Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-02-08
Warming to Gnm.Chewers.

| lowing arucle, out insert II as IL
comes in an Eastern paper. 1t would
seem that one such instance were
enough to forever abolish a useless
and ungainly habit among little girls
and young ladies who make the
smallest pretentions to neatness and
womanly grace: An incident &C.
Cured lately in St. Louis that may
serve as a warning to hundreds of
young persons who have entered
upon q career of gum-chewing. A
girl named Ida Smith had been
chewing for nearly year. She is
about eleven years old, rather bright
and intelligent, and chewed about
the same gum as was used by neigh
boring girls along the avenue. On
Saturday evening she took the gum
from her mouth, stuck it under the
edge of the mantel until she could
go to the kitchen and get swallow
of water, and on her return her pa
rents were Mortified to see her jaws
moving rapidly. She was told to
throw the gum from her mouth, and
on investigation it was shown that
she was not chewing anything; still
her jaws kept working at a rapid
rate. The parents sent for a ply
stefan, who came and attempted to
hold the jaw in proper position, be-
lieving it to be only temporary but
he could not stop the regular move
ment. The child grew nervous, and
the excitement only increased the &C
ton of the jaws. The physician put
a tight bandage over her face and this
partially relieved the movement, but
then the twitching ofthe muscles ex-
tended all over her face. AS last
resort, moderate dose of morphine
was administered, and the little girl
kept up incoherent mutterings, ac-
companied by general disturbance
of the muscles of the upper portion
of the body, during the greater por-
ton of the night, and towards morn
ing the little sufferer was restored to
her normal condition. The physician
says he never heard of such a case
before, and thinks it was brought
about by q spasmodic action of the
muscles of the face, caused by over
action. The little girl after endur-
ing a night of suffering is now re-
stored, but nothing in the world
could again induce her to chew gum.
A MEETING of the Board of Officers
and executive committee of the
Washington Territory Bible Society,
was held last evening at the Office OF
Rev. j. r. Thompson. After open.
ing the meeting with prayer, it was,
among other things, resolved that
each cell in the Penitentiary and the
chapel of that institution be furn-
ished with copy of the Bible, also
that two copies be donated to the
passenger car of the Olympia and
Tenino Railroad, on condition that
suitable racks be provided in the
car for their reception. Twenty-Five
copies of the Bible were donated to
the Sunday School at New Tacoma.
1t was further resolved that all the
money in the treasury, except ten
dollars, be paid over to the Ameri-
can Bible Society, to remain at the
call of this society whenever new
books are needed. The society was
found to be in a reasonably prosper
Gus condition, and doing q good
work, though an improvement in
both respects would be highly de-
sirable. The annual business meet
ing of the Society will be held this
evening in the Methodist church,
and the Anniversary meeting to-mor-
row Sunday evening, in the same
place. Both meetings will convene
at Z o'clock, and the latter will be ad-
dressed by Revs. Hetzler, Roberts,
Thomas and Macie. All friends of
the Bible-cause are invited to attend
these gatherings.
The ruling passion was strikingly
emasplifed at the time of the fire.
alarm to-day. A young lady, whose
| fathers house ia situated sOmethino