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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 75865 ***
+
+
+Transcriber’s Notes:
+
+Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_).
+
+An additional Transcriber’s Note is at the end.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+PRICE 5 CENTS.
+
+
+
+
+MIND READING.
+
+
+  HOW TO READ PEOPLE’S
+  THOUGHTS. A CORRECT
+  EXPLANATION. BY
+  W. E. SKINNER.
+
+  MULTUM IN PARVO LIBRARY.
+
+  Entered at Boston Post Office as second
+  class matter. Published by A. B. Courtney,
+  Room 74, 45 Milk Street, Boston.
+
+  Vol. 3. APRIL, 1896. Published Monthly. No. 29
+
+  Subscription Price, 50 Cents Per Year.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MIND READING.
+
+
+
+
+Secrets of Mind Reading.
+
+
+  “Star to star vibrates light, can soul to soul
+   Strike through a finer element than its own?”
+
+Many pages have been, and probably, will be, devoted to lengthy essays
+on the art, science, and theory of so called mind reading.
+
+To the average reader such an essay is dull and uninteresting as well
+as uninstructive, and of no practical use.
+
+Rare instances of genuine thought transference there may be, they are
+not general, and not possible to even the most susceptible people in a
+promiscuous and usually unsympathetic audience.
+
+The _modus operandi_ here given is the method used by Stuart
+Cumberland, the late Washington Bishop and others who might be termed
+professional mind readers.
+
+This system is known as “muscle reading” and ethereal influence,
+thought waves, and other uncertain and generally unreliable things form
+no part of the programme.
+
+The usual feats of the mind reader who gives public exhibitions are to
+find concealed articles, write names, pick out keys thought of on piano
+or similar instrument.
+
+
+
+
+How To Find a Hidden Pin.
+
+
+Request that some one produce an ordinary pin.
+
+Allow yourself to be blindfolded and accompanied to a separate room by
+some person in the audience, in whom spectators place confidence. While
+you are thus voluntarily exiled, one person in the auditorium (whether
+it be parlor or theater) is to fix his mind upon some place, then
+slowly walk there and hide the pin. He then returns to his seat. The
+others who are present, of course know where the article is.
+
+You are now taken into the auditorium. The person who hid the pin is
+requested to come and take your hand, you being blindfolded. Ask him
+to fix his right hand flatly upon yours, facing in the same direction,
+_i. e._, his fingers are placed against yours. You now place your hand
+upon the back of his, thus holding his hand in a sort of vice. In order
+to hold his hand as above described, it will be necessary for him to
+remain close to your side, yet he should not otherwise come in contact
+with you. Now tell him to fix his mind intently upon the spot where the
+pin is hidden, and that you will lead him to the locality. The secret
+of doing this seemingly supernatural feat is as follows:
+
+Relax your vice-like position of hands, so that if he desired he could
+pull his hand away without much friction. Now, although you have not
+the remotest knowledge (and you should not have any idea) as to where
+the pin is hidden, start off suddenly in some direction and request
+that he follow you, but go so fast at first that you will pull away
+from his hand. By practice _you will learn that if you have started
+in the proper direction, he will willingly accompany you, if you have
+started in another direction, he will unconsciously hold back_. His
+resistance will be very slight, almost unperceptible, except to a
+practiced operator. Let us suppose that you have found that you are
+going in the right direction, move along fast. When it is time to
+turn, his mind being intently fixed upon the place he wants to go to,
+will unconsciously, but very naturally, control his muscles, so that
+he will at once show a slight resistance, and if you take immediate
+action upon this “hint” and turn, he will either “favor” you or show
+more resistance, according to whether you turn in correct or incorrect
+direction. When you have approached near to the spot, there will be
+more resistance or freedom in accompanying you. Then your fine work
+begins. Change the position of hands so that his forms the vice while
+your right hand is the one between. Your left hand is now extended as
+a “feeler.” Request that while he attentively watches your left hand,
+he also keep his mind more intently than ever upon the location of the
+object. Raise your left hand up, at the same time raising your right
+hand slightly upward. If his thoughts are upon a place that is above
+the usual level of your hands, he will willingly raise his hands (which
+are on your right hand flatly,) or if the article is hidden low, he
+will resist, but favor your hands when you begin to move them downward.
