| Show gli gileel Gix ekl ern ErL wire were T THE xie lie SIMPIE SIMPLE E twenty six mija mi les ies emst east of of antwerp is A the own of abeel in B belgium d town ot tp ten thoua thousand tl luha inhabitants bt taut which for twelve it years h has as beena great 6 i 1 t asylum for iun Jun during alloh all nil this ibis 1 s time its it s people bave bavo been warders insane until they understand that disease as no one else has done and have gr grawn a anth relation to 10 it ift that is hardly comprehensible ibie ible etisa it is a place says a foreign lter writer where the sane baue foru fort and insane niane are indistinguishable n baish able abie where the child children reil rell are bred up at the knee of madmen and old people do not fear mono maniacs where the strongest tradition is the lore of mental medicine ana an d commerce commeree the lodging of the insane S w where here nere the mother has beep been known tp place her hidir child thild in the arms of a furious banjac maniac because her heri duty was to pacify him where tb einns are hospitals als ais the farmhouses farm houses cells the tradesmen warders the work women nurses the government a mad doctor the passersby passers by patients the history for twelve hundred years avast a vast register of manla mania 11 it is a place too as unknown as it is strange v ai place where lunatics are as welcome as invalids are at water ang places and where insanity is no ho more regarded than gout Is at the springs where gout is alleviated or cured gheem cheel r stands out peculiar among the surrounding towns in them the ordinary fear and dislike of lunacy is is manifested if at cheel alone it is and has been for forty generations the special lt ilyf ta the town the rhe I 1 number of lunatics at cheel is aadu adu C eight hundred only the mos most dob dos desperate er e 1 ones are con don confined fined tho thi fesq Z resti wander about at will pur trades and prid eyen even frequent we the inns though thou 0 ex exi 4 cess indi inking luking is pr prohibited 0 by neavy on the tho ja landlord adlord rhe be house houser 1 holderEr holderson holder hoider of cheel are ball all 11 and to each one some lunatic is isi assigned and left as free tree as he would be in any city where a passport most be before ore the possessor of it could leave the lunatic ia is free to do what ho bd chooses so that he does no great violence ond ong case isae ise iso corded recorded of a inan man whose manla mania was breaking windows he commenced life in cheel by breaking thirty windows the first day and fourteen the second and then finding that jio ho person took the least notice of him gave give up the practice forever the example gives a fair idea of the whole cheel system t unless a person ia is absolutely dangerous to himself or others or imbued with a decided tendency fo to escape the supervision exercised dyer dyen over oyer hamis him is so slight as hardly to attract A his notice ce under this system there are many eures cures but the main maln result is that viete wretched hed beings are kep Vall tail the time in a state of comparative happiness firmness and kindness kind ness cess do their work and cure curea a disease which under other circumstances curn cum stances is often incurable A writer observes that the whole theory and practice at cheel are founded on tiei tier prinell principle e of not showing madmen th t you believe that they are aro mad bumph but 9 the contrary of trying to stimulate ip them the pride of conquering ahelf mor thor r bid bl id tendency to gif give gli eway way to foolish or dr whimsical notions what is certain in this is that an alternative method has his at length been di coverd whereby I 1 those who holato ane are wholly bere bene bereft st of tue tuo chelp poyer ova of s sip sir iff con nf koi kol olmay mas may bei bet Y placed I 1 a eed ced in I 1 a pandi timit of g cone eone ontra and of in dread of being anade the of a human menagerie I 1 in f during all the years sehra ga 4 fias had the eune care of 1 lunatics there 1910 is no report mischief Of but hub only of goud good it jsu isay stern stem novel aud and tie tle Advah advantage tag d lif bel bei 1 1 um df habit and I 1 tradition but hut rational ration nl and cor rec tand fand ashael its example will be commended nations 1 |
