The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-07-21

Miss Annie ABB
bot, whose performance at Proctor's
this week ~astonishes ordinary specta-
tors and utterly confounds the many
scientists and physicians who try to
explain her power, spoke sincerely,
without a doubt, when / called at her
dressing-roomy yesterday.
1T Is impossible for people to say
I'm pretending. Last week I ave a
performance before a number of med
ical and scientific men in Syracuse, in
the Y. M. c. A. building. They put
me through all kinds of tests I'd never
tried before, and were more mystiied
at the end of the demonstration than at
the beginning.
People have asked what my object
was and what my claims were. I
claim nothing, and my only object is
to entertain. Naturally, my act is a
great drawing card. 1t Is SO different
from everything else. simply demon
strate what / can do, n let people
drawn their W conclusions. Why,
I've been doing it publicly for twenty
years. Isn't that proof enough
Miss Abbott diligently rubbed some
spots on her dainty pink dress with
gasoline.
Strong as n Child.
How did o first discover this force,
and how old were you? Anyone else in
your family with the same power?"
"Oh, oh, not so many questions at
once" the little woman protested. Il
vas Z when 1 first found out about
myself. l discovered that the young
sters could not lift me from the ground
If l did not choose. to be lifted, but,
youngster-like, thought nothing of it
until the grown-ups began to talk about
1t. Gradually l got to experimenting"
"Well-er-how do o feel when you
exert this power?" l persisted. rs
there a pronounced strain of any sort?"
YES, there is a strain, n It's almost
entirely mental. ] just concentrate,
making up my mind that they cannot
lift me or move me, and they cannot. 1
can feel the forces gather, as it were,
and seem to know when my power is
strongest. You notice that l tell the
twenty men to unite their efforts, ard
that / ask them to wait until / say
READY Well, when l say rReady' 1
| know hat am in just the right con-
| dition to, resist their united strength. 1t
isn't very clear, Is it? But l can put 1t
no better, really.
There is absolutely no strain on the
muscles. In fact, l haven't as mucn
muscle, as the average woman"
She put out her arm for inspection. |
prodded carefully, and decided that no
hidden strength was there.
1.-THE force is decidedly not physical
she, continued. II suppose, a force is
greatly developed in mi that is latent
In most people. I know that after such
an, act I am depressed for a time. and
that 1 often suffer from terrific head
aches.
Reduces Heart Action.
".At all times nv temperature is
| above normal. II is usually above 80,
while my heart action is below normal
After a performance my temperature
soes down to 80, or even SO. while the
heart action jumps to 12O, just revers-
ing the conditions found in the ordinary
person after effort of any kind. Physi-
| clans say this is very abnormal. I'd
rather say 1t was peculiar. wouldn't
you?"
Miss Abbott not only possesses this
wonderful psychic power-if 1t Is q
psychic power--but she can transmit it.
Yesterday she picked a scared little
Eli " IL oi0
calling her to the platform, told her
that when a-man tried to lift her she
could make it impossible for him to
do so by simply making up her mind
that he could not. The man tried, and
tried again. but failed.
Some have said her power is simply
physical, but the strongest men in the
world have failed to do what she does.
Others say she Is a powerful hypnotist
and can make her assistants believe
they nave no strength. Miss Abbott
shrugs her shoulders and permits each
person to believe in his own theory,
while she gropes vainly for one of her
own. =
She has performed in all parts of the
! world, before many rulers of many ma
tions. One of her most remarkable
performances was given before the
| rulers of Japan. Her act lasted an
hour and a half, with an interpreter
explaining every move. The Japs made
a most Intelligent audience, and they
were delighted with her performance
and as mystified as the most en-
lightened(D Caucasian.
Are you c~lairvoyant at all?" 1 asked
as / rose to go.
Miss Abbott did not know whether
+, to answer or not. Then she said: "A
little; but experiments along those
lines bring as many unpleasant ex-
perfences as good ones, SO ] let such
things severely alone. No clairvoyance
for me, thank you. / like my own,
everyday world quite well enough to
be satisfied with It,"