Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1894 — Hypnotism Over the Counter. [ARTICLE]

Hypnotism Over the Counter.

Albany Express. “Have you ever been hypnotized tfi a dry go<ds store?” asked a woman. “I meau have you ever been baited on by clerks who absolutely force you to buy what you do not want. Let me tell you what happened to me the other morning. “I went into a store to buy a gown, and in a certain store one of those hypnotic clerks fixed me with his glittering eye and positively controlled my purchase. He mesmerized me into letting him cut me off a gown pattern I did not want; it did not suit me in color, design or texture, yet there I stood spellbound and allowed the scissors to seal my doom. A cash boy was then called to carry the purchase to the lining counter. On the way over there I emerged from my hypnotized condition and had my revenge. What do you think I did? I turned a corner, scurried through crowds of other victims, got out asidedoorand went about my business, No one in the store khew me, and I have felt better ever since. If the hyphotic ilerk had got into trouble witn the proprietor about that gown, so much the better. It will teach him not to exercise his mesmeric powers over helpless women. l> ”