I snap my fingers, and, one by one, they get up and start to skate, cutting fancy figures, trying to skate backward and making themselves generally happy. I fancy that the audience appreciate the philosophy of the thing a little, although audiences usually care naught for philosophy.

I keep my skaters active for a period of about a minute-and-a-half. In all with this act, I have taken about three minutes. It is lively sport, and when I clap my hands the skaters find it difficult to convince themselves that they are not on the ice. They look at their feet, wondering where the skates have gone.

When they have quite recovered from their surprise they take their seats and are 60on conversing, discussing and laughingly comparing notes. They enjoy this act and those who have so far not had the pleasure of remembering what they did are asking the others questions.

Here, after having conducted the show for one hour, or having given one-half of the entertainment. I am strengthening my grip on the subjects by arousing their curiosity. They want to know just how it is to remember what was done during hypnosis. Some of them have a faint remembrance, but it is indistinct. One asks one of the recent skaters what the sensation is. "Oh." he replies, "it is just like a dream, only I remember it distinctly. It seemed just as though there was a pond out there and I could hardlv believe that I didn't have skates on my feet when I came out of the dream".

Whereupon the other is anxious to be hypnotized to see what it really is like when one can remember it.

So I take this boy and two others and tell them to come forward and be seated. Their chairs are close together and they are away out in the full light of the footlights. I have them look at me intently for a minute and then tell them that they are fast to their chairs. They struggle a while and finally give it up as hopeless.

"Close your eyes. That's right. Now, sleep, deeper and deeper. Sleep, sleep." And their heads are over on their breasts, their breathing is slow and deep and they are soon sound asleep. I now take a bundle of newspapers and make three paper babies. I am going to have these three boys act as nurses, and, incidentally, give them a taste of what it is to remember their acts.

Having placed these "babies" in their laps, I say: "When you awake you will all be nurses with babies to care for. The babies are cross and you will have to walk up and down with them trying to quiet them. You will be very affectionate with these babies. Wake up, care for those babies. That's right".

And they open their eyes slowly and look at the bundles of paper in their laps. They are not slow in taking them up and are soon walking back and forth on the stage, trying to quiet the cries that are so real with them.

"Suppose you sing a lullaby?" I suggest.

They start to sing, each favoring the audience with something original in the lullaby line, and each sending forth horrible discords!

"See, your baby is upside down; turn him around, quickly!"

And the one to whom I have spoken tosses the paper up the other way and is undoubtedly worried over his carelessness in caring for his infant charge.

"Oh, spank that baby," I say to another, and he follows out the suggestion admirably. There is no mistake, this boy certainly must be the envy of many a fond parent in the audience, for he spanks the paper baby with all his might, and with an originality of touch above censure.

"Now, when I snap my fingers you are going to remember everything and you are going to stand right here before the audience and realize everything." I snap my fingers and the boys "come to" with the paper babies in their grasp. They look at each other and then at the shouting audience. Indeed, this is enough to vex any one. but they are having just what they asked for, and there is nothing to say. They feel too "sheepish" to even make the statement that this is the last time they will ever be hypnotised. They realise what they have done and they are willing to quietly retire to their respective seats.

Now for a little of the spectacular. I will rearrange the semi-circle and take as many as I can get as participants in the cakewalk. A hypnotic Cakewalk is always the proper thing. There is a great deal of color lent to the show and the audience never fails to realize the importance of acts of this kind It is different from the feast. That was funny, but it lacked music, and music is always acceptable. even though it is of no better quality than that furnished by the Belleville orchestra. I have informed the musicians that I will be ready for a cakewalk at about this period and they are all ready for me whenever I shall give the signal.

I arrange the semi-circle and have twelve in this act. That will be about as many as the stage will accommodate at one time.

Standing many feet back from them, I raise my hand - which has been idle for some time - and waving it gently above my head, I say:

"Keep your attention on this hand and you will drop off to sleep, one by one. You are all getting sleepy as you look at this hand and you cannot hold your eyes open. Sleepy, going to sleep".

And they are soon nodding and shortly after all are sound asleep.

"You will hear cakewalk music soon. When you hear the ragtime you will be up and going through the light step of the cakewalk. You are all colored people, dressed in the height of colored fashion. I art of you will be ladies and the rest will be gentlemen. I want you to do your grandest. There is the music!"

The notes of "A Georgia Camp Meeting" float through the hall and the sleepers open their eyes and look about them. I can hear the steady beat of feet in the audience keeping time to the music. They have awakened, if that term is not uncomplimentary, and they have found a new interest. How monotonous a hypnotic entertainment would become if the hypnotist did not have the ability to vary things and to entertain. As it is, I have changed the form of procedure at least a dozen times and have attacked some particular avenue of their entertainment-loving nature at each change. The intellect likes recreation, change, amusement. It tires of the steady grind and when one can amuse in a manner that keeps the mind alert and expectant, he is a success as an entertainer.