The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-07-21
1IIEER VOWS ARE MADE
No LIMIT TO FOLLY
SOME HUMAN BEINGS.
Crawls to Church Once
S raar. and Man swore He'd Never
lo'" !, On Another Woman.


l0'I Iook On Another Woman.
rsoro is no limit to human tolly'
,orsoness, and many of the
o.rs that rash people make are 1901
w. &c well as perverse.
~ r a, years ago a California
Iost his sight during an illness
lp'D 4bore was danger of total blind
gnu uis wife was exceedingly pious,
n03' lowed that if her husbands
'la s+ was restored she would crawl
- bar hands and knees once year
" noighboring church in token OF
latitude. He recovered his
NO. and once a year since then his
s ~ifs has kept her vow, says the Phil
,delphia Inquirer.
'4 ~ was surely nothing but folly and
,rtinacv that inspired the VOW of an
: bochAlor that he would never
VII IN a woman's face again. In
sor IN carry out his VOW he had
',~s wall built around his house,
r5icb he never left, and substituted
.or for his women servants. Later,
hor new houses sprang up around
s,s own, and his grounds were over
1.oJod he had them covered with
.oof and artif1cially lighted. He kept
h,s strange VOW to the end of his life,
rbiob however, came within seven
years.
The most recent of these foolish
majors of vows is a native of Brus-
sale who has sworn that he will make
tour of the world walking back
ward. 1t is to be hoped that his fate
will be happier than that of the man
who swore that he would never rest
antil he could walk on the ceiling
h like a fy and who lost his reason
without gaining his wish.
There was method in the mad
4 ness" of the great French painter
u Zeim. who vowed that he would new
or leave his studio until certain
;mnortant picture was finished. He
gave Instructions that the door should
he locked in his studio, and that the
Adoor should not be opened under any
B conditions, his meals to be handed
e to him through a hole in the door
THUS he worked for months during
& the crisis that ended in Napoleon's
Sfamous coup d'etat and his accession
10 the throne, of which Zeim knew
#nOthing until his picture was COM
peted and his door was unlocked.
Il 1t was for a very curious reason
THAT an old lady who died few
years ago condemned herself to more
than thirty years. confinement to her
home She had married a widower,
as miserly as he was unromantic, and
he insisted that his second wife
Should wear the clothes left behind
by his first wife. The wife was as
mutinous as her husband was reso-
lutte, and she determined that until
she could have her own clothes she
would never leave the house-a VOW
she kept until her death.
A man who was recently released
from San Quentin, the state prison
M California, after serving a sem
pence of six years imprisonment for
burglary, was one of the strangest of
A3Onyicts. The very moment that he
entered the prison portals he turned
70 the sheriff and vowed that he
would never speak another word I'M
81 Il ais sentence had expired.
Every effort was made to make the
eonyict speak, but no threats or pun
shment had the slightest effect on
I'M and he never spoke again until
re had passed out of the prison, six
ears later, free man.
story is told of a young man in
pngland, a great chess enthusiast,
IN no was annoyed at his failure to
o"e an unapparently simple prob
~ that he vowed he would neither
- nor eat until the solution was
puma He shut imseif up in dis
SEQ room and was found four days
ter by his relatives, terribly ema-
1@Ved and out of his mind He spent
year in lunatic asylum as the
fSuit of the rash vow, and the prob
= remains unsolved.
'g TROOPS MAY CROSS STATE.