MIND-READING BY A CHILD.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 86, 11 April 1881, Page 4

MIND-READING BY A CHILD.

The performance of a Boston girl, aged eleven years, whose husband, if she ever gets one, is to be commiserated, is thus related by the ' Herald' of that city : — She had dark bair and eyes, and a decidedly nervous temperament. She was blindfolded, and a thimble was placed on the top of an upright piano on the* other side of the room from' where she stood. The gentlemen of the house and one of tbe children, then' placed their hands on ber shoulders, andj fixing tbeir minds on tbe thimble, she 1 was told to proceed. Turning squarely! around, she walked directly to the' piano, felt her way till tbe corner was| reached, then, lifting her bond as high) as she conld reach, she plaoed her hand; on tbe thimble. The performance! Os used surprise, and elicited a round of! applause. Tbe child was taken to thej other side of the room and blindfolded; again, the work being securely done.i Tbis time the thimble was placed oni the piano stool muoh lower than be-! fore. The same persons placed their! hands on the child's shoulders, and! again she turned squarely around, and 1 walked stroight to where the stool waei standing. As she approached it she put out her hands, reaching not np as! before, but down, and felt her way cautiously. In tbis attitude sbe walked ! up to the stool, and while in the act of passing her hand over tbe top, jarred the stool, and knocked the thimble on the floor. The third time tbe thimble waß placed in a different part of the room,

en the hinge of a folding door, about five feet from tbe floor. It was in a ploce not easily discovered by a person wuh his eyes open. The blinfolded child, with the hands of the other persons on her shoulders, walked straight to the epot, aod, after feeling on both , Bides of the door for a few moments, passed her hand along up ths edge, until sbe struck the thimble, wbich fell on the floor. She declined to perform any more, saying ahe was tired. Wben asked how she knew where the thimble was she said she could not tell. It was impossible for her to see, and no one Buspected for a moment that sbe was playing a tiiok. It seemed a cleir case of " mind reading/ tbe exhibition being the same in k nd, if not in degree, as those given by Brown a few years ago.