The evening world., 1911-04-26
But She Preferred to BE a Bird
and Fly, and She Did
TO Mamma.
Welded BLISS BRIEF.
Married at Midnight, Separated
Ere a Year; She Sues for
Freedom, He fol- the Baby.

"1t vas all right when ne told mo ne
could hypnotic me INTO believing ! had
lots o. money. hut when he said he
would hypnotic me and make me into n
squirrel and climb n tree I thought It
was time for me TO imagine myself a
bird n hy-sni dld.'
SO said Mrs. Eugenie Louvenler, the
pretty young wife Of Pierre Louyenlcr.
when seen by nm Evening World re-.
porter to-day at her new home. 40. ii52
simpson street, the Bronx. Mrs. Lowe
nier Is suing her husband for a scpara-
ton. while he Is suing her for tho Gus
,ody OF their two-year-o old sou. on a.
count Of her fear that her husband
might kidnap the child. Mrs. Louvcnicr
moved suddenly yesterday from her
former home. No. G. West one Hum
dred and Ninth street. The L%ouveniers
we're the hrst couple to axe out n
marriage license under the new law
which went into effect Jan. /, 1905.
Thought Himself a Svengali.
while we were eating our Wedding
breakfast at the Hotel Endicott I'VE
were married at midnight. you know
one OF the party remarked that the next
New Year would find us divorced. II
didn't. but as good as that. for We were
separated" said Mrs. Louvenier.
Everything was all right In our mar.
rled life until one night my husband
came home and told me he had met a
woman who had told him he should
become n hypnotist. She told me l had
perfect eyes for a hypnotist.' he added.
She says my eyes are the magnetic
kind that can entrance any one and |
Will be a success
Il laughed at him. but he was very
much in earnest about It and the next
! knew he came home with n lot OF
books printed IN French which told all
about hypnotism.
You must help me- he said. You
must let me practice on you
Il thought 1t was "A Joke and humored
him and when he would ask me to con-
centrate my gaze INTO his eyes I did >,
Just for fun at first, but, soon | became
alarmed. lie insisted on making passes
over my forehead, then rub his hands
over my temples and say Look me In
the eye When I refused he would
complain that ' was afraid TO be hyp-
Noticed. Jus; walt he would say, 'un-
I'll YOU are asleep and then I will hyno-
tlse you and max o do everything
| want
Sometimes ! was actually afraid to
20 to sleep for begin to thing he might
be able 10 hypnotic me. lie would read
Passages from books and show how by
doing certain things he could place a
person under his absolute control"
Brought Home Charms.
~ will make lots OF money on, Of
this ne used to say. 4 will go about
the country putting people under my
control n they viii pay me big money.
] will make people dead and then bring
them to life.' Onc day he brought home
some queer looking medicine and began
to take II. ! asked him what 1t was for
and he said II was to give him greater
power of the mind and eye. He would
have such eyes nobody could rests,
them. I reminded him that II he could
do such things. all right, hut that WASH,
buying me "A new suit, and II would take
more than %hypnotlsm to make me Zoe,
iieve my old suit was n new one.
Then he brought home a glass tube
IN It was a black headed pin and a
sort OF grcenish powder, There was
also a piece OF wood painted black ir
II. ! was told to look In the glass and
concentrate all my thoughts on II
After that I was to drop back and h,
was to catch ne In his arms and lool
p!ercingly into my eyes, INC he sald
would he completely hypnotized. WheI
I refused, he said ! was afraid. and
was. too.
FINALLY ! refused to have anythln,
to do with his ~hypnotism. and M
brought home a friend and prac,iset
on HIM. Whether he managed e
~hypnot!Ze him | can't say. except tina
they acted crazy like. The womei
kept selling HIM books and telling hin
all the time that ne was bound to he
successful hypnotlst.
Life became uncomfortable n 7 toll
him 7 was going 20 my mothers home
lie tried to prevail upon me to hay
| mother advance enough money to bu
= a farm, saying hypnotlsts should b
. whore they could with ma
ture. Every time he could catch NJ
q. unawares he would make passes owe
my forehead and say Now you are
, rich society woman IT you are dead
or I nave you under my control an
was afraid OF him"
The Lnuvcnicrs's marital difference
, will be aired further In the SupreT
Court tomorrow.
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