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Show A MACHINE THAT CAN READ YOUR THOUGHT8 It win't be enough, In futuro to set n watch upon jour lips. For there Is a machine coming that enn rend jbur thoughts ns easily ns you can read these printed words. When you Bay, "You'ro the only girl I ever loved," tho machlno may put an awkward reverse Kngllsh on your vow. As for witnesses In tho courtroom well, figuro out that anglo of tho gnmo for yourself Here, according to tho Chicago Trlbuno, Is tho main Idea Dr Hugo Munsterborg, tho great medical and physical research man, hns discovered n now brain probo with which ho claims to have succeeded succeed-ed recently In getting nt tho hidden "ecrcts of n crlm'nal's brain Ho managed to find tho secret ho sought ond to rend It quite as plainly as If It wero his own Instead of another's. So If he can do It to ono ho can do It to others, ond then In time other tieeple will he able to do l t o Dr Munsterhcrg thus explains his process pro-cess n ... .P nii jfnou now mem t orlss Ink themselves with Impressions, Impres-sions, how a face reminds us of a name or a namo of a face, n.id that ono word will sometimes ca.l a wlioie train of words to our minds and bring up a hundred different pictures In quick succession. "Speak the first word that comes to your mind when another word Is spoken for a hundred times. That Is all we ask a man suspected of a crime to do Tho method s tho same for nil people. If the man Is Innocent he cannot possibly object to our attempting at-tempting to demonstrato his Inno-cenco Inno-cenco hnd if h Is guilty ho will not object to it, cither, as he m'ght naturally nat-urally think that his refusal wou'd betray him. "Ono case of a suspected murderer, murder-er, which we were able to conv.'ct in this manner Is especially interesting. The man was believed to have slain a woman. Jn the room where tho woman wo-man whs found there was a bird cage containing a canary. When the word "bird" wob given to him It immediately im-mediately called to lis mind the grew some memory of his deed, and after a perceptible hesitation ho substituted sub-stituted the word sparrow. "I Ineglected to say that I and my patient have llttlo electric Instruments between our lips and every movement move-ment of speaking makes an electrl cal current which passes through an electrical clockwork whoBo Index moves around a dial tsn times In every ev-ery second. So tho length of time between every word and every answer an-swer Is carefully registered. Atad In this case the electric clockwork told the story of the man's hesitancy. This Is only one of many points wo make In the course of tho hundred questions, though tho questions would be without value If It were not for tho electrical instrument. "If this instrument becomes further furth-er perfected with time, imagine the Joy of tho loer who hitherto has been driven distracted by the fickleness fickle-ness of his sweetheart, for ho will be able to read her mind and know exactly how ho stands In her good graces. It will also bo a blessing to tho girl who Is agonizing as the man she loves does not proposo and to the husband who !s certain his wife no longer loves him, and to the wife who Is convinced thot her husband is grow Ing cold, nut It will spell only terror ter-ror for those men who are contemplating contemplat-ing crlmo and those women who are hiding dread secrets in the'r souls. For some day they will wake and find their secrets being- hrlek?d at them from the housetops." |
