New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1873-01-09

SOCIETY Ia Observation-Disclosures impoltau
town, as cur readers are doubtless aware.
situated in Hindostan-is just now oCcup.c
with discussing the peculiar conduct Ct
Young married lady named Nunnce Du.la
the twelve years OF her married life. this ain
! gular young person has never once met hr
usband without instantly falling into ,
/ state of profound slumbcr. In this con,.i
/ ton she remains so long as she i, 10 bis pres.
encc, having slept On several occasions for
periods OF eight or ten consecutive DAYS. II
Is not even necessary that he should speak 10
her IN order to throw her into this sIrrjber /,
LOT Wnen he passes near her, disguised 50 that
she cannot recognize him By sight, she in
stantly falls asleep. As durtn- these Dr0-
louged and frequent maps she neither eats
flrts, nor desires new Jewels. she j.. Of
course, safe and inexpensive wife. Never
lhe!ess, her husband regards her rs II use
less piece ofrroperty, and is stroagly iuclised
20 resent the conduct Of her parents in beguil-
ing him into so Improbable q purchase.
hoshungabad has, IS q matter Of course.
lis explanation OF this drovsy beauty. That
her husband does not put her to sleep v!ua-
llcIous machinations-such as reading 10 her
the circulars Of insurance companies, OK Lead
ing articles in the New York 7ii571s-is con-
ceded. Neither is it supposed that he COM
pels her to feign sleep, because Of his unw:l-
linSness to listen TO her conversation. That
he is nevertheless the cause of her sleep.uess
IS generally believed, and it is therefore de-
cded by the universal voice 0! Hoshungabad
that he uGc0nsciously exercises a magnetic
influence which she is unable to resist.
That this husband has suddenly acquired
vast respect and admiration from other Hos
hungabadtc husbands, and that the latter
have waited upon him in Populations, and
sought to buy from linn the secret Of his
p-conpelling power, is possibly the jocose
SANDER Of some miserable bachelor. /. IS
not impossible that the average Hoshunga-
bad husband may occasionally grow some
what weary Of his wife's cxhaustiess pTattIe,
just as the song ofthc sweetest-voicel canary
sometimes falls upon the faded ear of its
owner. Nevertheless, the husband whose
wife passes her entire marital existence in
profound slumber must surely be the object
OF pity rather than Of envy. Moreover, it is /
apparent, even to the HindoO mind, that the
perpetual slumber Of Mrs. Nunnee is quite
as much to her physical constitution as it is /,
to the peculiar magnetic power Of her hus- /
band. The latter may be q lord of creation, |
and the head Of his household, but it IS not |
pretended that he can compel any enc TO !
sleep except his wife, and his influence over
her is thus plainly due to her own pcculiari- !
any woman into profound sleep, |
why has lie not exercised it upon Mrs. Nun |
nee's mother, who, it is understood, perpet- /
ually upbraids him with the cruelty Of his /
conduct toward her daughter? Obviously /
because he cannot. The husbands Of Hos
hungabad owe him neither respect nor admi |
ration. If they desire sleepy wives, let them !
strive for the reyersion Of Mrs. Nunnce after |
the death or divorce of her husband The !
1,,t s,,P. IT,
would be of use to them. Indeed, we are |
Inclined to believe that the whole story Of
lis connection with his wife s slumbers is |
lnfoundcd, or st all events grossly exagser
tied
There are not wanting certain sarcastic .
Of the baser sort who per-
Give in the prolonged maps Of Mrs. Nunnee
| subtle scheme for holding her husband in
lbject slavery. She has, so they pretend,
merely feigned sleep. Now that her husband
las become convinced Of the reality of her
lumber, she will suddenly recover, and re-
main as wakeful as other wives, until he
centuries to refuse her new nOse-rings or bu-
lies. Thereupon she will instantly relapse
nto slumber, and so terrify him into uuvary-
ng submission to her will. If this be true,
Mrs. Nunncc IS in reality a pretcrnaturally
yldc-aWako young person, and a particularly
although rather ordinary kiad Of
wife. 1t will need, however, the strongest
possible evidence 30 convince Hoshungabad
md the rest Of the world: that woman can
ssa a!seR Tor years r9sstls2G and q Fiji f dG
2rdcr to acquire new set Of fnery. No;
here is much simpler explanation to this
ady's conduct. Some reckless person has
supplied her with file Of the New YORK
World, and she has read three Or four Of the
:wo-c0Iunp ARTICLES IN 1t at ono sitting,
Whether size will, after few years more Of
sleep, ultimately recover, cannot be predict
I'd. She is the only person who ever made
30 hazardous IN experiment, and the future
llone can determine the result Of such reck-
ess trifing with so delicate an organ as the
human brain.-N. Y. Times.