Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-12-12
AWAKENED BY HYPNoTIsM
Girl in Trance Regains Her Mental
 Powers in Strange Way.


 Hypnotism was the means of restor. ing to complete control of her mental faculties yesterday Miss Sadie Garetsky of West Grove, near Asbury Park, N. J., whose cataleptic sleep of nine days had baffled the skill of half a dozen physi. cians.
 Miss Garetsky's case was peculiar. She is nineteen years old. Her parents are poor and she worked in shirt. waist factor yenar her home.
 On November 2l, while at work, she had a violent quarrel with another young woman. At the end of the war of words she rushed home and flung her. self on Q sofa. She seemed hysterical and was able to say no more than that cruel words had been spoken to her and that she desired only one thing in life-to forget them.
 Almost immediately she fell into a heavy sleep, from which she did not awake until last Thursday. Then she opened her eyes for few moments and again passed into trance-like condition.
 On Saturday she became semi-con- scious and remained so with short in- tervals of heavy sleep until yesterday.
 pr. Gustav A. Gayer, a hypnotist, of this city, had read of her long sleep and became profoundly interested when he learned that besides having been induced by mental excitement it had apparently been brought on by her over whelming desire to forget the harsh words. He concluded that she was self. hypnotized and that he, by counter hypnotic suggestion could restore her to a normal state.
 Yesterday he obtained her parents permission to treat her by the meth ods of modern hypnotism. A reporter was in the sick room while Dr. Gayer operated.
 Miss Garetsky lay staring vacantly at the ceiling when the hypnotist en- tered. She made no replies to his first questions. The pupils of her eyes were greatly dilated and the eyeballs were drawn back so that the iris of each was partly covered by the eyelids. The pdtlcul scSHlcu lo HdNt hV Soh'ioi oNSi them.
 Dr. Gayer began by placing his hands lightly on her brow. He kept them there fully five minutes without speak ing or attempting to make her speak. Then suddenly withdrawing his finger tips from her forehead, he took her hands in his and said:
 ''Do not try to forget any more. It is better to awaken, and to forgive and be forgiven.'
 The young woman's drawn eyelids huttered and her eyeballs moved until her eyes were level with the hypnotist 's. But she said nothing and Dr. Gaver waited several minutes before he said:
 "Come, awake, Your mother, who is very dear to you, desires it. Your friend with whom you quarteled wishes your also
 Light seemed to dawn slowly in the sick girls eyes. Then smile began to play about her lips and she spoke.
 "I am better than I have been"
 ,"Tell me that you want to live and that you have put away your hate, " he said gently as the girl seemed to hesitate.
 "Say it, he said again.
 In perfectly normal voice the pale young woman replied:
 "Yes, I want to live. I hate no one. I forgive"
 After a few more words Dr. Gayer left her. Miss Garetsky seemed to be perfectly normal as she bade Dr. Gayer good night and thanked him for com ing.
 Dr. Gayer said Miss Gafetsky's case was undoubtedly one of self-hypnotism, and one of the most remarkable he had ever seen.-New York World.