Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-11-10
ROMANCE.
An Accomplished YounU l. ady Bee ame
Insane ON Aeeount Of AZ Unrequiet.
ed Anecti0n--Her Restoration.
From the Springfield. ILL.,, Register.

ed Anection--Her Restoration.
From the Springfield. ILL.,, Register.
In fourishing city, near here there re-
| sides family of high social position and
wealth, which is blessed with a daughter,
nineteen years of age. This young lady
| received careful education, graduated
with credit last June, and returned to heI
home. Almost Immediately she made the
acquaintance OF young widower If her
native town, and fell deeply in 1--we
with him. It is due to the gen.
tleman to say that be did not en-
courage in any manner this sudden pas
sion. The infatuation of the young lady
was so great that she took no pains to cen
| ceal 1t, and upon being demonstrated with
by her family, she boldly persisted in
| avowing her love. At the solicitation of
her friends, the gentleman had an inter
view with her in the presence of her moth
er, and represented to her, in the most
gentle and respectful manner, that her
passion could not be returned, and beg
ging her to abandon it tor her own sake
and the credit of the family, of which he
was close friend. In this interview the
gentleman unfortunately announced that
he was soon to be married to another lady.
At this the Young lady became furious,
and exhibited a state of feeling which re-
suited in complete alteration OF mind.
a physician was ct once called, and
after few days of treatment at her home,
IL was found necessary to send her to the
State Asylum for the Insane. This WAS
accordingly done. The poor girl, who
had so recently exhibited an unusually
active and brilliant mlnd, was now u com
plete wreck, and eternated between fits Of
the deepest melancholy, during which she
could not be induced to speak, and spasms
OF frenzy, during which she had to be pm
Toned, lest she should do herself harm.
This was her condition in the asylum,
and gradually all hopes of her cure
were abandoned when suddenly she
disappeared. During the third week in
August, she IN company with number of
other patients, was III the grounds of the
asylum, taking air and exercise, and when
the others returned to the house, she was
missing. Search was Immediately made,
but without success, and though the off,
GERS of the Institution and her now doubly
afflicted family spared no pains to find her,
she was AZ completely lost as If the ground
had swallowed her up. Six weeks passed,
and, rs suddenly as she had disappeared
abe reapp5ared one rainy evening, after
dark, ut the doors of the asylum, and was
taken IN.
The astonishment created by her appear
ance, alone and in the night, was doubled
when she was found to be perfectly sane
and in complete bodily health. Her story
was soon told. She could remember moth
ing, except that she found herself the day
before in the woods. alone, with her
clothing in tatters, and herself ravenously
hungry. She made for the nearest road,
and by inquiring her way ana walking all
night and all next day, arrived at the
asylum safely. 1t being quite apparent
that she required no further treatment,
she was at once returned 10 her family,
II has since been learned that the young
lady wandered away into the woods
aud subsisted upon such berries as she
could find. and that she occasionally went
to neighboring farm house, where the
family kindly gave her bread. 1t seems
strange that the family did not deem it
necessary to report the fact of a strange
girl wandering in the woods, in order that
she might be cared for and we have no
idea why they did not do SO. The physic.
ian of the asylum is OF the opinion that the
exposure and change OF diet are the direct
causes of the restoration of tho young lady
to health of body and mind.