| Show WORK OF THOUGHT READER stuart cumberland aas ly y followed mr gladstone Glad stones s mind stuart cumberland thought beai er tells how he read mr glad stone stones s mind in the smoking room of 0 the house of commons mr gladstone undertook to think of some figure and it was cumberland s task to dis cover and write them o 01 on 1 a blackboard he ile wrote a 3 which m as correct then a 6 which was also correct and then he began to write a 5 at this m i ment I 1 fauna that mr Gla gladstone cistone hij haj changed his mind and was thinks a e of a 6 1 I at once pa sed bed and begged him to concentrate his thoughts ec er on the exact figure he had dp aided upon he did so and I 1 ta tingly turned the 5 into a 6 he ile asked mr gladstone why he had bad il it first thought of a 5 and a d changed it to a 6 mr gladstone an that he had at first thought 1 I 1 the number of days in a ear but hi lil the middle of the experiment he rec ree collected that that part cular ular year wa leap year which caused him to change his figures to |
