The morning times., 1896-11-01
Draming
Room
marveI.
BY ]. (. BEARD.


The Conversation turned ON mind read
ing. Tom, aged eleven, had a volume in
bis hand in which he seemed very much
interested; but this, no doubt, was part
OF the game. He asked what 'teIepathy''
meant
Perhaps it's new name for mind
cure" said Aunt Rowena
You're not mulch out of the way there"
replied Preston. "Telepathy is from two
Greek words meaning to feel or suffer at
a distance, and it is used to express the
sympathy existing between the thoughts,
feelings, and emotions OF one mind with
those OF another
Something like mind reading said
Aunt Rowena
That's it, exactly replied Preston.
DO You believe in it, asked Aunt
Row ena
Whether there is anything really in the
matter replied Preston. modeStly, "or
( whether the performances are nothing
mere than clever tricks you may he better
able to Judge than am when you see
| them: but am bound TO say that though
! | can't quite get myself up a professor
! OF regular and accredited standing in the
! art. Vet | found out. quite hy accident as
it Were, some time ago, that 1 do pos.
| Se>~ d certain amount ui power IL this uirec-
I ton, and if 1t will amuse you az am will
/ ing to try an experiment or two this even
! ing to see what can do
4 1t may be remarked, in passing, there
| were gate u number present, Tor Aunt
Rowena had invited the minister and his
| Wife to tea, and not only had their two
daughters accompanied th,.ru, but Preston
! had invited several friends on his own ac-
| count, besides there Were te cllil,r..n Alice
Tom and Harold The hickory fire blazed
brightly in the cavernouS fireplace, the
party drawn up around 1t were in recep-
1--we mood for the amusement proposed and
! enthusiastically accepted Pre>ton's offer
TO furnish it.
tom Will you tear up q sheet or so Of
note papcr into strips and pass them around
to the folks and, by the way as they Will
| require something upon which to rest the
| paper You better bring down those squares
| uf pasteboard / fixed for backs to youI
copybooks and an atlas or portfolio or so,
| w.iCh with one or two music books I see
in the room here will be enough to 20
I around.
/ HtH EceHltI TIE room MY eyes VIII
be tightly shut and shan have to ask some
"ne. Aunt Rowena, perhaps, if she will
| have the kindness to lead me to a chair
placed in the center Of the room and to
throw over me the large American flag
ncw draped over the door. so that the
audience will he entirely shut out from my
view together with all possibility of my
communicating with accomplices. j will
then repeat the questions you have written
and answer them
Incredible as it may seem, the means
Preston used to successfully perform this
! trick are quite as simple and easily COM
manded as the trick Itself is surprising and
apparently inexplit able. The whole secre,
| lies in the fact that the squares OF paste
board furnished the audienre to write upon
were provided with transfer paper, secured
| colored side down both Races Trans.
fer paper is thin paper covered on one side
\ with color that can he transferred to any
plain surface, upon which THE paper is laid
face down, with pressure, any mark made
by point upon the unco!ored side of the
paper will be printed upon whatever sur
face is beneath it.
When the performer is a alcne in the adj
Joining room he has only TO take off the
outside paper from the pdstebUard squares
>, or uncover the hooks which have been
brought there, after being used by his audi-
encc memorizc the transferred writing. 81
simply cutitout with a Knife or scissors, sip
II into his pocket. and read IL in the sno
q dued light shat pcnetrdtes his enveloping
drapery.