Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1915-06-27 | Page 10 | Peculiar Vows Men Have Made

Peculiar Vows Men Have Made There Is no limit to human folly or I perverseness per and md nd man many of tho the vows that rash people make are aro foolish as aswell aswell aswell well as perverse Eighteen years ears ago a California man lost hl his hili sight during during- an Illness and there thele was danger of or total blindness His wife was exceeding pious and ami vowed that If IC her husbands husband's sl sight ht was restored she sho would crawl on her ds hands and knees once a year ear to a neighboring church In token tolen of her gratitude He I hI 1 h 1 t since i then n itis his wife ri h has kept her lC v vow I It H was surely nothing but folly foUY and obstinacy that inspired the vow of an anold anold anold old bachelor that he would never look on a n. womans woman's face faco again In order to carr carry out his vow he had a a. high wall vall built around his house which he never left and sub substituted men for h hi his women servants Late Lates when new nev houses sprang up around his own and his grounds were overlooked o he had them covered with a roof root and artificially lighted He kept his strange vow to the end of ot his hili life lire which however camo came within seven years The most recent of ot these foolish makers of vows Is a native of oC Brussels I who has sworn that he will make a atour atour atour tour of ot tho the world walking backward ward It Is to be hoped that his fate tate will vill be happier than that of the man who swore that he would never Te jest t until he could walk on the ceiling like a fly I and who lost his reason without gaining gaining gain gain- In ing his wish There was method In the madness of ot tho the great s-reat French painter Zelm who vowed that he would never leave leavo his studio until a certain Important picture plo pie ture was finished He gave Instructions Instructions instructions that the tho door should b be locked in his studio and that the door should not bo be opened under any conditions his meals to be handed to him through a hole In the door Thus ho he worked for months during tho the crisis that ended in Napoleons Napoleon's famous coup and his accession to the throne of oC which Zelm knew w nothing until his picture was completed and his door unlocked Another French artist was equally determined to allow no distraction to Interfere with the painting painting paint ing Ins of oC his great picture The Wreck of ot the Medusa He had his head shaved ed and vowed that he would never allow his hair hall to grow until his work was done The vow row he religiously kept in iii spite of oC strong temptation to break It It and the reward of or his heroism was 5 the most perfect painting of ot his me ilie It H was for tor a aen very en curious reason that an old woman who died a few years rear a ago o condemned her herself el to more moro than thirty years years' confinement to her to-her her home She had married a widower as miserly as he was unromantic and he Insisted I that his second wife should wear weal the clothes clothen left leCt behind by his first wife The wife wiCe was as mutinous as her husband husband husband hus hus- band was resolute and she determined that until she could have her own clothes she would never nevel leave the house house house-a a vow she kept until her death A man who was recently released om San Quentin the state prison of California after serving servin a sentence of j six years years' Imprisonment for Cor burglary burglar was one of th strangest est convicts The very Yen moment that he entered tho the prison portals he turned to the sheriff rind and vowed that he he would never sPeak another word until his expired u Evel Every effort eUort was made to ma convict but no threats o 0 had the lightest effect o a and he never spoke again until passed out of or tho the prison six later a free tree man A story is told of or a a. young r n England a great chess was so annoyed at his failure tean tc te an apparently simple problem t tJ vowed he would neither sleep J n until the solution was found shut himself up In a a. disused roo was found four days later by him hh tives terribly emaciated and out mind He Ho spent a year in a a. I asylum as the result of or the ras and the problem remains unco uno Philadelphia Inquirer e r