The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-08
HIS RHYTHMIC FLOW
WAGG MAKES A TRIAL OF THE YOGI
METHOD or Becoming A GENIUS.
His Wife Witnessed Portions of the Ex-
pertinent and Was Frightened = First
She Suggested the Hot Water Bag, but
Finally Sent For the Doctor.

pertinent and Was Frightened = First
She Suggested the Hot Water Bag, but
Finally Sent For the Doctor.
Mr.. Wagg after the fashion OF the
"Didd" in animal Land, which "roars
and roars and eats caramels, writes jokes
and poems during business hours and gives
up his leisure moments on Sunday to The
Sun and philosophical experiments. If
Mrs. Wagg had read The Sun one Sunday
morning recently, she might have been
saved from some alarming suspicious about
Wagg during the day. She saw Wagg read
and then reread one article in it several
times.
THAT has long been my theory, he ex-
claimed as he laid down the paper, and
Mrs. Wagg, suppos,ng that he referred TO
new scheme for currency reform or some
thing equally uninterestng to her, did not
question him, but went about her house
hold duties An hour later she found Wagg
in his study staring straight ahead.
"Are you ill!" she asked anxiously.
"Hush, please, and don't destroy my
rhythm" said Wagg calmly.
Mrs Wagg supposed that u poem was
taking shape in her husbands mind, and
she retreated. When she again looked in
but one nostril was stopped with cotton,
and he held his watch before him.
~ am sure you are ill.,, said Mrs
Wagg.
mo, no, said Wagg in an absentmind-
ed fashion. "l'm just experimenting with
my rhythm. That's all, really.
Two hours later Mrs. Wagg went up to
see her husband and found him in the
same attitude, but his other nostril was
| now closed with cotton. Wagg' s expression
| was intense His wife began TO have fears
| of his sanity, and she stole softly out of
| the room.
When luncheon time came, Wagg re-
| sponded to the summons, as usual but his
| wife noticed that he was asbentminded and
that his appetite was not good. Immedi-
ately after luncheon Wagg retired TO his
| library and there his wife found him hold
| ing a feather first on one nostril and then
| on the other His watch was open on the
table before him, and he looked worried.
"Now, James, she said, II am sure
| you are not well. Let me get "a hot water
bag and
"It's nothing, my dear, but those Id
Yogis. l beg your pardon, but they are
enough to make man swear.
Il hope they are not contagious, James,
for we must remember the children, you
know"
"Now, according to them, continued
Wagg, as if he had not heard his wife,
they have a breathing exercise that en-
ables them to reach much higher state
Of psychic action. That sounds plausible. y
"Hadu't better get the hot water bagY
| suggested Mrs. Wagg.
Nov, when We force the breath, " con
tinued Wagg, breathing hard, tive in
crease the rhythmic nervous flow and con
sequently the reaction in the brain cells. ,
Wagg continued to breathe hard fol
five minutes, and Mrs Wagg watched hin
apxiously.
"That sounds fair, he said breaking
the silence, "but can't get any reaction
Now, here is another. This Yogi says t.
begin the exercise by closing the right nos
tril with the thumb and slowly inhalinl
for four seconds through the left nostril
| (Wagg here followed directions). 'Iinagin
while doing this that you are sending
current down the spinal cord. Now,
can { do that. Either my imagination
at fault or my spinal cord is, "
won't you try the hot water bag, please
James," interrupted Mrs. Wagg. Wag
was lost in thought.
Sin perfect. well person, continue
Wagg, "the breath changes from one nos
tril to the other every two hours, but il
poor health the breath sometimes remain
i'm one nostril for hours. Three hours ag
| breathed out of my right nostril. stil
breathe out of my right nostril Const
uucntlv nv health isn't good
II know it,, said Mrs. Wagg, and OF
she buried for her maid.
"Mr. Wagg is unwell, she said TO tn
glri, land / want you to go TO DR.. joie
and leave word for him to call as soon a
BIO comes in.
The maid hurried out, and Mrs. Wage
who believes in self control, sat down
quiet her nerves for the doctors verdict
She suspected that Wages disorder wa
purely mental Then her eyes happene
to fall on the paper that he had been reae
ing and this headline attracted her attei
ton; "How to become genius. swan
Abhedananda gives some infallible rule'
Anybody can do it by practicing fey
breathing and mental exercises regularl
until he sets up rhythmic How OIL nervou
currents. Bad men who do it become II
sane" She looked puzzled for moment
and then as she glanced quickly down tn
column a smile appeared IL brUdenet
and then with the full appreciation of tn
situation she leaned back in the chair an
laughed until she cried.
"Ob, James, james," she exclaimed
herself Studying how to become gel
iusi Why, you are genius now An!
, | way it says that it is dangerous only
! bad men, and you are safe.
Just as Mrs. Wagg arrived at this col
| clusion in came the maid with DR. Jone
$50 sorry to trouble you, doctor, sal
! | Mrs. Wagg, land it was all mistak
| Baby was coughing and thought that
was Group. 1t wasn't, though. 1e
Good afternoon. 1t is beautiful da.
I'm sure.
When Mrs. Wagg walked into the
brary, Wagg remarked;
"This Yogi business is all nonsense.
sit il indeed, James, was her reply.
p. S.-This is true story. New foI
Sun.