MIND READING.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 3, 4 January 1876, Page 4

MIND READING.

1 A new parlor game, suitable (says ;•: the 'Daily News) for Christmas and other - evening parties, ia now making ;.; itßway 1 in certain circles of American Bocigty,iand| iw,IH -doubtleas; in course of t;me|j}epoaa.B naturalised in this country. |^^: i c>Ue^^|lind^Reading^^and is o^\^M^(^ioJoo-^e^npoQ a theory ■ action/ / It is Ili^^g^^p^erfeA; ot ■v^h^^r^^e^ou^, of % d oring^his!absenoe an objeei; is hidden. S§: i)fl^|freturn two o.thew of the !party fclij^mi&le'of;

- ••_— j-'. r -"-'...-..' — .-^-^ - - ,' jthe room placing -both their hands upon jhig body, dDe ; band 'on his chest and [the other. oh hiflf back, in the roeanlinoe keeping their minds intensely concen.itrated^oDtheJocality; wherethe. object jia. hidden. '? In a few moments tha iparty operated ;6n .Will wove in -the direction of the hidden object, and id ning 'oases out of ten find i£ , Of course jit will be said that there is, nothing I ]new in this, and that it- stands in"m*aoti jthe same relation to hwle-and-seek as pasej^ball is .to Trpuaderis.. - But . ; bb, a xnattjßrj, of ifactj jts introduction has created a^j thrill in New York, jwhere a. gentleman named Brown has jieeD drawing large iaudiericeß lay hijs manifestation *pf ■-._. power /in '.this' direp- , jtibn. " Mr Brown" being i:an expert, ib »ble ..to do more than fidd ! hiddeh thimbles and 'Boissprs, for by means of placing; the; back, p(. his s>pn ' holding jit there permtnientlyi i '"Vthe )ther hand .of the operator being touched lightly against the tips of the jah'giars of the j ihand of the'lperflpn ■"PP. e .^t6d pii be .has, been known rtb -teil Iphat the. latter was thinking about. In this we' are ass'tirredl the fllghteafr tremor , or agitation: .' of ,ifi[^ mind may : be communioated thro tig t ihetips of the fiogers from one persori to ianother. It v has been objected ,to spiritualism tbnt, even conceding the unaccountable motion of tables and bats, no -practical good has been known to come, of it, •:- : M"Mirfd teeactihg^ 1 ip 1 ib?e ; ; offahpot ; ;pf „ Spiritualisaj, ;"' bat ; it ob^ipusly MS^ the advantage in -the fatter of usefulness.^ The position described as an essential preliminary is not a very convenient one, and in cases Where "the person operated upon (bought slowly *itf would jbecome physi 7 dally 'tedious; ; "; But^.the advantage occasionally to be derived from obtaining authenic information touching what is 'passing thfbugh; the minds of- pbri? adns wit^h ,,. whom .-..we converse is bo th^t .the ;■• little v stiffuess in fhe : inns and a: tenderness about the finger tips /would f -weigh as nothing in the balanoeV ; ,- ."' . " -,'■..-■: