The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1878-08-22
Habits OF Single TOung women.

at Milton, on the Hudson, where q
young woman, named Louise Heuser
who was alone i'm her sisters house o.
an evening, while the family were
out, and who, on their return, wAi
found senseless, lying on her back on
the floor, nude to her shoes, with hel
feet braced against the door, and 8
sponge tied over her nose, gives us q
new revelation of the wonders OF the
female nature, and also OF the effect
OF dime novels on the feminine mind
Detectives were employed to unravel
the mystery. She told that couple
Of men came suddenly into the parlor
seized her, and that in the struggle
she tainted. Her clothes were care
fully folded, but the sponge and its
fastenings we're strange.
It was surmised that it was an Rct
of petty village revenge for some
slight. But there was also q cOnjee,
ture that il was an attempt to get a
fine fresh body for the sucking saw
bones to cut up. Recently she saw 8
man passing and she said he was one
of them. 1t is said that the suspicion
she was causing to innocent men
made them retaliate by telling OF heI
antecedents. These are wonderful
The story is that few years ago she
lived with Captain Wagner, of New
York ; that ''she was passisnately
fond of reading dime novels, and was
a curious compound OF rOmance;" that
Zone evening she bought bottle Oi
red ink and drank it; she nearly died
when she recovered she blamed 8
young man in the drug store"
We conclude that the mental proc
ess from reading dime novels to
drinking bottle OF red ink was that
by this she would become writer OF
romance just as there is a common
superstition that swallowing q die
tionary will cause good literary de-
livery. Perhaps the young man in
the drug store fOstered this delusiOn,
in order to sell G bottle Of red ink II
so, she may have Justly blamed him.
The next OF her antecedents is that
''she selected family Of the name OF
Livingstone, and with them she re-
sided in the capacity of child's nurse
until she had placed herself in q sim
gular situation some two or three
times" This is wholly vague, but
II her situation was singular, it was
cot plural. 1t was probably situation
from the dime novel.
The story goes on: "One night, on
the return home OF the family, they
found her stripped naked, lying on the
floor, in strong commissions. She
RVerred there had beeh men in the
room, who had frightfuIly misused
her. There was no truth in her story
and she was sent away" Did this
pOsturing before a mirror, on her
back, nude, in strong commissions,
come from dime novels? ? Was she
playing the part Of the distressed dam
sells for some handsome young hero to
rescue, upon which she would fall up
on his breast and say: "Take me /;
you have saved my honor ?" But how
does anybody know there was no
truth in her story? Who could know
IL he was not there?
Then the story says: itHsr sister,
who was settled at Milton, took her
to her arms, and things went on very
quietly until it became time for the
semi~occasiOnRl cOnvulsiOn and men
in the room. The scene was enacted
over again." And now this story is
told because ''Dr. and Mrs. HasbrOuk
have been warned repeatedly that If
they did not cease going on with pro-
ceedings against DIR. Miller, LOuisa's
sntecedents would be looked into"
So now the thing is satisfactorily eX-
planned. Louisa, In consequence of
the romantic nature she had imblbed
from dime novels, is in the habit OF
herself, folding her clothes
carefully, tying a sponge over her
mouth and nose, and going in convul-
siOns on her back before q mirror, or
with her feet set against the door by
which the other must return.
When a reason is given, he who Is
not satisfied is unreasonable. The
moral OF this story, as Mr.. John Buns
by says, lies in the application OF it.
Let young women beware OF dime
novels, and read no romance at less
than 81 a volume, lest they get the
habit of going into nude cOnvulsions
whenever left alone.
DR.. Miller, as we understand, is the
doctor who, being an EnglishmRn, Is
suspected of attempting to make of
Louisa fine fresh body for medical
students, it being supposed that so fine
q body, delivered while fresh, would
fetch high price. Indeed, the the
Ories and explanations on both sides
are so rational and satisfactory that 1t
is hard to reject either Of them. II it
be true that medical colleges set 9
higher value on the bodies OF fine
young women, ssphyxisted to order,
ana delivered fresh, then q new way is
added to redUee the surnluS of eiDPl6
young women, and no one Of fine fig.
ure and fresh complexion need de-
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