The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-12-26
AGIRL'S WONDROUS GIFT.
SHE SEES, HEARS AND TASTES
THROUGH OTHERS ONLY.


THROUGH OTHERS ONLY.
Doctors Bafaed by the Phenomena OF
Her Case-Blind, Deaf and Paralyzed
by Eighteen Years of Sickness-She
Hears Whispered Talks, Sees Pict-
ures Others Admire, Enjoys What
Others Eat and Repeats What Others
Read.
A strange case of a young woman who.
though blind, can see with the eyes Of
Others, feel cold when her friends are cold,
or warm when they are warm, hear through
their ears and taste with their palates. is
now under investigation. saws the New
York World, by committee in
this city. The committee consists Of
N. G.. Gallup, G. II. Moffet and
Albert Peppers, and, in conjunction with
Or. T. B. Kinget, the three are working to
authenticate all the details of the woman's
strange history and weave them into a
paper to be read before an antEropo-
logical and psychological club in
which they are all interested. They are
also members of the Radical Club, which
has rooms at No. Q st. Marks place, and are
enthusiastic upon all queer things which
happen in the heavens above, the earth be-
meath or the waters under the earth For
very good reasons the name and address OF
the woman in question are not made public.
Her family breads the publicity that the re-
cital of her case with her redl identity dis
closed would bring about, but she lives in
Jersey City and has for years been patient
of DIR. Kinget, who lives at No. 15S East
EIghty-fourth street.
ho 1foif fafsc
to the reading of a paper by DR.. Klnget
himself on Saturday evening at the house
of Isaac Ulman, No. st. Marks place. The
subject of his essay was Miss Mary White
the name is of course fictitious-and the
tale that the doctor tells of his wonderful
patient is indeed a remarkable one.
CONFINED TO HER BED EIGHTEEN YEARS.
Miss White came to DIR. Kinget's notice
eighteen years ago. Since that time she
has been under his charge He has observed
her closely and studied her case infinitely.
He had been the regular physician of Miss
Whites family for a number OF years be-
fore he was called in to attend the young
girl He knows all the members of the
family we'll and he vouches for the particu-
lars of the following strange story.
In 1872, when he first attended the girl,
she was suffering from a bad fever brought
on as the result of breaking through the
ice while skating on Thanksgiving Day of
that year. Before this time she had always
been in robust health, but the shock and
the chill attendant on the disaster had shat
tered her system severely. The fever soon
acquired typhoid character, complicated
with other disorders. Everything possible
was done to insure her recovery, but with
no success. She became chronic invalid
and she has ever since been confined to her
bed.
It was not until almost four years ago,
however, that the strange manifestations of
her disease were first observed. For ten
years she passed her time quietly in bed,
reading and studying. Seven years ago her
lower limbs became partially paralyzed.
Six years ago she was stricken blind. Her
naturally sunny disposition became gloomy
under her Affections, and whereas she was
formerly bright and lively, she became SEEM
ingly stupid. She responded to conversa-
tion only when il was loud and emphatic
She was daily growing weaker and her life
was despaired Of, when one day, to the sur
prise of every one, she suddenly rallied and
all at once took the greatest interest in
everything about her. She was blind and
partially paralyzed, and, what was natural
her other senses became proportionately
keener. But what was not natural was
that she had developed the weird faculty of
seeing with tue eyes of others, though she
could not see with her own. And a strange
HER MARVELLOUS SECOND SIGHT.
The first manifestation of her abnormal
powers was observed Jan. s. 1887. She had
been left alone the greater part of the morn
ing, when the brother of very near friend
opened the door of her room.
10, Hiram she cried out before a word
had been spoken, Il know Mary's back
pains her awfully; but you don't think she
will die, do youW
The day before friend, Mary Cutting by
name, who lived some distance in the coun-
try had been thrown from her horse and
had suffered intensely in her back The
brother came to tell of the accident and
soften its severity. But she had anticipated
him. She could not possibly have learned
OF the accident IN any ordinary way
During the follow ing week her younger
sister sat q few feet from the bed reading
George Eliot's "Middlemarch The IN
valid girl could see only the back of the
book and did not know the page at which it
was opened. Suddenly she began to read
verbatim the words as seen by her sister
The phenomenon was reported to Dr.
Klnget, who was at first critical. He called
the next day, opened small medical pam
phlet some distance from the patient and
asked her to tell him something of il. if
possible. She was unable even to tell him
the nature of the work. His doubts were
he picked up the volume that had before
produced such remarkable results and
opened it at random.
SEEING THROUGH OTHER EYES.
No sooner had his eyes rested upon the
first line than the girl began to read the
exact words that he saw before him. He
looked at her in amaZemeut. She was living
with her face toward the wall and her ewes
were closed as if in sleep. But the moment
he looked at Der she ceased speaking. He
glanced at the page again, and again she
pronounced the words just as he saw them.
''as if she were literally seeing through nv
own eyes" are the doctors own words. She
read nearly a page in this way. Then he
closed the novel and opened the pamphlet
that had been unable to call forth her
power upon the previous occasion.
He asked her to read the book then es she
had done with 'Middlemarch.n She SAID
she could see nothing then, though she saw
plainly before. He closed the pamphlet and
again opened "Middlemarch," and she pro
nounced the words as his ewes perused
them exactly as if his eyes were her own,
he closed the book and watched her
closely fer more than an hour, conversinc
with her casually. She grew sleepy. anc
he left, after giving special instructions Il
have her every action and word CAREFUL,
noted