The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-09-10


are not allowed TO do anything but
wonder what you are going to do next
and what they, are .going. to give YOU for
d!nnerAand to this reposeful resort
some sorrowing relatives not long ago
brought q; young woman who was suf-
terIng from hysteria and incidentally.
making her family suffer. She was a
good looking young. woman. and ;. her
clothes fitted her and she had plenty OF
them, but these things gave her no JOY.
apparently;. all she asked was to be al
lowed to die as quickly as was convent
ent to all concerned. 10 ~
To this end the fair patient consist
emily refused to take the food that twas
given her. That would not have been
anything remarkable II any other kind
Of food had been procurable, for many
people do not care for oats and shred-
ded birds nests. served with milk, but
the rest cure doctors were generally In,
flexible. on the question, OF diet and II
they determined upon a regimen OF egg
fruit patties and grape juice for pa.
tent their course was to starve that pa
tient into submission. In this case,
however, the. plan, failad to, work. 1t
seemed to be just what the girl wanted.
s,Il she would eat dill pickles and hot
raised biscuit with honey. so, after she
had become too weak to walk. the au-
,horities reluctantly consented to the
pickles and biscuit as a temporary
measure OF relief.
1t was useless to argue with her, for
she made no sign that she heard a word
that any one said 10 her. Her friends
asserted that she was quite deaf, but
one Of The doctors had his doubts about
that.
With view to finding out whether
hts theory was correct this man OF
science was in the habit OF shouting
suddenly when he was near the girl: OF
stealing up behind her and bursting In.
Hated paper bags with the palm Of his
hand. and, these falling of ,remarkins
in her presence with deep sorrow upon
various imaginary calamitles thai, had
beiallen her relations. He was telling u
brother physician about the case. which
he declared was one Of the most re-
markahle in the whole course Of his
experience. #, ~ yil
II know she is shamming." he said.
"and cannot. believes she is, either. rIf
you fired a cannon behind her she
wouldn't let an eyelid flicker"
Certainly she wouldn't" agreed the
other, who was q man Of experience.
And when said how sad 1t was
that her mother had fallen Off i trolley
car and had sustained a severe concus-
sion of the brain she didn't as much as
change color, let alone shed tear"
"Of course she didn't" said the other.
Then he smiled to himself and stroked
his chin. At last he said: "rll bet
can find out whether she's shamming or
not. I'll go around tomorrow and see
her."
He went around and asked the girl
several questions, to all of which she
only shook her head and smiled Ian
guidly. Then the doctor left her and
had short consultation with two OF
the nurses.
Shortly after this the two nurses hap
pened to be in the room where the girl
was sitting reading n l;ygienic novel
ana they began TO taik about her.
ITS such a Pity" remarked nurse
No. l. S.tot course she, can't kill herself
eating what she does. She might last
twenty years. hut her complexion won't
last. can notice the difference In It
already. and she hasn't been here two
weeks"
ut seems to me she's getting sallow."
said nurse No. .. Her complexion is
the best thing she's. got, too. 1t is u
PITY"
In a month her face will look like
sulphur md .molasses, = pursued No. /.
who wns a remarkably fresh and rosy
checked woman herself. .It'll be worse
than mine was before came here and
took the diet Do you remember how l
looked then?"
They did not look at the girl-they
were too bright. They talked on other
subjects for some time, and then left
the room one at time. The last one
to so left the. door open the width OF
her finger and then turned and applied
her eye to the crack. .tte
She had not long to walt. In about q
minute the girl rose from her seat and
walked casually over 10 the mirror. in
which, she gazad long and earnestly.
The nurse stole away on tlptoe and left
her there. The next morning, when, as
usual, the hygienic edible. birds nests
and things were offered to the patient
for her breakfast. she did not push
them away and demand pickles. She
ate what was given TO her and In some
way. the diet seemed TO prove a sort OF
opening wcdge-if that term may be
applied to diet-for the girls hearing
slowly improved and she began to. takc
notice OF things. The cure people expect
to send her home well in about two
weeks more;
Dudley Dugan Is the proprietor of a
saloon on the west side. a man OF
welght.in the community. and more or
less OF a power in local politics. He
takes pride in his place" also, and
recently he caused a new plank side
walk to be hid In front OF 1t. He
watched the progress OF the work with
an interest that hardly permitted him
to eerve his customers. whose conGrnt-