THE GREATEST FEAT ON RECORD.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2462, 8 February 1881, Page 4

THE GREATEST FEAT ON RECORD.

A case lias just been brought to light in Chicago, which, had its progress been known and noted from day to day, would have created a far more widespread interest than that evinced by the public in the diurnal doings of the great starver. This is nothing less than that of a woman, who has not spoken for thirty-one days. As soon as she heard of Dr Tanner, she said, with a resolution most commendable, “If there is a man on the face of the earth who thinks he can hold out forty daj’s and forty nights without a chance to grumble at his coffee or beefsteak, I’d prove that there is a woman who can do what all mankind has held that a woman can’t do—l’ll hold my tongne for forty days,” whereupon she proceeds to hold it, as she hasn’t said a syllable since. Her husband is a well-known salesman in one of our largest dry goods places,and her father not unknown among Chicago lawyers. Through the exertions of these gentlemen, Mrs ’s singular resolution has been kept a secret as far as practicable, only a few of the immediate family friends knowing what was going on. Mrs has performed her 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 Ids mood may have been, his better-half had met him with imperturbable countenance and silent tongue. She is rather a small woman, with gray eyes and dark hair, a trifle inclined to be stout, though her plumpness has decreased about thirteen pounds during the hast 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 days are out.