The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-07-14
LIVED ON NEEDLES. |G(
DID THIS G|R|E
She Ate Them While Sho Sovo ,dge
One Hundred at a NIL
Time. 1iz
WAS CARELESS. SHE S]
SAYS, WHILE AT wORl
Surgeons Occasionally PIaS Of
Her on Operating Table and Nil
Cut Out Pieces Steel.

Miss Molhe Dressler, who bas tyr
habit Of absorbing needles with t,r
same enthusiasm other young wonsr
display in the consumption of lobstts
and nesselrode pudding, is doing van,
nicely at the Lebanon hospital. saws ~
New York World. Her friends will L,
pleased to loarn that sixtv.Gve and |,
half needles were taken from her va;
terday, and that there are only "a
more to draw from her ears and az.
| brows
1t was only last March that the sus
geons at Bellevue extracted 100 needl..
from Miss Dressler. She was takd,
there from Fordbam hospital. H,i
home is at 1910 East One Hundred Az
Sjxty-third street, where she lives wit,
a Mrs. Morgenthal, Why she eats ne
dies is a poignant mystery. Her frient
Mrs. Morgenthal, has puzzled over 4
for months without even approaehips
solution. Whenever she pressed Mi
Dressler for n answer sne would smI-
blandly and reply as she daintiy d1e,
few needles out of her chin;
"a Careless Little Way"
''Pshaw, 1t is Just careless littT
wav / have Then she would mun{
O. package or SO and 60 on with b.
sewing.
According TO Mrs Morgenthsl, Il
habit has grown on Miss Dressler. Il
first she would take into her person on
half dozen or 30 and then wait 81
them to crop out, She seemed TO tai
pleasure in the surprises they gave hf'
some sprouting from her toes and otha
popping their eyes out of the back &
her neck. 4
All seemed to come 10 the surfaf
eventually, and it soon became sort
little game with her. But when st
swallowed a full package of 100 la
March the adventure of the needles d
her system became a serious matte
She tainted several times as The tir
slivers OF steel cruised about and shor
circulte3 divers nerve centers.
Nevertheless, she objected TO IMP
the hospital
sfI will not take any more Tor a. fe
dsys." she said, land know that thd
can now feel making little cold shl
ers inside of me will come out Just
surely as Bo Peeps lambs came hon
with their little tails pinned up neau
where they ought to be: "A
Miss Dressler was always facetiol
about the needles and drove the sli
ICONS at Bellevue to distraction. The
: even had her examined for herr. sanitl
but she stood the test beautifully
4 week was spent in locating the cc4
turv OF needles with the X-rsy and the
cosying them 10 the surface Win
powerful magnet. When fifty mad peg
corralled in this manner MISS presss
wanted to go home. She SAID see le'
lighter and quite brisk, Wnat Il tner
were few navigating dangerously nes
her heart She had felt them go tnrouS
her heart before. The sensation n''
been altogether agreeable. ensv
The surgeons were firm and nnsdg5 sd5
neeotiated the entire package OF Iu'
Then Miss Dressler was released sn'
went home.
" changed Her Diet,
She refrained from needles, MS Tha ~"
genital said. for several weeks
She began to take them agaln ~ shnr
doses. She was very unootruslVe enG1
il. so her friends did not kno" unlli
few days ago that she had gone PACK
the steel silver diet ,,no1
One of her friends became almo'
impatient when she saw the yoau
woman reach down and pull. TWO ha
headed needles out of her ankle;
care there any more there, MohS
.tYes dear said Miss press,'
; svaatIv HThere's IS little bodkin cog
inc no nv spine. 1 shall geet. 1t o"'
nv shoulder blade directly;
Then she confessed that she mao sM
lowed an ounce or two OF needles si,,
ths frst of the month. The greater pa'
Of them. she assured her frlena, Ii Ii
cropped. Every morning Wheh BIC V"
up she got o dozen or So o,a n
When Miss Dressler was nervous 81
needles seemed 10 compose het. L,, 4,
thought she WAS a little lhe h,
tbev acted as ballast and steaoieu =
- Takes Another Hundred
Feeling very distraught on oaegiIoe;; ~ Ia;
she swallowed another pachas
Some of them, 1t nappeeeu NJ Id
exniore several delicate dlstricss o.
aMetomy interfering with her olges'iiiI,
Tamsennentlv her friends agaln cans
nr, bnlance and sent her 10 LeDSn'
hospital. machine 4
the hos hospital which the Young intslss ln.srua
were delighted to use; ,irs 1t waS caSrse :a' bsc
nnd siG forth through the young iauJ
arms and legs, 1t was also thiln~
catch them with tweezer W. AMI
bristIed through the skin u,hsH nSpsoDn So man
with an electric magnet, wneh m,e - als
elusive glsa e. needles were involved was as
Some little difficulty yg,f ,Tssdle was eto'd to tI
tered in coaxing t1e s1hmnaisblv hu and cor
, tinusiy " yawod on the course, ~ M;.s L prss, Sa
as 5s in 1sxsss s5s ssf Of a1a a'i drsss
ont. I'll ,,,obaply be RI
leased from the hospital l.Hrsd soo5 aau asaeversll
home. She She will dld,s be babit. afSta'au and as hs
sss agaes espeIsn9e i9s asfss as been rather
she viii probably be EN- mere rsfTa;n SaisAi isos
the future and at assaoa Least ss''A
taking them by the paeAag@