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YET THERE ' S METHOD IN IT." 251
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in music , getting up at four o ' clock in the morning for that purpose . Her salary in this school was 250 francsor £ 10 a year /
The two following examples are taken , from good French society . Madame V , who is nearly sixty years of age , is rich _,
educated , amiable , and perfectly lucid . She is fond of going about to concertsplaysand to -watering-placesboth in France and
Germany . , Yet her , unfortunate husband , who , has been devoted to her for five-and-thirty years , has known no peace or happiness in
the domestic circle . To a morbid condition of the sense of touch , which renders her unwilling to put on clean clothes , and causes her
to be hours over her toilette , and never to be ready for any of her meals , she adds a nervous horror of tallow or grease ; and will not
live in a street where there are any shops , lest perchance a grocer ' s may be found among them . Unfortunatelyher daughter begins
, to exhibit the same peculiarities . M . Trelat remarks that Madame "V was herself an only daughterand that the education of such
, is often calculated to foster any inherited fault or monomania . Again , M . W is forty-five years old . He spends almost
all his time in his study , where he is supposed to be pursuing serious literary investigations . When visible , he complains of
over-work and the effects upon his health of night watching . His wife , an intelligent and agreeable ladyis urged by his friends to
, attempt to moderate his intellectual ardor . She replies sadly that all her endeavors are of no avail . But she carefully conceals the
reason . This gentleman passes his days in counting how many times the letters S , T , C , or V , are repeated in Genesis , Exodus ,
Numbers , or Deuteronomy , as likewise how many pages " in a given edition begin by a Dor a Band end by an N _" in the Book of
, , , Kings or Solomon's Song . He will allow himself to go unwashed for a fortnightwhile his whole faculties are absorbed in reckoning
, the contradictory opinions enunciated by the same author ; and having passed one , twoor three years in the uninterrupted pursuit
, of this kind of literature , he devotes himself with equal assiduity to taking to pieces all his clocks and watches , and fitting- them _,
togeth te Monsieur er again is too . His seriously servants engaged are ordered for him to to say be to disturbed all visitors ; " , th and at
his faithful wife will probably keep the secret to the day of his release by death .
One very curious form of lucid insanity , only suggested by a female Some twent examp y years le given since a M few . Trelat pages while back , temporaril is that of y inventors supplying .
the place of another Physician at , the Bicetre , the male asylum near Parisattended a patient who claimed to have found
out the princi , ple of perpetual motion . Pie was a married man , and had ruined his family by his trials and attempts at
invention . He asserted that he could communicate perpetual motion to a wheel by means of stagnant water , and when
remonstrated with , in variably and politely replied , "Allow me to observe , M . h Docteur , that I acknowledge your entire competence in T 2
Yet There ' S Method In It." 251
YET THERE ' S METHOD IN IT . " 251
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1862, page 251, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061862/page/35/
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