The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-10-22
A CRY OF LAMENTATION..W
THE CHANGE CAN DO.


Minnie, writes letter to the Farnaers
Union, in which are the following pa
thetlc passages:
have been married six years; have TIVE
children, one q baby six months old. Ny
back aches. my head and heart aches, and
am all the time so tired, oh, SO tired and de-
spondent! | am only twenty tour, but
look at least ten years older, and it seems to
me life is not worth the living. We live IN
Minnesota, away out in frontier county
and out OF the town on farm. see scarce
| ly no one passing, and have not been in
neighbors house for over three months.
| get SO lonely and cannot be lively when
my husband comes in at noon or at night,
which am sure annoys him, for he shows
it. Above all things he dlslikes gloomy
people, and wishes me TO be cheerful.
He is a good husband, and would 60
around with me if he were not so tired
when he gets through the work. He says
when we get rich he will go around with
me and we will have nice time, if will
only try and be cheerful, now. am sure |
| try to, but | do not succeed. Now, dear
sisters, will you please tell me how can get
over this horrible discomfort, and be gay
and always meet my husband with smile
and feel as did when girl, so happy?
love my husband and children more than
dare tell, and my aim in life is to make the
one happy and bring the other up in good
ness and the best possible manner every
way; but that horrible longing for some
thing besides the dreary monotony of house
work and every day care and responsibility
gets the better of my endeavors, and then
am completely discouraged.
We have no doubt this sad plant
represents the feelings of thousands Of
farmers wives. There was woman
in Michigan committed suicide, and she
gave as her reason for so doing that
she had grown tired of washing the
dishes.'' She fed from 1.-The dreary
monotony of housework."
What are the remedies
The disease may be one of the body
or the mind, or both reacting on each
other
If the disease is physical it can prob
ably be traced to malaria. Even in
Minnesota many bodily disorders are
due to that cause. A diseased liver af-
fects sympathetically every other or
gan. The patient needs quinine and
iron, broiled beefsteak, cream, and good
living generally. We find in report
of the Insane Asylum of Michigan
statement which confirms these views.
1t says:
THE PRINCIPAL CAUSE OF INSANITY
among the class OF patients treated here, Is
the unhealthiness OF the low-lying sections
of Michigan, from miasmatic influences, etc.,
the greatest number of them being found
among the farming classes, their whole
by the hard and continuous labor to ichich
they are subjected. Generally, it springs
from disease, and. however remote It has
been, the cause of insanity is generally
traced to this fact. Again, there are cases
known as family degeneration, where the
nervous system becomes worn out and ex
hausted, leaving the poor, demented
inmate of the Insane Asylum
as the sole ard last representative of a
family that has from generation to genera
ton been gradually approaching the un.
fortunate end. An instance is recalled to my
rlind in the case of one OF the most noted
Governors of Iowa, who was, with his fami-
ly, of the highest educational and profess
ional attainments Wasting his life-force BY
continual exertions and attention in the
greatest efforts for the accomplishment o
the numerous duties devolving upon him
he left to the next generation but small in
. heritanoe of the important and requisit.
life force; which was still further worked
out and reduced until the third and last gen
eration,-the remaining member of whicl
proved helpless imtecile.
Where is Ramsey, to prove to tina
writer that the farmers are not sub
jected to ''hard and continuous labor :
but that they are really nabobs and liv
like princes.
The writer above quoted, also say
that insufficient food is another prir
cipal cause of insanity. But the hu:
band Of the poor lady whose lament:
ton we have copied, may say he oannc
afford to live well. Whya Becaus
: his taxes are SO heavy. Why is this
Because he is misgovrned. And
cannot afford it, because his whe,
brings 50 low price; his profits a,
i. all consumed by high charges Of tran
:. pertation. Why is this Because
is misyoverned.
Where, then. will he find the rem
:. dy! Let him JOIN the Grange. In Il
!, Grange he will meet other farmers wi
are suffering from like causes they c.
discuss the remedy, and they can q
unitediy to obtain that remedy. q
wife vii join too. and there she W
meet ether farmers wives. The hum.
family are naturally gregarious. Da
win says we are descended from Il
monkeys. and the monkeys go in flock
Who ever heard Of monkey living |
himself on the top of tree. . mile aw,
5 from any of his fellowsl If he d
: he would soon be
candidate for a quadrumaao,
insane asylum. But whether we q
d cended from the monkeys or descend
from the angels;-and the angels ha