The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-21
THE MIND OF OF LOLA COTTON
Marvellous Things That of 6 Little Boston Girl Can Do.

."rhe most extraordinary child in Bos.
 ten today" says The Boston Journal | Is little s-year-old girl, Lola Cotton who lives at 2S Myrtle Street. She is extraordinary because she can do things that no other little girl in the city ever
 thought of doing; and in the perform ance Of these same things that are SC strange because so unusual to childhood people, some of whom think they know a thing or two themselves, but who are frank to confess that this youngster has secrets past their finding out.
 She is not only a child of extraordi- | nary mental accomplishments, but a very | sweet-tempered, artless and winning one, with all of child's health enjoyment in play. and without the least affecta- tion of manner.
 "Blinflolded and with her back turned toward the other occupants of the room, she will name and describe dozens of articles selected by any person present: She does this without hesitation, and | with a rapidity and ease that astonish | the listener. If she had eyes in the back | of her head the answers could not come with more satisfactory clearness and ac- curacy in nearly every instance where | a test is desired.
 "She does not explain nor describe in
 language beyond the ordinary speech oi
 childhood. For example, the head of the
 Goddess of Liberty on a coin is to hel | the picture of lady when she is asked while blindfolded to describe it, and {
 disc of cardboard is something rount
 made of paper She says what she has
 to say clearly and concisely. and in 6
 voice that penetrates the ear with the
 sharp treble of childhood that is never
 unmusical, but that, coming as 1t does | from the lips of so unusual child. seems l just bit uncanny and is apt to haunt the | memory afterward.
 Lola can give correct answers to mathematical questions. both in arith- roots of sums without an instants hes itation.
 "Blindfolded. and with back toward a Chess Knights Tour while the person with the crayon moves 1t swiftly from field to field until the entire sixty-four fields have been covered in as many the starting point. Over this network of lines and figures the little girl leads the crayon in merry maneuver. This she does without error. although the fact that she starts from any any field designatsd Is ed | able to follow 4,096 combinations to a successful finish
 "Ali that Lola does Is performed in ton. The questions answered by her are
 asked by him. although suggested by
 other people. Mir. Cotton says the sys-
 tenn is that of thought transference; that
 his blindfolded daughters brain is Tn such marvelously intimate communica.
 tion with the workings of his own that
 she can follow his thought while his | eyes move from object to object. and
 while they are resting upon some one
 thing she will instantly know in her
 minds eye what that thing Is, and upon
 being asked What is this? will name It.
 He states that she herself will hold the
 crayon, and. Fbaindfoided. mark the
 chess knights moves with as much ease
 as she directs his moves when he holds
 the crayon. She does this. he says, by
 reading his mind with rapidity thai keeps pace with his own thought. | Tn brief, Mir. Cotton says that Lola
 can solve any mathematical or chess
 problem with which he himself is fa-
 miliar, and that she can describe any | object that is within range Of her pow | CTS of description.
 MT. Cotton says that he has been in. terested for many years in psychological | matters, and one day, watching his baby then years old-at play, he wondered | if he could exert unspoken influence over l her He mentally commanded her to take up certain toys and lay others
 down. and the experiment proved sue | cessful. Fearing to affect her brain, he proceeded cautiously and by degrees, in | the meanwhile subjecting her to medi- | cal examination to be certain that no | injurious results had followed. Lola Is l the only child of Mir. and Mrs. Cotton. She was born in Clarkevile Allegany County. New York. The father had been storekeeper and sewing machine agent tY,