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Nelson Evening Mail, 27 January 1881, Page 4

A case ba3 just been brought to light jin Chicago, which* ; had its; progressi; jbeen known and noted from day to,' iday, would have created a far more : wide-apread interest than that eviue,e<iL |by the public in the diurnal doings of jthe greafe-fltaryer. - This is nothing lees (than that' of a woman, who has hot jspoken for thirty-one days. Aa riobri las she heard of Dr. Tanner, Bhe.,saioV with a resolution most commendable, " If there is a man on the face of the earth wbo thinks be can hold out fortyidays and forty nights without a chance | to grumble at his coffee or beefsteak, | I'll prove that there is a woman who can do what all mankind has held that a woman can't do — I'll hold my tongue for forty days," whereupon she proceeded to hold it, and she hasn't said a syllable since. Her husband is a wellknown salesman in one of our largest dry goods places, and her father not unknown among Chicago lawyers. Through the exertions of these gentlemen, Mrs ■ — — 'a singular resolution has been kept a secret as far as practicable, only a few of the immediate family friends knowing what was goiDg on. Mrs — has performed ber accustomed daily duties with unfailing regularity, and her husband acknowledges that never during the seven years of his married life has his home been so free from a shadow of discord : for no matter how quarrelsome ', hia; mood may have been, his bV;tter*half had^met him with impertura , bli»'c6tihi''' tenance Jan |eileht tongue; She- ijj rathpr a sma c wppoan, with grpy eysa

and dark hair, a trifle inclined to be stout, though her plumpness hii decreased about thirteen pounds during the last thirty-one days. She was dressed very neatly in some dark goods, and looked altogether quite like dozens of women one meets. There is nothing in her personal appearance to indicate resolution ; but there it is, an adamantine rock which neither time nor tide can crumble ; nor is it now likely that she will speak before the appointed forty days are gone.