Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1898 — Hypnotizing a Hen. [ARTICLE]

Hypnotizing a Hen.

“Did you ever hypnotize a chicken?” asked Police Commissioner Kind the other night. “It’s dead easy. Just catch your hen, place it on the floor in front of you, with its tail toward you. Take a piece of chalk and draw a straight line, beginning at a point just under the hen’s head and extending a foot and a half or more. “The bird will fasten Its eyes on the chalk, and in a twinkling she is unconscious of anything but that line. You can cuff and kick her about as much as you please, but her gaze will immediately return to the chalk line. When I was sailing before a mast It was not an unusual thing on a calm day, when there was no work In sight, to see a dozen or more sailors, each with a hen in his hands, drawing chalk marks. It Is the most perfect case of complete hypnotism I ever saw. Jusit try It some time if you don’t believe it.”—-Toledo Blade.