The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-12
STUNTS IN MAGNETISM

Practiced on a Group of Distinguished
 Psychical Students by Boston Doc
 tor.
 A distinguished gathering of men and
 women interested in psychical study was assembled in the reception room of a Back Bay residence not long ago, to
 witness an exhibition of his powers by well-known magnetic physician of Boston. A professor from Harvard,
 preacher famous for his oratory, rich
 banker and broker and numerous oth-
 CTS almost equally we'll known were there
 First the doctor experimented with
 the clergyman, who with others in the
 room, was inclined to be little skep-
 tical. Requesting those present to con-
 tinue their conversation, the doctor sat
 down beside the minister and held his
 hand about eight or ten minutes. He
 then said: Now please stand up and NlOoC 5oul CySSs bu IlOL pay duJ uL"
 tention to what am doing" Arising, the minister closed his eyes, while the doctor walked on tip- toe noiselessly back of the motionless subject. Then he extended his right
 arm and hand horizontally, with the
 palm of the hand downward, towards the back of the preachers head. In less than a minute the latters head
 began to sway backward, as if drawn by some powerful influence toward the doctors hand. When the doctor drop
 ped his hand the minister reassumed a perpendicular attitude.
 Why did you move your head back
 ward that way?" asked some one. T couldn't help it," was the clergy ! mans answer. "The sensation was as if I was being pulled backward by
 about million of tiny threads. think
 you could have a very powerful influ- ence over me, doctor" he added, turn ing toward the man of magnetism
 "No, I think not" said the doctor
 with a smile.
 Several of those in the room asked the doctor if he had ever tried to mag netize an inanimate object: No,
 never have, but am willing to try it."
 he said. A linen handkerchief was
 chosen as the abject, one belonging to a
 man present being placed in the doc- tors hand.
 If I succeed it will have to be demon- strated in some such way as fhis," he suggested. After being magnetized, the handkerchief must be hidden, so | that do not know where it it. One of your number, blindfolded, and not | knowing where it has been hidden any
 more than I, will then find the hand
 kerchief. He will be drawn to it as the | needle is drawn to the magnet After holding the handkerchief tight ly in his hands five or six minutes, the doctor asked a young woman, chosen at | random from the audience, by the com mittee in charge, to stand in a corner of the room with her face to the wall. while the handkerchief was hidden. As she did so the doctor left the room, so that he could not see the concealment ! of the handkerchief. It was first passed about among the crowd and then slowed in the breast coat pocket of a ] man sitting in a faraWay corner. Then the door was opened and the doctor called in. He had the young | woman magnetized in a few moments, ] and she stood in an apparently uncon- scious state. The doctor then said to | her: Now you must find the handker- chief"
 Almost as he spoke she turned, las if l in a trance. with eyes still closed and
 her head stretched forword, as if she were about to fall on her face. Slowly