Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-24
Marvellous Second Sight.

Second sight Mind reading! Surely every one has
witnessed some such demonstration and has gone
home afterward. perhaps unbelieying but puzzled
and it may be, just triie uneasy. "Of course It's
trick but how is it done?" comes the inevitable bro
midion. The credulous remark well there
really may be something in it. Now when Arthur fell
down the cellar stairs aud broke his Leg, launch
ing into domestic episode in which the occult fur
nishes stimulating if unconvincing atmosphere.
Others few, recognize In the achievements of the
young woman psychic phenomena which are perfectly
familiar and commonplace.
the advantage for the purposes of this article,
is still with the bromide ITS trick, but how is 1t
done?' The chow" is rather clever, and, always,
simple. Some time before the booking of the attrac-
tion when the dapper chap and the young woman
were preparing for the working of wonders, when
the prescent soul in process of development In
the earthly surroundings of a hall room there was
long period of monotonous practice by which all the
rest was made possible. The paraphernala for that
training were far less elaborate than stage acts fire.
quently demand. They were nothing more than
small leaden ball and string by which was sus
pended in short pendulum. Which takes US i'm
medatey out of the realm of psychcs into that OF
physics. ., ,,
ing from the cross piece as the pest pace Ior opeL
yation The string was shortened until, by expert
nent it was found register about seventy beats TO
the minute when set to swinging Then the dapper
probably far from dapper at all, took seat peSiue
the young woman and both began to watch TINS make
shift metronome. -
AS they watched they counted silently up TO ten,
emphasized a beat and began again After halr an
hour of this they looked away from the pendulum Io
short intervals, glancing back frequently TO see
whether they had been able to Keep the tempo eA
actly If they had they happy. II they had not
they were irritated and began to wonder where tue
fried sausages were coming from should they rall 10
perfect act But in due course, after some Gays o
weeks, they could hold the beat in unison without
referring to the pendulum. ~
Then began another kind of training The dapper
chap would cry "Now!" sharply. Taking THIS as the
start both would begin to count silently. When the
man reached any number up to ten that suited nln
he would rap the table sharply the signal 10 STOP
"Well, where was l 2? he would ask. And she Woulu
that he had meant to convey four or seven or
nine whatever point she had reached herse III her
counting. If she right nfalbly right, they were
satisfied If not, probably epithet quite unrecon
cable with the occult passed between them HOW
ever, in the end they could do the trick perIecuy,
Then for a time the young woman took the lead ana
the man had to follow her until there was no longer
any chance for in the silent harmony OF count
But for public exhibition it is not enough to ellm
nate a chance for error The chance must be but
tressed and insured and double locked against Ihe
into playa very rough blackboard and very hard
chalk-and they began to practise in earnest.
In the first place, they devised set OF easy cues 10
determine the value of any bill which might be pre-
sented-$1. Thanks" S. "All right" S5' "Thank