The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-02-28
u q. llllle2 English Doctor Who Processes to
8 s1sshs y thu Mysterious Magnetic Art.
g GAY Y ,3 BE i LEARNED IN TEN MINUTES
4 ~ Ter Watch tgAttch n Clever student Can
Sys HsacttSSS Successfully ON Animal
I s. and and Human I.irc-Fhe Doctor Sus-
SIC lseaets a connection HctMccr Clair
s6S ancc and Crooks Tabcs.


sEsls at really true that one can by STUDY
81 alone become a hypnotist in the feat
n sense of the word? Gould you. FOR m
q Stance, teach me ITO hypno:ize: DO you
g believe in clalrvoyance? Can yau hyp-
y notize any one and every one can one
ever be hypnotized aSalns: ones VIII
$3Do, you think one could be made 10 com
a nlitI crime under rs influence? Do
you think
AT this point the doctor, venerable
q Mbtle man, inclined 10 stoutness, with
\ SnoW-Whbte beard and alert, piercing
Z brown eyes made Il gesture OF lnpa-
stlent protest.
sS4 sssMy dear young woman! Just pause
IS @ moment in your mad QUESTIONING
u have levStca the las; forty years OF my
4 lite 10 a,udy Of this science, and am
s still studying the answers to Ihese great
IHquestons which you fire ut me so flip
III pantly -AssuredIy hypnotism can he
ftaught. 1t is an art, which, Ike any
n other. can be studied. comprehcrded
,Sand put into practice. In course OF
\ lessons, If you arc apt, I could put you
,5zdnto possession OF this power. or
course. to become q master the art must
spring from intuition. just as the mas
4 tiers In other arts must be born pos
4 sessing n certain accuracy III estimat-
ding crlor form, harmony. mathemati-
q cal values or what not. Mental equality
y ~ s,,.nno,i 80 Snn,n -, ,,twhi,.
i andoyved th.u othars yain tba s,,nre-
h macy, just as some excel in music,
y painting or poetry"
FefiLs.
What sort CT people as a rule consti-
stute your clientele"
7Si3Ss3"My classes are largely made up OF
rnedical students and practlcing ply
Il sicians many CT whom through my in
distractions have completely revolution
!Slzed their methods. To-day there nrc
I more than two hundred practical mag
I,etisers In Now York CITY alone"
g$ges,Nil you not give me some idea of
Il your mesthods?'
SSSi Certainly y full course of instruc-
\ zion includes len lessons of one hour and
e a half each. l also give the same course
N by illustrated correspondence and have
N as many correspondence pupils as per
5&sonal visitors"
"po YOU yourself always succeed in
ilypnotizing your subjects?''
BY no means. should saw that I dc
n not succeed In more than 10 per cent II
them.''
sfaSs 1YxoW do Won explain thisp"
ssss S,.Yeu have yourself noticed the in.
" stinctiye abrasion which some neopl4
q have for you upcn Il first meeting. and
y,ttie CORRESPONDING repulslon which Won
Y aeyaerience with S.hers Nav i :, is snu
diffloult To oveyy>>,ne tbts roma,
Liant force suffic GENTLY TO hvpnotize !. SIM.
sssiect5 POSSESSING 4. You have 10 do hot-
tile with the law of its tempern,ncnt and
Won lsnow Is wali'nim,,
fSinelucta6le. Generally spaakinr a nor.
fEsan In whom the animal nature p,.eaon,i-
&a,ates Ia the most easily hypnotized n,
Stshe higher intellectual natur, nffers
4 more resistance to rhe influence me
study of hypnotism includes tho s.udy
Il uf tsmperament. and its three cnmno,
II merits, vitality. motion and menfaI;r>,
3 IN every case one of these nrAdom,nats.
V ana del ermlnes character Jvnnot,sm
sSstrengthens character One NAV ~
e hypnotized TO think better, TO compre-
sgfend more fully and to aot more u,,icE
ssly.,,
SsssssiDo you consider that It's ,ec,,t, orc
8 sn any way s,1pernaturalp" o.
q fs.No; everything is based upon theory
81 s{g Shu vs. psFlsS,iS logical Hypnotlsm is
ID ID gu maii power concentrated Con-
.5it,ss - ehe most important thing
b 80 ...,4I aun, lor example. are endowed
e 20 - - enet sS' d idt &c proper
Ii W ss a., y. wnic.l goes 10 waste. a course
~ q, .ai. woulu .each you 10 conserve
& g, ~ ~ 10 Soal 1.i.uue' uSStor' To-
'f,s,Ss;.c. on eohu'eFoh OIL tht
81 IN, -, s.1ta, ~" nd nas aiMiost as many
y s seSss s as Ieiglon; me Nancy schoo
b fa..s3s, 1-a.,i,. t uou' siust pe III u per
sasoy - pass,pe s'ate perore the operator
II 20 ~ ~ atlu mere must Always