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Show I SIX-YEAR-OLD BOY HAS 1 TO BE CONFINED IN CAGE ... '.'1 3) AT TIMES HE MUST BE CHLOROFORMED. Times there have been when, act- Ing under the advice of her physt- clans, the mother has been forced to administer chloroform to the child to stop his ravings. Unl'ss a restraining hand Is near he will tear to pieces his clothing, smash the pictures, hurl down bric-a-brac, and with his teeth gnaw into the framework of his cage, the soles of his shoes or any 1 hard substance within reach. ' it Accident When a Baby ! Has Made the Child a I Raving and Dcstructire g Maniac. aAgs NEW YORK, June 22. In a narrow cage, of kennel-like proportions, his mind clouded from the results of a fall in his infancy, and the victim of a growing tendency to destroy everything " within his reach, s-ix-year-old Johnnie Foulis Is growing up at his home. No. 7 Nassau street, Brooklyn, the despair 1, of his parents and the medical profes-Z!Z profes-Z!Z sion. Save ln the glassy stare of his eyes r7 the boy is normal in appearance. He - has a sturdy little body, a well-formed U head, which is covered with curling light hair, and chubby hands and feet. Z His eyesight is perfect and his hearing " good, but beyond the few baby words M that he learned to lisp before the accl- dent befell him he cannot utter a word, and remarks that are addressed to him ':e fall upon a dull, uncomprehending brain. ' For long periods the boy Is quiet and ' docile, and plays about the apartments ' of his parents with his younger brother without a hint of anything wrong. Then j - suddenly he will break into strange, I Z weird cries like those of a wounded animal, race up and down the room, now falling on his hands and knees and crawling, and again leaping up and re-1 re-1 sumlng his mad daEh. In his excitement he will beat, his clenched fists against his face until the " surface is blood red. Throughout all these ravings his mother is helpless. Moreover, science declared a year ago that it was power-M power-M less to effect a cure. When the child becomes especially j H wild and there is danger of doing him- self permanent Injury the heart-broken mother is forced to have recourse to the " wire cage, which has been constructed j ' for the purpose, and into this the child i is lifted and made to remain until his delirium has passed and he is once ' more the docile, listless w aif of misfortune. misfor-tune. Johnnie's brother took him one day - to Prospect park in a go-cart and while there some one suggested a race. Three or four of the go-carfs were being run violently down a hill, when Johnnie - was thrown out on his head. He was picked up unconscious and - remained In that condition for seventy- j five days. When he regained conscious- ness It was found that he was deaf, dumb and blind. Ills power of sight gradually returned to him, but the ability to talk had apparently ap-parently gone forever. |