November, 1920 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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DOCTOR HENSHALL 
IN ALGERIA 
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and shoulders in gunny sacks and bur- 
lap, or anything handy. The invalids at 
the hotels paraded the corridors envel- 
oped in blankets in their efforts to keep 
warm. The only fires available were 
braziers of charcoal placed under tables- 
with covers reaching to the floor, under 
which the tourists thrust their feet. 
One evening the guests of our hotel 
assembled in the parlor to witness a per- 
formance of magic, mystery and legerde- 
main. The room was so crowded that but 
a small space was left at one end for the 
“professor,” who proved to be a pretty 
little French woman. Longworth and I 
sat in front, scarcely six feet from the 
fair wizard. She was encroached upon 
on either side by the audience in a 
similar manner, but she stipulated, only, 
that no one should get behind her. The 
seance was quite a success, and a com- 
plete surprise to us. We had seen the 
renowned Houdin at Paris, whose efforts, 
however, paled before those of our own 
Herman, Heller and Kellar, but this little 
French lady was second to none of them 
in tricks of real slight-of-hand, which 
after all are the only ones that proclaim 
and demonstrate real genius. 
Our fair professor, with no enabling 
apparatus or devices, no electric or me- 
chanical effects, and no confederates, 
with nothing but her pretty and shapely 
hands and nimble fingers, and with a few 
packs of cards, some coins and other sim- 
ple articles, proceeded to perform some 
of the best slight-of-hand tricks we had 
ever seen. One of the best consisted in 
her shuffling a pack of cards before her 
face, an as she manipulated them rapid- 
ly, in plain sight of the audience, they 
suddenly appeared but half the size, and 
later, still smaller, until finally they dis- 
appeared altogether, to the wonder and 
surprise of the assembly. The explana- 
tion of this, and all of the tricks of her 
repertoire, depended on the fact that the 
motions of her hands were quicker than 
the eyes of her audience. 
Once in Cincinnati, after a perform- 
ance by Professor Heller, he was given 
an informal reception by a few friends 
at the Queen City Club. Heller was a 
good musician, and performed well on the 
violin, piano and organ; so after supper 
he played a concerto on the violin and a 
rhapsody on the piano. Then by request 
he performed a few slight-of-hand tricks, 
which he concluded by taking the violin, 
and after playing a short time with great 
expression and much swaying of his body, 
he suddenly ceased with a grand flourish, 
and “voila” — as our little French lady 
always exclaimed at the conclusion of a 
trick — the violin had disappeared and 
only the bow remained in the professor’s 
right hand. As the group continued to 
gaze at the flourishing of the bow, he 
stooped down and removed the violin 
from between his knees, where he had 
skillfully placed it unseen by any one. 
A DAY or two before we left Algiers 
for Marseilles there had been a se- 
vere storm on the Mediterranean, 
and, while the wind had subsided, there 
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