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Free Lance, Volume XIX, Issue 1029, 18 February 1920, Page 10

I ll ' a very siiort space of time the old. phrase, "A . penny for your ' thoughts/' will be called in—a wash put and there shall be no more secrets. We shall know the inmost) thought of our wives and sweethearts, and per contra, thev will know ours don't forget. People who have beea inc r v ? lbe at ™°ntal telepathy as a fresh;, stunt by charlatans and easvmoney getters had hotter walse 'up and pinch themselves, for presently- they will know something. All this : leiitfis up to something that happened not long ago the London office of the ~y M? I '-'' Newspaper men don't usually fall for the gol3 Ibrick and the German silver watch tha;t grandpa lost at the Battle of Waterloo, unless they tad more ; than one or two so the story may be taken as gospel. *** ; J A Dutch telepathist, Mynheer Ro. ?I ai "> called at the office of the "Daily - Mail one morning and gave a surprismg_demonstration of t"hought-rea<i-«-n M re^? r ?i about 100 rooms in , P ail y, Mail" office building, and the telepathist offered to go into any roqm and fetch any article therefrom that _ any of those present was* prepared to think of. One of the reporters thought of a hat he had left 2S in f^^ U •° nett ree in Room + J+ he prepared to test the telepathist. The miracleworker gave the reporter, one end of a little .instrument to hold, and he took the other end. It was merely a little, circlet of brass with steel spring han-: dies, and no apparent mystery about b«ld £ t^ le reporter took x wS?* °! £ andl o e o the tele P at iiist rose, 1 went to Room 28, and got the hat f In another test he went to* a different l ™ and selected a photograph from a heap—and guessed right! *■- * . You see what possibilities this little machine opens up? By-and-by of course, some smart Aleck will 'come along with a wireless adaptation of the same idea, and then we can sit back comfortably and wonder whether Amaryllis will come for a walk in the wh Ve ask t er; , wllether BUI bmith, who came home from the races with awad will be feeling good enough ■«* tl, f? a fiver of his ill-gotten whether it ivouldn't be a good thing to -. m a hefty stock of certain necessaries before the profiteers put it over on us. We shall know all these things in tact, the moment that w e make contact with the inner mind of a com! ®ereial buccaneer and discover that he 3s planning to take another piece of OTir hido we can act accordingly and invite the said buccaneer to the Vicinity of a tar_ and feather store for the purpose of decorating him in token of .ills, great services to himself. We don'-h know whether this Dutch telepathist £> placing his little machine on the mar,.bu ,T e can assure "him a readv sale for his product if ever he does