Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1910 — EXTRAORDINARY POWER OF A MEDIUM [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

EXTRAORDINARY POWER OF A MEDIUM

THE scientific world of Europe hai been much Interested in the experiments made by Doctor Ochorowicz of Paris, and Wisla of Silesia, with Mile. Stanislawa Tomczyk, a medium who has extraordinary magnetic qualities. When hypnotized. Mile. Tomczyk has the remarkable power of being able to levitate any objects she chooses. In one set of experiments a glove was put on the table in front of her„and at her bidding it rose, curved over from the middle, and went high up Into the air, to drop gently into the lap-of the person indicated. The same sort of thing she did with a magnet, as well as a pair of scissors, a match-box, and a note-book, the pages of which last turned over in accordance with her directions. Still more striking was one of the experiments with scales. She asked that the scales should be fastened to the bottom of the gas-bracket. This done, an egg-shaped marble paper-weight was placed in one of the pans, and a celluloid ball In the other. By merely placing her hands near the paperweight she caused that pan to rise until it was on a level with the one containing the light celluloid hall. It need hardly be said that elaborate steps were taken to prove that Mile. Tomczyk had no wires concealed on her person.