Cleveland County herald., 1920-11-04
nlI!.1PI(r)NE:SE IS
 MENTAL MARVEL
Jap Writes With Both Hands, Talks, and Does Other
 Things at Same Time.
ONLY TWO OTHERS LIKE HIM
He Can Think and Do Number of Diverse Things Simultaneously Was Anything but Phenome-
 non as Boy.

London.--An amazing person is | Tameo Kajiyama, the Japanese men ] tai marvel. who has been appearing at the London Coliseum. Most of us have been taught that no one can do more than one thing at time. Kali yama is striking instance to the contrary, a writer in the continental edition of the London Mail says. He deties all copybook maxims about con- centration on the one matter in shand and no more. He can think and do Il number of totally diverse things si- multaneously. While under a fire of questions he reads a paper and writes backward on screen with enormous rapidity of the news of the evening. And all the time part of his mind is busy solving arithmetical problems set him by the audience involving the l extraction of cube roots of various numbers. He writes with equal faci- ity with either hand or. with both hands backward, forwardl or upside down. different sentences at the same moment that he is talking about some thing else.
 He asks his audience for five names of seven letters. They shout them at him: Rambada Iurtsea. Roberts. Eleanor, Maurice In q flash he writes backward iunbed mass of charac- fers containing all the B letters. These resolve themselves in precise progression into the five names chosen.
 l have only known of two cases in any way parallel to it.
 Only Two Others Like Him.
 One was Babu station master in India who would send off telegraph messages with his foot while he WAS taking down another message with his typewriter and al the same time talk Ing about other matters.
 The other case was that of the late Rev. Stainton Moses. founder and first president of the Londoh Spiritual l ualistic alliance. 1 have seen him Hriting different messages with both hands while he was talking to me. h his ease he aseribed the faculty 10 supernatural agency and believed his hands 10 be controlled by spirits.
 If K&jiyama whose powers are far in advance of these two. claimed SUI pernatural assistance many people would believe him. He might have been burned at the stake m another age, but HOW assuredly he would be feted by spiritualists.
 But he makes no claims of the kind nor does he think that he possesses any faculties that might not be acquired by anyone else who takes the trouble to cultivate them.
 Thirty-siX years old. with quiet, unassumng. almost deprecatory man. her. pleasant, dreamy voice and weird eyes. all the mystery of the East is concentratea in his subtle coHnte- nance He sietis slowly. melodious l iy and softly. You might imagine him q lotus eater and never guess that beneath the calm exterior quick and agile brain is working at a speed and l in manner that 10 the ordinary man seems little short of miraculous.
 Was No Boy Prodigy | iIe IN v ltEt tDfdIti fiUl iiOiISlilONC1 and is married to an Englshwoman. As a boy, ne will tell you, he was anything but phenomenon. At ten he could not dc the simplest sums in arithmetic He had a stern father who used to mete out punishment just. ly and unmerclfully
 They have pretty little method in Japan. It consists of putting little bits of burning flax down the neck Kaiiyama bad frequent experiences of this torture and bears the marks or his hndv Bnt tha strict discipline of his carly youth brought out his qualities. Ambition awoke and with it a passion for knowledge and long ing to do something a little better than his fellows.
 Mental concentration is an exercise much prized in the East, and Kaji- yama learned to concentrate. It was slow process. A little more every day, something fresh every day. Now he can command at will the capacities of his brain, switch off or on the val rious currents of thought and make each cell of the gray matter perform it's desired functions. He is master of his mind
 Kajya.- has theory that there are all serts of unexplored possibli- ties lying dormant in the brain. He does not think he has come to any thing like the limit of his capacities. He is always eXDerifnentinp He iS willing, without charge. to explain his views m mental efficiency and concentration to schools or to educa- tional authorities.
 Robins Eat Too Many Worms.