The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-23
! The NONPAREJL NAN
Description Of Mind .ReadIne Stunt That
Is Quite Simple When It Is Fully Ex-
planed-HoW to Shine il Society by
Posing AS "a .ss'Wiz." Z

plalned-How to Shine ID Society by
Posing AS a ,ss'Wiz.''
IS you want to. play. the "sfnarty' in
little social affairs a good game Us to ask
man to pick out some nunber between
and 10 and to hold it in his mind. Nine
times out Of ten he will take the number
seven. If you tell him this is fhe NUM-
Der, nine times out of ten he will accuse
you OF reading his mind, . whatever that
may mean. s.
It is not difficult to understand why the
mind should run to the number seven.
Seven is the most prominent figure be-
tween one and ten. 1t is the most popular
number in the line, and is associated with
more things than any other number, ard
| it is quite reasonable that the mind should
| light on seven. aE s
! A person is more apt to think Of the
number seven than he is to write it, fact
| which seems to be due to the difference
| in time required by the two processes.
Seven flashes first in the mind, and the
! mind holds the impression where the
proposition is to simply think of a number;
whereas, If the suggestion is to write
number the mind may desert the first inn
preston seven and go to some other NUM-
! ber S:- -
Try the experiment on a. roonfu1 of peo-
pie and they'll think you are wiz
| It is quite as easy to guess a number
between ten and twenty as between one
and ten. A person will almost Invariably
select the number thirteen or If he passes
that by, his choice IS likely to fan on
seventeen. One may properly ask for at
least two guesses and the effect will be
almost equally surprising II either Of
/ them is correct
If person does, however, choose some
number outside of : seven or thir-
teen or seventeen you may be
sill hot ho Oh -ic ~
! picious or sfoxy" nature. The foxy
man. in a choice Of the numbers between
I one and ten is likely to take the number
i two or nine. Afterwards when explain
ing your system to the crowd you can get
the laugh on the foxy party by showing
this popularity. :, ~
Dentist Winter fingers around the sore
tooth Of spring. -.5z
.. The Big Fork, MINI, Compass. sees
We've got grist of chilblains,
/ .. favorite frozen thumb: ",
Il Our ears still show the frostbites.
Our toes strangely numb. -
:. But the winters growing feeble and the spring
Is coming
/ If true, this is encouraging. Our upper
forty still shows Siberian appearance.
The Bemidji Pioneers hated rival hay
! ing quit the field, the Pioneer says: 1.-THE
heavy editorial man, it is understood, has
accepted a position bark marking logs for
a new sawmill in the Big Fork country
At the Chatelet theater in Paris says
a dispatch from that town yesterday, a
determined demonstration was made
against the piano on the ground that it is
mot g musical instrument, and that it
, should be abolished from the orchestral
concert stage. We have had our. suspi-
.cions about the piano for the past twenty
years: It may be a musical instrument,
, but we dislike the company it often keeps.
Miss. Charlotte Hart, daughter of
. Charles Hart, a wealthy manufacturer of
! Cleveland, Ohio, was married six weeks
, ago in Vienna to Julius Takacs de Kis-
kova, who was represented to be of noble
- birth, OF high social position and of indie
q pendent fortune Saturday she brought
! suit in Cleveland for divorce and filed a
! petition in bankruptcy. She says she was
+ tricked into the marriage, and had to- pay
: 100000 Of herr husbands debts. She says
,, ton in society. Always Investigate your
. baron first and marry him afterwards if
: absolutely necessary s. 81 -.>-
+ Chicago is struggling with a grave ques-
r ton. It is this: Must a lawyer be a
|
during argume nts on the question of a
new trial for the carss barn bandits. At
. torney GeorgesezM. Pophan, counsel for
d Marx. frankly told theScourt that he be.
= lieved there were.npf ma terial errors in the
record, and that lie could not conscien-
- tiously make an argument for new trial
= He asked the court, however, to grant
y Marx time enough to procure new counse
u. lif he desired:
$ Two well known attorneys in the court
9 room, listening to the proceedings, re-
g marked to each other that no lawyer haG
d the right to make such a speech-that 8
+, lawyers duty was to fight to the end.
j &. Had Mr. Popham followed out this
d theory of legal practice. he would have
: made an argum ent. twisting the law anc
i, facts to suit his purpose. altho he knew
n that every word he uttered was lie; attic
d he knew that he was playing q hypocritica
: part. The question then is thus: Was i
g Mr.. Popham,s duty to argue for new
a trial, when he knew that If he did so hi
: would be acting under false pretenses?
What do you think? A. J. r.