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Show jjVE FOR WEEKS IN THE BATHTUB another sleep; she Is tearing around, Imagining the whole world is against her. We ao l?.?vyour8elf 88,n- reay to put her In the continuous bath. She sleeps there and eats there. You can hardly Imagine the change that comes th y New York la aavtng over her. And If oi'. ,Jhat things are favorable Insane. her cure Is very simple. Many Patients Cured. ALWAYS. CLOSE TO THE LIMIT. If she needs It, we have the elec,p D,ac There Is a massage table, P on the Hudtricity. son near Poughkeepsie has where tired muaclea Talking about mean men," said the Hliice Addin' day to this ood time be started 2,200 It ha been only human. tlents. It averages two new onespa,a anew and the blood may freshened man In the mackintosh, old Hew gain Whatever b man's fault or crime,' day. Some 25 per cent of all those circulation. She may be Just on the em. can 'give pointers to all of To blame It on the woman. received are discharged as borderland this treatment will often When he found out that his children cured. But ' of those who have save her. She gets quieted nerves were taking lumps of sugar out of the If man la rauaht committing crime Incipient Whan salted made do him what It, and can be taken In time Insanity and new the pep hope; that Is the start of a bog In the pautry and feeding them to lie polnta aome woman out each cent age of cures la 70 the next door neighbors pony, bow cure. per cent ayi: "iie hold me to It. The Acute ward has been built Of course, some will apply who are do you suppose he stopped It?" for Inc plont cases those If ha Kill the aha. even Whipped the children?" hazarded And on the verge not Insane, but think they may be. ' Mixed with hla taara and ruing, of Insanity. It wants man the with his feet on the table. people to come It may be only prostration. Imagine 'Twlxt auba and throoa of mlaory, th "Worse than that." 11 accord- It wants to get the relief to them when we tell them ?! aaya; It we her doing!' u ?wn Soaked the lumps of sugar In kero6a!e8 ef0" they become chronic. In that they are all right mentally tlmt ,here sene? suggested the man with the Oh, Eva, aim- you llmt apple picked . ay be a chance to not Insane, but mentally tired. cure1 It haa been weakly human One of the groat rewards of our bulbous nose. To aob whan we'ra by Juattr prtrkeA L "Worse than that" Harr,a t0k a writer for the profession Is the thanks ve often get And cry: 'Tt waa the woman!' Itouaton Poot. Sunday World around the new build-nh- t from those we have cured. They did Sprinkled red pepper on them?" other danot know at the time what the mat- ventured the man with the frazzled It looks like a GAVE HER A BITTER TASTE hotel. There are accommoda- ter was, but after they had been trousers. tions for 80 patients, 40 of each Worse than that. None of you could sex. cured they realized what had been For those who are not excitable done for them. I think there Is noth- guess It in a year, lie went to a there are small dormitories; for other cases ing that can satisfy a physician more stonecutter's shop and had two or there are private rooms. than the appreciation of those he ha three dozen chunk of marble made In each wing there la a Into cubea. He took the sugar lumps reception saved from mental night. room and dining-rooout of the box in the pantry, put an and open-aiAlready there have been many appliporch. The patients sit six at a table cants for the new treatment. When thes marble cubes In their place, Just as they might in a hotel, at table the new hospital opens It will be first and decked with flowers and Oh, come off!" bearing spot- come, first served. If the patients be less silver and Immaculate linen. The found to that on some other crowd!" Try treatment Improve upon they food Is far better than the Gentlemen, it's a fact, and I can average will not be deemed Insane. If they boarding-housshould fall mentally after a period of lick anybody tbat doubts It!" provides. There are three floors, each with six months, then the After which the session broke up in regular commit-men- t lta separate rooms and dormitories, proceedings will ensue, just as a row. Chicago Tribune. and rooms for physicians and attendthey would have done had the patient ants. Each floor has Its own Noise. waited till the disease had progressed sitting room and bath arrangements for the too tar. Noise, at first cultivated In this land continuous bath, and there are also by the Indians, has reached Its climax Work When Possible. in the college yell. It Is used at poall the other kinds of bath which any 76 per cent of the men palitical conventions, at christenings, and sick person might need douche, sltz, tients and 65 per cent of the women at women clubs. No monument was needle, rain, spray and ordinary tub patienta