Excerpt from The Smith College Monthly, Vol. 6: October, 1898-June, 1899 He found the set made up chiefly of patients, with a scatter ing Of attendants, and a single visitor - one of the college girls - who was dancing with a hilarious little Old man Of his own ward. He was struck by her attitude at once, which was nu usual for an outsider. She showed neither nervousness, nor timidity, nor a tendency toward hysterics, on finding herself in such unwonted proximity to a madman; on the contrary, her bearing was easy, normal, tolerant - sometimes amused. She did not lose her poise, even when her partner, with a startling disregard for conventionality, put out his tongue at her. Instead, she examined it, as he seemed to be directing her to do, with a serene interest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.