Show THAW IN THE ASYLUM Mr sEvelyn nesbit thaw has visit ed her husband at Matte awan asylum where tho criminal insane are incarcerated her impressions are expressed in these words it lg tarp ble I 1 would go crazy if to stay thera there certainly is something in the power of suggestion and there is enough of influence ln any of those places to unbalance even a person or sound mind no taint of insanity in the blood 1 thaw is undergoing the severest ordeal of all his stormy career now that he Is up with maniacs for he knows hois looked upon with suspicion by the mental experts and try as ho will ho can scarcely fight off nervous deuced by contact with the wild men in whose company ho Is held by tho arm of the law if he can keep his self control if he can cast off a creepy feeling of insecurity in his own citadel of mentality he will be doing more than the ordinary man might under similar conditions he is subjected to a test that would disturb the equilibrium of the strongest like the beginner in tightrope walking he Is apt to topple over by the very fear that he is losing ills balance th ero Is something in the nature of a farce in the decision that sent thaw to the asylum he Is beyond cups tion sane although some of the experts classed him as a he may be all they have charged him with being and yet not be without the pale of sanity as found in the average man there are those who contend that every person is insane on some subject and particularly all persons of genius there was nothing abnormal in the conduct of thaw except at such time when ho was moved by a mighty passion such as has set on ahre than any other one thing and that passion is jealousy caused by an uncontrollable love for a woman he might have been erratic and ho might have disclosed weaknesses when under the influence of liquor or strong drugs but that does not prove him fit for the asylum unless ho persists in that form of wrongdoing wrong doing he should be released immediately from the asylum but cautioned to follow the straight and narrow path |