at Poughkeepsie are able to necessary for the man who first Inand shower. work. This gives tbelr minds someThere Is a electric thing to think about and helps toward vented noise. His work lives after him. room, too, where there are electric a cure. If this be They are Noise Is used which bavs baths, X rays, static treatment end encouraged to wearpossible. their own clothea the first call for by cities, other things of twentieth century In- If It They split it up can afford it, and they are al- Into as they vention. many sounds as possible and lowed to receive as many visitors as divide it among all. Like Any Other Dleeaie. the doctors consider good for them. Noise varies In Us volume and InInsanity, said Dr. Harris, Is Just There are games for them to play, from embryonic and Immature tensity, like any other disease. The sooner we and pianos, If they are musicians. sawmill to a baby the It crying In tbe night better the chance for a Bathing is Insisted upon. If the paget Life. cure. The trouble Is J V that we tients want to bathe they may do ao .'I'1 get the average case only after It as often as they please. If they dont USED TO IT. has become chronic. If we could pos- - want to, then Tommy Giggs My sister's sweetthey must ,at regular heart kicked my dog but 1 day-- and your Ind might have been gone forever. MILES A. - abont-to-b- ol New Treatment tor Those Who Fear insanity or Who Are Really Threatened with Plans for Preventing flental Breakdown-No- vel the Dread Calamity of Madness. mature e tlm4-An- J - - - r e I I To-da- y Charles W. .. Pilgrim, Superintendent of the Hudson River State Hospital for the Insane. d new Acute and the like. The physician comes In EV YORK state' on the You tell him grounds of the and chats with you. hospital, Hudson River State Hospital frankly what your worries are. You 1 (or the Insane, at Poughkeep-- are afraid of yourself; your mind e, which will be opened next doesnt seem to work Just right You the newest de- are hysterical; you can't sleep; you ktober, represents nture In the treatment of mental cant eat; yon want to scream out 1 in j man or woman may go there of ii or her free will and ask to be It will be done free of charge d the patient cannot pay. If he or U can, the charge will run from 50 ents to ten dollars a week. It Is to be refuge for those who fear -- are going mad, i.ey to be observed id treated before It Is too late. It orides the chance to get well after nervous breakdown or mental col-ips- e without undergoing the stigma If there Is nothing wrong :e physicians will return the patient s the world without comment; if lint la any sign of incipient Insanity !.e patient will be properly treated. the treatment fails be or she will e committed In the regulation way, , i It la done now. The building is completed now at a ost of $100,000. Only the Interior mains to be finished. It is absolute-- f Breproof; there la nothing lnflam :abl but the wooden floors and trim, "here are reception rooms, a main and dormitories. It roubles a summer hotel sore than an Insane asylum. insanity. Fetters or Handcuff. A century ago an Insane person was t once put In chains and manacles ad cast Into a dungeon cell until ath came as a merciful relief. It u only the other day that a visiting the Hudson River tote Hospital for the Insane It Is called an asylum asked to see letters and handcuffs used on the No More con-wsma- There Isnt one. not s. prison; It Is a place Times have changed. alents. It Is Jie. to You the situation a great shock; you have en Immensely worried and you feel t something is going to snap; you afraid there la a screw loose Here la are bad to-da- " oenhere!" Am 1 going mad? 1 Is H then time you ask your- - to visit the Acute Jipltal. Suppose are Insane, the have been treated In A committee was ap- your person. Your estate you really if you would past Is this: ' toted for Men every minute. Take this lady to her room and well try the continuous bath, says the physician. After you have put on your bitb-roba pretty trained nurse In a smart little cap and a trim blue uniform puts her arm around your waist and oft you go to a most wonderful room, filled with all sorts of taps and faucets and quiet as the grave. In the middle of the room is a bathtub of the finest porcelain, fitted with nickeled plumbing. Near by is some electric apparatus with a thermometer, which rings a bell should the water In the tub go above the temperature which the physician baa ordered. Hammock In the Rath, But this is no ordinary tub. Within it ia a canvas hammock with a head rest, about such as you might find on any summer porch. You lie down In it and the water is turned on, just the right temperature and just the right force. There you lie, with the warm water softly enveloping you. The nurse puts a rubber pillow beneath your