+Thus you can closely locate the article.
+
+If you are not blindfolded tightly, you can quite easily see what is
+below your nose, and this may enable you to catch sight of the pin and
+pick it up more readily, otherwise follow your “cues.”
+
+A well known gentleman who is now a professional mind reader once paid
+one hundred dollars for the foregoing.
+
+
+
+
+The Whole Secret.
+
+
+The whole secret is in the fact that if a person is intently
+thinking of some object in a certain place, his head will generally
+unconsciously lean toward the spot in question. If he is walking with
+a mind reader, who declares that he is about to go to the certain
+spot, the person will involuntarily aid him in doing so, as has been
+indicated. Some performers do not adopt the first position of hands,
+and then change them when probably near the object, as described, but
+instead, use the last named position entirely, thus leaving the left
+hand of the operator free at all times.
+
+The secret of picking out certain notes or keys on a piano is similar.
+In this case move your left hand quickly from one end to the other,
+at the same time moving your right hand. Your accompanist will
+involuntarily hesitate somewhere, then you may stop and move your left
+hand over a very limited space until you finally settle upon the exact
+spot.
+
+To write a name thought of, is the most difficult of all. This is done
+on a large blackboard. With chalk in your left hand, mark out lines in
+shape of letters. The person whose thought you are reading will assist
+you without knowing he is doing so.
+
+Other feats are done on the same principle.
+
+If the person whom you are operating with, does not keep his mind
+intently upon what you require you will not be as likely to succeed.
+If you fail, you can ascribe this as the reason. The late Foster, a
+celebrated “spiritualist” used to tell names by picking out letters on
+children’s toy alphabet blocks. This he did in a similar way to that
+described for finding certain keys on a piano.
+
+
+
+
+Choose Your “Subject.”
+
+
+Pick out your “subject” or person whom you will operate with carefully.
+Avoid those of the extremely skeptical or “know it all” kind. Do not
+try to do much with women, unless they are aged and believe you to be a
+medium; in fact those who believe in you will be your best assistants.
+Do not select as an accompanist, a person who is about your own age;
+such a person is usually jealous, and does not want you to succeed.
+Avoid lawyers and doctors as assistants; they are recognized as being
+more adept in all things than the balance of mankind, therefore
+they will oppose you on general principles. The best “subjects” are
+clergymen, aged people and believers in spiritualism. Although most
+mind readers allow pins to be hidden, a knife, or pocket book will do
+quite as well and is easier to locate when near.
+
+Before trying anything of this sort in public, practice well. Remember
+that you cannot acquire all in a day.
+
+This is the full secret of mind reading as it is practiced in the
+parlors or on the stage by people who make it their business.
+
+By careful practice at home you can after a few weeks become an expert
+if you wish.
+
+It doesn’t require a professional mind reader to discover that a man
+thinks more of a beautiful well formed woman, than he does of a woman
+with a “muddy” skin or flat chest.
+
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+
+
+
+
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+
+
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+
+
+
+
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+
+
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+
+
+
+
+Three Meals a Day.
+
+
+  Ma an’ the girls, at break o’ day,
+  They’re up an’ at it, workin’ away,
+  Flyin’ round as spry’s can be,
+  (Pervidin’ for pa an’ the boys, you see,)
+  Don’t do nothin’ only cook,
+  An’ cook, an’ cook, an’ cook, an’ cook;--
+  Beef, beans, biscuits, sass, an’ stew,
+  Cookies an’ pies, and a lot more, too;
+  An’ when she’s done, my ma’ll say, “There!
+  Clean beat out, I do declare.
+  Might do somethin’,” my ma she’ll say,
+  “Only for gettin’ three meals a day!”
