NAMED 10 dance Jigs, crawl on all fours
Stdhu on their heads, play kitten, eat tai
low candles and perform other unpremed-
llated teats melted thereto by PROF"
carpenter. The man was wonder. In
tne audience was DR.. H.. who filed the
chair OF philosophy in the college. He
naq promised his class to lecture on
Mesmer and the Hypnotsm Supersti-
there to get points. While the rest of
the audiene was lost in wonder DR. II
was openly amused and skeptical. sud
denly Prof. Carpenter, seeing him laugh
ms, extended a hand toward him and
maze a motion as If pulling in a rope
ana, as If he were tied to the end of that
rope, Or. II. came up the aisle. Amuse-
ment had died out OF his face. horror
and distress being substituted. In he
went to the stage, amid breathless ST.
NOW" said the mighty Carpenter. you
are a gay young chap CDr II. was then
about 90 and severely PuritanicaD. See
the pretty girl over there. Why She
waving at you. Isn't she nice?"
A smile of delight broke up the stern
lines around the doctors mouth.
Actually, she's trying to flirt with YOU l."
pursued the professor. Here's a handker-
chief to wave at her"
The husband of pious wife, father of a
| family of seven children. and terror Of the
senior class IN college huttered the hand
kerchiet and simpered like a front row
chorus girl. A dead silence held the au-
dience.
Kiss your hand at her" suggested the
professor. That's right. Again. Say Ia
''Ta-ta," cooed the authority on ethics
tation
Here, she comes Now put your arm
around her. That's il, only not Quite
That Will do, sir" said one OF the other
/ members of the college faculty suddenly
rising in his place in the audience II for
! BID you to 90 any further"
| And Carpenter was wise enough to de-
| slst, for at word from the interrupter
/ the college boys would have run him out
| of the house DR.. H. never fully recovered
! from the shock of that nights perform
/ ance when he learned of 1t from the col
! lege president, who told him in fear and
| promised lecture.
OF all those who experiment with bvpno-
! tlsm the most TO be feared are the parlor
| hypnotists. Even those who have made A
/ life study of the phenomena of hvpnotfsm
ADMIT tnat II IS as yet a practically un-
/ known science. Y ct people who know moth
| ing about 1t often try il out OF curiosity
| feeling a pride In being able to manipula fe
i a power so great and so mysterious A tVn-
ical case which occurred this year in a
mouse on Ffueth street, not far from
/ Firth avenue, will show the danger Of
TINS. Inere was small gathering OF
! young people there
The talk turned to hypnotisn and +ba
hostess declared that she and one of the
men present could hypnotic anyone a
Young man VINO had just come in from
! OUT OF town, on delayed train, and had
/ hastily dressed and come there without
| stopping TO get any dinner, was selected
| as the subject Having had no food since
| noon he was rather faint. but made no oh
! lection to the experiment. 1t was decided
| that the two hypnotists should "will' him
! 10 go to the hall and get from the hostess
! Jacket q handkerchief The two Duttinp
| their hands on his shoulders and iOolfin o
| at him tXedly soon got him under the in
nuence, ms condition being such as to
! render him peculiarly susceptible. AS he
/ approached the hall there was a tumult
| in the street outside, and the shouts Of n
/ crowd. There had been q runaway acct
/ dent. Those in the house ran out upon tbe
| stoop, including the two who had acted
| Jacket 10 throw it over her shoulders
! " men they returned they found
the, subject Il Jet f 35a at the
Y hung. They attempted to rouse him from
| his condition, but without success. A ply
/ stefan was summoned, who ordered him at
! once removed to his home. For two weeks
! he was between life and death. brain fever
/ having set in. On his recovery his mem
| DRY OF the events of the evening and of
| that entire day, was blotted out
In view of many cases similar to this
/ most doctors will agree with the opinion
voiced by Or. Shrady:
No person except a regularly accredited
/ practicing physician should experiment
/ in hypnotism, and not even a physician
/ unless he has made some special study OF
! the subject. 1t is too dangerous a force
! to be carelessiy tempered with. In time
/ l hope to see the enactment of laws pre-
! scrlbing severe penalties for any person
other than a physician hypnotizing an
/ other, and for any misuse or abuse 81 this
! power whether by physician or a lay
/ man"
/