The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1879-09-18
The Cause and Cure of Insanity.

1t Il man wishes to become insane,
| let him fix his mind on one subect-no
matter what ), the object of thought.
The invention of a perpetual motion,
money making, religion-any object
will do, so it is one. Let the man
think of it by day and dream of it by
night; let him be anxious about it at
sunrise and at MONDAY, at eventide
and IN the watches Of the night; let
him not possess thought, but let his
thoughts possess him. so that he can
not play with his children or speak
pleasantly to his wife. There will
come in due time, and swiftly, far
away look to his eyes and deafness
| to his stomach, and, Judging from his
! tongue, he may be classed as a fur
i, bearing animal. Mr.. Freeman, the
| fanatic of .Pocasset, has been thinking
too much and too. long and too intently
on spiritual themes. aa, He has become un-
earthly, dehumanized. He points NOR
al. The average American has ceased to
enjoy himself He is not a free man. He
! is a slave to his party, to his business, to
the world The house ought to keep the
woman, but the American woman keeps
the house. She is anxious and worried
about the house-she keeps the house up
and runs herself down. We are losing
the faculty of enjoyment, dyspepsia has
become national, paralysis and insanity
common, and we go more than half way
to meet death. Look at the Ameri
can face, the hard lines that care has
craven upon it. Contrast it with the
face of the German too lately arrived to
have caught the American disease. The
Teuton can enjoy himself in simple, in
expensive ways. He can purchasc more
can with ten dollars. He loves, flowers,
he loves music, he loves the social music,
he loves the social. pleasures OF converse
ton, md he has no dyspepsia. May we
not learn something from the round-faccd
Immigrant who brings his. health and
good cheerwih hlm2 What is the remedy
for the drawn face, torpid liver and dead
stomach of the man at the desk, at the
counter and in the, pnlpll9 A little play
would be good for him, perhaps, also a
little blue pill at first, but less
and less pill and more play-play pure
and simple, We want less of Washing
ton street. and, more of Broad Ripple.
Let the man OF many cares and a slave to
them strike for freedom, shake of his
cares and return to nature. It is chance
between losing time in the. grave and
losing time in play, which is fifty named
recreation. Many man thinks he has
no love for fishing, but he has. II is
latent in al men. The whiz Of reel and
the bend~of rod will wake it. It viii
wake the .sdead.7 What+is the. loss of a
day compared with to the landing of a
basszor even a.pickerel2 s'The thoughts
of youth are long, long thoughts" :"
We have used, them vilely, but they
survive even in the time of gray hair
and the evil days when we say we have
NO pleasure in them. A days play is a
days journey toward youth: it takes the
black out of the blood; it jogs the liver.
Ialf Mr Freeman had gene fishing al day,
and had a 1isherman's s luck, he would not
have killed his daughter; he would have
:been too sleepy to think Of it. With the
boys weariness comes also the boys sleep
Men need to touch earth, to .bre athe air,
and All, that has not been breathed. Man
is an animal, whatever else and more be
SIS, and must observe the conditions ofan-
,imal life. .-stsi sfs 3 aLnss'. a7zsr = -
!; A larger. proportion of farmers wives
than any other class are in the inssne asy'
hima The mc notony Of their lives send.
|, them there. - No light, no color, 10 play
in their wretchcd round Of cooking, ane
washing, and mopping, and mending
+ The mind feeds on itself. The Sunda,
, riot Of the great cities is a protest agains
ia weekof drudgery, blind, ignorant ant
wicked effort to make up by, q spasm 10
what has been omitted in a week MAJ
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