+
+  Pa an’ the boys, at break o’ day,
+  They’re up an’ out, an’ workin’ away,
+  Hustlin’ round as spry’s can be,
+  (Pervidin’ for ma an’ the girls, you see,)
+  Plowin’, fencin’, mowin’ too,
+  Choppin’ an’ plantin’,--the hul day through!
+  An’ then they’ll jest come home, an’ eat,
+  An’ eat, an’ eat, an’ eat, an’ eat;
+  An’ when he’s through, my pa’ll say, “There!
+  Feel like a new man, I declare.
+  Couldn’t do nothin’,” my pa he’ll say,
+  “Only for gettin’ three meals a day!”
+
+
+
+
+Human Hair in Warships.
+
+
+A fact that has recently come to light shows a new use to which human
+hair has been put. During the last year or two tons of hair have been
+packed between the plates of a certain part of war vessels. Hair is
+very elastic, and thus affords a most effective backing to metal.
+Again, it is being used very satisfactorily to form a kind of fender,
+which is thrown over the side of a vessel to prevent her scraping
+against the dock--to take the place, in fact, of more commonly used
+rope coils.
+
+
+
+
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+
+
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+
+
+
+
+His Glasses Stolen Off His Nose.
+
+
+He is a well-known figure in Chicago, particularly among the old
+settlers. It was 4 o’clock and the daily afternoon stream of homegoers
+had set in. He had made his uneventful way from his editorial sanctum,
+as he does, with few exceptions, every day in the year, to the stairs
+on Congress street, which lead to the trains on the Alley L road. As is
+his wont, he was pursuing a wholly subjective train of thought as he
+jostled along with the tide of humanity which was moving up the stairs
+to board a train.
+
+Suddenly, just as he was reaching the landing, his gold-bowed
+spectacles were swept off his nose and he found himself dazed and
+blinking, too much astonished for the moment to cry out, and quite
+unable to see anything distinctly. As soon as he fairly realized what
+had happened he cried out:
+
+“I’ve been robbed! Officer! Where is an officer?” While the usual
+stampede which invariably attends excitement of any sort in a crowd was
+going on the train moved off, and the officer put in an appearance.
+By this time the editor, full of years and experience, who had of a
+truth had his property stolen before his very eyes, had reflected that
+probably his spectacles were already in a pawn shop, and also that he
+did not care to see his name in print in connection with the incident.
+He, therefore, coolly stated to the officer that he had been the victim
+of a practical joke, and made his way home as best he could, not being
+able to see anything distinctly.
+
+
+
+
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+
+
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+2 elegant handkerchiefs and catalogue all free, postpaid, if you send
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+
+
+
+
+Took the Prescription.
+
+
+A bachelor had the blues, and applied to a doctor for some medicine.
+The doctor inquired into his case, and wrote a prescription in Latin,
+which the bachelor took to a drug store. Translated, the prescription
+read:
+
+“Seventeen yards of silk, with a woman in it.”
+
+After the druggist got through laughing, the bachelor proposed to a
+lady that evening, and was married in two weeks.
+
+
+
+
+Life of a Locomotive.
+
+
+Some careful experiments which have been made in England prove that the
+life of a locomotive is about 500,000 “train miles.” In other words,
+that a locomotive of the latest improved pattern will run 500,000 miles
+before wearing out so as to be useless. In making this run of 500,000
+miles, the fire box will have to be renewed three times, the wheel
+tires five or six times and the crank axles from three to five times.
+
+
+
+
+Couldn’t Bluff Her.
+
+
+I was at the railroad offices to see the manager, and while I waited
+for him a little, old woman in a poke bonnet and a homespun dress and
+carrying a long used umbrella in her hand, came upstairs and, after
+looking around she walked up to me and said:
+
+“Waitin’ to see the boss, I reckon?”
+
+“Yes.”
+
+“So’m I. Ever see him befo’?”
