Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 (1887) (14596544028)

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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: various
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho



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dull. After a morning presuma-bly spent over works of a religious char-acter, some of the young ladies, who hadbeen the life of the excursion the day be-fore, showed their versatility by devisingserious amusements befitting the day, suchas twenty questions on Scriptural subjects,palmistry, which on another day is an aidto mild flirtation, and an exhibition ofmind-reading, not public—oh dear no!—but with a favored group in a privateparlor. In none of these groups, how-ever, did Mr. King find Miss Benson, andwhen he encountered her after dinner inthe reading-room, she confessed that shehad declined an invitation to assist at themind-reading, ))artly from a lack of inter-est, and partly from a reluctance to dab-ble in such things. Surely you are not uninterested inwhat is now called psychical research ?he asked. That depends, said Irene. If I werea physician, I should like to Avatch theoperation of the minds of sensitives as apathological study. But the experiments THEIR PILGRIMAGE.
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IN THE CONSERVATORY. I have seen are merely exciting and un-settling, without the least good result, witha haunting notion that you are beingtricked or deluded. It is as mucli as Ican do to try and know my own mind,without reading the minds of others. But you can not help the endeavorto read the mind of a person with whomyou are talking. Oh, that is different. That is reallyan encounter of wits, for you know that the best part of a conversation is thethings not said. What they call mind-reading is a vulgar business compared tothis. Dont you think so, Mr. King ? What Mr. King was actually thinkingwas that Irenes eyes were the most un-fathomable blue he ever looked into, asthey met his with perfect frankness, andhe was wondering if she was reading hispresent state of mind; but what he saidwas, I think your sort of mind-reading 668 HARPERS NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. is a g-ood deal more interesting- than theother, and he might have added, danger-ous. For a man can not attempt to iindout wliat