Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-02-11
SARAH y. LOWRLE,S
SATURDAY EVENING TALK
Greatest Influence for Good Can Come Only Those
~ Whose Minds Are Sensitive to IL

IL ~ @eesAAsD nATs Augustus lnOHlHs, th
& playwrisht, describe some very in
eeSueing experiences that he has ha,
K W5A men who are Thought readers,
Il ~ - the common phrase is-mint
hdns.
va u - Q young man he had been secrc.
NJ and business manager for Bishop
# - public exhibitions forty years age
" 70 fll great halls, and with ali
ootus Thomas opportunities t.
- for flaws or fakes in his employ
feats of thought reading, he as
ooko4 us that he had always found hin,
oo4uine and successful.
Lately he has been rather on the
Quest Of similarly gifted men, and he
save us several instances Of his expert
ences that could not be accounted for
cxcept BY the theory Of thought trans
lDsence.
: Mr.. Thomas has not tho look Of a
person easily fooled. nor does his man :
her Of recounting his experiences give
yen the impression that he swallowed
whole whatever was handed out to him.
remember feeling surprised that he
sukcumbed 30 unwilingly to what
seemed to me irrefutable evidence that
the thought reading was genuine. He
tod the story of that instance in n
col, detached voice that was, to say
the least, judicial.
LIE HAD gone unheralded to see n
- man who, he had heard, had this
4it, and on meeting him. sclf-intro
dueed, was convinced that the name
Thomas conveyed nothing in particu-
lar to his host. They talked on the
general subject of thought transfercnce
Tor little and then Thomas asked the
man to give him an opportunity to
Judge his power for himself.
.Whereupon his host, after a moment
Of silence. tegan to describe to him n
ls0rson whom he placed in Thomas
home town in the Mice West. 1t was
presently evident that the person de.
scribed was Augustus Thomas mother.
Hud the name Of his State and birth
place and the physical description Of
hie mother Thomas took with more than
q grain Of salt, because a very astutc
person might have placed him. from his
accent, and might describe his mother
frtm his presumed likeness to her.
However, his host. seeing his skepti-
c1em, held him with detaining hand
for q moment and said: 1.-The person
that j see who is thinking about you
has her band bandaged and is in pain,
tof she has smashed her finger
On his return home Mr.. Thomas
wrote out to his mother and described
the episode and had shortly letter
rom her saying that on that day she
had dropped a heavy window on her
finger and It was 5ardaged and she hal
great pain.
Since then this particular man and
ThorAns have had many experiences both
alene together and with others, and
Mr.. Thomas is entirely convinced of his
remarkable power. although ne IS as
fAr ~ ever from being able to explain it.
The man himself cannot explain It, any
more than Daniel could explain it when
he read the thoughts of the King of
and recalled his dreams to hin!
and warned him Of their import.
AFTER came home from hearing
"A Mr.. Thomas happened to open
Chesterton's book on the New Jerusa-
lem. My eye fell on his brief dcscrip-
ttou OF the mysterious way in which the
Arabs and indeed many of the Nomad
African and Asiatic peoples possess the
power Of getting news Of distant events
~ quickly as electricity over wires
can bring it If not sooner. And he uses
~ an illustration the fact that the
news Of the fall of Jerusalem and tie
prior approaches of the English under
Allenby We're known to the natives
sooner than they were known to Euro
peans by some code Of signals that came
like a whisper in the market place out
Of the beyond.
- Al. -.