+
+“Never.”
+
+“Wall, I hev. He’s a bluffer. He’ll jest try to out-holler yo’. If he
+can’t do that he will sulk like a mewl. If yo’ don’t seem to kear fur
+that then he’ll order yo’ out. Then’s the time you want to draw back
+yo’r umbrella, like this, and pint it at him, like this, and let him
+see he’s got to cum down or you’ll make a hole right threw him. Bin run
+over by the railroad?”
+
+“No.”
+
+“Had hogs or cattle run over?”
+
+“No.”
+
+“Wall, keep an eye on him in thar’, and don’t take no bluff.”
+
+Half an hour later I met her downstairs. She had several greenbacks in
+her hand, and seemed to be in a pleasant frame of mind.
+
+“Did you succeed?” I queried.
+
+“Yo’ jest shout that I did!” she replied, shaking the money at me.
+“Went in thar’ and crooked my finger at him and sez:
+
+“Cum down! Yo’r ole railroad has smashed him all to squash and has to
+pay fer it!”
+
+“‘How much?’ sez he.
+
+“‘Twenty dollars,’ sez I.
+
+“‘Make it fifteen, or I punch!’
+
+“‘Wal, say fifteen.’”
+
+“And so you had a hog run over and got $15 for it?” I asked.
+
+“Hawg? Hawg? Who said hawg!” she demanded. “No, sah! The railroad
+ran over my ole man and scattered him along fur seven miles and I do
+believe if I’d struck for $16 I’d hev got it plump down in my hand!”
+
+
+
+
+How a One-legged Boy Rides.
+
+
+A one-legged newsboy in Buffalo serves a route of papers by whirling on
+a bicycle. His wooden leg is so fitted that it turns one of the pedals.
+
+
+
+
+What Willie Said.
+
+
+The minister, it was expected, would spend the evening with the family,
+and Mrs. Williams was most anxious that her little boy should appear at
+his best.
+
+“Now, Willie,” she said, “Dr. Schultz will ask you your name, and you
+must tell him it is ‘Willie.’ And he will ask you how old you are, and
+then you must say, ‘Five.’ And he will want to know where bad little
+boys go, and you must tell him, ‘They go to hell.’ Do you understand?”
+
+Not content with a repetition once or twice, Mrs. Williams drilled him
+again and again in the answers.
+
+Dr. Schultz came as expected, and, after a short conversation with the
+hostess, lifted the child on his knee, and said:
+
+“Well, my little fellow, can you tell me your name?”
+
+Imagine the surprise of the reverend doctor, when, like a flash, came
+the answer:
+
+“Willie. Five years old. Go to hell.”
+
+
+
+
+Vacation Over.
+
+
+Wiggins--What makes you look so glum, Bliggins? Is your vacation over?
+
+Bliggins--No; I did not have a vacation, but my wife did and it is over.
+
+
+
+
+Grave Peril.
+
+
+Never call on a lady after drinking, says an exchange. It is very
+dangerous. Many a young man has become engaged that way.
+
+
+
+
+English as She is Spoke.
+
+
+An intelligent foreigner is said to have expressed himself after the
+following fashion on the absurdities of the English language: “When I
+discovered that if I was quick I was fast, if I stood firm I was fast,
+if I spent too freely I was fast, and that not to eat was to fast, I
+was discouraged; but when I came across this sentence, ‘The first one
+won one one-dollar prize,’ I was tempted to give up English and learn
+some other language.”
+
+
+
+
+Properly Put.
+
+
+“Miss Isabel, you are not at all like other girls.”
+
+“That is not a compliment, Mr. Spooner; you should say that other girls
+are not at all like me.”
+
+
+
+
+Insulted.
+
+
+“Mabel is dreadfully vexed.”
+
+“What is the matter?”
+
+“Somebody asked her to read a paper at an old settlers’ meeting.”
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Transcriber’s Note:
+
+Punctuation has been made consistent.
+
+
+
+*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 75865 ***