Beginning your entertainment, caution the audience about placing the
hidden objects in places that you cannot conveniently touch--such as
high up on the wall; under the strings of a piano, etc. Tell them that
you can _find_ the article anywhere, but it must be placed so that you
can get at it with only ordinary care and work. Some "Smart Alicks" may
try to play pranks on you in this way, but discourage same vigorously at
the start, informing the audience that this is a scientific test and not
a circus. And, remember this, tell them that the article must never be
hidden about the Transmitter, for the reason that he is seldom able to
think as intently about his own location as about some place away from
him. These are the only restrictions that you need make. Caution the
Transmitter to guide you away from obstacles over which you might
stumble, or which you might overturn. Tell him that you place yourself
in his hands for protection, and then endeavor to think no more about
the matter, for such thought tends to distract your passivity.
The above feats or demonstrations are all performed along the same
general lines as indicated a little further back, and all are capable of
being accomplished by anyone of ordinary intelligence, with a little
study, care and practice. Practice makes perfect, in Mind Reading as in
everything else, remember, so keep at it until you have worn off the
rough edges, and have polished up the details of the work. You may vary,
improve, add to, the above feats, and may also insert many new ones for
yourself as you proceed with your work. Use your inventive faculties.