New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-09-03
PAPER BAGS As room.

Il has been noted by observing mrdic'i meh
that large SCHOOLGIRLS. or rather. perhaps we
should shy, young ladies. are sometimes gwen 10
swallowing strange and wholly unnatural foreign
substances after the manner VI the ostrich. we
do not refer 10 candy which. though II MAY co.,
tain substances that would lie heavy on an o.
trichs crop, nevertheless presents them IN more
or less palatnblc form. hut 10 things not IN any
wov intended for food, SUCH for instance. ms
slate.peucils No ono except an extremely young
Young lady would ever think OF eating slate
pencil, yet the London Lancet estimates tha'
live hundred gross Of prime slate-pencils are lie
| yourrd yearly by the young ladies OF the United
Kingdom alone. to soy nothing Of O good many
boxes OF school cnyons and nobody knows how
much chalk The pra, ,.ce Of physicians In treat
iny tbc difficulty has vuried considerably Or.
Abrrrc,by. the celebrated London doctor, was IN
tho habit Of prescribing o brisk spanking by the
naticnt's mother every two hours till relief WAS
ATTAINED. In this country. however, II has
usually been found that the spanking age has
been slightly passed by the subject and shutting
| in II dark closet has generally been substituted.
The dropping on Of one meal day has also hrch
tiled with excellent results Indeed, thanks 10
advanced medical research, parents need nave
but small fear Of the disorder, as little visor-
ous treatment in any OF the lines Indicated Is
certain 10 effect cure.
That the trouble some times manifcsts itself IN
an op,rti,c fo- substances other than slate pencils
| and school crayons is also well known. There
comes at this time from Moncfon, n. b., the
story Of q young lady named Eta Simpson. aged
seventeen years. who has been asleep for the last
week recovering from the effects OF an unnatural
| diet Miss simpsons weakness is reported as
| brown paper, especially brown paper bags She
1,aI,. b,,, M
| ago, and since then she has occasionally fallen
asleep for a week or ten days. during which time
| she has presumably been engaged in digrsting the
| brown paper. Miss Simpson, We ore told usually
devours II large brown paper bag at q meal. These
paper meals, however, occur every hour or two,
| 20 il is no uncommon thing for her to dispose Of
| "A dozen bags in o day She began with small,
light-coorcd bags such candy is ordinarily sold
in, but her taste has gradually developed until
now she thinks nothing OF large paper Hour
saok. Paper in any other form than bags Is not
| 80 much to her liking, though she does not scorn
good butchers and grocers' wrapping paper when
| the supply Of bags runs short She has SO far
rcSOluicly refused circus posters. and the New
brunswick goats still remain in possession of their
own. She does not think highly of printed paper.
Early in June she ate copy Of the London
Punch" bni it threw her into snch u state Of
melancholy THAT her friends WEIR greatly ulnrnfu
for several days She was finally brought around
Ia her normally cheerful condition by being given
two chapters torn from Mr.. Mark Twain's In
| nOccnts Abroad"
About n week ago this remarkable young lady
| fell asleep and has continued in that condition
| since, not even waking to take a bag. This is
! not thr first time that she has INDUCED In long
nap. Indeed, this popularity OF hers is the only
hope for the storckerpers in the ncighborhood, az
it enables them TO replcnish their stocks of brown
| paper bags. What the outcome of Miss Simpson
peculiar taste will be, nO'onc can tell Her friends
fear that it will I've serious. 1t seems To us that
the Simpson family physician must he strangely
| lacking in ncmincm. What she clearly needs is to
| have tho brown paper bugs instantly taken from
her bill OF fare. and bread and butter and poatocs
substituted, with perhaps an occasional bccfstcnk
or plate Of pork and beans. And 10 restore her
appetite for these eminently proper articles OF dict
she should be given from two TO four hours In On
| exceedingly dark closet. Medical science must In
| deed bc at low cbb IN M0nctOn. N. b.