The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-10-24

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placed at the disposal of the Navy. and
wards it, hoping that it will emerge
more successfully from the aerial Or
deal than the Army experts.
Two aeroplanes-foreign made. pre-
sumably American Wright, machines
are to be purchased with the idea OF
learning how to do it," and four dir
igibles are to be proceeded with imme-
diately. One is already Oh the stocks
at h great ordnance and engineering
works Of Vickers sons & Maxim, at
Barrow, where it is evolving under the
direction of several naval officers. 4
In the meantime the Aldershot air
ship sheds and works are being recon-
structed. with the idea of giving the
army n more chance-if the naval
experiments prove successful.
Mrs. Hamlyn, of st. George street.
Whitechapel, is a prominent member
of a limited but lucrative profession
that of monkey trainer. She prefers
w g. ~ Z oS SA- -
| CARDS the larger apes as merely little
human savages who have lost the pow
err of speech. Peter" the chimpan-
zee who has been appearing in New
York at a salary of S1,JD a week. is
one of Mrs. Hamlyn's pupils, and she
counts sixteen other educated apes h
are now earning money in vaudeville
as her "old pupils"
Discussing her methods with her
Simian scholars, Mrs. Hamlyn said:
MY aim is not to produce a monkey
which will perform tricks. but to make
the monkey behave exactly like a well
brought up child.
ITO teach a monkey tricks after /
have brought it up to behave like a
child. is a very cas- matter. 1t re
sembles teaching a human being.
During the first forty-eight hours
I get a complete mastery over the mon
keys, and show them that | am to De
rtrusted. The rest is comparatively
easy, for. like children, they are anx-
ious to do everything they see me do.
One of them took up washing the stairs
in my absence. Unfortunately, he got
wet through, and died soon after OF
pneumonia.
ut takes me from three to fiva
months to train a monkey to behave in
every respect like a child. l have not
yet sold one for less than $500" .
Lady Aberdeen, having been asked
by the South Dublin Board of Guardi
ans to discontinue the anti-tuberculc
sis crusade in Ireland on the ground
that it was creating a scare and becom.
ing harmful to the industrial welfare
of the country, has written, in reply
pointing out that the crusade owed its
origin to the reiterated warnings of thu
medical profession in Ireland, coupled
with figures submitted by the Regis
trar-General for Ireland. 1t was not
within the power of any individual Il
stop the campaign, she asserted.
at is being carried on not only here
but in every enlightened country" the
Countess proceeded: land the public
generally are becoming so fully in
structed in the matter that they would
only avoid those countries where nc
preventive or curative measures ar
being taken
An up-to-date residential club fol
Sp%iritualists is to be established in thu
West End shortly.
The organizers of the InternatiOna
Club for Psychical Research have gone
about their work very quietly, bu'
they have already succeeded in obtain
ing a membership of more than ont
thousand.
According to the annals of Physica
Research" a quarterly journal. whic'
will be published today, the new clni
will not aim in any sense at being
mystery club, but it will provide al
the accessories and conditions requs
site for experiment and research.
The journal says:
ut is believed by the organizers ant
; patrons, among whom may be counted
many distinguished men of science
|. that the study of the powers latent il
man and of the more reconcile prob
!, lens of psychology cannot fail to B.
accelerated by such social %intercours
: as a club of this nature will afford. In
. aSmucl as IL Will Dc SsHlloliS VI Ga
, that Psychical Research. Spiritualism
!, New Thought, Theosophy, and Chris
, tian Science ultimately intend. and l
is fully expected that, with the socla
. recognition thus gained, modern psy
! chology in its numerous specialized as
, poets will obtain the catholicity whic!
it deserves, and which could not be Sc
cured to the same extent under an,
, other auspices"
One of the organizers told me yester
day that the internal management o
J the club would be entirely in the hand
of the members.
THE club will be divided into SUI
sections. after the manner OF the Ly
ceum and Sesame clubs" he said. Z
special room will be set apart for Sc
: ances, and it is likely that the variou
!, sections will meet daily in this room.
THE experiments will be conducts
on strictly scientific lines. and ever,
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