The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-31


the other would certainly not hold The
1t was straight up and down, like fence;
then again 1t would slope steeply up from
beneath him. AS he gazed on this scene
he was seized with vertigo; he CROPPED
and staggered; new fright came over
him. That piano. which had for a year.
past rested comfortably against the far
side of the room, now set at an angle OF
forty-five degrees, perhaps more. 1t could
never poise in that position but an in
stant-it would certainly slide down and
crush him. He thrust out his hands to
reach table and get out Of it's path.
The table had conspired with the plano,
and was awry. Instead of seiZing it for
support, he found himself instinetively,
striving to hold fpfup. If he should sit
on that chair, down the whole business
would go, and thereEWould be disgrace
full confusion upoIatlIe floor
TOUCH AND SIGHT.
Another phenomenon presented by the
change was the difference in the apparent
distances of parts of the body, as COM
pared with. the real and normal distances.
II sometimes said the professor, felt
myself strangely tall, as if my body had
been elongated intQ. q cord somewhat with
the apparent distance between the ground
and my point of NteWal The sensations of
touch upon the legs seemed nearer than
the legs themselves appeared to the sight.
There was a. discordance between touch
and sight showing that the mind had
been accustomed to the thing. being 9TH
erwise.". - ..ssH ~
most singular feeling, too, came over
him and grew upon hinl-he seemed to be
outside of his own body, to be looking on
himself from amidst wrath Of his old
being. Gradually this passed away. and
his mind became accustomed to the new
state of. things. He no. longer felt fear
when he set his foot forward. nor did he
experience surprise when his deg was
seen to be sort of long pantalooned hole
sticking out in the distance. When the
dog In play would jump at his foot and
strike 1t the touch did not seem to be up
about his knee, as it once did hut down
there in the distance, somewhere about
the spiked points 0f2@his patent-leather
shoes. -
Not, however, until the third sand~last
day Of the test did this accen1tno dation
of sight to mind superYepe. Meanwhile
the professor had been wearing his APP
paratus during ten< hours Of: each. day
looking much like gin expeFinenter with
some sort Of flying machine: At night,
when he was relieved oft, dark cloth
was swathed about his eyes. and this
was only removed on the following morn
ing, when the equipmenttWas readjusted.
Towards the close Of the third day he
found that he could not perceive with
out much. Inconvenience ;.*A
CONCLUSIONS -REA CHED.
He could pass safely In and out doors
| and>even;Walk doWn stairs, NOTWITHSTANDING
ing the steps seemed to be in some sort
Of ernamentation arranged on the wall
Of the building. He no longer had diff
Guilty tn'finding his mouth with glass of
water, no liability@tes strike, his eye with
a forkful Of food. I'm short. he. had re-
covered his ment ifnages 5of things and
accepted the eonait tons ofs:a new. world.
Then came the change to the old
sphere ofe@sigflty @t8les mirrors and = the
cloths were remaYsd and, In an instant
the old state Of tEiHgs was present. The
sight did not, however, readily accept
them. There was again vertigo. stagger=
| ing and confusion Of mind. The eyes,
| too, were weak and watery from long
projectionNo the strain of gazing into the
| glass. y * r.. -
| The settee was undoubtedly at the side
of the room. but whether. on the floor or
| upon the wall, orswhether it was Sitting
| still or swishing to him or from him, this
| he could not tell. IF was such a crazy
| world altogether, and would beWilder any
| one who looked upon it. The professor,
|. however, gained the sofa, and tired and
| disturbed he sank to Sleep
Composure followed an hours nap, and
when he awoke the most Of the distorted
| effects had passed away. AS g result. OF
his experiments, the professor concludes
that t'sight, in its original disassociated
purity, gives no sense of direction" and
| that "a given tactual position may have
I its correlated visual place not only In
| any direction, but also at any distance,
| in the visual field which is scientific
waysof asserting the fact of the phe-
nomenon Of the feet and elbows, dis
covery which has been added to sociology.