KLEPTOMANIA.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 130, 1 June 1872, Page 4

KLEPTOMANIA.

The New PYork Evening Post relates a remarkable story about a " London Lady " This unfortunate person had, it appears, an incurable attachment for other people's gloves. Perfectly honest an^ upright in all other/ respects, she, could never see a: " pair of gloves lying about without ex-j periencing : , ; a desire to annex them, and soi clever had she become in the course of long practice that towards the end of any week during which; she: had had occasion ifo "do an extensive shopping, she. was accustomed to^ ~lib_Hbil-ii' , & l^ : nii'/, §__ «s*& ; s^Sp." The regret of the owners of the gloyes was poignantly Bhare^by-theladyherßelf, and at length she adopted the course of formally acquainting

her little weakness, begging them to have her watched, and to make out after each visit a bill of delinquencies. Tbis was done throughout a period of two years, the lady paying the accounts as they came in without a murmur. At the end of two years, " owing to a course of gymnastic treatment, a prescribed diet, and vigorous exercise," the mania was subdued, and the lady was able to go into a shop where gloves abounded and to come out with the single pair she wore when she entered. The Evening Post expresses surprise at the singularity of the curative measures adopted. But to us this is by far the least remarkable feature in the story. " Gymnastic treatment, a prescribed diet, and vigorous exercise," have long been familiar in this country as a remedy for the constitutional weakness of persons who cannot leave ashop with out carrying away articles for which they have not paid. Only, in our matter-of-fact way, we have been accustomed to call the process "Imprisonment with bard labor."