HYPNOTISM.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10696, 17 August 1912, Page 4

HYPNOTISM.

Singing students all over Americ.i are crowding the offices of hypnotic experts entreating hysterically for- a course of treatment that is to convert then* into possible prima donnas-. According to the London Mail these fooll=h women are willing to pay almost any sum to the so-called hypnotic export, who will enable them to emulate thr> remarkable performance of Mis>s Marian Graham, who, at the Music Teachers' Convention at" Columbia Univer eity the other day, appeared a* a modern Trilby, singing beautifully tui.de.' a hypnotic spell cast upon, her by a well-known hypnotist. The medical profession view with almost universal alarm the desire of student*, and chorus girls "to become Trilby?." Interviews are published in which the scientific opinion is advanced tint "cc sing under hypnotism means slow but certain suicide." "Hypnotism," declared one doctor, "depletes the will. It takes the blood'from the seat of the cerebrum and allows it to Slow mto the emotional centres. Any young person who tries to sing under a hyp notic spell runs the risk of all sorts of throat affections-, especially tonsil.tis. Insanity or very likely blindne.3> may also supervene. Tt is not Nature's way of singing, and Nature has placed on it an almost prohibitive punishment."