The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-11-08
NIpPONESE1SE E',''
/ MENTAL MARvEp
Jap Writes With Both Hands,
l. 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 a Boy.

Diverse Things simultaneously
Was Anything but Phenome-
non as Boy.
London.---An amazing person Is
Tameo Kajiyama, the japanese men
Ial marvel, who has been appearing
at the London Coliseum. Most of us
hive been taught that no one can DO
more than one thing at time. Kali
yama is a striking instance to the
contrary, writer in the continental
edition of the London Mail says. lie
detes all copybook maxims about con-
centration on the one matter In hand
and no more. He can think and do
number of totally diverse things ST.
mnltaneously. While under fire Of
questions he reads paper and writes
backward on a screen with enormous
rapidty of the news of the evening.
And an the time part of his mind is
busy solving arithmetical problems
set him by the audience involving the
extraction Of cube roots of various
numbers. He writes with equal facll-
ity with either hand or with both
hands backward forward 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: Ramboda, Portsea, Roberts.
Eleanor, Maurice. In fash he writes
backward a jumbled mass of charac-
lers containing all the 80 letters
These resolve themselves in precise
progression into the five names
chosen.
/ 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 at the same time talk
Ing about other matters.
The other case was that Of the late
Rev. Stanton Moses, founder and
first president of the London Spiritual
nalistic alliance. | have seen him
writing different messages with both
hands while he was talking to me. In
his case he ascribed the faculty TO
supernatural agency and believed his
hands to be controlled by spirits
If Kejiyama, whose powers are far
In advance of these two, claimed su-
pernatural assistance many people
would believe him. He might have
been burned at the stake In another
Rge. but now 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,
nnassumlng, almost deprecatory man
ner, pleasant, dreamy voice and weird
eyes, all the mystery of the East Is
concentrated In his subtle counte-
nance. He speaks slowly. melodious
ly and softly. You might imagine him
lotus eater and never guess that
beneath the calm exterior a quick and
agile brain is working at speed and
In manner that to the ordinary man
seems little short of miraculous.
Was No Boy Prodigy.
He is a teetotaler and nonsmOker
md is married to an Engishwoman.
AS a boy, he will tell you, he was
anything but a phenomenon. At ten
he could not do the simplest sums in
arithmetic He had stern father,
who used to mete ont punishment just
y and numerically.
They have pretty little method in
Japan 1t consists Of putting little
bits Of burning flax down the neck
Kaiyama had frequent experiences
Of this torture and bears the marks
on his body But the strict discipline
0f his early youth brought out his
qualities. Ambition awoke and with
It passion for knowledge and long
Ing 10 10 something little better
Than his fellows
Mental concentration is an exercise
much priced in the East, and Kali
yauna learned to concentrate. Ii was
u slow process. A little more every
day, something fresh every day. Now
he can command at viii the capacities
Of his brain. switch off or on the va
rious currents of thought and make
each cell Of the gray matter perform
It's desired functions He Is master Of
his mind.
kajiyama has theory that there
are all sorts of unexplored possibii-
lies lying dormant in the brain. He
hoes not think he has come to any
Thing like the limit of his capacities.
he is always experimenting. He is
willing, without charge, to explain
his views on mental efficiency and
concentration to schools or to educa-
lional authorities