ts proved--and
was actually playing ball. The details supplied by Mlle. Kauffmant
were confirmed by the mother.

A child was born whose tuberculous father had died during the mother's
pregnancy. Of five brothers and sisters none had survived the first
year. The doctors to whom the child was taken held out no hope for its
life. It survived, however, to the age of two, but was crippled and
nearly blind, in addition to internal weaknesses. It was then brought
to Mlle. Kauffmant. Three months later, when I saw it, nothing
remained of its troubles but a slight squint and a stiffness in one of
its knee-joints. These conditions, too, were rapidly diminishing.

Another child, about nine years of age, also of tuberculous parents,
was placed under her treatment. One leg was an inch and a half shorter
than the other. After a few months' treatment this disparity had
almost disappeared. The same child had a wound, also of tuberculous
origin, on the small of the back, which healed over in a few weeks and
had completely disappeared when I saw her.

In each of the above cases the general state of health showed a great
improvement. The child put on weight, was cheerful and bright even
under the trying conditions of convalescence in a poverty-stricken
home, and in character and disposition fully realised the suggestions
formulated to it.

Since the suggestions of Mlle. Kauffmant are applied individually, the
mothers were permitted to enter and leave the clinic at any time they
wished. Mademoiselle was present on certain days every week, but this
was not the sum of her labours. The greater part of her spare time was
spent in visiting the little ones in their own homes. She penetrated
into the dingiest tenements, the poorest slums, on this errand of
mercy. I was able to accompany her on several of these visits, and saw
her everywhere received not only with welcome, but with a respect akin
to awe. She was regarded, almost as much as Coue himself, as a worker
of miracles. But the reputation of both Coue and Mlle. Kauffmant rests
on a broader basis even than autosuggestion, namely on their great
goodness of heart.

They have placed not only their private means, but their whole life at
the service of others. Neither ever accepts a penny-piece for the
treatments they give, and I have never seen Coue refuse to give a
treatment at however awkward an hour the subject may have asked it.
The fame of the school has now spread