OUT OF HER MIND.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1187, 25 October 1882, Page 2

OUT OF HER MIND.

» A very touching case of mental aberration in a charming young woman is described by an exchange. Not long ago her mother found her in the room energetically darning stockings, and soon after she appeared in the kitchen and assisted that wonderful dame in making and baking bread and pastry. Alarmed by these fearful signs of intellectual disorder, her fond parents immediately sent for a skillful physician, who watched her through a keyhole while she sewed a button on her father's garanients and mended those of her little brother. Much affected, the venerable man remarked that never during a medical practice of twenty years had he known any young person to manifest such symptoms as these. The most heart-rending phase of all, however, was shown the other day, when her kind father, with a faint hope of rousing her from her sad state gave her £100, and told her to buy a new dress. Alas? ' twas useless. She instantly observed that she didn't need a dross, and if he would let her keep £25 to pay a poor widow's rent she'd much rather he would take the rest of the money for himself. For a few minutes that grief-stricken old gentleman gazed upon his hapless child, then hiding his face, mutter ;d between his sobs, " Her mind is gone ! Her mind is gone !"