PROFESSOR BRAEMAR.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 26 June 1913, Page 5

PROFESSOR BRAEMAR.

« „. 00, m i-.. ■■■- * - AUTHOR HYPNOTIST;' On Friday evening at the f Town Hall, Professor Braemar will present for the first time in Masterton his great scientific performance. The Professor has just finished a tour of Tasmania and the South Island of Newr Zealand.. ;Tne. papers speak in glowing terms of his wonderful work. SThe Balclutha as far as to class the Professor's work before that of any other hypnotist who has previously toured New Zealand. It %ays:—"Probably never before did the Balclutha public see such a great display of the powers of hypnotic influence as that which Professor Brae'nar ''reyealed!,tp^env 1 6ft'v'Wedijesday. Hie was only «?how, but thrbugh the numerous performances which he made hie local subjects go through, there was not a : dull naor ntent at his two and a half hours'r exir-; .tertainment at the Oddfellows' Hall. A child suffering with the stammering habit went on the stage and, being hypnotised, was soon made to speak properly. A mock murder case, in which the professor, being blindfolded, read the thoughts.af .hiacommittee and causing the, audience to marvel, concluded the first part. Several young men went on the stage for the'second part, and being hypnotised Were' made to see and rnag-

ine all sorts of things, and kept the audience ifi coirtinuous of ter. * The pieces which caused the most uproar were the fishing and horse-racing. In the former the subjects imagined they were fishing on the banks of a stream and- getting good hauls from what was really the footlights. The climax was reached when one of their number 'fell in and was drowning,' and the rest heroically rushed in after him, brought him to 'land,' and commenced to re-

suscitate hyn. The imaginary horseracing caused a great uproar, as{mounted careered rpjfiicL the- s iage, mounts, and one youth had?» 'rutt- - and ran down the hall. He" knight haw been running yet if: the professor had not caught him at the door,and by a flip "of his. fingers brought him to his right senses. An exhibition of how catalepsy should bo properly accomplished was shown at the conclusion, when the professor's own subject, being made rigid,, was Hi lanced with his head on one chair and his feet on another, and I>he hypnotist stood on his body. On Wednesday morning in the Crown Hotel, Professor Braemar treated a boy and girl for stammering, representatives of local papers being present. Under his treatment there was an improvement in their speech, till at the end both could utter the hardest words without any hesitation.'' To-morrow (Friday) the professor will place a young man in a cataleptic sleep in the Dresden window, where he will remain until awakened by the professor at' +* opening of the performance, at, eight p'oiocK