The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-03-19
Marvellous Second Sight.

Marvellous Second Sight.
Second sight. Mind rcadngl Surely every has
witnessed such demonstration and has gone
home afterwHrd, perhaps unbelieving but puzzled,
and, 1t may be- just tribe uneasy. .Of course it's
trick but how it done?" comes the inevitable bro
mdion The credulous remark well there
really may be something in It, Now, when Arthur fell
down the cellar stairs and broke his Leg. launch
Ing into domestic episode In which the occult fur
nisbeS stimulating If unconvinclne atmosphere
Others, few, recognize in the achievements OF the
young woman psychic phenomena which perfectly
familiar and commonplace
But the advantage for tho purposes of this article
is still with the bromide IT'S trick but how is it
doneJ' The chow is rather clever aud, always
simple. Some time before the booking of the attrac-
ton when the dapper chap and the young woman
preparing for the working of wonders, when
the preSccnt soul was i'll process of development in
the earthly surroundings OF hall room, there
long period of practice by which all the
rest made possible. The paIaphcruaa for that
training far less elaborate than stage ire
quently demand They nothing than a
small lcaden ball and n string by which
pended, in short, pendulum. Which takes us i'm
nedatey Of the realm OF psychics into that OF
physics,
The pendulum tackled up In the window, hang
ing from the piece the best place for ohser-
walton The string shortened until by expert
mcnt II found TO register about seventy benS To
the minute when set swinging. Then the dnpper
chap not YET arraycd his fiawleSs clothes and
probably far from dapper at all, took seat beside
young woman and both began to watch this make
shift metronome.
As they watched they counted silently up TO ten,
emphasized beat and began again. After half an
hour Of this they looked away from the pendulum for
short intervals gancing back frequently to see
whether they had been able to keep the tempo eX-
actly II they had they happy, II they had not
they lrrilated and began TO wonder where the
fried Sausages were coming from should they tail to
perfect the act But due after some days or
weeks they could hold the beat In unison without
referring to the pendulum
Then began another kind of training The dapper
chap would cry "Nowl" sharply. Taking this as the
start both would begin TO count silently When the
man reached any number up TO ten that suited him
he would rap the table sharply the signal to stop.
We'll where l 2" he would ask And she would
answer that he had meant convey four seven or
nine whatever point she bad reached herself in her
counting II she was right nfalliby right they were
satisfied, If not probably epthet quite unrccon-
cilabe with the occult passed between them. How
ever. In the end they could do the trick perfectly
Then for time the young woman took the lead and
the man had to follow her until there was no longer
any chance for in the silent harmony of count
But Toe public exhibition IT is not enough TO ehml'
nate chance for The chance must be but
tcssed and insured and double locked against. The
blackboard and chalk of the real act were brought
c into playa very rough blackboard and very hard
c chalk-and hey began TO practise In earnest
In the 6rSt place they devised a Of easy cues 10
determine the value OF any bill which might be pre-
0 sented-Si, Thanks" So An right; So Thank