Show mesmeric eynolds tells that it Is 18 the Tin tinkling at the finger endi chicago yew news the other day prof reynolds who has his been gijiu giving exhibitions of ilia ills power as a mesmerist in hershey power ila hafl had bad before him on the stage a young man the youth had proved a peculiarly good oad subject and in the hands of of til toe e professor had furnished a full share of amusement fertile forthe audience hero remarked the mystic performer here is is a dollar you have been very accod dating and I 1 desire to see you corn coin the same time hand handing n him him a silver coin do you taint think you can hang on to that dollar well I 1 rather I 1 can responded spondee the abject the professor looked at him a mo moment m ent when the silence was broken by the youth who set et up a cry and began a series of antics such as might have been expected had a red hot poker been thrust into his pocket at the same time making makim several futile efforts to rid himself of the scorching coin and finally meeting with success 1 I first fint discovered mv my mesmeric c powers said prof reynolds yesterday when I 1 was only 9 years old I 1 was living with my parents at stratford near london at the time my interest in mesmerism ism was excited by the public performances for mances of a man named whitehouse who had bad been a methodist preacher I 1 was imitating him by making passes at my little sister S susan ua n when I 1 experienced a ti tingling n g at ray my fingers endi and to my surprise ur prise mesmerized her ber after that I 1 mesmerized anybody I 1 chose just U stas ae easily asi as I 1 dolow do now iwasco I 1 was so fond nd of doing it that my mf father had to correct me rne for it I 1 there here was a baker named hill living near us undone and one day when he was going along the street several blocks from home with a board full of bread on his head I 1 mesmerized him and led him all the way back to hia his shop where I 1 released him then lie got me by the ear and gave me a good shaking and complained to my fattier father who threatened me with a dreadful whipping D i it a ever mesmerized anybody on the street am I 1 never played a IL sanat tro triola after that but once when I 1 sent a swarm of mosquitoes toes after a painter who was standing out in the street painting a sign when did you begin to give public exhibitions when I 1 was 19 years old I 1 bad a brother who was ft A mesmerist and he was as giving I 1 ing exhibitions in pell gr grove 11 aall hall at Beff betheal bethnal inal green london at the time I 1 was a journeyman confectioner one night when he be was to have performed before an audience of 1500 people he lie was taken ill and sent for me to take his place I 1 was very timid about it and refused to d do Y so at firl first bt but he be persuaded me into it and the result was astonishing tho the newspapers the next morning said I 1 greatly exceeded my brother and eulogized me so highly that it produced an sin estrangement between him and slid me what is the philosophy of mesmerism in your opinion 1 I any theory about it except that a mesmerist has an ex cm of nervous energy which he lie can impart r to bothem and which eevea him control over their volition voli tien and senses it appear to be at all hereditary what sort of people physically a and nd mentally are 3 mesmerists and subjects of af mesmeric power are high strung nervous people As to t their b air i su subjects i acts the they are generally strong in body bod an and mind it is almost almon impossible for me to mesmerize feeble minded people the nervous lymphatic temperament is the most favorable I 1 have mesmerized prof agassiz dr franklin of the mich michigan i an university ver sity judge charters 0 of if dixon prof naylor of cambridge gambridge eng landane Ian lan dand many other strong minded and d eminent men I 1 find that women are more easily mesmerized than thin men and that as to age the best subjects are between 12 and 40 years of age v what kopini opinion on do tho scientists with whom you meet entertain of mesmerism they generally at ali first st deny the reality of mesmeric power and aud attribute the phenomena te to the power powe r of imagination they say my nit subjects expect something happen to them when they come upon the plat platform formo and that this expectation makes it happen iba I 1 have often had contro controversies with them on this subject and have generally colv convinced in ced them thern of their error when the they y discover the alteration in the pulse the change in the pupil I 1 of the eye and the rigidity of th the muscles that can be produced they are compelled eato to admit that ing more than that imagination has been at work ho how do religious people regard mesmerism oh ohi oh I 1 frequently give exhibitions in churches but one sect of christians is very much opposed to mesmerism and has an impression that it is from the devil what connection is there be twee and spiritualism there ii is none except that soma professed spiritualist medium ar nr mesmerists and debei deceive ve people peele by mesmerizing Mesmer izing them in this way they will easily biake wake some people ale believe they have seen spirit face at the window windows of cabinets cabi nete Is mesmerism put to a wron use in any uy other way it ie is not some atrocious things are suspected but the suspicion is ia without foundation A mesmeric subject after afler the spell ii is broken remembers everTt everything bing that has las been done just as aswell well as anybody else and will tell about it as a matter of course if any advantage has been taken more in order to control a Ales mesmerist must control himself if hu mind wanders and his will power is diverted for one second the control ceases some mesmerists have attempted outrages ae s but have always been exposed and punished and that is the way they got caught why do all mesmerists gay vay all r right i abt when they wake up the patient it is a convenient way of exerting their own will power they could use any other words just i as well and a stamp of the foot would answer as well as any worda words would it t sometimes happens with inferior mesmerists that they cannot break the spell in any way I 1 was called en on not long ago to wake up a young man whose eyes had been shut abut by b I 1 a mesmerist who could not open t them again in cases a like this I 1 have to mesmerize the subject over again in in my m own way and then I 1 can wake lina him up for myself and nd for the tb other mesmerist at the 2 same time of what use is 19 Mesmer ista ie is closely allied to magnetic healing it is a cure for all allor borts of nervous maladies somo times I 1 make remarkable cure cures on the platform only a few ngat ago a gentleman who nho came upon the platform with a terrible pain in the back went down cured just from having been in the beame mesmeric ric state but when I 1 treat people for nervous diseases the cure often has his the appearance of a miracle I 1 have treated a lady for paralysis of the arm oblong standing and in ten minutes she was combing her hair with ease I 1 treated a young mari who was lorn blind in one eye and hia his vision was instantly restored 91 cannot a mesmerist and magnetic healer make all the money he wants lie he cannot there are so many impostors in both branches of the pros profs profession ion that people have little or no faith in in it the people have an a n idea that they must be very cheaply by a magnetic healer they will pay an allopathic physician ten times as much for a cure as they will me and give him ten times as much time to work it in mesmeric exhibitions also are not a gold mine I 1 have cleared in the last eleven weeks but I 1 have not I 1 paid hall rent in chicago |