ewsboy, and sell papers. Another
was given a broomstick and told to hunt game in the woods before him.
Another was given a large rag doll and told that it was an infant, and
that he must look among the audience and discover the father. He was
informed that he could tell who the father was by the similarity and the
color of the eyes.

These suggestions were made in a loud tone, Miss Flint being no nearer
one subject than another. The bare suggestion was given, as, "Now, think
that you are a newsboy, and are selling papers," or, "Now think that you
are hunting and are going into the woods to shoot birds."

So the party was started at the same time into the audience. The one who
was impersonating a newsboy went about crying his edition in a loud
voice; while the hunter crawled along stealthily and carefully. The
newsboy even adopted the well-worn device of asking those whom he
solicited to buy to help him get rid of his stock. One man offered him a
cent, when the price was two cents. The newsboy chaffed the would-be
purchaser. He sarcastically asked him if he "didn't want the earth."

The others did what they had been told to do in the same earnest,
characteristic way.

After this performance, the class was again seated in a semicircle, and
Miss Flint selected one of them, and, taking him into the center of the
stage, showed him a small riding whip. He looked at it indifferently
enough. He was told it was a hot bar of iron, but he shook his head,
still incredulous. The suggestion was repeated, and as the glazed look
came into his eyes, the incredulous look died out. Every member of the
class was following the suggestion made to the subject in hand. All of
them had the same expression in their eyes. The doctor said that his
daughter was hypnotizing the whole class through this one individual.

As she spoke she lightly touched the subject with the end of the whip.
The moment the subject felt the whip he jumped and shrieked as if it
really were a hot iron. She touched each one of the class in succession,
and every one manifested the utmost pain and fear. One subject sat down
on the floor and cried in dire distress. Others, when touched, would
tear off their clothing or roll up their sleeves. One young man was
examined by a physician present just after the whip had been laid across
his shoulders, and a long red mark was found, just such a one as would
have been made by a real hot iron. The doctor said that, had the
sugges