Show 0 fe s sor st t e 1 l I 1 1107 geeki C 1 Z rp LIT P w ami many are offered but all r f of them turn out to be fakes baltimore md ever on the lookout for an authentic ghost Is dr henry CL 0 mccomas Mc Coroas who will be ba a lecturer on psychology al the johns hop flop kins university during th the next echoe s insole year doctor has sought dill gently for or such a phenomenon and always has been disappointed tie he has seen plenty ot of manifestations which were represented to be astral spirits but none that was convincing to him in fact he fie has a pet ghost of his own that Is better than molt he be hns has observed it appears seem seemingly inglys 1 in space a pale face end and dim indefinite figure hovers hair ial singly a mo ano and vanishes its owner sum morys mons it from across the styx in largely bs of luminous paint and ultraviolet rays given lessons in magic some of doctor mccomas Ak Comas most interesting te work as a psychologist lias has been concerned with the purported A supernatural As preparation for research la in this field he hat had a magician teach him some tricks so that he might have t fc better chance to avold avoid being deceived by b charlatans from the late houd int he fie obtained much valuable information thus armed lie he visited spiritualists and attended stances se ances listened to the olce iole of hath laughing wafer wa waning against flint tant contemplated investment tint and watched the specter of uncle jed appear before the storing staring j eyes of aunt emma and the girls gills he saw spiritualists who had been indorsed endorsed Indor sed by sir A conan dole e ex x babli their and had no hel wan tancy ncy in ial pronouncing conj them hero ra rank fakes i V some of thu mediums he found e exceedingly x cee bever aeve too clever for it him I 1 in to discover liow how they produced brod their spirit but bu t none could produce agli a gli ast ost that he could co consider i csider scientifically genut genuine ilig and he rather fen fears rs none ever will strange marks on film I 1 tie he almost surprised himself once when he took a photograph of a medium i at work for tl the f je flim film when n developed ve loped showed something about the medium that looked like flashes fin sies of spectral sl ectrial light investigation revealed that the strange marks on the film had been caused by bj static electricity generated by a slight friction when the paper was torn off the film pork park ghost breaking of course has been only a part of doctor mccomas scientific tie activity levity among the problems in psychology in which doctor mccomas tIc Comas hns haa been interested Is that of the numbering of automobile license plates platen in these days of hit and run drivers driver s and motorized banditry it ohen often Is important to be able to take a license number quickly so the question aitse what lind of figure combinations can be rend quickest psychologists after extensive tests decided that numerals in an un uninterrupted inter row were easiest to read that tant a letter or a dash in the combination slowed perception tt tf tilso also was determined however that thai if the numerals were divided alfided by a hinsh insh they were wee re better A somewhat conclusion was reached in regard to telephone lione num hers bers it was found that efin t operators re a number better if f the sub scriber paused an instant in the midst of tie the number in chell the words save the coribel auril nu ril I 1 two ke doctor docton McC mccovins onins is Is a 0 native e 1100 ll 11 he antte neild a private school here received his 11 13 A nt the johns hochl ns university in 1897 tin nn M A nt at lambla university and aad nt at fl ariard tie eie Is on in an indefinite leave of ob dpn p fron from lairet li iret for fill it t necessary because of the lie illness of a relative ti return to baltimore dinst year to carry on the basiner of a coni coal company comry iny tie he will continue to devote alie to chrit husin business ess he anys in ad addition dilton to lecturing ec nt at hopkins |