The San Francisco call., 1910-04-17

familiar and commonplace
But the advantage for the purposes of this article
is still with the bromide. IT'S trick, but how is it
done?" The chow" is rather clever, and, always,
simple Some time before the booking of the attrac-
ton, when the dapper chap and the young
preparing for the working of wonders, when
the prescient soul was in process of development in
the earthly surroundings of a ballroom, there
long period of monotonous practice by which all the
rest was made possible. The paraphernalia for that
training were far less elaborate than stage fire.
quently demand They were nothing than
small leaden ball and a string by which
pended in short pendulum Which takes i'm
medately Of the realm of psychics, into that of
physics.
The pendulum tackled up in the window, hang
ing from the crosspece, the best place for observa
ton The string shortened until by experiment,
it found register about 20 beats to the minute
when set swinging. Then the dapper chap not
yet arrayed in his fawess clothes and probably
far from dapper at all, took beside the young
woman and both began to watch this makeshift met
AS they watched they counted silently up to 10,
emphasized beat and began again After half an
hour of this they looked away from the pendulum for
short intervals, glancing back frequently to
whether they had been able to keep the tempo
acty. If they had they happy. If they had not
they rritated and began to wonder where the
fried sausages coming from should they fail to
perfect the But in due course after days
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 the
start, both would begin count silently. When the
man reached any number up 10 that suited him
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"Wel, where was II" he would ask. And she
would answer that he had meant to convey four
seven or nine whatever point she had reached her
self in her counting. If she right, infalibly right,
they satisfied. If not, probably epithet
quite unreconcable with the occult passed between
them However, in the end they could do the trick
perfectly. Then for time the young took
the lead, and the had to follow her until there
was longer any chance for in the silent
harmony of the count.
But for public exhibition it is not enough to elimi-
chance for The chance must be but
tressed and insured and double locked against The
blackboard and chalk of the real act were brought
into playa very rough blackboard and very hard
chak-and they began to practice in
In the first place. they devised set of easy
determine the value of any bill which might be pre-
sented-$1 Thanks; s., "A1l right; $5, Thank
YOU" $10 much obliged; $20 That's it,; $50 That
will do; $780, Quite satisfactory If you ever want
to break up such demonstration at the outset you
might offer $4,000 bill The chances are that the
mind readers would have signal ready for it. In
determining the metal of profered watches equally
simple series of phrases prepared.
DRILL is PERFECT
From then they did their drilling in the silent
count with the last syllable of sentence uttered by
the young woman the starting signal and the sound
of the chalk against the board the stop signal Il
can see that four the the BILL" she would
say The word bill" corresponded with the empha-