1937-06-09 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 9, 1937.

You Can See Through A Brick Wall!

to

it possible for any man.

"read" a thought that lieg only

in the mind of another?

Can any man "see" an object that is hidden from his eyes and all his other senses?

any

Is there

such thing telepathy, or clairvoyance?

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I have no argument of my own to offer and, far less, any personal faith to press.

I want to set forth an array of facts,

I shall be willing to let the reader make of them what he can.

twenty-five.ne

distance. In 200 tests taken at As fast as I could register her removes the cards one by one with- calls she tried to name the cards out looking at them the performer of 250 miles Miss Sara Ownbey and Turner made an in the pack from top to bottom. would seem to be displaying pure Miss

We went through the re-shuffled clairvoyance, since no one else can average of 10.1 correct in every pack twenty times, and thus she know what the cards are. tried to name 500 cards in all.

actual Again, there may be no.

Pearce once called every card The experimenter correctly in the pack of twenty-five. When it was over I found that cards in

And the chance of doing that is she had named an amazing number-may merely imagine one card after of cards correctly--80 many that another, and ask the performer to one in 298,023,223,876,953,125. there was only one chance-in 600 name the card he is imagining. In this case the test would million that it was accident.

one of pure telepathy.

use.

be

The men and women who possess the gifts all declare they can't tell

t

About six years ago Professor The result of these experiments where the power comes from in the

has been amazing.

way in which one knows that sight is in the eyes, and hearing in the

aring

Joseph Banks Rhine, of Duke Uni- versity, began these tests to find out once for all whether there is any The first extraordinary score was ears: such thing as telepathy or clairvoy- made by A. J. Linzmayer, a student There is an ancient notion that

Since they may startle him, how- ́ever, as much as they have startled me, I ought to tell him that I have made sure of all the facts I am pre-ance. senting.

There have been plenty of good folk to tell us about such things as .... dreams, that came true.

They are seldom capable of proof or real investigation.

But there is something we may

now report as sure.

It is the outcome of a long series of experiments,, simple but purely scientific and more rigorous and thorough than any before.

at Duke.

By Ernest H. Wright

In his preliminary test he called

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the first duty of a good clairvoyant is to put himself to sleep, partly or entirely, after which he may be able to "see" things.

"On the contrary, it is necessary for the, percipient to be alert.

In nearly every case a marked

worried.

or

The tests have gone on without a respite, and more than 100,000 have twenty-one cards right out of forty- decline in scoring has occurred when now been recorded.

five, where chance would have al- the performer was indisposed The various tests are all made lowed him only nine. During the

A good many times, in the middle with a twenty-five card pack.

next few days he called 600 cards

of a long run of tests, the performer Anyone who took the test, under and got 238 of them correct. whatever conditions, was simply The chance of doing this by ac- has been given a capsule contain- ing either a stimulant or a narcotic asked to name as many of the cards cident is 1 in 100 decillions, or

how each might affect

his as he could.

followed by 35 zeros!

In pure chance, of course, he George Zirkle in 3,400 tests made would average one card right in an average of eleven correct

twenty-five.

At Duke University (U.S.A.) I have just been sitting across a table from a young woman who has done a thing I have no way of explain- every five. ing.

Between her and me, in the centre of the table, stood a wooden screen so high and wide that neither of us could see the other,

name

The idea was simply to see whe- ther anyone could steadily enough of the cards right to show something more than mere chance.

About half of the tests were for clairvoyance and the other half for

In my hand, face down, I held a special pack of cards, twenty-five telepathy. in number.

For instance, if the experimenter

He's A Good Husband

if

BUT YOU MAY FIND HIM DULL

BY

AIN'T LOVE GLAND KATHERINE TOWNSEND who writes for the benefit of those wives who think their

mates are rather too con

siderate!

VERY man needs a bit of post

E pituitary if he's to be at all

bearable.

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He is wide-eyed, but his eyes are small and probably far apart, though they may be quite close set.

His month is small..

His skin is soft and white. His teeth are crowded and large.

His hands and feet are small and. square. His fingernails small and with little moon.

He has little hair on his arms, legs or body, though it's probably plentiful-on his head and face.

His voice is clear, musical and probably tenor.

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As you probably know by now, this is the little gland of tender- This guy, for all his gentleness ness, the gland of human kindness and thought-fulness and ability to the caretaker of the propagation of see the other person's point of view the race.

is extremely moody." Your man who is dominated by His activities, his efficiency, his an equable his postpituitary is

always gaiety, are never on not satisfying, day in and day out, to level. He is what is known as cy-

clic, 'your very feminine woman.

He does not have the brutality nor He is almost morbidly fond of the casualness that your · too-wo- music and poetry some of our. manly woman needs as an occasional greatest musicians and poets have whip to keep her in shape.

been pure postpituitaries.

He's got a lively fancy, too, which But women invariably find him when combined with the prepitul- sympathetic,- and so you, my dear, tary emerges as constructive if your experience is limited, might agination. find yourself all tied up in an un- Don't dismiss him as effeminate. satisfying marriage without know- He's not. Though he does have ing why.

love difficulties. Probably because

im-

He is apt to be short, rounded, he believes what you say as much stout, with a head that is too large as for any other reason. for his body, yet he's essentially He's not high-handed. delicate in build:

But he's quite capable. He makes, better husband He acquires an abdominal paunch on - the whole, early and is rather fat-chested If than a lover.

he isn't short, he'll at least be short- It's only because he's a little too submissive infinitely considerate

-legged.

He is small featured, with a broad, and trusting that he finds himself ivad, henpecked or

oval, rather determined delicate but determined chin,

Remember that chance would have allowed these men an average of five correct out of twenty-five; and note that their scores are always above the chance allowance.

In most cases the distance be tween the performer and the pack of cards in use would seem to make little difference in his success.

the man did not know Which of the two, if either, he was taking in his capsule, or what he might expect as a result.

has

In every case the narcotic. brought a notable decline in scor- mere chance ing, usually to the ratio; and the stimulant has invari- ably raised the score.

Clairvoyance and telepathy would seem to be one and the same gift used in two different spheres.

In 600 tests behind a screen Hu- So

every person who enjoys nine in twenty-five, and in 300 in either of them,, and both are of a separate building to an average either of them, and both are of of 9.9

equal vigour.

bert Pearce held to an average of found far the two gifts have been

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