High School of Commerce - Caravel Yearbook (New York, NY)

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HENRY S. RUTH LOUIS SCHUR FRANK SADDLER DAVID STEET HARRY SCHECHTER SAMUEL SWERLING FRED SCHICKEDANZ WILLIAM Tow RUDOLPH A. SCHIVIIDT HUGO VOLLMEKE 81

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. Q :ww-'ire .. F Q i thi lilm .l li I if jluii fi mmllw, MPH If V 0,1 ' lllllluulullllll ' lim, I TIME In ,it ll R ' f ly!! Nl Q 'I 'il l ,N V t it I b W so I I l l I N 4 j ' X nzyhllffi. fl H . I I ' Mbtimi ' 1 ' I JIIWS CCDNVERSION WILLIAM MEYER, IQI3 I I HERE was one subject upon which Jim and I could never agree. That was hypnotism. Jim simply wouldn't admit that there was any such thing or science or whatever it is. With all the enthusiasm of a stock broker trying to sell a gold brick, I argued with him and endeavored to show him the error of his ways. But he wouldn't take any stock in it. After the smoke and the heat of the argument had Cleared away, I still saw the sameunconvinced expression on his face, and the only thing that pre- vented me from pounding him was the fact that he is at least thirty pounds heavier than I am. I But that is all changed now. Jim believes in hypnotism as much as I do. His conversion came about in an odd way. One afternoon we wereoff duty-if being in the army may be called on duty. Not having anything else to do, we went around to see a friend of mine who had left the army on becoming the heir to some fool uncle or other. When we arrived there, my friend was just leaving to take in a private exhibition of hypnotism. iThis was just what I was waiting for. Jim and I were invited to come along, and the three of us walked off- to the tune of Jim's grumbling. . YVe soon reached the place-a fairly large reception room into which we were conducted amid a silence so profound that we could almost see it. There were several ladies and gentlemen in the room, and after the arrival of a few more spectators the exhibition began. First, the Professor, who was an intelligent looking man of about fifty years, introduced himself and told us what he meant to do. Then he turned to one of the ladies present who had a husky young baby with her, and asked her to lend the child to him. She wasn't very enthusiastic over this sug- gestion. Some of her relatives, however, persuaded her to let her child be a pioneer of science, or something like that. 83