One of the boys is already happy. He looks foolishly at the audience, staggers a little closer to the footlights with an uncertain step and, running his fingers through his hair he shouts, "Whee! Hurrah! Come on fellows, hu-raa!" And, as he staggers backward and forward, the shouts of the spectators could not be outclassed.

The other boy is now awake to his duty and he is trying to dance. His antics are those exactly of a drunken man.

The thoughtful student might say, "Here are two boys; under hypnosis they are made drunk, they act like drunken men, they stagger and carry out their parts well. It appears to me that this is deductive reasoning. If it is, they must have been drunk before".

I will assume that these boys have never touched a drop of intoxicating liquor in their lives. In fact, I firmly believe that to be the case. The reason they act drunk is simple: They are drunk! I have produced the same condition in their minds, or, properly, in their brains, that would have been produced by an intoxicating beverage. The difference lies in the fact that, as soon as I snap my fingers they will be sober, whereas, if an actual material stimulant were there, the effect would not pass at the mere suggestion. Furthermore, it is a hopeless task to place an intoxicated man under hypnosis. He is almost certain to pass into a drunken sleep if he goes to sleep at all.

I judge that the boys have been "drunk" long enough, so I snap my fingers and they come out, one just pulling his fingers through his hair and the other leaning against a chair. When the dazed condition has passed they are thoroughly disgusted with their drunk. They are not disgusted with my procedure, but the thought that angers them is that there might ever be a possibility of their getting drunk. Had I left on their minds only pleasant remembrances of that affair they would, in the future, likely seek to bring about a repetition of the condition. As it is. there is left in their minds a wholesome disgust for intoxicating drinks. And hypnotism has thus scored another victory.

As they take their seats I address the audience. It is essential that the audience are addressed a few times during the evening's entertainment. The object is not to take up time, but to give them the impression that you are giving these tests for their benefit and not to please any whims of your own. They like to have you stop and explain a few little tilings here and there. It is instructive and it is entertaining.

"Ladies and gentlemen," I say, wiping my forehead with a handkerchief, for this is warm work in a crowded hall, "I wish to call your attention to a few peculiarities of the mind. Before you have been a varied number of subjects. I have put them through various performances and will put them through a great many more before the evening's entertainment is closed. You have seen mostly the funny side of the question. As an operator, I see the deeper side. I will illustrate: In these two subjects which I have lately had, you saw them only in their hypnotic drunk. Many of you will decry it as wrong; others have looked at it merely for its value as a laugh-provoking act. The real work of that little act lies deeper than you would believe. There is now implanted in the minds of these two young men a wholesome dislike for liquor. This incident will pass and will leave no impressions on their minds - that is, on the conscious minds, but their subconscious or sleep minds will hold the secret, and should temptation come in their path the suggested idea would awaken a something within them that would recall this incident and their present disgust for liquor.

"I will now take the subjects as a class and have them enjoy a banquet. I want you to watch the details. There will be many things funny, very funny, about it, but there is such a wonderful adherence to details that the mind of the thinking man or woman must necessarily be drawn to the act. I call your attention, therefore, to the details which will be herewith presented. The wonders of deductive reasoning will be made more apparent to you in this act than in any other. The subjects will believe that they are eating, they will be hungry and their hunger will be satisfied - providing it is not a real hunger. You may ask why it is that I can allay this imaginary hunger through the power of suggestion and cannot do the same thing with real hunger. For a time I could. In some cases it is even possible that there would be no feeling of hunger through a long fast. Yet for all that, the body would be starving and the subject would become weaker and weaker, though he might be buoyed up for several days through the influence of hypnotism. Nature would in time be heard and the reward would have to be paid. On the other hand, if hypnotism is used to coincide with nature, to work in harmony with nature, the results will always be beneficial. It is sometimes made to work directly against nature, in which case sorrow will surely result.

"Used with reason, hypnotism can be of no harm in the hypnotic entertainment, but without a knowledge of the laws governing it there is no saying what the harm might be".

My subjects as well as my audience are interested. Again have they been tamed down from a long spell of laughter, and the next act will draw from them some serious thought which will last for a few minutes, and when it is finally dispersed by mirth the laughter is again genuine. Turning to the subjects I say, "Now, if you will kindly draw up your chairs so that the semi-circle is again formed, I will again try you as a class".

In the meantime I have taken care to keep the girl with whom I had so much trouble out of it. I find that four of the others do not care to take part so I place her with those. I am then ready to take up the work of giving to the audience a new and novel feature, which will be a banquet. This act will last about fifteen minutes. That is time enough to cover it.