Show HINDU ROPE ROPE TRICK PUZZLES MAGIC Travelers for iOl Centime Have Marveled l at This Strange Performance ld Special I London March 29 The The hall at An I dortOn's derton's hotel was crowded ye ler 1 evening t f for r- r ra a meeting of or the time May Magi la 11 circle a special feature lIcin being the tho dia di cusson of ot the tho Indian rope rope trick si say tho the London Morning Post On One of ot tji I speakers described lied this ns gs s of oC all trick the most elusive e and having ha heard a athe at atthe l the magicians mag had to toy s ly y about I It on on must admit to being more than than- ever er First t a gentleman in khaki khalel that thai tho the fakir never nO performed on premises he had previously If IC fur furtively surveyed e and only then when a fi al conditions favored him hini the chief cun cuil being the spectator having th lii sun un straight ht in his eyes Ho lIo drew drew- diagram rain In which such things thing as mis th slope of the veranda played an Important tant part It was all an optical thu slon and was Wag all aU over in three seconds second before one had tin e properly to el from pistol This speaker scouted ed the theory theono o of hypnotism The another gentleman traced Its from 13 1330 1350 O when some Arabian Maude ande ville wrote a n book in which he ho described de dc scribed his feelings on n seeing seeing- it performed performed performed per per- formed at Hank Halik Kow the thc the name i a ominous ominous-a a part of or tho the world to I ne no nap nau never DC ceen en A O or centuries centuries cen cen- tunes later a German doctor claimed to have seen a whole family climb u UP that rope in appropriate Indian Indan file rUe am an later another writer said ho had seen sec seera seena a small zoological garden take tako the thc sim e route one after another nother The speaker opinion was that there thero never never was j J. J rope trick that jumbled Impression of or those who had at a Chinese fair t men b balanced la at the top of bamboo bambo canes and anti poles had ori originated th tile the legend and that when the tho fakirs heard of or the charge brought a against them then they thought It good g business to admit It This view was supported b by an or officer who had been in fn the Indian army for twenty years and spoke six sl languages Ho He ha had he said sal for man manY years offered a reward of or Rs OO- OO en enough u h to keep a fakir for months months' In ir all the comfort of or which he ho Is capable to to anybody who would put him I 01 OH the tra k of any such performance On tho tile other hand band an Indian gentleman gentle gentle- man nian s stated a ed that hat he had seen tho the teat feat performed once and F F. W W. IIo Holmes mes V. V C. C had not only seen it four tou times but on one occasion had taken taker snapshots which he produced and handed round The rope ropo supporting th tho bo boy looked very rigid Id his theory WaS as 18 that It was something Hi In the t telescopic le or collapsible line Another gentleman who isho appeared to favor the hypnotic theor theory gave ga some strange e experiences of or the time powers of or an Indian fakir who visited Liverpool some somo years ears ago slatIng stat slat tat lag Ing that he had known him hini throw up a rope ropo in imi a drawing room rooms which rope fl aa long as he held it in a certain way wa- was rigid enough to support a small smal ll monkey which clung to It like mee death but declined to climb oi or to vanish The atc yate one of ot Australia's numerous numerous numer- numer ou ous hard woods seems to be the strong strongest strong strong-i est cst known timber wl with h an a average crag J strength of ot pounds to the square Inch and a maximum as ns high as about about equal to cast aD nd wrought Iron 1 J t |