head. Now, go to sleep," she tells you. Well wake you up at supper time." You sleep. At supper time there is a dainty tray with just a sliver of chicken and a bit of lettuce, a slice of toast and a dab of strawberry jam. You havent eaten for a month. You have slept, however, for perhapB two hours. You are hungry. You start to get out of the hath. No, lie right where you are, cautions the nurse, this is going to be your home until we get you well again. notions about not All the eating before you bathe are cast to the winds. You stay in the hammock In the bathtub, getlng calmer every You sleep for bIx hours; minute. more than you have slept at a stretch for months. Next morning, breakfast is served to you in the tub, then dinIf you are calm ner, then supper. but you must read, may enough you Btay In the tub. You find yourself growing calmer and calmer and calmer. The doctor drops In occasionally and chats with you. Perhaps he takes a sample of your blood again to see If you are well nourished or not e 1 Bringing It to a Climax. I know what's passing in your mind," suddenly said tbe maiden as tbs habitually silent caller stared at her. 1 know, too, why you are calling here night after night, apporprlatlng wiy time to yourself and keeping other nice young men away. You want me to marry you, don't you? I I do! gasped the young man.' I thought so. Very well; I will. Judge. Too Modeot to Wear It. Real boro, eh? interrogated tourist m may J4' TWielf. shake their heads behind and aome of your best ay remark that you are not Mt Is there to do? JuBt take the Poughkeepsie, ask for Dr. W. Pilgrim, superintendent of Hudson River Hospital for the In-e- i nd tell him what is the matter. The Flrot Treatment. re conIurted to the Acute hoa-or Psychopathic ward (as they o call it up there. You tell ,0ry nn what you far la I1 itt, You are asked to step Inside option room. No attendants are ?n4 you Rre own master r toi .5 ro88and a few questions are .1, er,luI'8 takes a physician men of blood to ascertain your ' Utlon of your health. CRso demands It oJa you are as dulet room furnished as II and Just 'clean6 Wal,'orf-AstorIbard wood floors, a bed, bureau, chairs n t 7 7 r- - yr a hand-rpsniele- d day. The nurse helps you get out of your bath and dress, and you are gently led to a wide porch which looks out on the hills and valleys of the Is nothing near lordly Hudson. There silent labor the except disturb by to of a few men, quietly picking carrots and peas for your dinner, all of them Insane but getting well. It ia all so restful and peaceful. ever You begin to wonder why you wanted to Bcrearn aloud or why you you. thought the world mi against You are The days slip silently by. Suddenly you content and rested. again. realize that, you are yourself One doeB. doctor the before not But Into your conies he bright morning for breakfast-Yoroom. You are hungry without a hours nine have slept and doing. be to up dream. You want home now. go may you I think are well again. he tells you. "You call. . close a was It But Another ween You have been saved. sun-kisse- d i the "You bet Bill Is a hero," drawled He rescued six bead the old farmer. In His Neighbor And does my singing annoy you? He Ob, dear, no. I am a foreman In a sawmill. the Reception Room. periods. Those who c&n be trusted are allowed the freedom of the grounds; others even may go to town If they desire. But, what is best of all, it costV nothing If the patient cannot pay Board, lodging, medical attendance, clothing, everything the state of New York will pay for If you cannot If you can pay ft, $2, $5, f 10, all right But all this newest treatment ii free If you cannot pay. New York World. A Iu 5 i yesterday, got even with blm, you bet Johnny Briggs How? Tommy Giggs I mixed quinine with her face powder. Won't she taste bitter Royal Magazine. old-fog- y In charge. You were regu- passed upon by the physicians, '1 commitment Issued. The next Signs of Improvement. knew you found yourself In You notice that birds are singing Mane asylum with no chance of outside in the trees. You are taking "ttlng out unless the doctors said naps, when before you couldnt sleep re cured. at all. You are hungry before meal Jsthow la this done now? times. You are beginning to. feel that Ion feel that aomethlng is wrong. you have rested long enough. You D(1 that you cant collect your haven't the slightest desire to scream ought. Your memory falls you. aloud. You wonder why people should re peevish, nervous, excitable, be nervous at all. "isucholy. You are In great distress I think you might try to see the Jrur mental health. Yet you feel view this morning. says the physician "fill sure you are not Insane, though when he comes In to see you the next 1:lf to-da- y Sampling the Blood of a Young Man Threatened with Mental Derange- ment slbly get It