Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-03-15
MISS ABB0TT's POWER.
Large Audience Witnessed the "ssor-
 sia Maanet !" at the yacnue..

Often are the words wonderfuIs marvellous, extraordinary, mysterious applied to certain acts and are used Tn sense of exaggeration. Writers take much liberty in booming certain people and certain things by employ Ing these words ill describing that which is only ordinary and common place. But when it is said that the power possessed by Miss Annie Ab- bolt, the Little Georgia Magnet, is strange, mysterious and wonderful. the words are not misused. They are fitting to the case and there is no exaggeration, as any person who was present at Jacques opera house last night, will testify. The audience was surprised. astOnished and amazed at the wonderful display of a mysterious power which is termed by some per- sons personal magnetism,' and which has created sensation among medical and scientific men and have baffied them during Miss Abbott,s tours of this country and Europe.
 Last night signalled the return Of MISS Abbott to the stage, where she nad won many laurels and much re- noWn. dozen or more years ago this frail little woman, with the as- ton1shing power, was winning iruch fame by Der display of personal mug net1sm to the line of resistance, but in iS94 Wearying somewhat of stage life and satisfied with the honors acquired retired from the stage. She has been living in this city for the past few years. MT Poli heard of her presence here, paid her a visit, witnessed n test of her power, was we'll pleased with 1t and succeeded in securing Miss Abbott at an enormous expense to appear at his theaters But Miss Abbott's act warrants the expendi- ture. She is big drawing card as was proved last night when the. thea ter was packed as it seldom has been before. Before beginning her act Miss Abbott explained that muscular strength did not enter into any part of her experiments, which were of purely scientific nature Whatever was the nature or the, cause of the strange power which she possessed, she could not state. Many explana- tions of 1t have been made to her py physicians and scientists, but none were satisfactory
 Tn her first test Miss Abbott places her hands careIessly on the back of a chair and defies the strength of three men. who are holding it. and trying to push it. down toward the floor Then n half dozen men get on the chair in some fashion and use their energies in trying to keep the clluir immovable, but the Georgia magnet moves ana lifts 1t by simply touching the back of it with her fingers. She takes a pool cue and lays her hands loosely on it and three men cannot push it to the floor. She stands on one foot, holds cue in her hands and { yet half dozen men cannot push her out of that position. She stands on the floor arad defies four or five or six or any ntlinber of men to lift her when she gives the word. This is one of her most difficult experiments and sometimes fails tn work. Six men are holding two pool cues and one man is sitting on top of them, but by merely touching them with her hands she mo res them. She. selects some child frcm the audience looks stead fastly at her. places some spell. as 1t were upon her, and man cannot lift the chigi though she weighs less than 7b pountss. These are only few of tiae mary astonishing experiments or her mysterious power, which was riyen by Miss Abbott last night.