Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-20
Drinkers and Race Track
Fiends Cured, Vices Erad-
icated, and Business
Character Built Up.

such sudden clouding, darkening, lightning
flashing tragedy as to delight her masters
beyond any pupil of late years. Before
even small unknown public she is awk-
ward, ongue-tied-wretched victim of stage
terror.
The Transformation.
Is? No; was. Girl Of the people, slangy,
INDIGENOUS. rollicking with the pride of life
now she has full sense of her powers. She
Is saucy, insouciante. And she returns for
fun, she says-and out Of gratitude and af
lection, we know-to the old mans Offices
day after day, with her black moraled young
cousin, a roysterer Of Paris music halls-a
he-devil Of sixteen-to raise Cain ever
Fhe old man stands it placidly. He is
their special victim They play tricks on
patients, feign hypnotic sleep. Yet let a
newcomer ill-advisedly cast doubt upon the
old mans miraculous gifts and up there
flashes true fury, queen Of tomorrow S
drama, pythoness, Madusa, to strike the
offender deaf and dumb and blind with tor
rents of Partisan vituperation.
The one cloud on the horizon OF this
Partisan sensation of the east end is the
intrudng fact that the old man no longer
suffices for his clientele.
He has q thousand cases a day: and even
two-minute consultations do not permit him
to get through. OF course, he has tried
to train helpers. They all do In the end.
So dill Kneipe. So did Charcot. And prob
low. One detail almost approaches char
latanism. He has found another old man
who resembles him bit, without his power
of suggestion
Salpatriere professors and specialists like
Janet are there, taking daily notes. The
place is beset with newspaper men, who
can get nothing and revenge themselves
by silence. Far worse, the landaus and
automobiles of Tout Paris are beginning
to litter up the sordd Misunderstanding
the morale of the whole adventure.
Science Explains.
In the slang of ultra-modem science. all
this is the "pli' or crease of impressions
fixing into habits of mind and body But
here is the consolation for the afflicted
more and more 1t is beginning to be learned
that the Grease" is not ineradicaoie. are
Won on? IT is not denied we get deep mere;
those who nut all upon heredity are nom
n,ussad but science will throw over theory
for facts. 49,, h,us 7. ,s
the trained observation tnat as LEV, new. "A.
some time, around the age OF thirleen or
so,,r.aan every boy receives impressions
that regularly last him his whole lifetime.
Cerebral centers not yet classed, as the
arrangement. are at that moment fixing
themselves In place. The print or crease.
is made. No one knows exactly when. That
is why educators watch young people like
a hawk. The crease may be accidentally
made by a bad example-or a good.
But one of these endowed healers can
with subject of strung nerves. undo in five
minutes the print crease of years! In
the highly impressed, prepared, nervous
strung subject, the centers are ready for
Encouragement! There you
Why limit it to endowed healers? Only
because they consciously produce effects.
Every day, without its being noticed. this
or that man or woman in any great city
ceives from mere acquaintances or I'M
known persons, perhaps seen but once,
such an undoing of a crease!
Folks change. Yes, some day science
will learn how to change them!
STERLING HELLO.