In Its first stages the chance of a cure would be so much the greater. In this new ward we will encourage Of patients to come of themselves. a take would we paretic hardly course, or one with senile dementia, but where It Is a case of nervous breakdown we would be only too glad. AAe will put In this new ward all those cases In which we consider there Is ground for we liope. That doesnt mean that no paother the departments In have tients for whom there Is no hope-- far from It. But when we think the case Is Incipient we will put the case the In this new ward, there to start as soon as be possible curelf it possible. are often People sick physically cases we sick mentally. Those are the and rest, A little quiet reach. can best and good food, peaceful surroundings,would the cure is far easier than It have been had the patient been kept to at home to allow his or her case chronic. become 8leep and Eat In Bath. who Is "Suppose we get a patient cannot She excited and restless. lot of An Appetizer. people who never buy any- thing come in here and loaf around and tune up their systems," says a marketman. When those unprofitable visitors began to bang around my shop I felt Inclined to resent their cheek. But when they explained the reason I hadnt the heart to turn them out It seems that a few doctors In this town have more common sense than professional sagacity. They have come to the conclusion that the best appetizer a man can find la uncooked cuts of roasts and steaks and fresh fruits and vegetables; so, instead of filling tbelr patients up with pills, they Just prescribe a walk around to a combination meat and green grocers market, where big whiffs of nature's real tonic are on tap free of cost. So every day my market Is turned Into a clinic for dyspeptics. They take up room, and often get In the way, but I don't like to kick. I was always soft, and, anyway, the new treatment means new customers for me In the end, so I shall not be out anything. Railroad Helps African City. e completion of the Uganda railroad from Mombasa to Port Florence, on Lake Victoria, 680 miles, suddenly brought Mombasa Into prominence as one of the future mainland ports of East Africa, and this has enhanced from year to year until now Mombasa Is a port of call for all the regular steamship lines maintaining communication with Europe. The Uganda railroad taps not only the heart of Central Africa, but draws a considerable amount of its carrying trade from sections of German East Africa not reached by the German railroads. Very little If any of the goods shipped to or from points served by the Uganda railroad reach Zanzibar for Consular and Trade Reports. - Patience ting on? Trouble Over Red. How are tbe Huggins get- Patrice Ob, theyve bad trouble al- of people, and received a Carnegie medal." "And waa he glad when he received. It? Yes; but Bill waa too modest to wear It, so be used it as a fishing sinker." Chicago Dally News. - WISE AND OTHERWI8E. ready. ' ' Not already Yes; you see, Huggins bas a stenographer, and the other day Mrs. Huggins overheard him say he was very partial to red." Yonkera Statesman. f red-haire- d i Juvenile Critics. Is a loud Merry Widow! exclaimed tbe tall messenger boy, as he peered Into the box he was about to deliver. responded Well, I should smile! bis short ebum. It Is so loud It " looks more like a Chicago Daily News. My, but dat merry-go-round.- Harmony Club, Too. Jack It Is strange bow tbe attendance at tbe Girls' Harmony club keeps up these warm nights. No one member misses a meeting. Myrtllla They are afraid to miss a meeting. Tbe absent are always knocked unmercifully. Newa. Chicago Dally LOCATED. Mrs. I think It strange that your friend Tobbs never married. Mr. Oh, you dont know Tobbs. He Isn't such a fool as he looks! Chicago Journal. Quick Work,. Muggins Busby Is a remarkably easy man to get acquainted with, donil you think? Jones I never noticed 1L Muggins He Is, though. I hadnt) known him for over an hour before 1 borrowed a shilling of him, and Inside of tbe next hour we got so well acquainted that he refused to lend' m another one. Royal Magazine. 1c trana-stlpmen- t. Energy. that you were dlschargi from your former place for being t You say Industrious?" Yes, ma'am. "That's very strange. Whu d you do?" I went down In the cellar one di and dusted the old wine bottles.-RoyaMagazine. l Mabel So you didnt have him? Flossie No. Mabel Wasn't your father on bis side? Flossie (sadly) No behind him. The Trouble. I thought you and your wife were-llvlnvery happily." Oh, my wife and I are happy all right She says she can get along The Difference. with me, but ever since we've been Does she shrink from the water?" married the troubles been that she Do. "No, but her bathing suit does. can't get along with my salary. Detroit FVee Press. trolt Free Pre. |