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planned his cat on a large scale, a huge cat face with gray radiant 

 whiskers looking directly at the beholder. Most of the others 

 thought of the cat in lateral view or profile. These variant and 

 vagrant individual impressions naturally appeared on the camera 

 before the ether waves were co-ordinated and the reflex influences 

 came back from all to one, regulating and co-ordinating the 

 thought of the cat. Thus these preliminary impressions are re- 

 corded as ghost pictures in various places about the plate before 

 the ultimate composite view was achieved. The delay in this 

 regard has darkened the center picture, interfering a little with its 

 perfection of definition. This darkening would probably appear 

 in other experiments on account of the long exposure (sixteen 

 minutes) thought necessary for a picture of this kind, in which 

 odic magnetism is made to take the place of light. 



On the cat's cheek is a curious black spot or stigma which has 

 not been fully accounted for. From its sharpness of definition it 

 must stand in some relation to each of the seven persons whose 

 thoughts were centered upon it. One suggestion was that this 

 was the blind spot on the retina in each of the sympsychogra- 

 phers. But the blind spot marks the point of entrance of the nerve 

 which goes back to the brain. While it may not have visual 

 power, it is not unlikely that it is a point of special activity in 

 ideography. This suggests that the black stigma may be the 

 yellow spot, or the macula hifea, the point of acute vision, a 

 region on the retina where odic forces would naturally be absent. 

 Mr. Marvin himself inclines to the opinion that a microscopic 

 examination of the negative will show that this stigma has like- 

 wise the form of a cat, and that it will be found to be an ideomor- 

 phic germ or centrum where the co-ordinate thought of the cat 

 has first impinged on the plate and from which the image of the 

 cat has concentrically arisen. 



Meanwhile the cat of Mr. Thompson, the janitor, who alone 

 could answer this question, lay in the darkness under the warm 

 stove and purred softly. 



Enumerating the uses made of the fan in Japan, Mrs. C. M. Saluey says 

 that the seven gifts of a Japanese bride to her spouse invaiiably include a 

 fan — in fact, fans are the most frequent gifts in Japan, and are used to pre- 

 sent gifts upon. They are much employed for jviggling; singers modulate 

 their voices with fans; they have served as news sheets — sometimes as sedi- 

 tious news sheets — and as vehicles of satire. Maps for travelers are ])rinted 

 on fans. Ceremonial fans are employed when houses and other buildings 

 are linished. The fans made for the Japanese themselves a]'e usually not 

 the same as those intended for the Western market. The Japanese prefer 

 smaller fans, quieter in tone nid coloi-, and more refined than those that 

 Europeans like. 



