MIND-READING BY A CHILD

Patea Mail, 23 April 1881, Page 4

MIND-READING BY A CHILD

The performance of a Boston girl, aged II years, whose husband, if she ever gets one ,is to bo commiserated, arc thus related by the Itcrald of that city :—She had dark hair 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 gentleman of the house and one of the children (hen placed their hands on her shoulders, and fixing their minds on the thimble, she was (old to proceed. Turning square)y around, site walked directly to the piano, felt her way till the corner was reached, then, lifting her hand as high as she could roach, she placed her hand on the thimble. The performance caused surprise, and elicited around of applause. The child was taken to the other side of the room and blindfolded again, the work being securely done. This time the thimble was placed on the piano stool, much lower than before, 'The same persons placed their hands on the child’s .shoulders, and again she turned squarely round ami walked straight to where the stool was standing. As she approached italic put out her hands, reaching not up, :is before, but down, and felt her way cautiously, lit tills attitude she walked up to the stool, and while in the act of passing her hand over the top. jarred the stool and knocked the thimble outlie tioor. The third tunc the thimble was placed in a different part of the room, on the hinge of a folding tioor, about live feet from the floor. It was in a place not easily discovered by a person with his eyes open. The blindfolded child, with the hands of the other persons on her shoulders, walked straight to the spot, and, after feeling on both sides of the door for a few moments, passed her hand along up the edge until she struck the thimble, which fell on the floor, rdic declined to perform any more, saying she was tired. When asked how she knew where the thimble was she said she could not tell.