Show Ventriloquism Not Natural Gift but All Can n L Learn arn It BY ED ORPHEUM All MI perfect work causes surprise but sometimes disapproval to those who ar are not In iii the thc game A person person per per- son Ion who Is Js at al thin inn butt bull end of or a joke Joko Is Js not expected to see the point of it Yen Yen- Itse itself however Is a curious Il ii- ii lusion Wo We have o watched It under the workings of ot celebrated stage performers There ar are two to erroneous popular notions no no- lions re regarding It One Is that it I is a 1 special gift unattainable by ordinary mor nor and the tho other that the ventriloquist t produces tho sounds Hounds he lie utters from his stomach as the word appears to signify and throws them this a way and that thal as us ho lie pleases A As is to the first point an any one can learn to I who is willing to work at it hard and Ion long Jong enough enouch and regarding I Ithe the second point the the- fact is that no man can produce vocal sounds otherwise than with his larynx It i la Is simply a CI matter of or cheating the th par ear 1 I have o read that Professor or to whom modern ophthalmic science la lIS I almost wholly du duo due often oCten said that th eye oyo was vas an and poorly deviser Instrument but man many think that the oar ear Is Js much moro more Justly to be complained com corn of or And it Is II tho the It of or thela the tho la latter Organ that makes ven ventriloquism IIO Tho The auditor cannot at a little distance tell at nt all nil accurately whence henc the words mortis uttered conic come and the tho performer needs only a n rJ III In speaking without moving Ills his lip lips and Imd a little skill kill In misdirecting the lie attention of or the lie spectators In order to tos s successfully II mislead Ventriloquism m was known to the r gyp gyp- Liens more than 1000 years ears a ago o o. o and is said ald to have been much used b by priests o of old to inako the oracles talk and for other miraculous purposes The rhe simplest trick for or the beginner to tr try 1 is I performed b by going to tho tha door of a room full of p people and ana opening It slightly thereupon conducting a conversation with an Imaginary person In thin tho a Th The deception 1 i o can m be made effective e If well wel wellA carried nii out II A more mci-c thing of the same For sort I found roun done one day when whon upon entering a n. room In lit A A. bl big building n I found round a ared ared red faced man n conducting a n violent quarrel quarrel rel i-el through a l speaking tube with somebody some some- bed bod body five n floors higher Ills His own remarks remark were ivero loud Joud and fierce and the replies s w were tC faintly audible I was not a little surprised sun sur ur- ur to find such n a thing going on on am amIt and It wa was not until afterward that 1 I leni the red faced man mati was wan doing the whole conversation Ventriloquists often play pin such quaint jokes joke A newly married man In an nn adjoining room of a 0 tenement Ju just t taken locked the thedoor thedoor door and carried on H Ii conversation con with n a supposed d woman whose voice olce he lie imitated perfectly Th The language o used was sas full fun o or of The Tho wife In a n frenz frenzy would ha have burst open the lie door doot- had not the thi husband huh Hhand admitted her Where Is that woman she the demanded Impatiently t len I ly Gone said Ald the husband coolly She has h not gone Jonc ho Who an and where is she sho I must know Gone he hr repeated No Xo I am not gone 1 crl cried a a. feeble voice olce from a R do closet et I am ant not gone gonel I Itin am tin stifling I am ant suffocating Help Help For br Goers Gods sake rake George exclaimed the frantic wife let her out Where hero is I. the key This ThiN Is a terrible affair Oh George how could ou And only married three days I shall shah go go wild Help help I am dying came feebly from the tho closet no now The kc key wa procured l. l tho thio door opened and anel no one was there I am under the thc cried tho the same voice Both husband and wife dr dragged it ou out In Jn haste but she was not there The This secret was told at last the husband husband hus bus band has haa studied ventriloquism |