A VERY TOUCHING CASE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 32, 6 December 1873, Page 11

A VERY TOUCHING CASE.

A VEitY touchirg case of mental alienation in a charming young lady is described by a careful observer. Not long ago her mother found her in her room energetically darning stockings, and soon after she appeared in the kitchen and assisted that wonderful dame in making and buking bread and pastry. Alarmed by these fearful signs of intellectual disorder, her fond parents immediately sent for a skilful physician, who watched her through a keyhole while she sewed buttons on her fither's garments and mended those of her little brother. Huch affected, the venerable man remarked that never during a medical practice of twenty-five years had he known any young person to manifest such symptoms as these. The mos*-. heartrending phase of all, however, was shown the other day, when her kind father, with a faint hope of raising her from her sad state, gave her 200 dollars' and told her to buy a new dress. Alas! 'twas useless. Mac instantly observed that she didn't need a new dress, and if he would let her keep 25 dollars to pay a poor widow's rent she'd much rather he would take the rest of the money for himself. ]?or a few moments that grief- stricken old gentleman gized upon his hapless child, then hidiag his face, muttered between his tobs, " Her mind is gone ! Her mind is gone !"