In the Pittsburg Medical Review there is a
description of a girl of three and a half, a blonde, and
extremely womanly for her age, who possessed a wonderful magnetic
power. Metal spoons would adhere to her finger-tips, nose, or
chin. The child, however, could not pick up a steel needle, an
article generally very sensitive to the magnet; nor would a penny
stick to any portion of her body.
Only recently there was exhibited through this country a woman
named Annie May Abbott, who styled herself the "Georgia Electric
Lady." This person gave exhibitions of wonderful magnetic power,
and invited the inspection and discussion of medical men. Besides
her chief accomplishment she possessed wonderful strength and was
a skilled equilibrist. By placing her hands on the sides of a
chair upon which a heavy man was seated, she would raise it
without apparent effort. She defied the strongest person in the
audience to take from her hand a stick which she had once
grasped. Recent reports say that Miss Abbott is amusing herself
now with the strong men of China and Japan. The Japanese
wrestlers, whose physical strength is celebrated the world over,
were unable to raise Miss Abbott from the floor, while with the
tips of her fingers she neutralized their most strenuous efforts
to lift even light objects, such as a cane, from a table.
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