Show Fifty Y Years Years' Brought to an End EndA A curious case of the time strange workings work work- ings lags of ot what we call the subconscious mind is reported from New York A Aman Aman man who had imad been supposed to be both deaf deat and dumb for tor 53 55 5 years years- ever since he lie was five Oe years old was old was put under ether In order to undergo an nn operation n. n When he ime came out of the time anesthetic he could both hear and talk and he ime did talk fluently and steadily As a child the man man- was extremely extremely ex ex- ex- ex shy and self lie Ie learned to talk but iut his own voice seemed to frighten him and he kept silent as much us as possible sometimes for days s 's at a time When he was five he lie stopped talking altogether The doctors say that his vocal ocal organs were perfectly normal but tuft that he lie deluded himself Into the time Idea that he lie could not talk Later by a u similar process of self hypnotism he Ime became convinced con con- vinced that be ime could not hear That be he did hl hear and that his subconscious mind took note of what he heard are evident from his ability to talk when the strange Inhibition was removed by bythe bythe the time unusual experience of Youths Youth's Companion I |