FAMILY FUN

New Zealand Tablet, 9 January 1913, Page 62

FAMILY FUN

Thought Reading.—Ask someone to hold an orange in one hand and an apple in the other, and think hard of one of them. With the excuse that it makes the experiment a little less difficult if ‘ the circuit of thought is completed/ ask the player to hold the hand containing the article he is thinking of close to his forehead. Turn away, hold one hand to the forehead in the same way, and appear to be deep in thought. Suddenly announce that you have read the player’s thoughts, and ask him to drop his hand. Swinging round, you will be able to tell him at once which article was thought of. No skill at all is required in this trick; everything depends on the presentation of it. Turning round after declaring that you have read the person’s thought, quickly glance at the person’s hands, and the hand which is the whiter of the two will be the one which was held to the forehead.